Transport from Bangkok- Airport - Jomtien

[Gonzo 419]

When you make your way to Pattaya from Bangkok, I recommend you use the SRTET Airport rail link, In my opinion, it is by far the fastest and most comfortable way to get here.

 

It goes as follows. Go by BTS Skytrain to the Phaya Thai station on the Sukhumvit line. Go to exit 5 and follow the red signs to the Airport link. There is a train every 15 minutes from 6AM to midnight to Suvarnabhumi airport. It only costs 45 THB and takes less than half an hour to get to the airport. Once you get there on the B1 Ground floor inside the airport, walk up to Floor 1 and then to Gate 7 on the far right.

 

Next to gate 7, there is a Pattaya counter, where they sell bus tickets to the Jomtien terminal for THB 124. You can have a meal and a beer at the Magic Food Point right next to the ticket counter, if there is enough time.The Jomtien buses are all brand new and very comfortable and leave the airport at 7,9,11 AM and 1,3,5,7,9 PM. They add additional buses between those times during busy hours.

 

When the bus arrives in Pattaya, it will drop people off at Pattaya, Nua, Pattaya Klang and Pattaya Tai on Sukhumvit Road, where there are Baht buses and motor cycle riders waiting to take passengers to their hotels, before proceeding to the terminal in Jomtien, next to Threpphasit Road, from where you can catch Baht buses to your abode for 10 THB.

 

The Bell bus from the airport is not a bad alternative, but these days often uses older, clapped out buses with little leg room. It goes to their Pattaya Nua terminal, from where they transfer people onto mini buses to their hotels. It costs THB 200, which includes the mini bus.

 

My least preferred options are the buses from Morchit and Ekamai to the Pattaya Nua terminal. They are the least comfortable buses, The bus stations are grotty with often filthy toilets and the buses have to negotiate their way through the congested Bangkok traffic. Some blokes prefer them, hoping to meet a farm fresh girl on them on her way to a bar in Pattaya, to make her fortune with Farang ATM tilacs. I must be getting old, as I could not bother with such depraved behaviour.

 

By the way, two of the above mentioned bus companies now belong to the Roong Reuang Coach company. I am not sure if the Bell bus is still an independent company, but they seem to use old clapped-out Roong Reuang buses, where they previously used newish and comfortable buses.

 

Anyway, going by bus beats going in a taxi, with at times doped-up drivers, often unable to find their way around Pattaya.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[halfaboy 31]

Ther's another option which are the minivans leaving Bangkok at Victory monument. Costs are around 150 baht and they bring you in one go to Pattyaya / Jomtien (depending on which bus you are taking).

[Michelangelo 0]

Public Taxi from the airport. Cost 1.400 Baht, toll included.

No waiting time, direct connection, 1.5 hours and you are in Pattaya.

[Bazle 1,500]

The Bell bus from the airport is not a bad alternative, but these days often uses older, clapped out buses with little leg room. It goes to their Pattaya Nua terminal, from where they transfer people onto mini buses to their hotels. It costs THB 200, which includes the mini bus.

Why bother to go to the airport? What's wrong with the Bell service that picks you up from your hotel in Bangers?

[Desmond Jones 196]

Thank you for the excellent transport info........

 

After buses and vans, I'm more of the taxi adventure type. The worst time was 2AM, the Yabba man, smacking himself in the face for an hour and a half alternately doing 70mph, then 30mph, though at least he stayed in one lane.

[Norfloxacin400 87]

Thanks Gonzo, i was looking for info on this very subject. Any idea how long it takes the bas takes to get from the airport to Jomtien?

[ttk 236]

By far the fastest and most comfortable way to get there is a taxi (Mr. T taxi is 1000 or so). No waiting for trains /buses and transfers. No lugging luggage around. No extra taxis to the hotel.

 

I do appreciate the report and quide but after spending $1000+ on airfare and sitting on a plane for 20+ hours, I gladly spend the extra $20 to get to Pattaya.

[joekicker 53]

By far the fastest and most comfortable way to get there is a taxi

 

Yes, or an airport limo or similar -- a private car.

 

Hiking to a train, transferring to a bus and waiting for both, is *a* way to get to Pattaya. It's neither fastest nor most comfortable nor, I will add, most convenient.

 

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[4niceight 32]

Yes, or an airport limo or similar -- a private car.

 

Hiking to a train, transferring to a bus and waiting for both, is *a* way to get to Pattaya. It's neither fastest nor most comfortable nor, I will add, most convenient.

 

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Maybe the safest though.??

[joekicker 53]

Maybe the safest though.??

 

Curious way to put it. Do you consider private cars to be unsafe? More unsafe than buses? Personally, I don't, but do go on.

 

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[jacko 8,822]

Curious way to put it. Do you consider private cars to be unsafe? More unsafe than buses? Personally, I don't, but do go on.

 

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Where there are no hills, cliffs and ravines involved, like from the Airport to Pattaya, I would feel safer in a bus.

[4niceight 32]

Curious way to put it. Do you consider private cars to be unsafe? More unsafe than buses? Personally, I don't, but do go on.

 

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Not especially unsafe. Depends, of course, on the driver. However, if I were to be involved in an accident, I'd rather have something substantial around me.

[Gonzo 419]

Thanks Gonzo, i was looking for info on this very subject. Any idea how long it takes the bas takes to get from the airport to Jomtien?

It depends on the traffic on the roads. I have taken the bus to the airport often and it will take about 1 hour 45 minutes on average, going in the morning. From the airport to the Jomtien terminal it could take a bit longer, say 2 hours, especially late afternoon with more cars on the road. The new 8-lane A7 motorway is great.

[Norfloxacin400 87]

caught this bus last month from jomtien terminal to swampy and it took about 90 mins. basically door to door from me as i live in on of the VT's and only have carry on luggage. going back for a year tomorrow and gonna get on that 124bht special for sure.

[cicero1520 19]

This is a good outfit.......

 

http://www.thelimopattaya.com/index.php?la...e&Id=561301

[aholic 0]

I've use this company for a few times

no problem at all

car very clean and good skill driver

1,200 all included from airport to hotel and back is 1,000 Baht all in

 

http://www.gopattayataxi.com/

or email them : go-pattayataxi@hotmail.com

[Sailfast 503]

Curious way to put it. Do you consider private cars to be unsafe? More unsafe than buses? Personally, I don't, but do go on.

 

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Just for fun, I pulled this out of my internet ass -

 

"According to the National Safety Council, buses, trains, and airlines have much lower death rates than automobiles when the risk is expressed as passenger deaths per mile of travel.

 

In 2000, the passenger death rate in automobiles was 0.80 per 100 million passenger-miles. The rates for buses, trains, and airlines were 0.05, 0.03, and 0.02, respectively.

 

Read more: Most Dangerous Mode of Transportation — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0922097.htm...1FvNHKJOI"

 

I tried to find the statistics per hour of travel instead of per mile, as listed above, then decided it would be more fun to pay bills.