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 Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:20 pm |
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| Hi great info
I will be landing in bangkok on the 7th of Oct and im planning to fly over to Vietnam from Thailand around 4/5 Nov. From the information I have read I will be eligible for a visa exemption as long as I book and bring info of the flight from thailand - vietnam? I will be making my way through Vietnam and Cambodia back to bangkok where my return flight to uk is booked for 2nd Dec. Thanks |
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:20 pm |
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| Does anyone have any experience with getting a Thai visa when you're a UK citizen living in New Zealand ?
I presume I will have to go to the consulate/embassy. I also still don't, even though I have read this thread hundreds of times, worked out what visa I need. I want to arrive in Phuket in mid to late January, spend a few weeks exploring the rest of Thailand I missed out on last time, then travel across borders to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before coming back to Thailand and then finally coming home. Hopefully in March or April. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 8:51 am |
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Does anyone have any experience with getting a Thai visa when you're a UK citizen living in New Zealand ?
I presume I will have to go to the consulate/embassy. I also still don't, even though I have read this thread hundreds of times, worked out what visa I need. I want to arrive in Phuket in mid to late January, spend a few weeks exploring the rest of Thailand I missed out on last time, then travel across borders to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam before coming back to Thailand and then finally coming home. Hopefully in March or April. Depends how long you want to spend in Thailand when you re-enter from Vietnam. Your best bet is to just get a free single entry tourist visa from the Thai embassy or a consulate in NZ, and then if you want to spend more than 30 days in Thailand in your very last stint there, pick up another free 60 day tourist visa from a Thai consulate or embassy in one of the other countries you go through before returning to Thailand. Alternatively, see if the NZ embassy/consulate will do you a mutli-entry visa for free. They shouldn't do officially, but many others are doing, so it's worth a pop. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:47 pm |
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| Cheers Tom, will go down and see them in Wellington next time I'm in the big smoke.
Can't believe I still have that nationwide picture as my profile pic, seems so long ago I was gearing up for the trip, now it's a few months off finishing  |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:05 pm |
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| yep..im another one confused by the whole visa thing...ok would be really grateful if anyone can answer this for me..
Heading to bangkok late jan,want to see laos vietnam and then down to all the thailand islands and maybe singapore...wont be heading back until end of may,so about 5months.....do I need to buy a visa from hull or liverpool consulate first? and do I get the 90day? and does that include just thailand itself? so basically what do I need to do in terms of visa's if I visit all the places on my list over 5months??? Thankyou!!!! x |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 3, 2009 3:19 pm |
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| I don't understand either(maybe I'm just dim). If you fly into Bangkok stay there for say 3 days or whatever then go on to Cambodia,Vietnam, laos and for a month or 6weeksish then back to thailand where I want to stay for around 2-3 months what visa do i need?
any help will be great!! xxxx |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4, 2009 1:31 pm |
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| Firstly, the embassy in Hull are awesome, I sent it Friday evening, and it came back tuesday lunchtime.
it came back with a card receipt and it appears i've only been charged £23!? I thought the Visa was £28 + postage? It looks like i've got the right visa but have i just been lucky or got the wrong one!? |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:15 pm |
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Firstly, the embassy in Hull are awesome, I sent it Friday evening, and it came back tuesday lunchtime.
it came back with a card receipt and it appears i've only been charged £23!? I thought the Visa was £28 + postage? It looks like i've got the right visa but have i just been lucky or got the wrong one!? 2month visa is free at the moment, however hull levies a £15 charge for admin and £8 for the postage. |
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| Posted: Wed Nov 4, 2009 3:20 pm |
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yep..im another one confused by the whole visa thing...ok would be really grateful if anyone can answer this for me..
Heading to bangkok late jan,want to see laos vietnam and then down to all the thailand islands and maybe singapore...wont be heading back until end of may,so about 5months.....do I need to buy a visa from hull or liverpool consulate first? and do I get the 90day? and does that include just thailand itself? so basically what do I need to do in terms of visa's if I visit all the places on my list over 5months??? Thankyou!!!! x Depends how long you want to stay in thailand. If you want to spend over 30 days in thailand in 1 go (ie up to 60 days), get a tourist visa from hull or liverpool (im doing this for trip leaving in january). If not, then get a cheap flight using air asia out of thailand within 30 days of landing, and thai immigration should get you in on the visa exemption program they have. However if you want to leave thailand within 30 days and go back at the end of your trip for longer, get a 60 day visa in a nearby country - cambodia, laos or malaysia. Visa for the rest: Cambodia - get 30 days at border/airports; Laos - get 30 days at border; Vietnam - get in advance, fastest and easiest place is the consulate in Sihanoukville, cambodia - 15mins! Singapore - visa on arrival for brits and other nationalities, no worries there. Malaysia - 90 days for brits 
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| Posted: Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:09 pm |
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| thanks the_virs...so let me get this right...if fly into bangkok with a 60day visa sorted out already but go straight to laos and vietnam over 6 to 8 weeks or so and then down through thailand for another 8weeks is that same 60day visa valid or not because only plan on staying in bangkok for couple days to week then going up and across before going down through the islands?? grrr why does it have to be so complicated! and if departing late jan when is best to apply for visa through hull or liverpool? thanks for your help x | |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 6, 2009 10:52 pm |
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| i'm going craxy reading the vis stuff again and again. Need some help please. here is my plan:
Heading from London to Bangkok 6th Dec 09 5 days in northern Thailand and then off to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for 4 weeks. Back to south Thailand for 2 weeks before back to London from Bangkok. What type of visas do i need? Any help would be great as i need to get them very soon! Thanks |
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| Posted: Fri Nov 6, 2009 11:05 pm |
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i'm going craxy reading the vis stuff again and again. Need some help please. here is my plan:
Heading from London to Bangkok 6th Dec 09 5 days in northern Thailand and then off to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam for 4 weeks. Back to south Thailand for 2 weeks before back to London from Bangkok. What type of visas do i need? Any help would be great as i need to get them very soon! Thanks Get a single entry tourist visa. If it gets stamped when you arrive in Thailand, then pick up another one (for free) in Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam. I'd suggest Laos. Or, if you can get a double entry tourist visa for under £30 from one of the Thai consulates in the UK, then that's not a bad deal all considered, even though it'd be cheaper to do it abroad. You may even find that if you just get a single entry one, you might be able to ask them not to stamp it when you arrive in Bangkok by telling them you'll be leaving within 5 days and returning for a longer stint later. Sometimes they can be cool with this, but that really depends on the mood of the immigration officer who deals with you. But definitely get at least one visa before you leave, because your airline can refuse to carry you if you don't have either a visa or proof of outwards flights from Thailand itself within 30 days (they don't accept anything other than flight tickets as proof of departure, and those flights must be departing Thailand itself - not a neighbouring country). All of the above comes with a big fat caveat that they may not even ask you to produce anything on arrival, and will just stamp you in without any hassle. That's how they run their shit. Fucked. |
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| Posted: Sat Nov 7, 2009 2:38 pm |
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| Great thanks for the help Tommarvelle!!
Looking at the post above it seems that i get visas for entry in Cambodia and loas at the border which is great! thats 1 thing ticked of the very long list of things to sort out! V |
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