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The new
Bangkok airport or Suvanabhumi located in the “Cobra Swamps"
About Bangkok airport or
Bangkok Suvanabhumi is a lot to tell, some positive,
some negative. There are two outstanding positive features
at the new Bangkok international airport, the first is the
architecture and the second is the attempt to integrate Thai
art into the Bangkok airport. When one walk to or come from
the gates great Thai paintings are decorating the walls.
There
are several airports in and near Bangkok Thailand; the
first is naturally the new Bangkok airport or Suvanabhumi.
The other airport in Bangkok is the old more or less city
airport of Don Muang which is used by the military only now.
An other
airport is a little bit south of the new Bangkok airport,
its called Utapao Airport. This airport is close to Pattaya
and was heavy used by US military during the Vietnam War.
That is the reason for the rise of Pattaya as a nightlife
center for US military personal at the time. Recently Utapao
was revived during the Bangkok airport blockade of the so
called democrats. Now its only used by Bangkok Air for
certain Thailand domestic flight.
Bangkok airport has the usual airport duty free, but
they are quite expensive, almost any item sold under “duty
free” is cheaper down town including the duty.
The airport economy parking is also a little better as in
the old Don Muang airport, at least now they wont allow the
car parking just behind a other car and go, nobody cared
what happen if the owner of the blocked car comes back more
early than the car owner who block. It is really
unbelievable what is happening.
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The other day this happen to
me in a Bangkok shopping center I couldn’t get out
anymore, this careless people really thinks the others
should push and pull the blocking car to get out, actually
this is standard procedure in Thailand almost everywhere not
only at the airport, nobody cares about the other, its
extremely egoistic.
This new Asia Bangkok airport never close, its open
24 hours, but Bangkok airport flights come in and out only
from about 5 am to about midnight. Actually there is
continuous struggle from the people living in the Bangkok
airport vicinity because of the noise of the aircrafts.
Bangkok
Airport -
Bangkok Airport Blockade -
SkyTrain & Subway
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Bangkok Market
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Thailand &
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Patpong -
Nana
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Taniya or Tania or Tania Plaza
And there is a other strange
thing the new Bangkok international airport, it is
already to small or rather it appears to be small since it
is badly organized.
At Bangkok
airport arrivals usually there are are
long cues at the immigration, this is in
particular when more than one wide body
aircraft arrives at the same time. It is a
real puzzle since at Singapore arrival with
a similar situation I never saw a cue
anywhere and the Singapore immigration just
do exactly the same job finally as the
Bangkok immigration, on top of it most of
the time only about half of the immigration
counters at arrival and departure are open.
Bangkok airport or
Suvanabhumi
is visually a great piece of architecture in similar style like the new Airports
at Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. Only technically and
especially from the organization its not so super dupy.
There is simply not a high level in terms of logistic and how the people
are organized to work. The old Bangkok airport at Don Muang had a similar problem; almost
everything is too slow and too little. Even this whole
Bangkok international airport is, as the people say already
to small now when it just started.
Its not to small, its only not organized appropriate.
Bangkok international airport has a few airport hotels near
Bangkok airport,
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but actually there is no need to pay the
airport hotel premium since it’s only a
short ride to Bangkok city with the car or
taxi. Soon also the airport rail link will
be in operation, means the Bangkok airport
location is no big deal anymore.
The most important concerning hotels in or around Bangkok airport is.
No matter where you are, make sure there is a entrance to the
elevated Bangkok circular road nearby and / or, make sure
you stay somewhere near the elevated rail link or at least
near the BTS elevated rail system or underground rail
system. Once you are forced to hit the road elsewhere you
are lost in terms of time. Forget the Bangkok airport bus
since this bus is just using the normal road downtown
Bangkok and this means endless traffic jam.
Bangkok
airport arrivals are tricky since the walking distance
from the arrival gates to immigration is very long. The
whole airport concept with these very long distances is
wrong. The escalator won’t help a lot and also usually no
trolleys are around, they always store them
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Also Bangkok airport transfers in transit is
endless cueing, everything is planned to small and
usually only about 40% of the counters are open.
Thai love to sit around somewhere in the back, have
a chat and something to eat.
