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OVER LAND CROSSING POIPET
It is no longer a mystery any more about the land crossing into Cambodia from Thailand at Aranyapathet-Poipet Border. From Bangkok, "Aranyapathet" is over 200 km from Bangkok to the West. It takes around 4-5 hours drive from Bangkok.
The Poipet border is open from 07:30 a.m. to 17:00 p.m., and foreign tourists can obtain the visa here. A slight warning is that you might be asked for some sorts of International Vaccination Certificate by the local immigration officials. It is only their attempt to make some extra money as there is no such requirement. Some travelers had reported that the fine imposed ranges from USD5-50. This is not legitimate, of course. If you insisted not to pay, generally the officials do not make any hassle further. In case you are quite afraid, pass the immigration with the other tourists so that you won't be alone, or if you want to compromise, some small dollar notes should be more than adequate, though not recommended.
In Poipet, the vehicles are rare to be seen. Taxi is run by private two-wheeled motorcyclist. There is a bus station near the crossing point, but it is vacant. Many wagons, full of goods and products, are pulled or pushed by several dusty Cambodians. Food and drink stalls can be seen on the two sides of the street.
If you come from Bangkok and prefer one of the cheapest (and perhaps toughest) ways to get to Siem Reap (without visa), this is a good option: From Bangkok Central train station take the 3rd class train leaving at 5:55am and 1:05pm for only 49 Baht. It will take you a scheduled 4,5 hours to get to Aranya Prahthet, but usually it will arrive one hour later.
After you have had Cambodian visa you just walking around 5 more to the east you will the arrivals sign and then bring your passport to show them again for checking in Cambodia. After the arrivals terminal finished you go out and will see many Odomrithy Bus company staff are embroidered the name on green shirt will be trick showing you the shuttle bus to bus station and show you the sign policy how to going to bus station and not really bus station that is the trasportation association scam are waiting for you and charge in expensive prices of transportation to siem reap and if you will already get is late to come back because it is a little far from round about and not easy to find cheapertaxi share so please looking for one hotel name Lihout on the right side and over the bus shuttle bus terminal many taxi are parking over there.The Advice: Avoid from mafia boys and the children pick-pocket, Do not take free shuttle bus in Cambodian side to bus station and they will do overcharged the price of taxi and bus because they do rip off for their own pocket so better take taxi your own only $10 for one person shared and whole taxi is $40 or 1200 bath only 3 hours to Siem Reap one taxi can put 4people Many taxi in Cambodia side in one hotel name LYHOUT after roundabout on the right hand in Cambodia side after check in Cambodian terminal. Also, for some tourists crossing the border, the mafia boys at border try to ask you about visa, bus, taxi and money exchange and all their best to make you change money from $US to Thai money and Thai money to local money in riels and telling you there are no ATM and bank in Siem Reap, and Siem Reap in Angkor Wat don’t use Thai money, so they have to change to local money and then you will get bad rate and lose much money. So please take care! Note now : All taxi drivers take tourists from border(poipet) bus station to siem reap recently do not bring you to the guesthouse you had reservation.All taxi drivers will be scam you to drop off at some garage place and telling you this is bus station and other taxi drivers will call to tell tuk tuk driver in siem reap waiting for transfering you free of charge to any guesthouses or hostel and hotels that you have have reservations and additional more taxi drivers intend to tell you a lie that his taxi can not go inside the city.one more thing if you ask him or call the guesthouse and hotel reservation, he said yes and then put number of his tuk tuk driver mates and talk to you instead.afterwards he said to you the guesthouse you prefer to go is full or far away.... One story more i just got from my customers.they already booked my hostel and they are taking bus from bangkok and then the bus drop them off at tuk tuk station and the tuk tuk drivers asked them if you have reserved the hostels and hotel please give me your paper and then he took phone and called to there for you and then tuk tuk driver said he will bring you there but he brings you to his guesthouse and it is wrong guesthouse not the guesthouse that you have reservation and also they did not look at sign and next morning they know they were scam them to different hostels.
Doing trip with bicycles from Thailand via border(poipet)around 2nights/3days from Bangkok like first trip cycling from bangkok early in morning to poipet and then doing check in and stamp in and get visa from immegration under 3 towers of angkor wat and then cycle to sisophon around 2 hour and staying overnight in Boutom hotel one night and in the morning keep cycling again to my village name Kralanh and overnight in chaktomouk guesthouse and cycling around this district and see village and talk to friendly people there and eating at phkay preouk restaurant and next morning continue to siem reap around 2 more and arriving in siem reap city through highway 6 road passing through airport road to city you can have many choice to stay like budget guesthouse with dorms starting from $3 with breakfast and $6 single ensuite rooms to $22 pernight like Jasmine lodge and jasmine family hostel.
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Most of taxi and motor drivers at airport embroider the cardinal numbers on their green uniform-shirt and all of drivers have their own turn getting tourists from the desk accountant from airport after tourists have bought taxi or motor and mini van transports from them to Siem reap town and then they try to drive tourists to some hotels or guesthouses with high commission if you already have guesthouse or hotel reservation, they will try to talk to you like the guesthouse you have reserved is ( far away from city, and not nice or it can be aready closed, i do not know where this guesthouse is and please go to see this one I know) if you will not listen to them the driver will drop you off in the area far away from city even telling you a lie that is the city of siem reap. The road : now the road is paved from Poipet to Banteay meanchey province(Sisophon) to kralanh district around 130 kilometres and more 54 kilometres more has been paved right now our government already have spent more than 75 millions $us. Many bus companies and travel agencies in Thailand sold bus tickets to Siem Reap and told lies to tourists that the bus will be in Siem Reap at 6 pm and going to drop off in bus station. All tourist busses never take tourists to drop off at the bus station because the Bus company like Neakrohorm Tour, Khmer Thai border tour, Angkor Amazing Holiday Tour, Hang tep tour, Atta Tour at Poipet running bus to Siem Reap and return to border the next morning have a good deal contraction with owner of guesthouse giving first $1000 for deposit and afterwards all these bus comapany with touirsts will drop of tourists in the guesthouse working with them. $6 for selling tourists between travel agencies and guesthouses. Also the guesthouse in Siem Reap will have to send one guesthouse's driver who has experienced staying on the bus to ask tourists about the guesthouse if they know tourists on the bus already have made reservations at the other guesthouses, they will tell bus driver to leave late from border and stop many places on the way. However make tourists cross and sleepy and then bus come to Siem Reap late at night and push tourists to stay their guesthouse. Bus from Phnom Penh and other provinces to Siem Reap not going to drop off in the bus station also they always have their own bus station company and drive customers in to their place and close the door (allow only scam tuk tuk drivers who pay money having rights) to ask customers driving to hotels and guesthouse and if you will have guesthouses you made reservation already they will charge you more expensive and sometime they said they will not know that guesthouse and if they know they will say (really far away from town and try to kidnap you to other place with commission and more expensive or drop off far away from Siem Reap they fight each others for taking tourists to hotel and guesthouse because some of hotels and guesthouse do not advertise and associated to hotel and guesthouse association and just only deal with drivers bring tourist to their place for example the price only $5 can be up to $8 or more than this prices because the prices have to ask driver first who bring tourists in to guesthouse or hotel even more drivers can scare to the receptionists in the guesthouse do not talk to their customers about the prices and do not write the reall price on board.
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