Well we arrived safely in Siam Reap from Bangkok last night at 10.30 pm.
I will post here exactly how we did it with 2 kids in tow.
Since we stayed near Khao Sun Rd, we had seen a lot off advertising for buses from Bkk to Sism reap in one go depending of how much you want to pay.
We decided to make our own way there since that seems to be the cheapest from our experience in Asia.
Ok so at 12.30 pm we caught a taxi to the bus station. All busses leave from the Mo Chit Station- Bangkok’s northern Bus terminal.
We took a bus to Aranyaprathet for 207 baht(around US 6.50) each for the adults and 150 baht for Orlando who is 6yo.
Busses leave every 30 to 60 min during the day. The bus took 5 hrs and was clean and good with aircon.
In Aranayaprathet we got of the bus strait into a tuk tuk with all 8 bags.
80 baht is the going price for the tuk tuk ride to the border. We got dropped off outside the border and yes outside a place that said Cambodia Visa’s. We told them we already have our visa’s(which we didn’t) and where than escorted around the corner down to the border. We were offered a taxi ride for 45US to Siam Reap.
Crossing the Thai border was strait forward, than we walked across to the Cambodian immigration to get our Visas. You walk in and see a big sign saying 20 US for a 30 day tourist visa.
Ok here is the only place we got ripped off. Yes 20 US is right for adults, but kids under 12 are free. We were told we had to pay for the kids but later read on the visa that it should have been free. The price is printed on the visa’s. Oh well,after that we proceeded to walk to the Cambodian border to get our entry stamp. I didn’t see any yellow man by the way.
Since we read 45US was the going price for a taxi at 8 pm with 2 kids we didn’t argue. We did ask to see his taxi licence and checked out the car first . It was a very cumphy car and he stopped for 30 min for us to get some dinner on the way. We did get an offer for 20US taxi ride but decided that that might not get us to where we want to go.
So all good, maybe it was the right choice to go as late as we did, because we didn’t get hassled at all.