Originally Posted by Marquis790
BKK 4 days then Siem Reap 5 days (really only 3 full days because 2 full days lost to overland transit by bus...btw, non-existent roads on 90+ % of Cambodia from Poi Pet to Siem Reap, so verrry bumpy and long rides; also, if going overland, don't book roundtrip bus tix. It's a scam. No bus to pick you up. Turns out the Thai travel agents book the trips but keep all the money, so the Cambodian side has to make money by driving real slow and taking a longer route so that guests arrive really late at a contracted guesthouse, which pays the bus about $7 per head in the vans (not large buses)...nobody to take you the reverse route...just book in Siem Reap about $12 bus all the way to Bangkok).
This is sadly a well-used (and by now, well-documented) scam -- one fo several at work in the overland route to Siem Reap. See
www.talesofasia.com for more information on this and other scams. I'm sorry to hear that you were the victim!
Originally Posted by Marquis790
I'll use the Bangkok Airways pass in the future after a direct flight between Luang Prabang and Siem Reap is installed. Then I'll report on that experience. A direct flight would truly make that routing a bargain at $80 + taxes.
Yes, that will be great - between that and Air Asia flights to and from Phnom Penh, air travel options into and out of Cambodia are really set to increase in the coming months.
- Michael