There are 7 ways to get from Basel to Vientiane by plane, car, or train
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Fly Basel to Wattay International Airport
best- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Wattay International Airport (VTE)plane BSL - VTE
20h 33m$504–2,105Train, train to Milano Malpensa Airport, fly to Wattay International Airport
cheapest- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luganotrain
- Take the train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1train
- Fly from Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP) to Wattay International Airport (VTE)plane MXP - VTE
22h 56m$390–1,812Drive 11,623.6 km
- Drive from Basel to Vientianecar 11,623.6 km
5d 15h$2,344–3,385Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Wattay International Airport
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Wattay International Airport (VTE)plane ZRH - VTE
17h 11m$590–2,219Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Udon Thani International Airport, drive
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Udon Thani International Airport (UTH)plane ZRH - UTH
- Drive from Udon-Thani-Airport-UTH to Vientianecar
18h 43m$554–1,540Fly Basel to Udon Thani International Airport, drive
- Fly from Basel (BSL) to Udon Thani International Airport (UTH)plane BSL - UTH
- Drive from Udon-Thani-Airport-UTH to Vientianecar
19h 19m$618–2,326Train to Zurich Airport, fly to Khon Kaen Airport, train
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Zürich HBtrain
- Fly from Zurich Airport (ZRH) to Khon Kaen Airport (KKC)plane ZRH - KKC
- Take the train from Khon Kaen to Nong Khaitrain
24h 54m$547–2,154
Basel (BSL) to Wattay International Airport (VTE) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Basel to Vientiane is to train and fly and drive which costs $550 - $1,600 and takes 18h 43m.
The fastest way to get from Basel to Vientiane is to train and fly which takes 17h 11m and costs $550 - $2,300.
The distance between Basel and Vientiane is 8915 km. The road distance is 11623.6 km.
It takes approximately 20h 33m to get from Basel to Vientiane, including transfers.
Vientiane is 5h ahead of Basel. It is currently 5:57 AM in Basel and 10:57 AM in Vientiane.
Yes, the driving distance between Basel to Vientiane is 11624 km. It takes approximately 5 days 15h to drive from Basel to Vientiane.
There are 283+ hotels available in Vientiane.
What companies run services between Basel, Switzerland and Vientiane, Laos?
Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa, and four other airlines fly from Basel (BSL) to Wattay International Airport (VTE) 3 times a day.
- Website
- thaiairways.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Frankfurt, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,300
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Frankfurt, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,700
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Munich, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 22h 35m
- When
- Monday to Wednesday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Copenhagen, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 23h 40m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $800–2,700
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Wattay International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 7m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–1,800
Flights from Zurich Airport to Khon Kaen Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–2,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Khon Kaen Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–1,900
- Website
- turkishairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Frankfurt, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 50m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,600
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,100
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,200
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 45m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $800–2,700
Flights from Zurich Airport to Khon Kaen Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 13m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $500–2,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Khon Kaen Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–1,900
- Website
- airasia.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 14h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $700–2,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Phuket
- Ave. Duration
- 17h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $300–2,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,200
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Frankfurt, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 40m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $750–2,700
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Istanbul, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,300
- Website
- vietjetair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,300
Flights from Zurich Airport to Udon Thani International Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 25m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,100
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Munich, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,600
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Basel to Udon Thani International Airport via Dubai, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 5m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $650–2,100
- Website
- vietnamairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Frankfurt, Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- $500–2,200
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Munich, Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 45m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- $500–2,100
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Wattay International Airport via Noi Bai International
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 50m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- $360–1,500
- Website
- laoairlines.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 21h
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 20m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $700–2,400
Flights from Milano Malpensa Airport to Wattay International Airport via Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 45m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- $500–1,800
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Munich, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,500
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Munich, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 30m
- When
- Tuesday to Sunday
- Estimated price
- $550–2,400
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Basel to Wattay International Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 35m
- When
- Monday to Friday
- Estimated price
- $600–2,200
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Vienna, Suvarnabhumi
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 55m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- $550–2,000
- Website
- singaporeair.com
Flights from Zurich Airport to Wattay International Airport via Singapore Changi
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- $600–4,400
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Zürich HB
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 13m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- $35–110
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- $100–310
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +49 (0) 7531 915109
- info@sbb-deutschland.de
- Website
- sbb-deutschland.de
Train from Basel SBB to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- $23–30
- Schedules at
- sbb-deutschland.de
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Lugano to Malpensa Aeroporto T1
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- $7–9
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- 1690
- sarabanklang@railway.co.th
- Website
- dticket.railway.co.th
Train from Khon Kaen to Nong Khai
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 13m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- $1–27
- Book at
- https://12go.asia/en/operator/thai-railways
- Website
- https://dticket.railway.co.th/DTicketPublicWeb/home/Home
- 1st Class (Air-Conditioned Berth)
- $19–27
- 3rd Class (Seat)
- $3–5
- 2nd Class (Air-Conditioned Berth)
- $1–3
- 2nd Class (Air-conditioned Seat)
- $9–11
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