Giant Ibis actually has wifi service on both sides of the border. He did not need to use the data for the bus ride... It was more for having internet once you get off the bus.
I have one of those now in Cambodia. But a lot of people just want to stay in Saigon and the busses fill up for this trip daily there with foreigners who just want to stamp out and come back. The visa in Vietnam is now 90 days.
He doesn't as far as I know. If you have the time, you might just head over there and talk to him about it and plan the trip for another day so that you've got everything ready to go. You'll get a different opinion from everyone you ask about it. The cheap people take the city bus. Those that have done it themselves before will tell you not to pay anyone. A friend of mine did it that way (by himself with cheap bus tickets). He speaks vietnamese and he was super confused.
There's definitely a dead zone for mobile service although Giant Ibis is the busline I prefer after having tried many over the last two years. The busses all have pretty good wifi - you may lose it when the bus is in the frontier zone though.
Great content, love it. Subscribed. I am Vietnamese American living and working here under TRC, still I don't know if I would do it, better take a fly to BKK and back to Saigon. You are still in Saigon and still doing visa run?
Thank you for subscribing! I'm just now headed back to the states after doing visa runs back and forth between Vietnam and Thailand for one year. Aside from the border run in the video and a trip to the Philippines. I'm hoping Vietnam starts the 90 day visa that's been discussed!
How long have you been doing this for? I heard visa run were working well before but not really a thing anymore (I heard this for Thailand actually). Wouldn't it be a problem if done several times? Have you heard of anyone having issues doing this (nightmare scenarios etc..)?
You can keep doing it (as a US Citizen) as long as your passport is valid for more than 6 months and has blank pages for the stamps. My Indian friends have had trouble at this particular border crossing. Cambodian immigration wanted to see proof they had money in the bank. I've been doing the visa runs for a year now.
If the new visa happens to have an entry date say Jun5 while the current visa exit date is Jun 7 (after Jun 5), will there be a problem the new visa being rejected?
I forgot how I did the land border run because of the same day exit/entry. Let me as my friend Henry at the tourist agency. I think my visas overlapped a bit like your situation. If I forget to respond hit me up again tomorrow.
thanks for video. do yo know please in Cambodia tourist visa extension if "expiry date: 2 August" does it mean 2 August (being day 60th since enter in that case) is still a full valid day to leave no overstay issues ?
For Americans doing Vietnam to Cambodia visa run, do we just show up at the cambodia border and say i want a visa? or do we have to get the cambodia visa in advanced? i already know how to get vietnam visa... thank you ... please help
So you could get your Vietnam visa in advance like I did and then just take a grab car or motorbike or bus to the border and walk up and pay for your Cambodian visa. The service I used made it a bit less uncertain because a guy on the bus handles it all. You just sit and wait with the others in your group. Bring $USD whether you do it alone or use a bus service like I did in the video.
@@FollowBrando thank you yes... i have a vietnamese gf helping me but just making sure so i dont mess up and have to rush to leave the country... thank you... i just show up in cambodia and ask for it... thanks again
Hey Brando, just subscribed. I travel as well all around the world. Colombia being my favorite. My daughter is Colombian from Medellin. I have traveled to many countries in Asia but not Vietnam. Can I ask why you really don't want to spend any time in Cambodia? thank you
I did want to spend some time in Cambodia and had some invites to visit friends there. I just fell in love with Saigon and still haven't spent enough time there. I'm sort of traveling, but really looking for a place I might want to live. Once I'm settled again in Vietnam I'm sure I'll visit Cambodia. For now I'm doing my time in Medellin.
@@FollowBrando if your spending a lot of time in Medellin and maybe considering living there I would recommend Laureles . Poblado is more for the tourist minded and of course upper class Colombians but Laureles is much better if you want the real Medellin experience yet classy and safe at the same time.....Just my opinion....Take care
@@user-me7tr8uc2b Solid advice. I'm staying in Belen right near Laureles and I would recommend it to anyone visiting the city for a length of time. It's way less touristy.
Hallo what are current requirements when entering Cambodia? Are they pretty much the same as before Covid? If not, I had a booster shot over a year ago, is that still valid? Thanks.
@@Chillvibesguy29 Haha oh you mean living on constant visa runs? Yeah, it's a thing many expats get caught up in, going back and forth between countries or doing runs to the border. Thailand gives you 45 days upon entry then you can extend pretty easily for 30 days. That's a pretty good amount of time to try the place out. And the educational visas here are easy too if you can pay about $800 for the year to take Muay Thai or cooking class. Vietnam is pretty tight with the rules tho so it's 30 days for most visitors.
Way too troublesome and way too expensive. If I pay 150 USD to cross the border I might as well stay there. Giving your passport to the driver when crossing a border is pretty common when traveling by bus. But I have to say I always feel anxious too, even in Europe.
