Best Way To Plan This

[Treborz]

Hi all my first post here so go easy on me.

I arrive in Thailand on 27th June this year and need to stay in the region for 6 and half months to the middle of January 2008. The reason for this is one of my friends in getting married just after xmas/new year and I want to be there until the end of the celebrations and all the other guests have gone home.

Ideally I want to spend 2/3 months in Thailand upon my arrival and then I wish to visit Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam (can anyone tell me how long it would take to do the usual route through these 3 countries seeing most of the sights etc??) When I have visited these 3 countries I wish to return to Thailand and stay there until the middle of January.

I am looking at applying for a multiple entry tourist visa but was wondering what the chances of me getting one are? Is it best to apply for a double entry or could i get a triple with no extra problems?

Can anyone work out if I can spread this out without having to make any visa runs while in Thailand?

I will have an onward ticket to Singapore and Australia when It comes to leaving the country.

Thanks in advance

Rob

Edited January 20, 2007 by Treborz

[lopburi3]

I would just get a single entry tourist visa and extend the 60 days to 90 at immigration - do your country circuit using visa free entry if transiting Thailand between them and before final return for 2 months or so obtain a tourist visa in Laos or Vietnam.

[Treborz]

I wasnt going to be transiting thailand between the other 3 countries, was going to move from one to the other.

Do I need visa for these countries too?

[lopburi3]

Yes you are going to have to have a visa for those countries. So if you do not plan to return to Thailand during your visits then a two entry tourist visa for Thailand would make sense. Use first entry on arrival and second on return from travels.

[Treborz]

Thanks....can I get a VOE for Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam?

[bmanly]

Hi Treborz, you can get visa on arrival for Laos and Cambodia but not at all entry points. My opinion is that seeing you are in Thailand for 2 or 3 Months first is that you get all your visas in Thailand before you go, just take a couple days out of your schedule and get the visas.

For Laos visa on arrival CLICK HERE

For Cambodia CLICK HERE

And for Vietnam info CLICK HERE

Hope that helps.

[Treborz]

Thanks for the links.

[pongosnodgrass]

You could save yourself a lot of time and hassle by applying for a Cambodian evisa. It's $5 more but it depends whether you think a morning(and the return visit) at the Cambodian embassy or the VOE is worth that! Anyway, we found it was a really worthwhile way of doing it. We just came back and had no problems with it at Siem Reap. You need to have a photo in digital format to upload and a credit card.

I wonder when Thailand might have such a thing...

http://evisa.mfaic.gov.kh/index.php?version=eng