I know this is a little off topic for Cambodia but there are also people on here who are fairly knowledgeable about Vietnam and this may be of use to people in the future.
A visa/transit question. At what point are you considered to be transiting through the airport (in Saigon) versus having to have a visa, go through immigration etc? I am thinking of flying out of SGN to Canada return for a couple of weeks to see family. I actually live in Cambodia but for some reason the airlines see fit to charge me 400 bucks more for the privilege of doing it from PP, making it way cheaper to go from Saigon. If I could get a connection flight from say 3-4 hours to PP after arriving back in Saigon is that going to be a hassle free transit (no visa required) or not? Any info welcome.
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The condition about Visa depends on many things. Can you tell more detailed the flight of a couple is connecting flight or 2 flights of 2 different airline companies?
If they have Cambodia nationality then the first flight time they dont need visa, but the second time need. If they have Canada nationality, visa is needed for the roundtrip.
We support Visa service + fast track (our staff will help u to take stamp fee immediately at airport). So if u need visa and fast service to avoid missing flight, u can use fast track.
Contact our Bestprice company for detailed info:
Cambodia, Phnom Penh Office:
No 30, Street 05, Sangkat Phnom Penh Thmei, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Office:
P1-0237, The Prince Residence Building, No. 17-19-21 Nguyen Van Troi Street, Ward 14, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Cambodia, Siem Reap Office:
No 131, Group 4, Traing Village, Sangkat Slorkram, Siem Reap City, Cambodia
Email: [email protected]
Number: +84 436-249-007 / +84 904-699-428
If they have Cambodia nationality then the first flight time they dont need visa, but the second time need. If they have Canada nationality, visa is needed for the roundtrip.
We support Visa service + fast track (our staff will help u to take stamp fee immediately at airport). So if u need visa and fast service to avoid missing flight, u can use fast track.
Contact our Bestprice company for detailed info:
Cambodia, Phnom Penh Office:
No 30, Street 05, Sangkat Phnom Penh Thmei, Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh Office:
P1-0237, The Prince Residence Building, No. 17-19-21 Nguyen Van Troi Street, Ward 14, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Cambodia, Siem Reap Office:
No 131, Group 4, Traing Village, Sangkat Slorkram, Siem Reap City, Cambodia
Email: [email protected]
Number: +84 436-249-007 / +84 904-699-428
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johnny lightning wrote:I know this is a little off topic for Cambodia but there are also people on here who are fairly knowledgeable about Vietnam and this may be of use to people in the future.
A visa/transit question. At what point are you considered to be transiting through the airport (in Saigon) versus having to have a visa, go through immigration etc? I am thinking of flying out of SGN to Canada return for a couple of weeks to see family. I actually live in Cambodia but for some reason the airlines see fit to charge me 400 bucks more for the privilege of doing it from PP, making it way cheaper to go from Saigon. If I could get a connection flight from say 3-4 hours to PP after arriving back in Saigon is that going to be a hassle free transit (no visa required) or not? Any info welcome.
Johnny
- I expect that you would have to use a Vietnamese visa to pass through immigration in SGN to collect your luggage, then check it in again and get a boarding pass for your onward flight to Canada before passing out through immigration to leave SGN.
- I expect that you would need another Vietnamese visa on your way back from Canada.
- Without a visa you are liable to being denied boarding in Phnom Penh, and even more likely in Canada.
- If you have separate tickets and miss either connection due to flight delay or cancellation you would be stuffed.
I have often wondered about the same thing. I think it would only work if one had hand baggage only.
If the OP is saving $400 on air fares by flying from SGN, it is worth him buying a multiple entry visa for Vietnam. Bus tickets to and from SGN are not expensive. If he was a Brit (or from any of the visa exempt countries) he could travel once visa free and use an evisa for the other entry (cost $25).
If the OP is saving $400 on air fares by flying from SGN, it is worth him buying a multiple entry visa for Vietnam. Bus tickets to and from SGN are not expensive. If he was a Brit (or from any of the visa exempt countries) he could travel once visa free and use an evisa for the other entry (cost $25).
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You can buy a multi-entry one-month visa for Vietnam.
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It won't necessarily work with just hand baggage or even no baggage at all, I don't think. The OP still needs to get the boarding card and whilst there have been changes to how these things are done - for example some lo-cost airlines encourage self-printing of boarding passes - it is more usual to have to get the boarding pass landside at the check in desk.QED wrote:I have often wondered about the same thing. I think it would only work if one had hand baggage only.
If the OP is saving $400 on air fares by flying from SGN, it is worth him buying a multiple entry visa for Vietnam. Bus tickets to and from SGN are not expensive. If he was a Brit (or from any of the visa exempt countries) he could travel once visa free and use an evisa for the other entry (cost $25).
If the OP flies in to SGN then the chances are they will have to pass airside to landside to obtain the boarding card. That means passing through immigration and passport control and therefore a visitors visa.
Tangentially, it behooves one to make sure of transit rules before flying. I don't know if things have changed but I know a few years back I was flying AUK to KL with a pretty lengthy stopover at Melbourne Tullamarine. Had my stopover been more than eight hours, I think it was, I would have had to get a visa.
A fucking visa for the privilege of being stuck for interminable hours in a place were they are too cuntish to even provide a place to allow transit prisoners to smoke legally.
