About Laos Bus Tickets

Last verified 4 September 2026

Who writes this

Laos Bus Tickets is written and maintained from Vientiane. The people behind it have lived in Laos for two decades and cross these borders themselves. It is not a content agency working from other people's blog posts, and it is deliberately independent of any tour company.

How we check things

Border facts come from the Lao Department of Immigration checkpoint register first, then cross-checked against national immigration portals, national news agencies and recent traveller reports. Where those disagree, we say so on the page rather than picking one quietly.

Routes are checked against live booking inventory. When a route has no bookable service, we mark it as such instead of pointing you at a search box that will return nothing.

What we do when sources conflict

This comes up more than you would think. The official register says the Lao eVisa is valid at the Cambodian border; experienced travellers say it is refused there. Rather than pick the answer that reads better, we publish both and tell you the safe default.

We also keep a list of things we simply do not know, such as whether pedestrians may walk across the new fifth Friendship Bridge. Border information ages badly, and a confident wrong answer is worse than an honest gap.

How we make money

We earn a commission when you book through links on this page. It never changes your price, and it never decides which crossing we recommend, including when we tell you a route is not worth booking online.

Corrections

If something here is out of date, tell us and it gets fixed. contact@laosbustickets.com.

Sources for this page

1. Lao Department of Immigration: checkpoint list, opening hours and visa status
2. Wikivoyage: Laos: background on overland travel and bus classes