Originally Posted by opushomes
Take a metered taxi to your hotel. Search tells you step by step how to do it. Cost will be about 250-300 baht each way. 50 baht less on the return.
If you scoot to the departures level on arrival, you can usually pick up a cab that's just dropped off a passenger, and they won't charge you the airport pickup surcharge.
This works best if you've got no bags.