good morning hey cat i'm gonna miss you cat
ready ready
okay i'm ready the day has finally come we are hopping on our first international flight
in over two years we found it a little bit confusing when we were first planning our trip
so we thought we would make this video about how to get into vietnam for you guys so you will have
an updated version and you know exactly what to do when you guys plan your trip to vietnam
we're at the airport now we just got back
we just got back from the clinic and we got a test result it's negative and we are fit to fly
let's check in
so we are starting our trip today in koh samui and we have two flights that we're taking
the first flight is from koh samui to bangkok and then in bangkok we have a
connecting flight from bangkok to hanoi so right now it is around 11 00 o'clock
for our first flight and we should be in hanoi by 4 35 pm this evening
lets go we got our ticket one thing i like about bangkok airways is that they have a mini lounge
where you can enjoy coffee cookies and snacks they even have like juices orange juice lemon juice
pretty nice that's the first thing you're going for cookies
coconut cookie looks good and then they have pineapple chicken pies
chicken pie sounds good this is our breakfast we actually haven't ate anything yet
i'll take one of these too what are these crispy sesame toasts one please coffee yes
so i briefly mentioned the documents you will need to enter vietnam but here i'll give you a more
detailed breakdown so you would need four things you may need an e-visa health insurance coverage a
health declaration form and also your pre-arrival test so it's a pcr or an atk so with the e-visa
not every single country will need to apply for an e-visa for example Note is from thailand and
he is exempt from the visa but for me using a canadian passport i applied for the e-visa online
and what i did was just go to the vietnam government website put in some of my details
my entry date into vietnam how long i want to be there upload photos passport page pay the 25 u.s
fee after two working days they sent me my e-visa so it was all really really easy so the second
thing is health insurance coverage and it needs to cover at least 10 000 u.s dollars and needs
to cover covid there are many companies doing travel health insurance for people right now but
we chose to use Luma because it seemed like the most straightforward they had a vietnam pass plan
and we only need to choose the days that we want to be covered in vietnam we don't need to sign up
for a monthly subscription or anything that auto renews so the third item is the health declaration
form and what this is is an online form that you will need to fill out for the vietnam government
you will need to enter a lot of details about yourself your trip where you're staying in
vietnam and of course anything related to your health like fever where you've been all of that
information and at the end they will generate a qr code for you which you will need to use
to pass through immigration in vietnam so the final thing is the pre-arrival covid test and
as we mentioned before you can either do a pcr test which gives you 72 hours before your arrival
into your destination or you can do an atk a rapid antigen test that gives you 24 hours
before you arrive and you do need the result of that to do your health declaration form
are you like super excited now first flight high five passport high five
i think koh samui airport is one of my favorite airports
it feels like a resort it's just a little hot because there's no ac here
so apparently this is a very good time to be traveling right now because
there's some people having the same idea as us another youtuber
we can't tell you too much but we are going to different destinations though
so you stay tuned to both our channel and their channel and they are chase and shelbs
so we're not connected all the way through to vietnam so right now we have to go check
in again at the vietjet counter in the departure hall how much time do we have
i think we have only two hours and you're hungry
i'm very hungry and i think we should go through security first okay then find a place to eat
the bangkok airport is definitely a lot busier it's great to see all the people traveling and
all the different countries that are open right now vietnam is our first destination but it's
you know giving us some ideas when we look at the board where else we should go to after
i assume this is where they're gonna check all the documents okay we have all of that ready
so vietnam is actually one of the countries that you don't need to be vaccinated to enter
but if you are vaccinated you can fill all that information in the health declaration form
but it isn't a necessity for entering the country
we have to go on our separate ways and i go that way you go that way
you were way quicker than me there was literally no one he was looking at my passport for quite
a long time because he's probably thinking like how have you been in thailand for over
two years are you past your visa or something like that no i saw him flipping your pages you don't
