Poi Pet to Siem Reap (note: customs problems)

[yempaul]

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Was very happy to get back to Thailand.

Felt the same way too

[zain]

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Hi yempaul
A kind of you if you could pass me the contact in vietnam as i'm planning to enter vietnam tru cambodia. my email adozainpdk@yahoo.com or just pm me.Tq

[Davidfl]

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Hi Yempaul

How did you guys be able to ride in from Cambodia to Vietnam on SG registered bikes? I'll be delighted to know as I'm riding a M'sian registered @t and intends to ride into Vietnam in the near future.

Thanks.

Lip Meng

Hi Lip Meng

We engaged a Vietnamese tour operator who did the application for our entry. IF you're interested I can pass you the contact.

Cheers

Yempaul
I don't have a problem with you posting the contact details on the forum - it will help everyone; what this forum aims to do. So if you would like to, please post the contact details & save a lot of requests & PMS.

[Joko Hurricanemax]

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Border crossing at Arang<>Poipet has most probably changed since the first post 1year ago. My recent foray (7weeks ago) from Arang to Poipet couldn't have been easier.

At the thai side Arang, the immigration is as always a breeze. We parked out bikes just at the Custom post, had the passports stamped. then we returned to the outpost (smacked right in the centre of the street, leading to the Camb side) where a senior/elderly looking official insisted that we surrender our driving license, insurance cover, bike grant for photocopy and application of bike exit permit.

When I asked why we need to do all these as all my previous border exits from North to NEast to South had not been that way, this senior officer said that the rest of the Custom officers do not know how to do their job! ANd he bitched that to the junior officer as well! Hahahaha!
Anyway, they asked for Baht20 to pay for the photostating of the document. The Junior officer there also took it upon himself to fill the Exit forms for us. We only need to sign the document and he waved us thru...after reminding us to fill in the Bike custom declaration/entry form should we choose to return to LOS

The Poipet side was even easier. After an initial scare when 3 malaysians were turned back at the immigration post, after refusing to pay USD10 per head, we thought it is going to be tough going. Later it turned out that these 3 malaysians were day trippers to Poipet and intended to return to LOS the same evening. We didnt have any problem nor pay any fee to the immigration guy, after telling him that we are heading for Phnom Penh.

Now the bike entry permit.
I saw again 5 malaysian registered bikes just coming out at the other end of the immigration post and approached my fellow citizens. These GS1200 riders did not apply for any Cambodian Bike permits and are exiting with equal ease. So if that was to be, we decided that we will do the same. No entry permit, no insurance, no document of any sort to prove that the bikes were even in Cambodia! So, off we went past the custom & cop post...and rode to P.Penh.

The return was the same easy process. With proper documentation only at the Arang side...we'd need those papers to surrender later at Sadao southern crossing. Else, our bikes would be deemed to be illegally sold in LOS!


~joko~

[plsclickme]

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It's all in your emails and Pms. Good luck with your planning?

Hi YemPaul,

Would be appreciate if you could PM or email me the Vietnamese Travel Agent contact, as I am thinking of either riding or driving into Vietnam on December 2011.

Thank you so much in advance.

[dacuzzi]

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This morning i drove from bkk to poipet planning to make a short trip into Cambodia,

i had to renew my thai visa anyway so i thought it would be a good oppurtunity to go see angkor wat and pnomh penh.

But unfortunately they didn't let me enter with my kawa er6 , the bike is bought in thailand by me but i registred it in a friends name who lives in Thailand, although i brought all the original papers (green book, insurance etc.) they refused to let me in.

does anybody know if this was right or did i just have an officer with an off-day?

after doing some more research i found some things saying you can bring a rented bike into cambodia with papers from the rental company, but a bought bike has to be registred in your own name to cross the border?

regards
marco

[Davidfl]

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This morning i drove from bkk to poipet planning to make a short trip into Cambodia,

i had to renew my thai visa anyway so i thought it would be a good oppurtunity to go see angkor wat and pnomh penh.

But unfortunately they didn't let me enter with my kawa er6 , the bike is bought in thailand by me but i registred it in a friends name who lives in Thailand, although i brought all the original papers (green book, insurance etc.) they refused to let me in.

does anybody know if this was right or did i just have an officer with an off-day?

after doing some more research i found some things saying you can bring a rented bike into cambodia with papers from the rental company, but a bought bike has to be registred in your own name to cross the border?

regards
marco

Marco
Sorry to hear you could not cross the border with your friend's bike.
If you take a look here
http://www.gt-rider.com/touring-info...rder-crossings
you will see

Thailand Permission To Export: If the bike not registered in your name you need permission from the owner to export the bike temporarily. Otherwise as far as the officials are concerned you could be stealing the bike from the finance company whom you have not paid off yet, or your estranged wife / girlfriend / boyfriend / ex mate who no longer cares about you. Permission from the owner = a written consent Permission To Export form with both your & their & the bike details + signed copies of their valid (not expired) ID card & house registration.

You need permission from the legal owner of the bike to take it out of the country.

[dacuzzi]

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Marco
Sorry to hear you could not cross the border with your friend's bike.
If you take a look here
http://www.gt-rider.com/touring-info...rder-crossings
you will see

Thailand Permission To Export: If the bike not registered in your name you need permission from the owner to export the bike temporarily. Otherwise as far as the officials are concerned you could be stealing the bike from the finance company whom you have not paid off yet, or your estranged wife / girlfriend / boyfriend / ex mate who no longer cares about you. Permission from the owner = a written consent Permission To Export form with both your & their & the bike details + signed copies of their valid (not expired) ID card & house registration.

You need permission from the legal owner of the bike to take it out of the country.

thanks for your quick reply david, after reading it it sounds very reasonable ofcourse, and before i went i read a lot about visa and driving in Cambodja but I didn't see this article and somehow it never crossed my mind the registration in my friends name could become a problem, that is very unlike me and i am kind of angry on myself for not thinking about it and being stopped at the border for it.

But hey, if you don't succeed the first time try again right!

I will probably give it another go in a couple of weeks, this time with the necessary papers or together with the legal owner of the bike!

marco

[dacuzzi]

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BTW, on the link u sent in your reply http://www.gt-rider.com/touring-info...rder-crossings, there are several links to documents, but they don't work.

Is there still alocation where i can download the required documents to take my bike across the cambodian border?

regards
marco

[Davidfl]

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BTW, on the link u sent in your reply http://www.gt-rider.com/touring-info...rder-crossings, there are several links to documents, but they don't work.

Is there still alocation where i can download the required documents to take my bike across the cambodian border?

regards
marco

The link for the border docs
http://www.gt-rider.com/maps-of-thai...rder-documents

[dacuzzi]

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thanks, this link works!