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- The newest
airport in Thailand is Bangkok or Suvarnabhumi,
located in the “Cobra Swamps"
Suvarnabhumi airport or
"Flughafen
Bangkok" is a great modern
construction with lots of steel and glass, real great
architecture, unfortunately its already to small and not
very good organized. There are some positive and some
negative sides, two outstanding positive features of the
airport are the architecture and second is the attempt to
integrate Thai art into Suvarnabhumi Airport. When one walk to or come from
the gates great Thai paintings are decorating the concrete walls,
the airport is a real show case of Thailand contemporary
art.
There
are several other airports close to Bangkok Thailand;
this is the old Bangkok
Don Muang
airport in the north of downtown it is used by the military only now.
The other is U Tapao airport south of Suvarnabhumi and the
third is Hua Hin airport about 120km southwest of Bangkok on
the seaside.
Airport code for Bangkok is BKK, U Tapao Airport is
close to Pattaya and was heavy used by US military during
the Vietnam War. That actually was the reason for the rise of Pattaya as a
nightlife
center in Thailand for US military personal at the time. Recently U
Tapao
was revived during the airport blockade of the so
called democrats who held thousands of foreign tourists
hostage. Now U Tapao its only used by Bangkok Air for
some Thailand domestic flight.
Suvarnabhumi has the usual duty free shops, 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
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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. But now
they start to tow away the cars which make
the problems.
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.
This new Asia airport never close, its open 24 hours.
Aircraft flights come in and out only from about 5 am to
about midnight. Actually there is continuous struggle from
the people living in the airport Bangkok vicinity because of
the noise of the landing and starting aircrafts. Actually
this new international airport with Bangkok airport BKK
code, seems to be
already to small or rather it appears to be small since it
is not organized very well.
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At airport
arrivals and departures usually are long cues at the immigration, this is particular
visible 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.
It seems that the its not to small, its only not organized appropriate.
Bangkok
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Airport
Bangkok or
Suvarnabhumi
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 airport Bangkok 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.
There are several restaurants in the
transit lounge and in the departure
hall.
Bangkok international airport has a airport hotel
and some other hotels are near
the airport,
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,
taxi or airport rail link, means the airport Bangkok
location is no big deal anymore.
The most important concerning hotels at Bangkok 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 called "Skytrain" or
near to the
subway.
Once you are forced to hit the road
elsewhere you are lost in terms of
time because of the traffic jam. Forget the airport Bangkok bus
since this bus is just using the
normal road downtown Bangkok and
this means endless traffic jam.
Airport Bangkok 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
somewhere where they are impossible to find.
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There are several
airport Bangkok 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 airport Bangkok,
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
areas. |
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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 airport Bangkok 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 airport Bangkok luggage
pick up you have a good chance that your luggage
is already waiting for you.
They also have a airport Bangkok
luggage storage, if you want to use it, make sure
all you luggage is locked orderly, this is very
important!
In the airport Bangkok arrival hall you
can find airport Bangkok limo and other
transportation and outside are 2 taxis counter, also
very slow because understaffed and not working, they
are two ladies, one of them is always eating and or
chattering on the hand phone the other lady fills
small tickets which the passenger has to give to the
taxi driver, all this is very slow and many times
there are no taxis at all.
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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 they 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 Suvarnabhumi airport
and move
to downtown.
If you don't have a hotel yet just go to the
Silom / Surawong 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 airport
Bangkok to Pattaya its quick now, 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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- 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
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to get out to Singapore in the morning.
The procedure was not a big deal since the new airport
Bangkok
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.
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.
In the
transit area is a Automated Teller Machine or ATM
issuing only dollar no Baht. It's only possible to buy the
airplane tickets from Thai International directly and they
squeezed 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,
airport code for Bangkok is BKK.
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 or "Flughafen Bangkok" 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 rail
or airport Bangkok express link from downtown Bangkok to the
airport, hopefully it will be finished sometimes.
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
airport Bangkok 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,
airport Bangkok 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
airport Bangkok 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 quickly. |
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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 airport Bangkok, 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 airport Bangkok.
For information on airport Bangkok departure,
arrival at the airport, what to do at airport Bangkok,
airport Bangkok hotels and about airport Bangkok link check
the homepage of the
airport Bangkok.
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
for more
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- And now the new
Bangkok
Suvarnabhumi Airport in
Daylight
See the video
also here.
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Airport on Taxi and
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The taxi
stand operation is
typical for the organization skills of the people who run the
airport Bangkok. 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 airport Bangkok taxi stand usually only one
works if she is not just hanging on the mobile chattering with
someone else.
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From Airport Bangkok and to
Airport via a Rail Link
Bangkok Suvarnabhumi has
a official annual capacity
of 45 million passengers a
year,
and eventually will be able
to cope with 100 million
passengers a year.
That needs a rail link
to bring and carry away the
passengers efficiently. To
do so a mainly elevated rail
was built but has already a
long delay to finish the
work and open the route to
the airport near Bangkok.
Originally the end of 2007
was the target to open the
airport line, it will be opened by the
end of 2009.
The Bangkok airport rail
link start at Phaya Thai
in the city centre, and run
via Makkasan and City
Airport Terminal (CAT), to
the international airport.
At the airport the rail
will terminate at an
underground station beneath
the main terminal. The CAT
has 32 airline check-in
counters, automatic baggage
handling system, and the
usual flight
information for passengers.
The eight-station
double-track elevated and
underground line will have
automatic rail operation.
Maximum rail speed
is160km/h.
Two types of
airport transportation
service are operated. The
express service called SA
Express run non-stop from Makkasan - CAT to Bangkok
Airport. A separate commuter
rail called SA City Line
will run from Phaya Thai
station to the airport and
serve six intermediate
stations. Passengers will be able
to connect with BTS Skyrail's Sukhumvit Line
at Phaya Thai and with MRT's
Blue Line at Phetchaburi.
There will also be
connections with SRT's local
rails at a number of
stations.
The railroad cars or
railway carriages are
supplied by Siemens. The
rail consists of four
four-car rails for SA
Express. The express rails
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separate
baggage compartment. The SA
City Line operate five
three-car rails. Capacity
can be increased by coupling
three and four-car sets to a
total of 10 cars.
Both Line operates at
15-minute intervals;
this will be increased to 10
minutes. Actually the
Bangkok airport line is
designed to operate rails
at two-minute intervals.
Start to end travel times
are estimated at 15 minutes
for SA Express and 27
minutes for SA City Line.
At the highway which runs
parallel to the elevated
rail its up to an hour and
increasing since the car
traffic expands
exponentially, this |
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figure does
not include the time to reach the highway which can easily be longer
than the whole road travel time on the highway.
Traffic is estimated at
4000 passengers per hour per
direction at the beginning
and could reach 50,000
passenger by 2030. SA
City Line, as a commuter
operation, will be much more
busy, starting at about
37,000 and reaching about
200.000 184,000 by 2030. The
Bangkok airport line will be
integrated into the mass
rapid transit network of the
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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 airport Bangkok. 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 rail 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 rail
service on them. Probably its the usual way, new project brings new
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