Thai Consulate Vientiane

[CMExpat79]

I am going to head to Laos next month for a x2 tourist visa, I need to leave Thailand by the 8th Dec, so am thinking of getting the bus from Chiang Mai to Udon Thani then onto Friendship bridge and flying back ...hence I am trying to confirm which dates the consulate will be open.

I have visited the site, and it seems on Monday 6 December it is a substitute for the Kings birthday - so I am assuming they will be closed on this day?

Secondly - on Friday 10th December is Constitution Day - again I am assuming this day they are closed too.

My question is - does anyone know if they will be open on the Tues/ Wed and Thurs? or will they just shut down for the whole week?

...I don't want to book my return flight for the wednesday if I haven't managed to hand my passport in the day b4 due to them being closed

Thanks

[afarang]

No, they only close for the one day ,of the actual holiday, unless the date of the holiday is a Sat. or Sun, in which case the Mon. is closed , as a day in lieu

[klauswernst198]

Don't even think about going those days.

Probably halve of the staff will take days off and the rest will be in a very bad mood with thousands of applicants,

I know one person who went there 3 or 4 years ago in the middle of these 2 national holidays and he told me it was also terribly crowded since people who should have come on the holidays will come as well on that day so I would guess that the number of applicants it twice as much as on a normal day. This will halve of the staff smell like a disaster to me.

Good luck if you still wanna go

[Lite Beer]

The Vientienne Website says they are closed on 2nd , 6th , 10th December.