Hi

I came to Bangkok a couple of weeks back. It was early in the morning and I was tired after a long flight. On the net I had briefly read that to get a taxi you should go to the counter and get a ticket and then go out and get a car. Once I had gotten my suitcase I went over to a taxi counter and said I wanted a taxi and the rate was a 1000 THB. I was a bit surprised that it was so expensive and I asked the guy behind the counter if this was the public taxi or where I had to go to find it. And he was like "No, there is no other taxi". So I got fed up and just took the taxi. I guess what I got was the AOT Limousine and not the public taxi. So study this close before you go to Bangkok: http://www2.airportthai.co.th/airportnew/sun/transporta...ang=en&sub=limousine . The taxi back to the airport was only 350 THB. I'm a bit embarrassed to tell this...I feel that I'm an experienced traveler and still I got tricked. I hope that other people will avoid this.

Thank you for this warning, Gard.

It is very comforting to know that other people make mistakes, too, no matter how experienced they are!!

Confession is good for the soul, they say, and the best lessons are learned from mistakes!!!

The old airport had a counter that dispatches taxis to all the hotels. The prices are all set. no surprise there.

But it's true that somehow uniformed people show up between that counter and the gate exits, and these efficient looking uniformed people accost groggy travellers and with a lot of authority say: "taxi? This way."
If you say you don't want taxi, they start proposing drugs, or young girls, or young boys.

I used to take the airport bus (100 baht) from the old airport but last December I used a pre-booked shuttle (taxi) for $12 from airport to my downtown hotel. I may do so again this December as they did well.

How are they getting on with the Skytrain connection?