bkk

[rb 20]

anyone just walked out and got a metered taxi to pty from bkk airport?

i get in at 2330 and thought maybe i'ld just head up and get a metered taxi, will the "captian" be able get me to a taxi that "knows" pty or do i have to take the next one in line, just wondering is anyone has ever done it this way? seems to me it would be faster.

rb

[dcdc 0]

I was in the same position as you last year. The plane landed at 2330 in November. I got out of immigration at around 2400.

 

I went to the taxi stand outside of the airport and across the street from the train station to catch a taxi to Pataya. They all quoted something like 1500-2000 bhat. I haggled a little bit with one of them and got one for 700 bhat plus I had to pay all of the tolls. Nighttime is slow so you can probably catch a taxi in the 700-1000 bhat range + tolls.

 

You don't have to get the first one in line. You just have to throw out a number and the first one that agrees is the one that you take. You do have to get the first one if you are going into Bangkok.

[rb 20]

I was in the same position as you last year. The plane landed at 2330 in November. I got out of immigration at around 2400.

 

I went to the taxi stand outside of the airport and across the street from the train station to catch a taxi to Pataya. They all quoted something like 1500-2000 bhat. I haggled a little bit with one of them and got one for 700 bhat plus I had to pay all of the tolls. Nighttime is slow so you can probably catch a taxi in the 700-1000 bhat range + tolls.

 

You don't have to get the first one in line. You just have to throw out a number and the first one that agrees is the one that you take. You do have to get the first one if you are going into Bangkok.

thanks

i'll give it a shot