Minibus Prices

[can123]

How much should I pay for a minibus for these two trips, please ?

(i) airport to Nana Hotel,

(ii) Nana Hotel to Pattaya.

Always used taxis before but this time there are four of us and a lot of luggage.

Thanks.

[taxexile]

there are plenty of those very large thairung/isuzu taxis at the airport. they can take 4 and luggage easily and the fare is the same as a taxi.

minibuses, from any location, are for those with a deathwish.

likewise for pattaya, get the phone number of your taxi driver from the airport, and book him for the pattaya trip.

[can123]

^

Thank you. As it happens the car I am picking up in Pattaya is similar - Isuzu MU 7.

[Bettyboo]

Good advice, Tax.

[stroller]

there are plenty of those very large thairung/isuzu taxis at the airport. they can take 4 and luggage easily and the fare is the same as a taxi.

Goode luck with that!

[Dillinger]

(i) airport to Nana Hotel,

FREE. What time are you landing?

Can I watch >

[taxexile]

there are plenty of those very large thairung/isuzu taxis at the airport. they can take 4 and luggage easily and the fare is the same as a taxi.

Goode luck with that!

you may have to wait a few minutes, but its worth the wait. they are good to ride in and for some reason their drivers seem to show a degree of safety and responsibility not often seen with the usual "chickenhead in a hurry" knuckledraggers that drive the toyota cabs on the suwannaphum grand prix, although 4 fat taffys and their bags onboard should slow anything down to a safer speed.

[Seekingasylum]

Frankly, with four of you travelling encumbered by baggage I wouldn't bother with the hassle of taxis at Swampy but would simply book the AOT service. It can be done online I think but there are booking desks before you leave the baggage reclaim area.

Unless things have changed, queuing up at the official taxi rank means you take whichever cab comes first and you can't choose to take a larger one further down the line unless an extra payment is negotiated and even then the driver might impose a flat fare without using the meter.

The AOT is more expensive but worth it to avoid unpleasantness on the day of arrival.

[Iceman123]

^
Yes one must keep up standards and arrive in style whilst visiting Nana.

[can123]

The Nana Hotel is great for intelligent adults. I can understand how those who have never been there, or the childish little wimps/pissheads who have a schoolboy sense of humour, may seek to run it down. The reality is that regardless of the hotel chosen in Bangkok prostitutes and ladyboys are available. Fortunately, it is not compulsory to use their services.

The Nana is the ideal location for us because of its proximity to the Skytrain. Our first night will be spent feeding our faces in Soi 38 rather than promenading in Soi 4.

Our first full day is Chang Wattana, Grand Palace and Chinatown. Second day - Chatuchak. Third day we leave for Pattaya to pick up my car. Our future son in law has never been to Thailand and we aim to show him as much of Bangkok as we can in just under three days. Given my wife's love of Siam Square shopping malls and Pratunam Market I know I'll be too knackered to be naughty.

I am hoping to escape from the family so as to visit Soi 13. I really enjoyed my pork chop and chips, HP sauce and six pints of lager last time I went to the Sportsman Bar and if Watford beat Man Utd, I'll be a very happy man.

The dopes who criticise Pattaya have almost certainly never lived there. I loved it and lived in Siam Country Club area. There are some sensible forum members who continue to live there happily. The critics are just ignorant dickheads.

[stroller]

Yes, if I wanted to be near the Skytrain with friends and family, I'd stay at the Nana Hotel as well.

A great family resort.

[Dapper]

The Nana Hotel is great for intelligent adults

[Topper]

Yes, if I wanted to be near the Skytrain with friends and family, I'd stay at the Nana Hotel as well.

A great family resort.

I'm guessing piss-take.....

[Seekingasylum]

I'm sure your prospective son-in-law will be greatly entertained by the knowledge the bed he will be lying in has been the repository for excess bodily fluids dribbled, ejaculated or just plain spouted by a thousand, sweating writhing bodies from every sleazy corner on the planet indulging in the complete spectrum of human sexual interaction, deviant or otherwise

Personally, I rather think sleeping on the toilet floor might be more hygienic.

