I want to go to be Vietnam with my Filipino bf on March 24 

I will need visas please 🥺 

For you https://evisa.gov.vn/
For him PH are visa free to enter VN up to 21 day. If more than 21, then https://evisa.gov.vn/ 

@Olddaddy I just completed getting 2 e-visas for my upcoming 130 day trip to Vietnam.  It is rather easy.  We both got our approval letters after 3 working days.

The hardest part of the application was how to describe my Thai boyfriend's employment - he is an ex money boy.  I crowned him as a "Personal Care Assistant". It seems to have worked.

Both for the maximum allowed - for a tourist visa = 90 days.

My Thai boyfriend can get 30 days visa free on arrival and I can get 45 days visa free on arrival if I use my Italian passport.

But I went for the more expensive 90 day tourist visa for the both of us, as it entitles us to multiple entries - as he wants to be able to go back to Thailand 1 or 2 times during our first 90 days.

 

I once had (free) sex with a hot french twink and asked what is his profession. He said „Photographer, DJ and Personal Services“. It was in Berlin😀
 

@bkkmfj2648 has your boyfriend ever travelled outside Thailand before? If not, he may be in for a culture shock food-wise. I have seen this again and again with first-time travellers from India, China and Indonesia. They have only ever taken their local food all their lives, they find farang food near-inedible. They might manage to tolerate it for 3 - 4 days, but by about the 5th day, the craving for home food becomes so intense, they lose all interest in anything else about the place they are visitng. It's like withdrawal symptoms. 

I didn't witness it myself but I heard a story of a gwailo guy then resident in Hong Kong, who took a Thai boy to stay with him for, I think, a couple of weeks. The boy became irritable after a few days because he just needed spicy Thai food which was hard to find - at least in the neighbourhood the gwailo lived. The boy had no interest in sex and just wanted to go home.

If your boy has not been outside Thailand before and don't know what to expect, maybe you can take him to Vietnamese restuarants around Pattaya in the coming month, and make sure you order dishes NON-SPICY.

Oh yes, I now remember one time: a bunch of Indians and Arabs (can't remember which country) at the same business conference as I was, in a secondary city in China. They couldn't find anything to eat for the better part of 3 days. Everything was unfamiliar: too soupy, too gooey and too pork-y. They were starving. Finally they managed to find western-style bread from a nearby shop (Chinese-style bread is totally different) and that's what they ate for days.

1 hour ago, macaroni21 said:

has your boyfriend ever travelled outside Thailand before? If not, he may be in for a culture shock food-wise.

NO

This is also my same worry.

Consequently, I told him to bring many of his favotite HOT spicy chili mixes with him to Vietnam so that he can add them to the various non spicy, but yummy, Vietnam dishes when we go out eating in Da Nang.

He told me, please get us a nice AirBnB condo with a good kitchen so that he can ocassionally prepare his favorite spicy dish = Som Tam (Papaya salad).  He loves to cook.

We are currently in his hometown Sukhothai for a family emergency (his 88 year old grandmother fell down and violently hit her head on the floor and is now partially paralyzed), and yesterday at breakfast with his family and one of his best friends, he ordered a Vietnamese dish ( this is a very traditional Thai restaurant, so I am quite surprised ), that it was on the menu.

He looked me in the eyes in front of everyone and said to me:

Should we order this dish honey, since we are going to Vietnam soon?

 

I was quite surprised and at the same time impressed by him.

Of course when it was served he poured hot spices onto it.

So, we could do the same in Da Nang and survive? 🤔🤔

Vietnam guys don’t seem so picky. Take them to Foodland and they’re easily satisfied.

3 hours ago, reader said:

Vietnam guys don’t seem so picky. Take them to Foodland and they’re easily satisfied.

Unfortunately for Thai guys - they are not easy to satisfy when it comes to food if the food is not Thai food.

I had the same problem when I lived in Italy for 12 years.  I stopped going on vacations outside of Italy with Italians when they packed pasta and tomatoe sauce to cook in Spain because they told me that Italian cuisine is number 1 in the world.

For me, when I travel, I want to have the experience of the local cuisine.

50 minutes ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

Italian cuisine is number 1 in the world

Its true!

1 hour ago, bkkmfj2648 said:

 they told me that Italian cuisine is number 1 in the world.

 

41 minutes ago, 10tazione said:

Its true!

Gee , that's novelty for me.

One lives , learns and still dies stupid i guess.

Votum separatum  from me ! Sorry my friends