Yes, good point - although most airlines have transfer desks airside that issue boarding passes. Even so, the danger would be that the airline check-in at PNH would not accept him for travel without a visa. I actually once saw a middle-aged and respectable tourist couple being denied a BP at PNH due to lack of Vietnam visa. If the OP was from a visa exempt country, he could try it out and if it didn't work he could use up his visa exempt entry. But he's not, so I agree it's too risky even with hand baggage only.bipolar bear wrote:It won't necessarily work with just hand baggage or even no baggage at all, I don't think. The OP still needs to get the boarding card and whilst there have been changes to how these things are done - for example some lo-cost airlines encourage self-printing of boarding passes - it is more usual to have to get the boarding pass landside at the check in desk.QED wrote:I have often wondered about the same thing. I think it would only work if one had hand baggage only.
If the OP is saving $400 on air fares by flying from SGN, it is worth him buying a multiple entry visa for Vietnam. Bus tickets to and from SGN are not expensive. If he was a Brit (or from any of the visa exempt countries) he could travel once visa free and use an evisa for the other entry (cost $25).
If the OP flies in to SGN then the chances are they will have to pass airside to landside to obtain the boarding card. That means passing through immigration and passport control and therefore a visitors visa.
Tangentially, it behooves one to make sure of transit rules before flying. I don't know if things have changed but I know a few years back I was flying AUK to KL with a pretty lengthy stopover at Melbourne Tullamarine. Had my stopover been more than eight hours, I think it was, I would have had to get a visa.
A fucking visa for the privilege of being stuck for interminable hours in a place were they are too cuntish to even provide a place to allow transit prisoners to smoke legally.
Off topic, I was once asked in Manila if I had a visa for Cambodia when I was flying to Siem Reap.
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I've had a similar issue but at Cebu, which was my point of origin to fly in to SR via Manila on Cebu Pacific. At the check in desk the shitwit looked at the previous Cambodia visa in my passport and said "It's not valid, you have to get another visa to fly". As I pointed out, it obviously wasn't valid as it was a visa from 18 months prior, issued at SR airport on arrival and was valid for a month. On arrival, I'd get another exactly the same.QED wrote: Off topic, I was once asked in Manila if I had a visa for Cambodia when I was flying to Siem Reap.
It resulted in a lengthy standoff with them trying to fuck me off and me telling them their system - whatever it was telling them - is clearly wrong. The deadlock was broken when I told the supervisor to go and spend one minute on Google and she would discover I did not need a visa.
She came back about five minutes later - I don't know what she actually got up to - and had the temerity to try to tell me "It's OK, that visa is fine"! Right, so the expired visa is now OK? That's now fine for me to use for boarding?
It would be fair to say, having been wound up by them for at least fifteen minutes as they gave me the "You must have visa, we can only let you go as far as Manila" bullshit and with the thought of the shit and expense their incompetence could have caused me boiling my brain, the conversation didn't end there.
I wonder how many people have actually walked away from one of their desks having been told the same bollocks, gone back to town and got themselves an evisa or something? It was clearly a systemic issue as all three people I dealt with were sure about the visa to fly requirement and were consulting their screen to confirm it. Fortunately for me, I had checked the night before departure what the current visa situation was so was 100% sure and stood my ground. Had I not checked I may well have turned away and gone back to town, so adamant were they about their position.
It resulted in a lengthy standoff with them trying to fuck me off and me telling them their system - whatever it was telling them - is clearly wrong. The deadlock was broken when I told the supervisor to go and spend one minute on Google and she would discover I did not need a visa.
She came back about five minutes later - I don't know what she actually got up to - and had the temerity to try to tell me "It's OK, that visa is fine"! Right, so the expired visa is now OK? That's now fine for me to use for boarding?
Well done for winning that battle. More off topic - When I fly from London, I always buy tickets to BKK because they are so much cheaper than to PNH. As I am booked to return three months later and I don't have a Thai visa, they ask me how long I am staying in Thailand. I tell them one day and I guess they can verify a pattern of that in my passport. Very occasionally I am asked to show my onward flight to PNH. If one was planning to continue to PP overland, one could have a problem.
She came back about five minutes later - I don't know what she actually got up to - and had the temerity to try to tell me "It's OK, that visa is fine"! Right, so the expired visa is now OK? That's now fine for me to use for boarding?
Well done for winning that battle. More off topic - When I fly from London, I always buy tickets to BKK because they are so much cheaper than to PNH. As I am booked to return three months later and I don't have a Thai visa, they ask me how long I am staying in Thailand. I tell them one day and I guess they can verify a pattern of that in my passport. Very occasionally I am asked to show my onward flight to PNH. If one was planning to continue to PP overland, one could have a problem.
I was once told by the check-in lady at Manchester airport that I could not fly to Luxembourg for more than three months without a visa.
I informed her that she was incorrect, and also pointed out that as my ticket was for just over two months her maths was obviously not so good either.
She continued to insist that if my ticket had been for three months I would not have been allowed to fly, but refused to show me the rules. When I later checked the iata rules it was obvious that she had confused the rules for a "British overseas passport holder" with those for myself, a "British Citizen".
After that I started carrying a copy of the appropriate iata rules whenever I caught a flight.
I informed her that she was incorrect, and also pointed out that as my ticket was for just over two months her maths was obviously not so good either.
She continued to insist that if my ticket had been for three months I would not have been allowed to fly, but refused to show me the rules. When I later checked the iata rules it was obvious that she had confused the rules for a "British overseas passport holder" with those for myself, a "British Citizen".
After that I started carrying a copy of the appropriate iata rules whenever I caught a flight.
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