So you got to do your Thai visa run and your going to Vientiane, first off keep heading for Nong Khai and then you get to see signs for Vientiane, right up close to the Friendship Bridge on the right is a car park on the right, only Thai signs but look for one stop signs and some shop houses and its there, at 90baht per night it is a bargain and he has a couple of nice dogs.
So park the car and pay the moron and walk the 100 meters to Thai immigration, did I mention that the car park attendant is a moron? Believe me he is.
Go and hit the currency exchange and get 35 US dollars in nice clean untorn notes if you are a lovely UK person, now this is needed as you do need a visa to enter Lao, your Lao visa is valid for one month, right you got your visa time to get out of Thailand, for your visa you also need a couple of passport pictures and a photocopy of your main passport page.
Next you got to pay your 15baht to get across the Friendship Bridge, yeah you get a ticket, most times they will bus you across in a fan bus but they also have minibuses as well.
The big bus for getting across Friendship Bridge.
So your in Laos and all sort of sorted out, next you got to get to Vientiane and the Thai embassy, you got to be there before 12 so now is the time to start rushing, prices are all up on a sign and listed so you wont get ripped off like you do in Thailand, 250baht for a tuk tuk to take you into Vientiane, if your gonna fok around and want to go to the Thai Embassy first and then onto a hotel expect another hefty 50 baht charge, but your gonna be there a while
So when you get to the Thai Embassy, or is it a consulate? who gives a toss anyway, walk through the gates and walk towards the mass of people on the left, yes you got to stand in queue regardless of the weather cos you are farang scum, now this is really well organised, you got to give your passport and paperwork into the place on the left, then you walk over to the building on the right where hundreds of people could be waiting and you wait till they call out your name so you can pay the money for the visa you have applied for, could they have possibly designed it any worse than that? I really don't think they could.
So you got a few choices here, Non immigrant visas at 2,000baht a pop and only single entry if your pathetic farang reason is that you married some Thai bird, 1,000baht a go tourist visa seems a pretty good deal if you only want 60 days, probably can get a double entry tourist visa, but hell, why bother.