Taxi to City

Traveling to your accommodations can be a little expensive or costly, often based on whether you have been to Bangkok before. Once you have left the airport with your baggage, the local people will be able to tell from your clothing and face whether you are a new or a seasoned Bangkok traveler, and accordingly you will be approached for all types of transport, from minibuses to sedans.

It is possible to book either a package arranged in advance or a chargeable taxi ride. Chargeable taxi rides will always be the best. Thailand-style taximeters have a flag fall of 35 berths and mainly work at a long range - so if you don't move in a congestion, the counter will tick slower.

When you are stopped at the terminals by the "helpful" Go-Betweens, they will ask you to pay a lump sum in advance and send you a voucher - this of course means that the taxi operator will get less and you will pay a little more, according to how tough you have negotiated with the team.

Taxis are available at tier 1 (one tier lower than the arrivals tier). When you choose a chargeable taxi, the chauffeur can ask you to pay the road charge during the journey - the cabins have a lot of small cash. Alternatively, you should be able to arrange a minibus taxi for about 4 passengers plus baggage for about 1000 Baht ($30) or a normal taxi for 2 passengers plus baggage that should not exceed 600 Baht ($18) inclusive of highway charges and tax, which is still a fairly inexpensive door-to-door transportation.

The Airport Express runs four busses on four itineraries for 150 berths - there are busses every hours from 5:00 a.m. to midnight. Every day there is a train station. The Airport Express counter is on level 1, near entry 8. When this is still more than your budgets allow, a 24-hour outside arrival shuttle will take you on the second landing to the 35 bay traffic centre, where you can take about 11 different lines to the urban areas.

Be careful of a fraud that took place only in March 2011 - you may have bargained a charge of 800 bucks for a certain "limousine" - the Mercedes belated version, just outside the door of the terminals. You' d get into a beautiful, tidy automobile that wasn't a toll taxi.

A few kilometers later, the rider turns into a parking lot and exchanges his baggage for another, much older one for the remainder of the journey, trying to push the price up to 1000 basis points, according to "Highway Tax! Simply negotiate the overall charge back to a grand total of 600 berths by staunchly insisting on it - you seldom have to speak out in Thailand as it is regarded as rude.

Airport Rail Link City Line departs every 15 min, lasts 25 min for the entire route as it makes 6 stopovers and cost 45 berths per passenger. Take a taxi from your stop to your endpoint.