Naturally there is a Bangkok airport duty free,
but be very careful, its real expensive, if you want
to buy anything do it downtown Bangkok and use the
tax reclaim form it will be much cheaper. Its pure
...milk the foreigners. Actually also the rental
fees for shops in the airport are extremely high,
most things are even cheaper in Singapore or Kuala
Lumpur airport.
If you are lucky and no other jumbo has arrived
at the same time you may pass immigration quickly.
If there are 2 jumbos or more at the same time the
usual waiting game at the immigration counter starts
in Bangkok airport. Since usually only about 40% of
the available counters are open. |
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Bangkok Airport
Lounge |
There are several
Bangkok airport lounges. For both business and
leisure travelers for relax and smooth away the
rough edges of air travel. In these lounges, for the
most part, you find yourself greeted like a VIP
instead of a potential terrorist, finding a quiet
place where you can check e-mail, or even take a
nap.
At Bangkok airport,
Thai Airways' Royal Orchid lounge provides meeting
rooms and complimentary transportation. Most other
international carrier offer first-class lounges and
business-class lounges.
Beside of the airline
lounges there are several restaurants and rest
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Bangkok Airport
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The Bangkok
international airport is open 24 hours, means you
can also find a quiet corner, on this subject you
will find more text below. Since Thailand is more
or less the word champion on massage, massage is
offered at Bangkok airport in the transit area.
There are also
several bars, restaurants, bookshops and all the
usual airport duty free shops around.
When you finally come to the Bangkok airport luggage
pick up you have a good chance that your luggage
is already waiting for you.
They also have a Bangkok airport
luggage storage, if you want to use it, make sure
all you luggage is locked orderly, this is very
important!
In the Bangkok airport arrival hall you
can find Bangkok airport limo and other
transportation and outside are 2 taxis counter, also
very slow because understaffed.
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Make sure you ignore the people who are
standing around in the hall and offer you
taxi, they will badly cheat you. Also
don't book a hotel through the airport hotel
booking counter hey will overcharge you and
claim commission from the hotel you go. Also
never tell the taxi driver you have no hotel
he will take you somewhere and claim a high
commission and the hotel will charge you
for.
Now you will leave Bangkok international
airport or Bangkok Suvanabhumi airport
and move
from Bangkok airport to downtown.
If you don't have a hotel yet just go to the
Silom / Suriwong area, there are plenty of
hotels. But in any case if you come to
Bangkok make sure you have a hotel booking
otherwise you will run into problems.
Another positive feature is
from Bangkok
airport to Pattaya its quick, the
motorway from Bangkok downtown to the
airport has a direct airport road link to
the Chonburi motorway and Pattaya, this is
naturally the same for all the eastern
seaboard of the gulf of Thailand. Includes
Koh Chang and Trat.
For more inside the Bangkok international
airport, read the text below, with a
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traveler
experience and great photos plus videos.
Some time ago I
had a unpleasant surprise which left me stranded one night
in Bangkok at the new Airport.
I
came from
Yangon Myanmar or
Burma
and was not aware on
the new Thai visa regulation allowing only 90 days on normal
tourist visa on arrival within a 6 month period. Thai immigration didn't allow me to pass and I had to spend
one night at the airport to get out to Singapore in the morning.
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The procedure was not a big deal since the new
Bangkok airport
is open 24 hour and it worked quite ok. On top of it a very
nice young lady from the private security squad was assigned
to take care of me, the idea was to make sure I will leave
in the morning and wont disappear.
There are a couple of areas assigned for rest and maybe
sleep and we were not alone,
about 50 others from all over the world tried to beat the
time in this one not so pleasant night in Bangkok, actually
I already much better nights in Bangkok.
We had a couple of beers and
with the time it become quite a relaxed atmosphere,
from time to time some guys from the same security
company passed by and had a chat, they had a look after me when she had to
go somewhere for a few minutes.
The photos and pictures below
are the result of this night.
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One of the major problem in a
case like this is, first, Thai International forced me
to buy a full fare ticket to Singapore, they refused to sell
me any other ticket beside the most expensive one, they very
badly took advantage of my unfortunate situation.
But as
always they didn't think, what happen afterwards, since then
I never boarded a Thai International again, usually I used
them once week.
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The second problem in the
transit area is there is no Automated Teller Machine or ATM,
which might give the traveler a hard time when one get just
stranded like me. Also it's only possible to buy the
airplane tickets from Thai International directly and they
squeeze me merciless, they charged me almost 3 times the
normal price for a ticket to Singapore, actually since then
I never used Thai International again, that's my reaction on this.
