Thai airways bus to Pattaya?

[notquitevanilla79 7]

Hi

Can anyone tell me how to catch the thai airways bus to pattaya from bangkok airport.? Costs, travel time, boarding location etc

[Fondles 94]

As far as I know Thai Airways do not run any bus services.

 

Check out Bell Travel, they run bus services between BKK/Pattaya/Swampy airport etc.

 

http://www.belltravelservice.com/routes_rates.php

[mad dog 1]

if you fly first class you may get a limo.

but cattle class you have to make your own way

[jacko 8,762]

As far as I know Thai Airways do not run any bus services.

 

Check out Bell Travel, they run bus services between BKK/Pattaya/Swampy airport etc.

 

http://www.belltrave...outes_rates.php

I have recollections of them running a popular one many years ago though.

[joekicker 53]

I have recollections of them running a popular one many years ago though.

 

Wracking my remaining grey cells on this, and I do not remember a Thai Airways bus for the public. You used to see a lot more crew buses, it seems to me, but that may just be poor memory also. There was (is???) that ridiculous bus from downtown to the airport, that sometimes had as many as three passengers, and it had THAI advertising on it, but most definitely not a THAI bus.

 

I'm pretty sure there has never been an actual THAI bus run by the airline, although it has been mobbed up ("mob" as in price-skimming mafia) with transportation, especially limos for many years decades.

 

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[chatkeow 28]

I have recollections of them running a popular one many years ago though.

 

Yes there was a Thai bus that used to run 3 times a day from Don Maung to Pattaya...

 

Caught it more than a few times after once to often being somewhat scared of the antics of the Bell Bus drivers.

[Montydog 135]

Yes there was a Thai bus that used to run 3 times a day from Don Maung to Pattaya...

 

Caught it more than a few times after once to often being somewhat scared of the antics of the Bell Bus drivers.

 

Have Bell been going that long? I’m surprised. I only seem to have them on my radar since the swamp opened.

[chatkeow 28]

Have Bell been going that long? I’m surprised. I only seem to have them on my radar since the swamp opened.

 

Yes Bell have been going for as long as I can remember.......Was using them from Superserck apartments on the undeveloped 3rd road back in 1994 and probably before as well....

[joekicker 53]

Yes Bell have been going for as long as I can remember.......

 

According to Bell Travel Service you can remember no more than 17 years, which is a start I guess:

 

Bell Travel Service was established in 1995 in order to offer a convenient shuttle coach service between Bangkok and Pattaya.

 

 

Still can't find any reference to a Thai Airways bus, but I did find that the dopey airport bus shuttle to and from Bangkok died last June -- in the obscurity it so richly deserved.

 

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Edited January 20, 2012 by joekicker

[jacko 8,762]

According to Bell Travel Service you can remember no more than 17 years, which is a start I guess:

 

Bell Travel Service was established in 1995 in order to offer a convenient shuttle coach service between Bangkok and Pattaya.

 

 

Still can't find any reference to a Thai Airways bus, but I did find that the dopey airport bus shuttle to and from Bangkok died last June -- in the obscurity it so richly deserved.

 

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Yes it was from Don Muang....BUT my brain cells may be lacking. Back in those days I had a habit of going into Bangkok for a few days first.

But but but.... I always thought Thai Airways cancelled the bus as it competed with their more lucrative Limo Cars.... ....

 

I have these vague memories of sitting around for a few hours for the bus after arriving ( I seem to recall a booking room),, just to save a few baht. I used to do things like that when I had more time than money.

Edited January 20, 2012 by jacko

[joekicker 53]

Yes it was from Don Muang....BUT my brain cells may be lacking. Back in those days I had a habit of going into Bangkok for a few days first.

But but but.... I always thought Thai Airways cancelled the bus as it competed with their more lucrative Limo Cars.... ....

 

If there was such a bus line, it was certainly Don Muang, LONG before Suvarnabhumi was a sparkle in the eyes of the telephone magnate. No question it was way before the swampland was paved. And what you write is believable, because THAI was very protective of those limos for sure. But I *still* can't raise a cell that remembers THAI passenger buses. I was looking for old photos of River City and Royal Orchid Sheraton which was THAI owned, because there certainly would have been buses there - found city buses and "tourist buses" at that hotel and shopping centre, but no THAI ones yet.

 

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[jacko 8,762]

If there was such a bus line, it was certainly Don Muang, LONG before Suvarnabhumi was a sparkle in the eyes of the telephone magnate. No question it was way before the swampland was paved. And what you write is believable, because THAI was very protective of those limos for sure. But I *still* can't raise a cell that remembers THAI passenger buses. I was looking for old photos of River City and Royal Orchid Sheraton which was THAI owned, because there certainly would have been buses there - found city buses and "tourist buses" at that hotel and shopping centre, but no THAI ones yet.

 

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Do you recall a little office where the Thai Limos could be booked from...... to the left after you came into arrivals. I have an idea the busses could also be booked from there. I also looked at collection of old Don muang pics and didn't confirm this.

[joekicker 53]

Do you recall a little office where the Thai Limos could be booked from...... to the left after you came into arrivals. I have an idea the busses could also be booked from there. I also looked at collection of old Don muang pics and didn't confirm this.

 

I remember the nook WELL. Still can't get a photo of a THAI passenger bus in my mind though. I can see the actual trail, walking from that limo desk (seldom used it, but occasionally did), head left (not right) out the door, into the heat, onto the pavement.... And qujte a few buses close by from hotels and travel agencies and so on.

 

Every time I "see" a THAI bus, though, it's got good-looking girls in uniforms on it. But not me! (Crew bus.)

 

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[chatkeow 28]

Do you recall a little office where the Thai Limos could be booked from...... to the left after you came into arrivals. I have an idea the busses could also be booked from there. I also looked at collection of old Don muang pics and didn't confirm this.

 

The Thai bus used to be booked from the offices just opposite to the Carlton Hotel on soi 5 just to the right as you come out of the hotel for the return trip....

 

From memory the Thai Tourist Police office was next door......

 

I used to sit at the bars to the right just waiting for the bus to turn up in abject misery !!

Edited January 21, 2012 by chatkeow