Is 5500 baht a normal rate for a visa run from Pattaya to Cambodia?

u can fly to udon thanni then go nong khai and go over the friendship bridge to laos go and come back same day or stay a while .easy, laos visa is around 35$ .

I paid 3900 to do border bounce

My agent charges a bit more to do the visa extension. It seems counter intuitative, but it is what it is.

I am also on METV. I do border-bounces every 60 days and skip the extension.

You can do both yourself, if you want to save the money.

There are now a few other visa options available and supposedly when you stamp-in on visa exempt you get 60 days, so there doesn't seem to be a benefit to the METV, but I am still using it, when I stamp in this weekend I will use my METV and not visa exempt. I am waiting for the dust to clear before I figure out my next visa. (nobody seems to know what is require to get an extension).

In my opinion Pattaya immigration is crooked which explains why extension are so expensive.

My visa Agent is on Pattaya Beach Road, Soi 6. They're in The Victorian (the only respectable establishment on that road).

I just did same day border bounce to Cambodia last week on my own (Using Multi entry Tourist visa). 1500 baht for Cambodian visa then another 500 baht for same day return.

Yes

Fly to KL or Vientiane for 5000 baht. Spend a few nights there. Fly back. This looks more legit overall. And much safer than the minivans.

If you are willing to spend 5,500 for something that should have costed 1900, why start getting frugal now!?!

Listen to Brandon, because you can only do 2 border crossings per year, but flying doesn't have a limit.

I would look at a flight to Cambodia and stay a night or two in Phnom Penh..

It's an interesting city with plenty of nightlife.

As far as I know, the cheapest out/in flight is to go to Vietnam either Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) or DaNang. I've seen flights as cheap as $40USD each way so it's super cheap and you could even stay a night or 2 to check it out if u want. As for 5500b for a 30 day extension?? - you should just go to immigration in Jomptien and do it yourself for 1900b. The agency right next to the lineup area will fill out the forms for you and give you the proper pics and their help only costs a few hundred baht So add on Bolt taxi cost, and it comes in less than half of what you're paying and it's one of your basic Thailand experiences. Just make sure you arrive before they open to get agency help right away and get in line so you're done in just an hour or 2.

I'd advise to spend more than one day abroad. The only time I was questioned at Suvarnabhumi by an immigration official was when I did a 1 day run to Kuala Lumpur.

for $8000 baht you can fly to cambodia about 99 minute flight and have hotel room and come back next day.. dont fly to dmk immigration officials are hassling people doing visa runs..

side note cambodia takes up a whole page on your passport for their over sized sticker… ans have us cash for visa on arrival at airport

You can fly to Hong Kong in 4hrs and costs less than 4,000 baht. Make a nice weekend break of it!

An extension costs 1900THB. To get out of the country you take a bus and come back for 200THB in total. No idea why one with a valid multiple entry visa is doing a "visa run" border runs or what ever.

I've done Visa runs ...the most deadly mini bus rides I've ever had ...we had to physically stop on bus driver a she was on drugs.

Just fly out and have a short break in Cambodia,Vietnam ,Bali or Laos ...and live to tell the experience

Why don't you get the new DTV and work with that. It will be cheaper in the long run. Look into it. I am 68yr old and just got it.

5500 bahts for an extension that costs 1900 and filling a paper. What a scamers...

So why don't you take normal transportation and walk over the border yourself for a fraction of that cost.

Rome2rio.com gives you a hint

There are several companies in pattaya that take you directly to Cambodia and back the same day. 5 star visa runs and first class visa runs. Google is your friend

3,700 try here used them a lot

2900baht. You need phone number?

You can do your own 30 days extension. Just bring tm30, a passport size photo, passport and copies, 1900b cash. You can take a bus to bangkok, than another bus to Cam (might get deny when you want to stamp back on the same day, and they might ask you to stay a night.) or you can get another bus to lao from the same bus station (mo chit) (nong khai. and take a tuk tuk to immigration, after stamp out, take a 30b bus to lao immigration. Nakornchai Air is a nice bus service.

I've heard rumors that the price for a border bounce through agencies has gone up since they changed visa exempt from 30 days to 60 days. Basically cutting down the number of trips these agents can expect to run in half, so they needed to increase their prices to make up for it.

You can probably fly to Singapore or Kuala Lumpur and back for nearly the same amount of money.