have any empty pages no i still have like three pages left so i think we do need to make a trip to
canada sometime soon and get me a new passport although the airport is a bit busier now but
the whole process from checking in at the counter going through security going through
immigration only took like five minutes i actually feel like the domestic part of the airport is a
lot more busier than international do you think the international looks pretty empty still
i think as we sit here at the gate waiting for our plane the emotions are starting to uh kick in
before i was so worried about our documents i was worried about our cat because i'm pretty sure our
cat knew what was going on when we were packing one final step yeah i'm i'm getting really excited
for vietnam i just love the feeling of going to a new country everything's going to be new we pretty
much can make content about everything because now everything will excite us we do lose the
advantage though of language because in thailand we are so lucky that you speak thai but now
we will just have to learn as we go and maybe pick up a couple vietnamese phrases why don't we do it
why don't we do it now while we're waiting okay how do you say hello in vietnamese
okay this is important though thank you
this one is easy i'd like a coffee please
pretty good almost sounds like cantonese we got this
we can at least get our coffee which is important
it's time let's go
i think i said it correctly i think so she was like
okay there's another guy yeah
what i think
our flight to bangkok was full but this flight was
only half full and we have one seat beside us we will see you in vietnam
ladies and gentlemen welcome to Noi Bai International Airport Hanoi the capital of Vietnam
it actually does feel cool awesome good thing we brought our sweaters immigration gonna be busy
i think so
don't you miss the feeling of immigration rush you don't want to be at the end of the line yeah
we used to do this all the time trying to beat the crowd at the immigration we're gonna have to
put our camera away this is where they check your documents okay welcome to vietnam oh that was so
easy i think it took less than 10 minutes from when we stepped off the plane all you have to do
is scan the qr code from the health declaration form and that's it yeah well for me i also had
to present my electronic visa just at immigration you don't have to go get your visa anywhere else i
think the first time when we were here like five years ago i actually had to take their letter of
approval go to the visa desk and get an actual visa in my passport so now you just go straight
to the immigration desk we finally got our bags and we're about 30 minutes away from our hotel
we arranged a pickup from them and we paid 380 000 dongs which is roughly around 16 us dollars
of course you could get a taxi here or even use a grab a ride sharing app but we thought it
would be easier and the price seems reasonable i don't know if we're just lucky that this time of
day it's not busy at all at the airport or maybe you should come in through hanoi and not ho chi
minh because it was so much easier and quicker and less people here you breathing in the hanoi air
oh i love it oh we have to go there um the hotel sent uh what's up and said
go to pillar number 10. so what time is it now it's 6 35 so wow it took us
almost 10 hours to get here we left the house at 8. even though vietnam and thailand is like
really really close yeah that's because we flew from koh samui i'm so happy to be here
yes
on our way to the hotel
you know
can i get your passport for check in please this room is so cozy let's do a quick room tour here
and then we can wrap this video up once you walk in here the washroom is on the right hand side
looks like a really nice shower toilet huge mirror even have a hair dryer in there which is perfect
there is a small mini bar under here a wardrobe it's really soft
and ac over there tv over here little seating area your kettle and coffee station
we even have a balcony
oh it's a very tiny balcony you can't even have it open the door fully
but there is there is a chair here so i can sit here and enjoy the view oh someone's here
hi thank you
thank you
okay and for all this how much did we pay this hotel is a four star hotel in the heart of the
city of hanoi and we are only paying 30 us dollars a night that is super affordable and
we could have chosen something that was cheaper because there were tons of other options available
but we thought we would splurge a little bit since it's our first couple nights in hanoi
no problem at all because we're millionaires now in hanoi that's true in vietnamese dong
thanks again for watching and as always have a wonderful day we will see you in the next one
i actually think that means hello what's bye in vietnamese
bye bye bloopers the frog wants to go to bangkok it will be toad on the plane
next samuel jackson movie are we tight on time can we shop here first i think we should go okay
later yeah i'll buy something nice for you later