Originally Posted by
ak333
I did a day trip on Saturday, and just had my backpack. So I timed it. From getting off the escalator leaving the Petchburi station to the entrance door at Makassan station took me three and half minutes. And the same on the return trip. Obviously if you are lugging bags allow extra time, but it was still fairly quick all the same.
For me today, platform to platform walking briskly, no bags, knowing where I was going:
Petchaburi MRT (subway) to SARL-City Line Makkasan: 9 minutes and 34 seconds (includes 30 seconds to buy a token).
SARL - City Line to Petchaburi MRT (I have an MRT pass): 8 minutes and 29 seconds, I barely made the crossing before a SRT train came through.
There are no signs at the subway, so use exit #3. My favorite sign inside the CAT at Makkasan is an A4 laser printed sign saying "Station Exit" with a hand-drawn arrow! There is an Air Asia logoed, extended length electric tuk-tuk ferrying people the 150 m from the CAT out towards Ratchada Pisek Road towards the subway station.
I think the connector may come over Kampheng Phet 7 road, west of Ratchada Pisek and come in behind the #3 subway entrance? It will probably consist of several flights of very treacherous steps!