Best /easiest border run from Pattaya

[bangkokbabe]

Hello there. My family has to go on a border run. We are currently located in Pattaya. Where's the best / easiest to go if we want to drive our own car?  Also, we are from Hungary, so I am not sure if we could get 30 days if we entered Thailand through a land border. (We do get 30 days by air.) Do you have any recent update on that? 

[ubonjoe]

The nearest crossing to Pattaya is the Ban Pakard crossing to Cambodia. Map here (spelling is different but is correct) https://goo.gl/maps/zwTUxXUvcJQ2

You will get a 30 day visa exempt entry. There is not longer a 15 day entry rule since January of last year.

[bangkokbabe]

Yoohoo! Thank you 

[jacko45k]

I don't think I am permitted to post a link here but a google search will produce a few results of organised border runs from Pattaya which usually leave early morning and are back mid afternoon. Some use VIP mini-buses which cost more, but are comfortable and have fewer seats, which may suit a family better...

I would probably get lost if I tried driving myself!

[BritTim]

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I don't think I am permitted to post a link here but a google search will produce a few results of organised border runs from Pattaya which usually leave early morning and are back mid afternoon. Some use VIP mini-buses which cost more, but are comfortable and have fewer seats, which may suit a family better...

I would probably get lost if I tried driving myself!

One of the great features of smart phones is that it makes it much harder to get lost when trying to go somewhere you have not been before. For an individual, using one of the visa run companies can make sense. For a family with their own car, the visa run companies would be an expensive alternative.

[gamesgplayemail]

All what you need to know:

 

http://www.canbypublications.com/cambodia/overland.htm

 

https://goo.gl/cGiCR3

 

https://goo.gl/acK4Wp

 

https://goo.gl/CVghNt

 

https://goo.gl/Y4pTcs

 

https://goo.gl/XDiF3J

 

https://goo.gl/w23Hhi

 

 

This is the complete list of borders where you can go.

[Ebumbu]

There have been countless fatal accidents related to the visa-run mini busses. I've had the misfortune of using this kind of service twice. Never again. You take your life in your hands. Avoid as you value your life. That's my two cents. They are coffins on wheels. Whenever possible, hire your own taxi, drive safely, or fly. 

[KhunBENQ]

As the thread starter clearly says that he wants to drive on his own I think there is not much to add to post #2 ( Ban Phak Kat/Pakard).

 

13 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I would probably get lost if I tried driving myself!

Easy peasy

Zoom in as appropriate:

https://www.google.de/maps/dir/12.9326137,100.9008657/Baan+Pak+Kad+Immigration/@12.6977585,101.2951852,9z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x3104c10514cd1547:0x88d95797dbd3650b!2m2!1d102.493445!2d12.9264611!3e0

 

[gamesgplayemail]

2 hours ago, Ebumbu said:

There have been countless fatal accidents related to the visa-run mini busses. I've had the misfortune of using this kind of service twice. Never again. You take your life in your hands. Avoid as you value your life. That's my two cents. They are coffins on wheels. Whenever possible, hire your own taxi, drive safely, or fly. 

 

Exactly ! And it's so incredible that some people still don't know this.

 

 

[OJAS]

11 hours ago, Ebumbu said:

There have been countless fatal accidents related to the visa-run mini busses. I've had the misfortune of using this kind of service twice. Never again. You take your life in your hands. Avoid as you value your life. That's my two cents. They are coffins on wheels. Whenever possible, hire your own taxi, drive safely, or fly. 

Indeed, these manically-driven minvans are a threat not only to themselves (and their occupants) but also to other road users. So the OP needs to take care in driving between Pattaya and the Cambodian border on Highway 3, on which I have personally witnessed many such minivans thundering along at great speed in my neck of the woods.