Isaanlover

Update and refresher course on do it yourself visa run to Cambodia, via Aranyaprathet/Poipet.

I've done this run maybe 5 times, but not since 2006, and some things have changed.

Side note - I showed up for Jack Golf's service, just to give it a try, on soi 12 Sukhumvit at 6:40 am for the 7am bus. Since there were only about 11 of us, they canceled the big bus and said we can go in Mini Van. I don't like mini vans, so said no thanks, took my passport, took sky train to Mo Chit, taxi to bus station (47 bhat), then 7:30 1st class bus to Aranyaprathet (215 bhat).

My conclusion: it's a long day but I've always enjoyed the adventure.

Lucky you, on Saturday I saw Jack Golf's bus broke down on the way to Poipet, it was about 12:00. You definitely spent less time.

I never had any problems with Jack Golf. They always take good care of me.

And give the driver a 20 baht tip, he works hard for low pay.

I bet You will have one with this company very soon, all jack's buses are over one million mileage, ask them if you don't believe me, and that is the problem of all these old companies, old service, old equipment.

talking about this Jack Golf 's visarun service, it sucks!

a friend of mine tried their service last week, it was a tiny minvan, no movies. almost forgot, the maker of that van is also korean , " Kia".

not in Bangkok, too many already.

That's why he is losing clients.

I did my visa run with ThaiVisaRun Company on Tuesday, a Romanian girl was only given 30 days on a TR Visa.

What about a Mexican passport holder?

30 days, same as that Romanian girl.

When I go home the end of this year, I will fly from Phuket airport instead.

Got my visarun done yesterday, departure 09:30 from Ekkamai, and back to the same place at 17:55. The funny part of this trip, on the way back we actually passed the Jack Golf bus which left much earlier in the morning. I am not trying to say that Jack Golf’s service is bad, but it is definitely very slow.

Sometimes early birds won’t catch the worms.

Bloody hel_l I was on the same bus

Lost in Translation:

We used http://www.thaivisarun.com/

ThaiVisaRun is always the quickest, and another company at lotus on-nut is pretty quick as well.

if you are in northeast of Thailand, you will see the local people get drunk 9:00 in the morning.

ThaiVisaRun used a minibus in the past, and that was the quickest visarun in Bangkok.

they are still the quickest, left 9:30 am on Sunday, came back to BTS Ekkamai at 6:00 pm, a big bus, only 8.5 hour trip.

Tuky if you're trying to give up smoking and drinking at the same time.... good luck but I think it will drive you mad... try just stopping the booze first, in my opinion its much easier.

Since I gave up smoking, I drink all the day long.

Personally I would recommend ThaiVisaRun

And they copied the name of this site! Copyright infringement, maybe???!!!

quite a smart way to think

I’ve been in business more than 7 years now in Pattaya and Phuket….and I’ve been pissed off so many times that I can’t even count’em!

Maybe the term “pissed off” is a bit too harsh….but let me explain what I mean:

You have a property or a business for sale.

You advertise this in different spaces, either online or in print media.

You get tons of responses….and here the “problems” start:

that is the nature of every business in the world, it should be the first lesson for a pro salesman. I was wondering why you are so pissed off.........

That should be ok as long as they dont offer you Korean food for lunch.

should give that 20K to the cop, they will find him for you.

it seems like the ThaiVisaRun company leaves the latest, why no one else departure later than 9:30?

catch a bus from Morchit after 9:30. Since everyone goes to Ban Laem now, Poipet can't be too bad, I guess.

cheaper cigar please.

Hi , just did it in 8.5 hours , without racing.

Problem is slow n dangerous traffic on 317 , from Sakaew to Soi Dao n of course BKK traffic.

tried quick thai visa once, took 8 hours for everything, include traveling & the border run.

depart 10 o'clock, a bit late for me, but it is pretty quick.

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did a visarun with them last Saturday, it was really quick, back about 6:00 PM.

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did a visarun by my own car during weekend, it took almost 10 hours for the whole trip, and cost me over 15 hundred baht only for the gas bill, I guess I will try these guys next time.

you must be a slow driver, it is only 600 km.

Also has anybody taken the train to the border? It looks like it takes an hour longer

I took the train to Hua Hin once and the scenery was a bit better than the bus.

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Don't take the train, it takes much longer than the bus.