How To Get A Vietnam Visa In Bangkok
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You need a visa to enter Vietnam before you travel to the country. It's easy to organise a Vietnam visa in Bangkok if you know where to go.
Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world where you can't get a visa on arrival in the country. You need to make sure you already have a visa in your passport before you arrive in Vietnam at the airport or by road or sea. If you don't have a visa, they won't let you in.
Getting a Vietnam visa in Bangkok is pretty easy. Get a taxi or Skytrain to Wireless Road (Soi Wittayu) in the centre of Bangkok. On the Skytrain you get off at the Phloen Chit stop. Walk out through the elevated skywalk and then down the stairs onto Wireless Road going towards All Seasons Place, which is a huge mall and office block. (There is a big map on a board in the BTS station - check it before you go out through the exits to ensure you know where you're going).
At the bottom of the walkway stairs there is a cluster of shops that can provide you with passport photos if you do not have them already. You will need two for your Vietnam visa application. Get these before you go any further.
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Walk along Wireless Road for about five minutes. The Vietnamese Embassy is just along here, but it's easy to miss because you are so close to it. Look for this door, which is the entry to the Visa Application area.
Once inside, fill in one of the application forms and then submit it at the window along with the appropriate fee. It's around 1000 Baht ($30 US) for a one entry visa - make sure you request a multiple entry visa if you intend to exit and re-enter Vietnam during your travels, otherwise you'll have to apply for a second visa all over again. You need to submit the visa application between 8.30am to 11.30 am and 1.30pm to 4.30pm. You can collect it 3 days later or pay a little more and get express service to collect it the next day, but make sure you drop it early in the morning if you want to be sure of this. You can find more info on the quite helpful Vietnamese Embassy website.
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Get A Vietnam Visa Without The Wait in Cambodia
If you are travelling to Cambodia and intending to go on to Vietnam afterwards, you can cleverly get a Vietnam visa without any wait at the Sihanoukville Vietnam Embassy. This trick is listed in the Lonely Planet Cambodia and I've done it myself (although it was 3 years ago so double check it's still operational). You simply turn up at the Vietnam Embassy - preferably mid morning when someone will be there and also have time to deal with your request - and they issue the visa on the spot. The gentleman who issued mine and Louise's visas was certainly a lot more friendly than the harried Bangkok visa staff.
The Vietnam Embassy in Sihanoukville is marked on most maps of the city, although it can take a bit of cruising up and down the road on the back of motorbike taxis to spot its entrance gates.
Note that this immediate issue only seems to happen in Sihanoukville and not any other Cambodian cities, including the capital Phnom Penh. You can still get a Vietnam visa in PP, but you'll have to wait for it.
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October 19th, 2007
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October 21st, 2007
that was incredibly useful. Thank you very much for providing that. It was concise and exactly what i was looking for.
Steve
February 26th, 2008
really helpful, thanks a million!!
lucy
April 16th, 2008
This was a very useful article and it helped me enormously just this morning. If you are in the sukhumvit area around Soi 6 it is actually really easy to walk if your that way inclined. Say about 20 minutes each way. Follow the Sky train along sukhumvit road and look out for the Phloen Chit stop.
I do want to point out 2 things.
1) Anyone needing passport photos should expect to pay about 150 baht.
2) if you want an express visa it WILL COST YOU! I had to pay 2500 baht for the fast service so try to plan ahead and you’ll be able to avoid the extra cost of express service. I wish I had!
Scott
April 25th, 2008
Does anyone know if this service is available to all nationalities? (or more specifically, for Australians?)
Looks like I’m not going to have time in Australia to get my Vietnam visa before heading off to Thailand so I may have to resort to this option. Looks like it might be cheaper anyway.
Brendan
June 30th, 2008
Awesome thanks heaps!!
Aimee
October 12th, 2008
Word of warning! We’ve just found out it now takes 4 days to get a Vietnam visa from the embassy in Bangkok. Having arranged our flights to give us the 3 days we needed, we ended up having to pay 2500 baht for the express fee (nearly fifty quid each!!) to make sure we had the visa when we fly. So if you are planning on getting the normal visa, make sure you leave yourself enough time. Also, you don’t pick it up on day 4, but on day 5 - as obviously it takes 4 whole days to stick a piece of paper in your passport. Make sure you take into account the weekend or public holidays. The staff were pretty unhelpful too.
If you get the express visa (1000 baht), you collect the next day between 3.30 and 4.30pm.
Mary
November 21st, 2008
Sorry, I made a mistake in the comment above, its 1000B for a normal visa, not the express one!
Mary
November 21st, 2008
[...] How To Get A Vietnam Visa In BangkokGetting a Vietnam visa in Bangkok is pretty easy. Get a taxi or Skytrain to Wireless Road (Soi Wittayu) in the centre of Bangkok. On the Skytrain you get off at the Phloen Chit stop. Walk out through the elevated skywalk and then down … [...]