mrsgo

Thank you very much for acquainting us with the current country departure taxes that we will have to pay per person, American dollars, in Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. Is it true that they will only accept crisp, new money? Any credit cards accepted?

MRS G

Smeagol

You don't pay departure tax in Thailand. It's now in the price of your tickets. Cambodia u pay in US$ I can't remember what we did in VN. If we did it would be in us$ and they are not that fussy about them being crisp dollars just make sure they are not completely knackered.

dogster

Smeagol's outta date. In Cambodia you don't pay anything now.

Yup, I know you used to - but it's changed. I just left there ten days ago. The counters are closed. No departure fee.

Kathie

All of the various countries seem to be moving toward having the departure tax incorporated into the ticket price. Thailand did that a number of years ago, Burma did it last summer, and it sounds like Cambodia recently made the change as well. I don't know what VN is doing now, nor Korea. But everywhere in the world I've been where a departure tax was collected they required cash. Sometimes it's US dollars, sometimes the local currency, but I've never seen a place that allowed payment with a credit card.

Other countries do expect US dollars (for visa or departure taxes or for exchange to the local currency) to be clean and without tears. Only in Burma must the dollars be absolutely crisp.

HappyTrvlr

We didn't pay any departure tax leaving Saigon airport last fall; it must be included in the ticket.

ms_go

We were in Vietnam and Korea about 11 months ago and Cambodia and Thailand last month, and we didn't pay a cash departure tax when leaving any of them.