Originally Posted by
peachy3
We took a taxi and in no time he was racing in his 1990 car down the highway at at least 130km/h. Woah! The posters on the thread were right, Thailand has die hard Nascar fans. Slow down mate! He was quick though, and in 25 minutes we were at Grand Hyatt Bangkok from BKK airport.
We checked out and grabbed a taxi. Our taxi driver was diligent in training for the Thai Nascar team and sped 140km/h to the airport. Less than 20 minutes and we arrived. If waking up didn't kick our adrenaline in, that ride certainly did. We were wide awake.
Hopefully you got the advise from some of us on the TG forum to go to the departures level to catch a Taxi so you don't have to pay 50baht airport fees. Oh well either way, about 99% of the taxi's driving to and from the airport will go 130+km/h I had one crazy driver going 160km/h! And the slowest of all one time was 80km/h. I asked why are you going so slow? He said Gear 5 is broken
. 80 was just too slow.
Good trip report so far. Looking forward to the rest. ^