sending US funds to Vietnam for an upcoming Tour

[watgate]

I booked a tour in October to Vietnam and the Tour company is requiring me to send US currency to their bank in Vietnam as payment. I do have a Bangkok Bank acct and I will be going to talk to someone at the bank but, up to now, I have not had much to do with the bank. I basically opened up an acct so I could wire funds from the US to Thailand if ever the need arose. Does anyone know if I am going to have a problem sending US currency to Vietnam from my Bangkok Bank acct. I take it I will have to wire the funds and what is the most cost effective way to wire US currency from Thailand to Vietnam? Thanks for any info on this matter.

[thedemon]

You should have no problems. Just take a print-out of the invoice issued to you by the Vietnamese tour company.

 

I think your only option to send USD to a VN bank account will be a SWIFT transfer. 

 

BBL foreign transaction fees: http://www.bangkokbank.com/BangkokBankThai/Documents/Site Documents/GPSD/TransactionFees_En.pdf