New Bangkok Airport - Suvarnabhumi - Report on Day 2
Flew into the new airport Friday Sept 29th after 11pm. Some highlights:
1. The walk times rival the old Don Muang airport or Hong Kong without the train.
2. Customs was faster and seems more organized.
3. Visa on arrival looked better than before and more organized.
4. There are around 27 baggage carousels.
5. Getting my luggage took over 50 minutes, with the First tag on it.
6. The arrivals hall outisde customs is narrow and woefully overcrowded. It was awful and this is at midnight.
7. There are 2 tolls on the freeway into Bangkok which can cause delays, as it did at 12:30am.
8. The drive into town in no worse than the old airport.
9. Met a guy who waited 2 hours for his luggage after a 1 hour flight. Granted this was day 2.
10. There is no lounge for Qantas or BA. Expected in 2007.
Look forward to seeing it on the outbound. Hope this helps anyone who is coming in.