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18 minutes ago, BritTim said:

As accurately indicated by @brommers, if you booked your flights at one time on a single ticket (probably the cheapest way to book anyway) you are all set. If you booked the flights separately at different times on separate tickets, you will need to clear immigration (and customs) at Suvarnabhumi. Until a couple of years ago, even with separate tickets, this was avoidable, but not any more with Bangkok Airways.

47 minutes ago, brommers said:

Bangkok Airways has through-check baggage arrangements with Turkish Airlines. But your flight ticket must be a single ticket that covers both flights on the one document. You will be able to book the bags through at your first check-in.  If you have booked the flights as separate tickets you will have to pick up your bag in Suvarnabhumi and recheck onto Bangkok Air at their check in desks. In this case you need to go through Immigration. Bulgarian passport holders do qualify for Visa on Arrival. For full information go to www.thai.lt where you will find everything you need.

All right, thank you for the info! 

But if I get one visa at this trasfer for the 4 hours, will I be able to get another one three days later for a longer stay in Thailand? Or should I apply for a visa now before I get to the airport? I was told, that it is impossible to get two visas at the airport, one of them should exist before I enter the country. Can this be right?

1 minute ago, BritTim said:

Would you be comfortable sharing the flight numbers? As a general rule, even if the airlines you are using do not have an agreement allowing you to check baggage through to your destination, the transfer desk at Suvarnabhumi can arrange to give you the new boarding card and transfer your checked baggage from the first flight onto your connecting flight without clearing Thai customs. That allows you to stay in the transit area, not traversing Thai immigration. However, this is not always possible with budget airlines.

Ok, the flight number to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi is TK 068 (Turkish airlines), the next one from Bangkok to Cambodsha is PG 909 (Bangkok Airways). Can you please tel me how I can connect this transfer desk and can I do it before I arrive. I think it might be a problem that I won't have the ticket for the second flight, I mean I also have to check in, or can this be arranged through the transfer desk? Thanks!

1 hour ago, arithai12 said:

For the first question, if you arrive/leave to Cambodia from the same airport, then you will stay in the transit area of the airport and will not need a visa. Note that Bangkok has two airports, Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang. If you need to transfer from one to the other, then yes you will need the visa on arrival (and you will be pressed for time with just 4 hours).

 

For the second question, yes you need a visa on arrival. You can easily find what is needed with a brief search on the internet. Basically, proof of a hotel booking and of a ticket out of Thailand. Usually it helps to show that you have cash worth 20,000 THB with you, but I am not sure whether this is requested for a visa on arrival.

Thanks A lot for the quick replay! ???? Can I ask if you speak from experience? Because at the Thai Embassy in Bulgaria they told my friends, that even in the transit area they first need a visa from Bulgaria, which the Thai officers tear up and later replace with a new visa... 

Do you know if I stay in the transit area, when I have to get my luggage from the first flight and check in for the second (the same airport)? Is the whole airport a transit area? 

For now I only have the bulgarian passport, otherwise I wouldn't have all the questions ????

Hello,

I have the following problem:

I am Bulgarian and live in Germany. Soon I have a flight through Bangkok, where I have to stay for 4 hours and need to check in for my next flight to Cambodsha. Do I need some kind of visa for this hours or can I stay in the airport without one, transit visa maybe? After that [three days after] I will be flighting back and staying in Thailand for one week. For this period I will need a Visa on arrival, right? Do you know how it is supposed to be? It would be great, if someone knows it for sure. Thanks!