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Miyazaki
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 Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: New Airport to Sukhumvit |
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Hi,
Can someone please tell me how long it now takes to get from the new aiport (also what's the name?) to Sukhumvit Road (Nana Plaza area)?
Also, has anyone used the new airport? Are there plenty of restaurants and pubs to chose from (i.e., Dairy Queen, Burger King, etc.)?
I'm flying into Bangkok on January 13 and am interested in knowing what the initial impressions are of the new airport and how long it'll take to get into town. Thanks. |
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Kent F. Kruhoeffer
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Miyazaki
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| Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the link and info. |
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chacma
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| Great picture. It looks a very well designed building. |
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richie122
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| I was in the airport for a few hours right after it opened. Really nice place, but I didn't see any restaurants. Where are they?? |
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Kent F. Kruhoeffer
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larryB
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| If you use it in daytime, the glass exterior makes the aircon obsolete - hot and uncomfortable. Looks nice, but better for tomatoes than flight passengers. |
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rdix
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| richie122 wrote: |
| I was in the airport for a few hours right after it opened. Really nice place, but I didn't see any restaurants. Where are they?? |
- Restaurants are Hidden away in the far reaches of the bottom floor; don't leave eating to last minute, - you could die of malnutrition on the way. The departure lounges resemble prison holding cells. And carry a bladder bag. not enough lavvies!
Don't know who designed this place, but I wouldn't mind trying a bit of what they were on at the time. |
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Miyazaki
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| Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| rdix wrote: |
| richie122 wrote: |
| I was in the airport for a few hours right after it opened. Really nice place, but I didn't see any restaurants. Where are they?? |
- Restaurants are Hidden away in the far reaches of the bottom floor; don't leave eating to last minute, - you could die of malnutrition on the way. The departure lounges resemble prison holding cells. And carry a bladder bag. not enough lavvies!
Don't know who designed this place, but I wouldn't mind trying a bit of what they were on at the time. |
Really. Not too impressed, eh.
That's too bad. I was happy with the old airport. |
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sigmoid
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| Great picture. It looks [like] a very well designed building. |
Uh, yeah... the key words here being "looks like".
The Bangkok Post reports today:
New airport faces partial shutdown
Mistakes, graft found in almost all contracts
AMORNRAT MAHITTHIROOK
Poor construction at Suvarnabhumi may force parts of the new airport to be shut down for repairs. This would open the way for the recently abandoned Don Muang airport to be re-opened to serve Bangkok's air traffic needs.
Deputy Transport Minister Sansern Wongcha-um said yesterday that following a recent report on the problems facing Suvarnabhumi airport, it was likely that part of the new facility would have to be closed and Don Muang airport would pick up the slack.
Some people had suggested the airport, open less than three months, be completely closed for a revamp, with flights being redirected to Don Muang until the improvements are completed, Mr Sansern said. He was opposed to that. Trying to move everything back to Don Muang would cause chaos.
The Council for Democratic Reform _ now the Council for National Security _ asked about the readiness of Suvarnabhumi airport just after the Sept 19 coup, but executives of the Airports of Thailand (AoT) had insisted the airport was ready for the scheduled Sept 28 opening.
Opening the airport before it was completed had inevitably led to problems. If the opening had been delayed to allow work to be finished properly, the airport would have started on a more solid footing.
The new AoT board appointed after the coup has discovered physical and managerial problems at Suvarnabhumi airport.
Board member Yodyiam Theptranont, who heads a sub-panel investigating the problems, said the repairs would take a long time. He could not give a timeframe.
The report attributed the faults to substandard construction, poor management and manipulation of designs and materials.
The report said the airport's information technology facilities were incomplete and the upper floors of the car park building have no drains, causing rain water to flow into elevator shafts.
Over 1,000 lamps had already burned out and not been replaced.
There were many cracks in the airport's taxiways, some serious and some not, and repairs would be time-consuming, he said. Many operations staff also have no expertise in using their equipment.
Adm Bannawit Kengrian, chairman of the National Legislative Assembly's committee on Suvarnabhumi airport, said his panel had discovered mistakes and irregularities in almost all the airport's contracts. Names of those believed responsible would be announced in two weeks. |
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