Parking [at] the airport?

**Another Farang** · 20-07-2009, 04:45 PM

Folks,

I just got back from a visa run with my fiance, and couldnt help but wonder if having left my car parked at the airport while I was gone for 4 days would have made things easier for me.

Is this absurdly expensive? is it safe? Has anybody tried parking their cars in the enormous car park [at] the airport?

or are you better off paying the 700 baht taxi both ways?

On another note- As soon as we left customs we found that a great way to avoid being in line to be able to pay 50 baht to take a cab (great system huh!)
simply go up the electric escalator and leave the airport from the arrivals section, you should have no problem paying a metered taxi with no surcharge.

Ill be damned if they are gonna put up those stupid Internet kiosks with my 50 baht!

**Fondles** · 20-07-2009, 05:29 PM

Its 250b per day (24hrs) at the short term carpark.

**Bung** · 20-07-2009, 05:58 PM

I left my car for 12 days at the long term parking was about 1200B from memory. All good and there is a kid asleep in the booth at night so no chance of someone stealing your car. Gets left out in the sun/weather of course

**oldgit** · 20-07-2009, 06:36 PM

[quote=Another Farang;

On another note- As soon as we left customs we found that a great way to avoid being in line to be able to pay 50 baht to take a cab (great system huh!)
simply go up the electric escalator and leave the airport from the arrivals section, you should have no problem paying a metered taxi with no surcharge.

[/quote]

Did you mean the Departure entrance? the Arrival area is where the 50Baht desk is.

**Another Farang** · 20-07-2009, 08:38 PM

Thanks for the info guys

I stand corrected, I meant to say:
"leave from the departures entrance"

Have a good week folks

**rickda** · 20-07-2009, 11:47 PM

I always do that it is simply the best and cheapest way

**Whiteshiva** · 21-07-2009, 08:59 AM

I use the short term parking every time I am out of the country for less than a week or so. Saves me the trouble of queuing up for some old rusty wreck of a taxi, with a driver who doesn't know my area, and more than likely is either drunk, fatigued, high on yaba or possibly all three and blasting some crappy Thai music at full volume while driving like a suicidal madman down the highway.

Instead I'll just walk across to the parking building to my own car, throw the luggage in the trunk (which is not filled with some monster LPG tank), get in the seat (which isn't filthy/smelly) put on a proper functioning seat belt, some good music and be on my way back home.

250 baht a day - well worth the money, IMHO.

**Bung** · 21-07-2009, 09:49 AM

Yes, the hassle at long term is you need to get the shuttle bus with the locals and drive out to it which is a little pain after a flight. It's safe enough, you have to drive through security gates and show your ticket so take that with you, would be very hard for someone to nick your car. I found a spot under a little tree which kept the sun off it a bit and near the gate so they could see someone fooling with it.

Another pain is the bus only goes to some depot across the street from it then you need to change buses apparently, I just grabbed my bags and walked the 300m over to it. When you drop your car off there is a little bus stop right by the parking lot and a bus every 15 min or so.

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