Bus Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh
March 30, 2008
Can anyone tell me the departure times for the various bus services between Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh, Cambodia?
There are daily air-conditioning buses with toilet running from Saigon to Phnom Penh and via versa. The earliest bus departs from 6.00, and services are available all week long. The travel time from Saigon to Phnom Penh takes around 7 hours. Around 5 bus companies operate bus for this route includes Capitol Tours, Mai Linh, Sapaco and Tropic tour. The normal bus fare is around 12-14 USD.
Here are a few main route times:
1./ SAIGON - PHNOM PENH
- Depart from Saigon at 8:00 am
- Arrival Phnom Penh at 2:00 pm
2./ PHNOM PENH - SAIGON
- Depart from Phnom Penh at 7:30 am
- Arrival Saigon at: 1:30 pm
Video from other travelers
Watching people who joined the bus: Phnom Penh To Ho Chi Minh City by Bus 2007
This route in newspaper:
From March 1, Sapaco, Tourist and Transport Firm will increase one more bus service from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh, Cambodia at 11am and double the services from Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh City to Moc Bai border in Tay Ninh province.
At present, because the number of bus users from Ho Chi Minh City to Phnom Penh is increasing, the transport and civil engineering departments of Ho Chi Minh City and Cambodia have decided to raise one bus service to four services a day, said Le Van Toi, director of Sapaco. Accordingly, from Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh at the same time, there are buses setting out at 6.30am, 8am, 9am and 11am.
The number of Ho Chi Minh City’s people who want to travel to Cambodia to visit the Golden Pagoda and Silver Pagoda in Phnom Penh and Angkorwat is rising. Most of passengers from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City want to tour the city and visit for health treatment because the treatment cost is lower than other regional countries.
The bus fare for the Ho Chi Minh City – Phnom Penh route was raised on 1st January 2006, from VND 145,000 to VND 190,000. Ticket price from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City increased to US $12 from US $9.
(Source: TT, ND)
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hi,
we are planning to travel down Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chin Min city then overland to cambodia. I just read that there is a bus service that does this but was wondering if you had any contact details for them??
Many thanks