Laos Border Control, Customs and Immigration | Customs and Immigration

February 14th, 2024 by Daisyapiq

reached the custom by motorcycle and at the passport area they asked for 200 baht to stamp passport (for themselves) then the tourist police will ask you to give passport to them. DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR PASSPORT or they will ask you to pay a hefty amount 2000 baht to get it back after writing some report. then at the custom area they ask for 40 baht again for import of motrocycle document. and after that you'll reach the LDB bank counter which 100 baht needed to be paid then they'll give a receipt for you to cross the barrier.

January 25th, 2024 by instagram.com/newton_travels

1800 baht for VisaOnArrival + 40 baht to process it. No problems (EU passport)

Attaching info of the slow boat and transfers

December 24th, 2023 by jakeschualberke

Crossed from Thailand to Laos by motorcycle (Thai plated 300cc, in my name) around 7pm on a Sunday. very few other cars. Thai side was quick and friendly, cost only 110 bhat. Laos side was friendly, though circuitous. took about an hour bouncing between at least 5 different booths. first one for the visa at the window of the building to the left (center) was 1840 bhat, another booth was 200, and another booth was 40. they required one copy of my passport and one copy of my greenbook, as well as a passport photo.

and indeed, while waiting at a booth the corrupt tourist policeman asked me to give him my passport and come into the building with him. I just said no and he moped away. at no point do you need to enter any building, "go with" anyone, nor hand over your documents outside of a booth.

July 23rd, 2023 by mudddybumper.com

We passed on a Sunday morning, no not many other cars there. Everything ok except they could not accept a picture of the Thai TM2 form, as the Thai custom said they would do. So we had to go back to the Thai border to get a copy. They would not accept a copy either, so we had to go back again to get the original. So three times over the Friendship bridge.

They asked for and stamped our Carnet without issues. Visa on arrival.

Except for the missing TM2 form everything was smooth. No tourist police scam.

February 19th, 2023 by expedition-one-planet.fr

Same as described before :

- Laos tourist police tried to con us, we refused to pay and left. Thanks to previous overlanders who explained the trick !
- otherwise they do NOT accept credit cards do for the USD40 per person for visa you will need to come with enough THB !!!
If you don’t (like us), you will have to drive back to Thailand to withdraw 🤦🏻
- 200 THB per vehicle.

November 12th, 2022 by ccmacd

Visa: 40USD in Nov 22, you need to provide a passport photo.

Temporary import of motorbike (foreign plates, non-Thai): charged us 200 THB per bike, we were about to fill in the online form when they informed us that the Carnet de Passage was enough. We weren’t planning on using them but they had a stack of torn off pieces from other travellers so had an idea what they are for apparently. Keep an eye on them while they fill it in, they did ours wrong (also filled in the export section).

Warning about the tourist police: they invited us in to their office and after taking our passports and some chitchat about our travel plans, told us we either needed to arrange a guide or could pay them to give us a form detailing our itinerary for when we would get stopped by police on the road. They told us the cost was 3,000THB per bike (80 USD equiv) but then said it was negotiable. We refused to pay, forcibly took our passports back and walked out of the office (note we are one woman and one man, woman playing bad cop helps). They didn’t follow us so we didn’t end up paying anything.

You buy the compulsory insurance after the border crossing.