I'd also be freaking if I didn't know where my passport was. Not worth the hassel IMO. Watched a youtuber who did that run and didn't use an agent. He had to haggle with the Cambodian official re the amount of bribe. Not pretty. Why don't you have a Vietnamese sim card?
@@hoa-mpls2422 I would imagine that both sides of the border are taking a cut of the bribery money but you only pay the bus driver $40 total (in US notes). Doing the visa run through the airport doesn't involve any of the grey market bribery stuff, which is why I prefer - and would recommend - that method.
Cambodia also has an eVisa scheme. $60 total for the Khmer and Viet visas. For the money you paid for that bus, you could have got a private car there and back. There is zero need to bribe anyone at either border, stop making out you have to. Only an idiot hands over their passport to god knows who.
Giant Ibis actually has wifi service on both sides of the border. He did not need to use the data for the bus ride... It was more for having internet once you get off the bus.
That's good to know. I have to make a visa run in a few weeks and my Viet sim drops out as I approach the border. I'll steal the wifi from the bus!
Helpfull information. Thank you for this video.
You're welcome. I just passed by that same travel agency. Henry, the guy in the video, was there as he is everyday helping people with border runs.
Excellent information and great video buddy. I'm glad I found your channel. Cheers from Australia.
Thank you. I'm working on more of the informative travel stuff.
$150 for a 30 day visa?
That's $5 per day. You can get a 12 month visa for Cambodia for under $300 and that's a multiple entry visa.
I have one of those now in Cambodia. But a lot of people just want to stay in Saigon and the busses fill up for this trip daily there with foreigners who just want to stamp out and come back. The visa in Vietnam is now 90 days.
You can go travle campuchia 4 day 3 night just 150 go to vietravel to book tickets travel to campuchia
Yeah, you can fly to Bangkok from Ho chi Minh City leaving mid-morning and back by dinner for less than $150.
That's the better plan - if Bangkok doesn't take you haha.
Currently in Saigon. Does your friend Henry have a video or UA-cam channel about doing the visa-run from Saigon to the Moc Bai border?
He doesn't as far as I know. If you have the time, you might just head over there and talk to him about it and plan the trip for another day so that you've got everything ready to go. You'll get a different opinion from everyone you ask about it. The cheap people take the city bus. Those that have done it themselves before will tell you not to pay anyone. A friend of mine did it that way (by himself with cheap bus tickets). He speaks vietnamese and he was super confused.
Thank you for the video. I was in Vietnam September to December. I flew to Bangkok for visa run. I think I will keep going to Bangkok for visa run.
Yep I think I will do the same next time. Thanks for subscribing!
Your videos are great! Happy Birthday, Love Dad
Do you have wifi there? I'm not sure my vietnamobile works
There's definitely a dead zone for mobile service although Giant Ibis is the busline I prefer after having tried many over the last two years. The busses all have pretty good wifi - you may lose it when the bus is in the frontier zone though.
@FollowBrando thank you
Very good idea. Thanks for the honest suggestion!
Much more fun to make the visa run from Vietnam to Thailand. It seems to be the preferred method by 9 out of 10 expats.
Great content, love it. Subscribed.
I am Vietnamese American living and working here under TRC, still I don't know if I would do it, better take a fly to BKK and back to Saigon.
You are still in Saigon and still doing visa run?
Thank you for subscribing! I'm just now headed back to the states after doing visa runs back and forth between Vietnam and Thailand for one year. Aside from the border run in the video and a trip to the Philippines. I'm hoping Vietnam starts the 90 day visa that's been discussed!
".. I don't have to go crying for help .." haha..
Good job Follow Brando. Thanks for your video, great help.
Haha, thanks for watching. I'll keep them coming.
How long have you been doing this for? I heard visa run were working well before but not really a thing anymore (I heard this for Thailand actually). Wouldn't it be a problem if done several times? Have you heard of anyone having issues doing this (nightmare scenarios etc..)?
You can keep doing it (as a US Citizen) as long as your passport is valid for more than 6 months and has blank pages for the stamps. My Indian friends have had trouble at this particular border crossing. Cambodian immigration wanted to see proof they had money in the bank. I've been doing the visa runs for a year now.
i will be doing a cambodia visa run soon... and i hope it goes smoothly thank you...
I'm sure it will work out. It's just not a super smooth process like it is at the airport. Safe travels!
@@FollowBrando thank you
If the new visa happens to have an entry date say Jun5 while the current visa exit date is Jun 7 (after Jun 5), will there be a problem the new visa being rejected?
I forgot how I did the land border run because of the same day exit/entry. Let me as my friend Henry at the tourist agency. I think my visas overlapped a bit like your situation. If I forget to respond hit me up again tomorrow.
thanks for video. do yo know please in Cambodia tourist visa extension if "expiry date: 2 August" does it mean 2 August (being day 60th since enter in that case) is still a full valid day to leave no overstay issues ?
