Originally Posted by
Peter4
Even for single travelers, the airport bus makes little sense.
It stops on the main roads, at designated bus stops.
From there you still must walk, carrying all your baggage, to your hotel location.
In the heat and humidity of Bangkok.
Weaving in and out of crowds of people and street vendors.
Along pavements that are broken, cracked, dirty.
With street signs that are mostly in Thai language.
And maybe at night.
To save 100-200 baht?
Poor value indeed.
-- Peter
the AE buses leave from just outside the terminal and are therefore not regular buses (which leave from the transportation centre, which is reached initially by shuttle bus).
nonetheless, after my experience of a traffic jam on the way to on nut skytrain station (the nearest one on sukhumvit road), i shan't be using the AE buses again.
if u're going to ramkhamhaeng or on nut, then a taxi (from level 4 departures of the airport, so u don't queue and don't pay the 50 baht airport fee) is only 140 baht or so, in other words cheaper than the airport bus!
ian.
