How to go from Bangkok Airport to City

Finally Departed to the place i've longed to visit, Bangkok!! The Suvarnabhumi(Soo-wanna-poom) International Airport looks so much like KLIA.

Anyways, when you arrives to Bangkok Airport, there are 2 ways of getting to the town.

1. Public Bus (150Baht/person)
2. Public Taxi (approx 300Baht)

Smart traveler like you should know how to do the calculation. If you go in a group, its much economic to take a Public Taxi. I took public taxi.

If you're taking a Taxi, DO NOT take the taxi from the airport counter, its much costly. Just walk out from the custom & look for this "Public Taxi" sign. Jump into the public taxi queue. There will be a girl at the counter, just tell her your destination & she will write it down in a piece of paper in Thai.


*PS* As not many Thai speaks/understand English, Its wise to bring a book with simple Thai vocabs translation.


It's around 30-40 minutes drive from airport to city (near chitlom area), depending on traffic condition.
If you take bus, its gonna take longer because there are stations to stop.

Depart Bangkok with an expired passport

Its Airasia promotion again, I was just a click away. So i decided, why wait?


"BANGKOK HERE I COME!"

6 days 5 nights, July 2008

The journey didn't start off very pleasantly. I couldn't believe it, when the airasia check-in officer told me that i couldn't go bangkok because my passport was EXPIRED!



*PS* passport is considered expired 6 months before the expiry date stated on your passport.


Disappointed & hopeless, I thought I would have to take another flight to bangkok after i renew my passport. But THANK GOD!just when i approached the helpful officer at the desk for immigration's number, he asked me what happened & he offered to help.he called the bangkok immigration & told them to approve my entry & there, I finally managed to depart!! though bearing the risk to be sent back & penalized a sum of USD 3,000! I couldn't have a peace of mind throughout the 2.5 hours flight to Bangkok.

At the end, I managed to get through without hassles. The trip meant even more to me after this incident..phew...