For Americans doing Vietnam to Cambodia visa run, do we just show up at the cambodia border and say i want a visa? or do we have to get the cambodia visa in advanced? i already know how to get vietnam visa... thank you ... please help
So you could get your Vietnam visa in advance like I did and then just take a grab car or motorbike or bus to the border and walk up and pay for your Cambodian visa. The service I used made it a bit less uncertain because a guy on the bus handles it all. You just sit and wait with the others in your group. Bring $USD whether you do it alone or use a bus service like I did in the video.
@@FollowBrando thank you yes... i have a vietnamese gf helping me but just making sure so i dont mess up and have to rush to leave the country... thank you... i just show up in cambodia and ask for it... thanks again
Happy Birthday Brandon!
Hey Brando, just subscribed. I travel as well all around the world. Colombia being my favorite. My daughter is Colombian from Medellin. I have traveled to many countries in Asia but not Vietnam. Can I ask why you really don't want to spend any time in Cambodia? thank you
I did want to spend some time in Cambodia and had some invites to visit friends there. I just fell in love with Saigon and still haven't spent enough time there. I'm sort of traveling, but really looking for a place I might want to live. Once I'm settled again in Vietnam I'm sure I'll visit Cambodia. For now I'm doing my time in Medellin.
@@FollowBrando if your spending a lot of time in Medellin and maybe considering living there I would recommend Laureles . Poblado is more for the tourist minded and of course upper class Colombians but Laureles is much better if you want the real Medellin experience yet classy and safe at the same time.....Just my opinion....Take care
@@user-me7tr8uc2b Solid advice. I'm staying in Belen right near Laureles and I would recommend it to anyone visiting the city for a length of time. It's way less touristy.
What is your language?
Hallo what are current requirements when entering Cambodia? Are they pretty much the same as before Covid? If not, I had a booster shot over a year ago, is that still valid? Thanks.
I didn't need any medical records. Just my passport and forty bucks.
@@FollowBrando what bout living or visa runs?
@@Chillvibesguy29 Living I guess if I had to pick one or the other.
@@FollowBrando I mean the process
@@Chillvibesguy29 Haha oh you mean living on constant visa runs? Yeah, it's a thing many expats get caught up in, going back and forth between countries or doing runs to the border. Thailand gives you 45 days upon entry then you can extend pretty easily for 30 days. That's a pretty good amount of time to try the place out. And the educational visas here are easy too if you can pay about $800 for the year to take Muay Thai or cooking class. Vietnam is pretty tight with the rules tho so it's 30 days for most visitors.
no bribes required. Henry is not to be recommended.
Way too troublesome and way too expensive. If I pay 150 USD to cross the border I might as well stay there.
Giving your passport to the driver when crossing a border is pretty common when traveling by bus. But I have to say I always feel anxious too, even in Europe.
I'd also be freaking if I didn't know where my passport was. Not worth the hassel IMO. Watched a youtuber who did that run and didn't use an agent. He had to haggle with the Cambodian official re the amount of bribe. Not pretty. Why don't you have a Vietnamese sim card?
GoogleFi let me slide for 6 months of data usage outside of the country and had just cut me off.
I don't like that. Just was told today here at hotel do NOT do these kinds of things. I think I will just take a plane.
Did you say bribery for Cambodian visa officials?
The visa price is $30 but you fork over $40 to the guy on the bus who uses the extra money to "grease the wheels of bureaucracy."
@@FollowBrando wow…. Bribery for Vietnamese visa officials too?
@@hoa-mpls2422 I would imagine that both sides of the border are taking a cut of the bribery money but you only pay the bus driver $40 total (in US notes). Doing the visa run through the airport doesn't involve any of the grey market bribery stuff, which is why I prefer - and would recommend - that method.
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Thank you for the compliments and thanks for watching. I will keep the videos going.
Cambodia also has an eVisa scheme. $60 total for the Khmer and Viet visas. For the money you paid for that bus, you could have got a private car there and back. There is zero need to bribe anyone at either border, stop making out you have to. Only an idiot hands over their passport to god knows who.
Ok good to know. The run I did was what most other expats were doing, so that's what I did. Post the info for the private car service.
Bribes are a must..I just did my visa run and I had to pay 150$
Hello 703 bus from Hochiminh to Mocbai still working?50vnd
Is that the public bus to get from HCMC to Moc Bai?
@@FollowBrando yes
Jeez a budget....
Yeah, part of the cost of living here is the monthly visa run.
Not fun at all. Fly to Thailand for a visa lol
Now there's a Vietnam 90 day multi-entry so no visa run necessary!