How to get from Pattaya to Cambodia (Siem Reap, Angkor, Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville)

The route from Pattaya to Cambodia is, without exaggeration, one of the most popular tourist routes from Pattaya . A huge number of excursion tours and independent tourists depart daily along this route, and almost all of them head to the city of Siem Reap to see the majestic and world-famous temple complex of Angkor . Another route is moving to the resort of Sihanoukville , but this is more the prerogative of independent travelers than excursions.

The information below is intended primarily for independent travelers planning to get from Pattaya to Cambodia (to Siem Reap or Sihanoukville) without the help of a tour. As for the tours, we will mention them only briefly.

Excursion tours Pattaya - Angkor Wat

Excursions from Pattaya to Cambodia are offered in the overwhelming majority to Angkor. Only rare options for multi-day excursions may include a visit to Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia), Battambang (a small provincial town) or Sihanoukville (the main beach resort of Cambodia), but this is rather an exception and a great rarity.

It should be said right away that excursions from Pattaya will be only a miserable semblance of an independent trip to Siem Reap, and first of all because of their duration: usually tours to Cambodia from Pattaya are only two or three days long. During such a tour, you will see practically nothing, since almost all the time will be spent on the road and overnight stay. For a more or less normal understanding of the scale of the Angkor temples, you should allocate at least 3 full days exclusively for visiting the temples without taking into account the road. If experience and time do not allow you to visit Angkor on your own for such a period, buy at least a 3-day excursion.

You can buy excursions from Pattaya to Angkor Wat from your hotel guide or from travel agencies on the street. You can book such an excursion online at home. Of course, the cheapest way to buy an excursion is from travel agencies on the street. The most expensive (sometimes two or more times more expensive) excursions are offered by hotel guides of tour operators.

There is a myth that if you buy an excursion from a street travel agency, and not from a hotel guide, you are almost guaranteed to be deceived. Or that, at the very least, no one will be held responsible for you and no insurance companies will compensate you for damages if something happens. In fact, everything is not so, and in Pattaya there are many travel agencies, including Russian-speaking ones, where you can safely buy excursions, and where even for the duration of the excursion, tourists are additionally insured (transport insurance). However, when buying, you should definitely clarify whether you will be accompanied by a Russian-speaking guide, whether the price includes hotel accommodation, a visa, entrance tickets to temples, and meals. The cost of a two-day excursion in street travel agencies starts from 4,000 baht ( Thai currency, exchange rate ).