Hey everyone, we have some Mexican citizens who want to board a cruise from Athens in a couple weeks. The cruise stops in Thailand and they told us that everyone needs “proper visas” to enter all the countries that the cruise stops at.

Visa On Arrival (VOA) would be nice but it only works if flying in. I’m told that an e-visa takes 3-4 weeks, so that’s too long.

The other option seems to to be getting a Tourist Visa at an embassy (hopefully very quickly) but that means flying to somewhere with a Thai embassy that handles in-person applications (maybe Ankara, maybe Madrid). That seems expensive and risky, but if it’s the only option, we could try it.

Any advice or options that we might have missed?