Railway travel in Thailand

Tony Day wrote:
If I wanted to fly I would have asked about flying. And the header would not
be Railway travel in Thailand.

Ok, sorry, Your Majesty, your query fee shall be refunded to your account,
and I'll recommend to my manager that I be sent away to rec.travel.asia
retraining camp.

It's just that many people aren't aware of the low-cost flight alternatives
and rule it out in favor of the train on the basis of presumed cost. I
foolishly thought I saw an opportunity to be helpful. Lesson learned.

miguel
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"Nisse PowerMan" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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HEY! I took the same train in March 2001 and it was a great ride. But it
was FREEZING cold. On the day of departure it was raining, still the AC
of the diesel railcar was on full speed, bring warm clothes should it be
cold.

ACK!
I took the train 6 times now and every time with A/C it was COLD. Not that
cold that you start freezing to the seat, but for journeys taking several
hours you really should take some warm clothes with you!


OF COURSE there is NO NEED to buy tickets long time in advance, better
up, now the Bangkok Subway opened and the end station is Hualompong
train station. Thus you can VERY easily get to the train station and buy
the tickets 1-2 days in advance, it's a piece of cake. Do it yourself,
it's the best solution.

ACK!
Last year around Christmas after retourning from Ko Sameth I had to stay
one more night in Bangkok because the train was fully booked, but otherwise
1..2 days in advance should be sufficient (in my case I got the ticket and
departed on the next day).

cu, tmo

"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message
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Tony Day wrote:
If I wanted to fly I would have asked about flying. And the header would
not
be Railway travel in Thailand.

Ok, sorry, Your Majesty, your query fee shall be refunded to your account,
and I'll recommend to my manager that I be sent away to rec.travel.asia
retraining camp.

Your humble apology is graciously accepted, young knave!

LOL!

Tony (a sort of militant train person)

"Miguel Cruz" wrote in message
...
Tony Day wrote:
If I wanted to fly I would have asked about flying. And the header would
not
be Railway travel in Thailand.

Ok, sorry, Your Majesty, your query fee shall be refunded to your account,
and I'll recommend to my manager that I be sent away to rec.travel.asia
retraining camp.

Your humble apology is graciously accepted, young knave!

LOL!

Tony (a sort of militant train person)

Tony Day wrote:

Tony (a sort of militant train person)

Where does one find militant trains ??

Tony Day wrote:

Tony (a sort of militant train person)

Where does one find militant trains ??

"Nisse PowerMan" told us...



I can not recall any problems with blinds.

Yes, at the ticket reservation office they speak english, no problems at
all.

I think I got a number in the queue, I just sat down and waited for my
turn, asked for the tickets I wanted, it was all over in less than 5
minutes. Very easy.

Ask for Window, then you can control the blinds yourself, or maybe there
were no blinds, only curtains, I think there were only curtains.



I made the trip up to CM on Christmas Day last year - went to the railway
station a coupe of days before, was attended to by a most helpful assistant
who was only too happy to answer questions, and left fifteen minutes later
with mr tickets.

It's a long trip, and I was surprised that they kept coming round with food
and water - I'd stocked up on nibbles, not having sussed that food was
included in the (2nd class) fare.

Perhaps I was just lucky, but the carriage I was in was less than half-full.
And the experience of standing in the narrow gangway between carriages when
on a cigarette break was fun. Especially when four people decide to have
one at the same time!

I'll be doing the same this year (but a week earlier), and I'm looking
forward to it.

_______
Geoff B

"Nisse PowerMan" told us...



I can not recall any problems with blinds.

Yes, at the ticket reservation office they speak english, no problems at
all.

I think I got a number in the queue, I just sat down and waited for my
turn, asked for the tickets I wanted, it was all over in less than 5
minutes. Very easy.

Ask for Window, then you can control the blinds yourself, or maybe there
were no blinds, only curtains, I think there were only curtains.



I made the trip up to CM on Christmas Day last year - went to the railway
station a coupe of days before, was attended to by a most helpful assistant
who was only too happy to answer questions, and left fifteen minutes later
with mr tickets.

It's a long trip, and I was surprised that they kept coming round with food
and water - I'd stocked up on nibbles, not having sussed that food was
included in the (2nd class) fare.

Perhaps I was just lucky, but the carriage I was in was less than half-full.
And the experience of standing in the narrow gangway between carriages when
on a cigarette break was fun. Especially when four people decide to have
one at the same time!

I'll be doing the same this year (but a week earlier), and I'm looking
forward to it.

_______
Geoff B