What are the best accommodation options near the border for a quick border run from Bangkok to Vientiane?

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@Paul ******

it’s a multiple entry visa. You can come and go in ten minutes if you like. There are other multiple entry Thai visas which people bounce out/in with by just walking across a border and walking back in again. There’s no ‘I need to make this look reasonable’ like it’s a genuine trip or visit. You can use the multiple entry aspect of it exactly how you want.

If I’m in Phuket, for instance, and I have any kind of multiple entry access to Thailand (examples of which are; multiple re-entry permits on an extension of stay, a multiple entry tourist visa, and the, seemingly discontinued, multiple entry one year Non-Imm O) I could decide I want to go shopping in kuala lumpur for the day, fly out in the morning and fly back the same evening. There would be no questions as to why I didn’t stay for the weekend, or what was the purpose of my visit to Malaysia. It’s a perfectly normal thing to do, it takes the same amount of time as flying to Bangkok, and if your current visa or extension allows for it, you can easily do it. People fly to Singapore for the day quite regularly, it’s under two hours.

I think you’re inventing restrictions and limitations on this visa that don’t exist.

As for the cost, there are visa run companies charging around ฿6000 for hours in a van whereas a same day return Phuket to KL on Air Asia 08:15 outward, 19:35 return flight is less than half that.

Anonymous participant it could be… they’re getting fed up with cheating the system.

You'll have to re organize your schedule I'm afraid. A weekend in Vientiane really isn't something one doesn't have time for. You can always fly there if time is short. Spend a night or two then fly back.