{"id":26415,"date":"2015-12-08T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=26415"},"modified":"2015-12-08T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:00:20","slug":"tuesday-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=26415","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asia Tourist Visas\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s likely that more North American cruisers will be visiting Southeast Asia, if not this winter then certainly in the foreseeable future, because more cruise lines from both genres are establishing a stronger presence.<\/p>\n

As first-timers to that part of the world this year, we had to be educated about the coming and going to countries we\u2019d never come to or gone from before 2015.<\/p>\n

That would be tourist visas.<\/p>\n

In our case, we were going on the new AmaWaterways<\/a> river cruiser, the AmaDara<\/a>, and it goes up and down the Mekong River in both Cambodia and Vietnam<\/a>. In terms of customs, that meant coming to Cambodia and going from Vietnam. If you\u2019re particularly nervous about this, the cruise lines will make it as easy as possible for you \u2014 through a third party, at a price we didn\u2019t want to pay.<\/p>\n

So we decided to go it alone, and here\u2019s what we discovered\u2026<\/p>\n

Cambodia: <\/b>This can be done online at the Embassy of the King of Cambodia<\/a>. All you \"Cambodia<\/a>need is a passport, some time and a credit card. One cautionary note\u2026your passport must be valid for six months from the date you enter Cambodia. The process took about a week. We printed the e-Visas at home. The cost: about $40 US.<\/p>\n

Vietnam:<\/b> Perhaps because it\u2019s a Communist country, this was slightly more complicated, \"Visa-Bob<\/a>but it\u2019s still an online process<\/a> and your passport only needs to be valid for one month from when the Vietnam visa expires. Again, the process from submission to receipt of the visas took about a week, and came by mail. The cost: $110.<\/p>\n

For both, we paid $300 US. The process was not at all intimidating, contrary to what we\u2019d anticipated.<\/p>\n

Had we gone through the third party to get our tourist visas, the cost would have been $412 each\u2026$824 for both.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s likely that more North American cruisers will be visiting Southeast Asia, if not this winter then certainly in the foreseeable future, because more cruise lines from both genres are establishing a stronger presence. As first-timers to that part of the world this year, we had to be educated about the coming and going to… Continue reading Southeast Asia Tourist Visas\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,25,31,15],"tags":[2081,1290,2078,280,137,912,72,819,35,828,26,27,42,1480,33,2156,43],"class_list":["post-26415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-people","category-ports","category-stories","tag-amadara","tag-amawaterways","tag-asia-river-cruises","tag-cambodia","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-enchantment-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-river-cruises","tag-river-cruising","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-tourist-visas","tag-vietnam","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}