"Suvarnabhumi Airport can become of the world's best airports"
Aug 2, 2010, 7:33 am
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Meh. I was a Don Muang regular back in the day and, while hardly eye candy or a Changi-beater, it was actually a pretty darn functional airport, especially if you had lounge access and didn't need to camp out in the corridors. DMK's few notable warts (messy taxi system, random long queues at immigration, looooooong walk from international to domestic terminal) haven't been much improved by Swampy. Pretty much the only upsides are that I've yet to get stuck in an incoming taxi jam before the terminal at the new BKK, which was an all-too-regular occurrence at DMK, and that I'm cautiously optimistic about the new train link.
If the new train link does connect to the BTS - I might end up using it myself when staying at the Westin/Sheraton. Anything else - just not worth it. The Le Meridien and the Plaza Athenee are too far from the BTS station to make it worthwhile for me to take the train.
Aug 3, 2010, 9:51 am
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To be fair the title of the thread is not too far off as I can think of only two things they need to do to make Suvarnabhumi one of the worlds best airports:
1) Flatten it
2) Start again
1) Flatten it
2) Start again