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What should I know before doing a border run to Mukdahan for my Thai visa?

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Dec 27, 2024
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Eric ***************
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in 30 days i am going to Muckdahan to do a border run visa by car.

Any advise would be helpfull
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A user is planning a border run to Mukdahan in 30 days and is seeking advice. Comments provide various tips including the distinction between a 'border bounce' and a 'visa run,' requiring proper documentation for taking a Thai car across the border, ensuring sufficient fuel, and the option to park the car and walk to passport control. There are also notes on local transportation, advice against potential scams, and suggestions to check with immigration about returning the same day.
Michael **********
you can park your car just outside the friendship bridge and walk to the passport control and buy an international bus ticket. think they are every hour.
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Jonnie *******
Even with the paperwork I’d still leave the car at the border parking, savannakhet its easy to find a Tuktuk anywhere, you may have to stay at least overnight, but you can ask the immigration when you check out whether they will allow you to return early evening, be aware of fake booze, I brought back a bottle of gin from the nice duty free shop in town a couple years back for a friend, I was quite surprised that he finished up binning the bottle after pouring a glass.
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Gregor **********
@Jonnie ******
 sound advice! However the overnight stay requirement is rather a Laos Immigration rule, not from Thai Immigration
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@Gregor *********
 surprised at that, how can any country deny you the right to leave? , I understand it’s acceptable to deny entry but departure ,,,,
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@Jonnie ******
 maybe somebody else here in this group can answer the question
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Tim *********
Remember to drive on the right after you cross the Friendship Bridge
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Paul ***********
Make sure you have enough fuel in your car 👍
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Nongnuch ********
Eric John Mathers . . . so, are you doing a "border bounce" or a "visa run"? Because these are two different things. Would you please explain what your intentions are? And why take your Thai car across the border, you would need the purple passbook for it and buy an insurance on the Laos side
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Eric ***************
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border bounce
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Morgan *******
Eric John Mathers What does this mean?
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Graham ******
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 It means exiting Thailand and stamping in to another country then, immediately or within a few days, stamping out then back in to Thailand to get a new entry stamp
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@Eric **************
 okay. Then you park your car on the Thai side, take the shuttle bus across the Mekong. Entering Laos, you will need to buy a Laos "visa-on-arrival" for something like 1900-2000 THB or $40.oo USD in crisp banknotes. And MAYBE they will require you to stay in Laos for one or even two nights, recent reports are suggesting that some border points of Laos require this
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Graham ******
What Visa are you going for, do you have an appointment yet? Are you parking up or taking your car that you own across?
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Eric ***************
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my thai wife has a car
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@Eric **************
 still complicated to cross over to Laos by own Thai car. The car will need a purple book from your DLT, in order to be allowed to leave Thailand. And on the Laos side you will be required to buy Laos car insurance. Not worth the effort if all you want to do is a "border run"
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@Graham *****
 no, was ust going to do a visa run
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@Eric **************
 but you say below it's a border bounce so you don't intend to purchase a Visa at the Consulate and, therefore, it is not a Visa run as there's no new Visa
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@Eric **************
 you don't do a "visa run". What you are doing is a "border run". It would be a "visa run" if you visited the Royal Thai Consulate in Savannakhet and apply for a visa
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@Graham *****
 parking is the best and travel by bus a cross the river
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@Robby ***********
 We took the car but got the car passport etc. up from and short-term insurance at the bridge border point.
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Robby ************
ok can make things more easy no bus or tuktuk
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