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Old April 10th, 2010, 08:19 AM posted to rec.travel.asia
Chris Blunt[_2_]
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Default Taxi from Bangkok Rail Station to International Airport

On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:50:33 +0000 (UTC), Neville MADDEN
wrote:

I will be transiting Bangkok later on this year - from the railway station
to the airport.

Can anyone tell me
what is the approximate fare

can I pay the cab driver in $US

I will only be in Thailand for a few hours and want to avoid the hassle of
changing money just to pay for a cab.


The taxi fare should be around 300 Baht, including road tolls.

Taxis are metered and they don't normally take US$, but might do so if
you were to offer it at an attractive enough rate of exchange. You'd
have to agree a flat-rate fare in US$ with the driver in advance, but
don't expect to get a good rate doing it that way.

You'd probably be better off changing $15 into Thai Baht rather than
take a chance of finding a taxi who would accept it. Its so easy to
change money in Bangkok and I'm sure there would be somewhere at the
station where you could do it. Any left-over change could be used for
a drink or snack at the airport.

Chris