What is the cheapest way to get to Vietnam (hopefully within 24 hours) from Bangkok or Pattaya?

The return airfares seem to be 7000 bahts and up, which is out of my budget for 2 people. I will becoming to Bangkok in January and want to visit Vietnam as well.

the cheapest way I know is Via train to Lao, Then by tour bus to Vietnam, But Undertake this journey at your peril, it is not for the faint hrearted and I endured 30 hours of ###### with the ###### who run the bus trip, I will never take this method again as it was the singulaly worst experience of travelling that i have, trully awful, uncomfortable and anoying to the point of insanity. You are generally put on a nice bus and driven into the sticks where they scam you onto a crappy bus loaded with the crews goods that they want to take over the border to sell, travellers come second to fridges, rice cookers and red bull, then they pick up all the locals who pay a tenth of what you paid. Then the battle for controll of the A/C ensues, the locals don't like it and the crew want to save as much fuel as possible so getting them to keep it on for more than 5 mins is a nightmare. Many stops to load up with contraband and seats that "recline" about 10mm unless it has a fridge behind it, then you can forget it! anyway good luck and try not to kill the coach rep

the cheapest way I know is Via train to Lao, Then by tour bus to Vietnam, But Undertake this journey at your peril, it is not for the faint hrearted and I endured 30 hours of ###### with the ###### who run the bus trip, I will never take this method again as it was the singulaly worst experience of travelling that i have, trully awful, uncomfortable and anoying to the point of insanity. You are generally put on a nice bus and driven into the sticks where they scam you onto a crappy bus loaded with the crews goods that they want to take over the border to sell, travellers come second to fridges, rice cookers and red bull, then they pick up all the locals who pay a tenth of what you paid. Then the battle for controll of the A/C ensues, the locals don't like it and the crew want to save as much fuel as possible so getting them to keep it on for more than 5 mins is a nightmare. Many stops to load up with contraband and seats that "recline" about 10mm unless it has a fridge behind it, then you can forget it! anyway good luck and try not to kill the  coach rep

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Thanks, but 30 hours is too long! Something less cheaper perhaps with not so many inconveniences and a less than 24 hours time?

Land, Sea, Air

Sea: too slow

Air: too expensive

Land: China

Laos

Cambodia

China: too slow and too expensive

Laos: already ruled this one out

Cambodia: ?????

There ain't nothing else!

I think you should consider the expense you would incur on a long land trip as well and off set that against the price of an air ticket.