I suppose one could play a game at guessing which of the more repulsive creatures one might see at breakfast with their transvestite whore had taken your room on a previous occasion.

Surely you don't think so poorly of your future son-in-law that you would inflict such squalor upon him on his first trip?

There is a very reasonable bijou hotel in Soi 8 which is very well run, clean and attracts a nice clientele of proper tourist couples from more civilised parts of the world - Sawasdee Hotel. It operates a buggy cart service to the BTS but the walking distance is only about 300 metres. It is modestly priced at around 1300 baht and located beyond the hurly - burly of lower Soi 8 and nestles quietly among the trees lining that part of the soi.

Breakfast is taken on the outside terrace and serves fresh unlimited coffee and the eggs are made to order.

Do yourselves a favour if you wish to exercise economy but desire proximity to the BTS.

[cyrille]

The Nana is the ideal location for us because of its proximity to the Skytrain.

If only there were hundreds of hotels near a sky train stop, eh?

It's always seemed a bit of a dump to me.

Seems a strange idea to stay there with the missus.

Unless reliving the past, of course.

[can123]

Unless reliving the past, of course.

We stayed there the night before we attended the British Embassy to get her fiance visa. One Thai hotel is pretty much like any other and we will only be there to sleep and to have breakfast.

Having suffered the near terminal boredom of staying in the Pratunam area, I am intent on staying somewhere where I can eat and drink and have lots of choice while they bugger off to Robinsons and places like that.

My wife is contemplating going to Future Park and Chatuchak on the Saturday and there is no way in this world that I am going to both.

I have to say that the really silly thing about this thread is that those who criticise the Nana have never stayed there. How fecking daft is that ?

[can123]

Yes, if I wanted to be near the Skytrain with friends and family, I'd stay at the Nana Hotel as well.

A great family resort.

I'm guessing piss-take.....

Yes, certainly, but who is taking the piss out of whom ?

[Fabian]

there are plenty of those very large thairung/isuzu taxis at the airport. they can take 4 and luggage easily and the fare is the same as a taxi.

Goode luck with that!

Had no problem this year, same price in the Isuzu as in a Corolla Taxi.

[Latindancer]

Trouble is : with some minibuses, people pay with their lives.

[DJ Pat]

One Thai hotel is pretty much like any other and we will only be there to sleep and to have breakfast.

Having suffered the near terminal boredom of staying in the Pratunam area, I am intent on staying somewhere where I can eat and drink and have lots of choice while they bugger off to Robinsons and places like that.

No offence mate, but I'd rather be bored in the Pratunam area. Walk over the bridge and you're by Central World or round the corner is Panthip.

I'd sooner take my son around to see computer & phone parts/dvds or browse a mall and see a film or bowling.
Central World has fine choices for dining and negotiating those streets around Nana is a real pain

Unless there's some ulterior motive you got while they're at Robinsons, which I hope not

[Horatio Hornblower]

Been waiting for Can's review of the Nana hotel,such a pleasant location.

[DJ Pat]

I reckon he's joking, surely....

[Horatio Hornblower]

nope he did a thread on it and said he was happy staying there.

Seems to be a regular theme on here how all the codgers live in a bygone era.

[beerlaodrinker]

I reckon he's joking, surely....

i was thinking same thing

[DJ Pat]

Well if he wants to stay there, fine. Maybe it's an area he's well familiar with and hasn't spend much time elsewhere in Bangkok.
At the Nana hotel you'll hardly be mingling with the premier league of tourists and I doubt you'd get a quiet night unless on a high floor.

Can't recommend any other hotels, stayed at the newly refurbished Dynasty in 2001 but I doubt it's as plush as those long gone days of condomless debauchery.

And, any minibus from Nana to Pattaya is likely to be an all male affair with the stench of stale booze.