The new Bangkok international
airport, also named Suvarnabhumi airport Bangkok or
aeroporto Bangkok is a huge new futuristic construction made
from steel, concrete and glass. international airport.
The airport arrivals area is
not very good implemented, the walking distance from the
arrival gates to immigration and custom is simply to far,
this is not offset by the conveyor belts, its just to far.
The people who planned this airport had obviously some idea
how to build a steel, concrete, glass construction but for
sure no big knowledge how to organize the whole. The new
Bangkok international airport is still having a lot of
organizational problems even after 2 years in operation. One
of the other major problems was there are almost no toilets,
how can a airport planner not be able to handle this. Also
the restaurant area is much to small, there is one more
restaurant area on the top level, but quite expensive.
Bangkok to airport or vice
versa, works quite ok, they currently build a fast train
or Bangkok airport express link from downtown Bangkok to the
airport, hopefully it will be finished sometimes. |
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Arriving with the
Taxi from Bangkok city over a excellent 6 -4
lane motorway works quite ok, no major disaster
happen even when the "cobra swamps" where the new
Bangkok Airport is built into are full of water
during monsoon times. Have a look at the video how
that looks like and more, video link further below.
Airport flight departures are done quick if they
have enough immigration personal dispatched to the
counters. Usually only around 40% of the counters
are open, that means very lonk cues and long time
waiting, but compared with JFK or LA International,
Bangkok Airport is lightning fast.
Airport transfer Bangkok it easy, but as usual
not very organized, read the Taxi dilemma in the
text further down. The location of the new
Bangkok airport makes it easy to reach the eastern
seaboard of the Gulf of Thailand quick and without
major traffic problems. That means the way from
Bangkok to Pattaya is easy and quick plus the access
to the industrial area further down along the coast
towards Ranong is also a quicky. |
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Now there are two airports in
Bangkok the old airport at Don Muang and the new one.
Because of the organizational problems and a lack of quality
on certain parts of the new Bangkok Airport, like cracks in
run and taxiways due to cheating in the composition of the
surface material some of domestic air traffic was moved back
to the old Bangkok airport.
Bangkok airport tax is Baht
500,-, for information on Bangkok airport departure,
arrival at the airport, what to do at Bangkok airport,
Bangkok airport hotels and about Bangkok airport link check
the homepage of the
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Thai artists are some of the very creative, considering
this the idea was to create Thai art as a counterbalance
showcase in the very modern architectural design of the new
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport, which was a design by a
foreign company. Well, the result is here and here is the
video
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And now the new
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Suvarnabhumi Airport in
Daylight
See the video here.
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Suvarnabhumi Bangkok New
Airport on Taxi and
Transport.
The taxi
stand operation is
typical for the organization skills of the people who run the
Bangkok Airport. The taxi stand at the new airport is downstairs and it is
not marked clearly, so the traveler run around with the heavy luggage,
down the escalator or lift to arrive at the taxi stand after a
while. At the taxi stand of Suvarnabhumi Bangkok New Airport he or
she get a surprise, usually there are dozens of other travelers
cueing and waiting for a taxi. The experience is that at many times there are
no taxis at all or if there are some its necessary to go through via a
counter where 2 ladies issue a special paper to pass to the taxi
driver afterwards to entitle him for a commission.
From this 2
ladies at the Bangkok Airport taxi stand usually only one
works if she is not just hanging on the mobile chattering with
someone else.
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The
other lady at the taxi booth usually is eating something,
chattering with some people around or do something else nothing
related to her job. This bottleneck gives at big problem for
everyone looking for a taxi. Actually its exactly the same situation
like it was at the old Bangkok Airport
A taxi
trips from the Suvarnabhumi Bangkok New Airport to town is around
300 baht to the the major hotels downtown Bangkok, including the road
tolls and the airport taxi tax. Since the Suvarnabhumi Bangkok New
Airport is right beside the new motorway to Pattaya your travel time
to Pattaya will be less now.
A mass
transit train directly to the Suvarnabhumi Bangkok New Airport is in
construction, this is good for sure but one who travels to Bangkok
City on the motorway can see that along the motorway there are
already railway tracks all the way, so why not offering a train
service on them. Probably its the usual way, new project brings new
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