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crazylemongirl
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 Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:00 am Post subject: 5 hours in bangkok... |
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| I got a five hours in transit it Bangkok... any suggestions apart from admiring the new airport? |
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J.B. Clamence
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:48 am Post subject: |
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| I was really impressed with it. Lots of great cafes and restaurants, as well as shopping. I wasted about an hour and a half in one cafe alone sitting in a big comfy chair. They have massage places there as well. I think they have shower and lounge facilities there as well. It's quite a modern airport. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| A fishbowl? |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| J.B. Clamence wrote: |
| I was really impressed with it. Lots of great cafes and restaurants, as well as shopping. I wasted about an hour and a half in one cafe alone sitting in a big comfy chair. They have massage places there as well. I think they have shower and lounge facilities there as well. It's quite a modern airport. |
LOL...it just opened last month! Seems there are quite a few problems, Thai air are removing their domestic operation back to Don Muang, the old airport.
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oxfordstu
Joined: 28 Aug 2004
Location: Bangkok
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| Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, it's only about 75% done. Expect to see construction still going on in the place. But that's the Thai way -- open a place up before it's even complete. |
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kangnam mafioso
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:41 am Post subject: |
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is the new airport further from the city center or closer?
the old airport had a convenient shuttle bus system that only cost a couple of bucks to the nana area (35 minutes or so).
5 hours isn't too long. you could go to a spa and get a massage, check out a temple, go have a few drinks somewhere, go shopping in siam square, catch a movie ....
i doubt i would sit around an airport that long even if they did have a lot of stuff as they are usually way over priced |
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kangnam mafioso
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:42 am Post subject: |
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is the new airport further from the city center or closer?
the old airport had a convenient shuttle bus system that only cost a couple of bucks to the nana area (35 minutes or so).
5 hours isn't too long. you could go to a spa and get a massage, check out a temple, go have a few drinks somewhere, go shopping in siam square, catch a movie .... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnam mafioso wrote: |
is the new airport further from the city center or closer?
the old airport had a convenient shuttle bus system that only cost a couple of bucks to the nana area (35 minutes or so).
5 hours isn't too long. you could go to a spa and get a massage, check out a temple, go have a few drinks somewhere, go shopping in siam square, catch a movie .... |
With the new elevated motorways it's possible to get a taxi from the airport to Banglampu or Siam Square in a little over 30 minutes for around 200 Baht plus 65 Baht for tolls. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
Location: your mom
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| Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:28 pm Post subject: |
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stay in the airport or just take a taxi straight to kao san road for some shopping. bangkok is the most nasty, polluted, dirty, disgusting, boring, confusing, ill-mannered city i have ever had the displeasure of going to full of odious rude idiots just waiting to rip you off.
stay in the airport. kao san has really cheap REALLY nice bikinis though and if you like Lacoste...youre in luck! |
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kangnam mafioso
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
stay in the airport or just take a taxi straight to kao san road for some shopping. bangkok is the most nasty, polluted, dirty, disgusting, boring, confusing, ill-mannered city i have ever had the displeasure of going to full of odious rude idiots just waiting to rip you off.
stay in the airport. kao san has really cheap REALLY nice bikinis though and if you like Lacoste...youre in luck! |
kao san road is a dump ....and it's further than a lot of other areas from the airport. the only reason to go there is to meet other westerners (if that's your thing) or get cheap tickets out of bangkok.
i like bangkok ....wouldn't want to live there, but i think you are unduly harsh of the place. |
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ChimpumCallao
Joined: 17 May 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnam mafioso wrote: |
| ChimpumCallao wrote: |
stay in the airport or just take a taxi straight to kao san road for some shopping. bangkok is the most nasty, polluted, dirty, disgusting, boring, confusing, ill-mannered city i have ever had the displeasure of going to full of odious rude idiots just waiting to rip you off.
stay in the airport. kao san has really cheap REALLY nice bikinis though and if you like Lacoste...youre in luck! |
kao san road is a dump ....and it's further than a lot of other areas from the airport. the only reason to go there is to meet other westerners (if that's your thing) or get cheap tickets out of bangkok.
i like bangkok ....wouldn't want to live there, but i think you are unduly harsh of the place. |
yea...i particularly hated it. wed just come back from cambodia where everything was easy and perfect and we went to thailand were everything was annoying and laborious. we left after 2 days and ended up in pattaya, which was actually a BLAST. but if i want to go to a dumpy overcrowded polluted city center, i'll go to LA... |
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bucheon bum
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going to say, if you think Bangkok is "nasty, polluted, dirty, disgusting, boring, confusing, ill-mannered" then you best avoid India.
Boring? If one is bored in Bangkok, I don't know where you wouldn't be bored. |
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kangnam mafioso
Joined: 27 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:22 am Post subject: |
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stay in the airport or just take a taxi straight to kao san road for some shopping. bangkok is the most nasty, polluted, dirty, disgusting, boring, confusing, ill-mannered city i have ever had the displeasure of going to full of odious rude idiots just waiting to rip you off.
stay in the airport. kao san has really cheap REALLY nice bikinis though and if you like Lacoste...youre in luck! |
kao san road is a dump ....and it's further than a lot of other areas from the airport. the only reason to go there is to meet other westerners (if that's your thing) or get cheap tickets out of bangkok.
i like bangkok ....wouldn't want to live there, but i think you are unduly harsh of the place. |
yea...i particularly hated it. wed just come back from cambodia where everything was easy and perfect and we went to thailand were everything was annoying and laborious. we left after 2 days and ended up in pattaya, which was actually a BLAST. but if i want to go to a dumpy overcrowded polluted city center, i'll go to LA... |
the fact that you like patayya says a lot. isn't cambodia supposed to be a bit more difficult than thailand ...i know it's cheaper but .... |
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ChimpumCallao
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| the fact that you like patayya says a lot. |
nah. the biggest annoyance of bangkok was transportation and pollution.
Pattaya was interesting and we could walk anywhere. There were so many other tourists that we were pretty much left alone. It was fun!
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| isn't cambodia supposed to be a bit more difficult than thailand ...i know it's cheaper but .... |
no way. siem reap is a tiny town and is very easy to travel around. bangkok was a logistical nightmare. plus, siem reap was nice to walk around, if you avoided the festering open air markets. all of bangkok seemed to be a sprawling dirty mess. |
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gochubandit
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the fact that you like patayya says a lot.
nah. the biggest annoyance of bangkok was transportation and pollution.
Pattaya was interesting and we could walk anywhere. There were so many other tourists that we were pretty much left alone. It was fun!
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isn't cambodia supposed to be a bit more difficult than thailand ...i know it's cheaper but ....
no way. siem reap is a tiny town and is very easy to travel around. bangkok was a logistical nightmare. plus, siem reap was nice to walk around, if you avoided the festering open air markets. all of bangkok seemed to be a sprawling dirty mess. |
hated pattaya. spent a nite there and turned out to be a shithole for 70 y/o guys picking up hookers. although at least the clubs were cool. the beach was cr*p tho.
i love bangkok. it's filthy, dirty, and a complete geographical nightmare. but i do love wandering around the city and getting lost. sort of a thing i developed living here in seoul. used to hate it, but kinda like it.
5 hours? dude, go shopping at chatuchak if it's a weekend. if not, MBK or Siam square or the discovery center should be fine. cool stuff for all ranges of income. one thing i regret is not picking up all the funky stuff you could get at chatuchak. love the place. |
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