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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing yet again Thai-Cambodian Border Runs. This has been a topic of conversation here recently because well it has only been here recently that it has been an option. Up until really about a month ago, it was not possible to do a Border Run mostly from the eastern part of Thailand where we were seeing a lot of folks doing that for Cambodia but that has changed as we have done a number of videos discussing that.

Meanwhile I got to thinking of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, pattayamail.com, the article is titled: Thai Visa runs to Laos: latest updates. Quoting directly and I urge those who are watching this video go check out that article because this video doesn't really aim to the thrust of that article. Quoting directly: "Another issue with the Cambodian Border is that only organized groups with a tour or Visa company are permitted to do the run in a single day." I think this is good information. Quoting further: "Individuals without an escort arriving at Aranyaprathet or Pong Nam Ron Immigration Border checkpoints are being told that they must remain several days in Cambodia because their ID details were not sent for scrutiny in advance. The best advice right now is to organize a Visa Run via an agency which does regular runs and knows the ropes." Yeah, just a personal story. I did that for my first year or two, about a year and a half in Thailand. Back in the day when you could get them, I had a Multi-Entry B Visa so the Visa sticker validity was for a year but every time you came in you got 90 days of status at every entry. I would just do Border Runs over to Cambodia. I kind of liked the ride; I would usually go on like a Sunday; you would get in; you usually get in there with a few other people, half a dozen a dozen depending on how big the vehicle is. You throw on some music, throw on the headphones and just watch out the window. A few hours up to the border, deal with the Border, eat some food. I always thought it was funny to go to the casino up at Poi Phet, I would usually go there and I always thought that was kind of an interesting little venue. Then you get in the car and you come back and you have got your 90 days in the case of multi-entry. Right now if you are doing a Border Run on a Visa Exempt Stamp, you're going to come back in with 45 days.

Again it can be convenient but bear in mind it is still not like it was status quo ante-pandemic and it looks like you have got to go through a few extra hoops to just have a convenient sort of one-off hop over the border and then hop right back in the country and get back to where you were, you have to kind of plan that in advance.