Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Mongolian invitation letter, the easy way

Country forums / North-East Asia / Mongolia

Greetings,

I am a Canadian passport holder, residing in Canada. I successfully obtained my Mongolian invitation letter yesterday, in the following way:

1) I booked three (3) nights' accomodation at http://www.zayahostel.com

2) I sent the following personal particulars to info@zayahostel.com and requested an invitation letter:
-first name
-surname
-email address
-gender
-birthdate
-country of citizenship
-passport number
-date of passport issuance
-date of passport expiry
-travel dates
-location of Mongolian embassy where visa application is made
-purpose of trip

3) I made two (2) PayPal payments of 10 USD each (one as a deposit for the accomodation, the other as the fee for the invitation letter)

That's it! Your booking confirmation and (scanned) letter of invitation should be in your email within 24 hours.

Please note that the automated letter of invitation form DOES NOT WORK. I suspect this is because of the typo in the URL, www.zayahostel.com/<strong>serivce</strong>; if the actual script used by the webpage uses the correct spelling "service", you get the "bad referer" error message, i.e. the webpage rejects itself as a potentially malicious website, DUUUUUHHH. That's what you get when you hire a dyslexic programmer.