Penang Hat Yai Chumphon Bangkok Pattaya Jomtien

**dirtydog** · 13-10-2007, 12:37 AM

This is also known as Bangkoks Eastern Terminal, as bus stations go this one is pretty scummy, has loads of buses going all over Thailand, but if your just turning up in Bangkok the taxi scum will be all over you offering you the best deals in Thailand, just ignore them and walk outside and get a meter taxi, you aint gonna get any sort of deal from these guys and will probably be charged treble for a journey in a 20 year old Skoda from this lot.

Anyway the coffee is ok and they do sell beer

**Marmite the Dog** · 13-10-2007, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by dirtydog

you can get a bus to Ekamai Bus Station, actually not sure which side of the road you need to be on to get to the bus station but you can ask at the train station, or of course if your a bit hung over and just had enough of travelling you can nip out to the right and get a nice meter taxi

Or just use the nice train system they have in Bangkok.

Hualampong to Sukhumvit on the MRT, then Asoke to Ekamai on the BTS.

**dirtydog** · 13-10-2007, 12:53 AM

So we got to go a bit further, dawn has broken, the hangover is still there, your in a smelly bus station in Bangkok and you want to go to Pattaya, you got 2 choices at least, the bus to Pattaya goes to the station in North Pattaya Road, now if your German and want to travel onto Naklua this is for you, if your any other nationality then this probably aint for you, the bus to Pattaya is probably about 110baht but your stuck at that bus station with the rip off merchants who will if given the chance take your life savings.

So here we go on the bus to Sattahip, maybe an extra 10baht but it goes past Pattaya Center Road and South Pattaya Road etc and you can ask to be dropped off at the lights anywhere along Sukhumvit and get a normal taxi driver who doesn't decide on the price depending on the bulge in your wallet.

**dirtydog** · 13-10-2007, 12:54 AM

^^Ahhh, I have to admit I know nothing about these new fangled things, nor was I going to find out at that time of the morning

**CharleyFarley** · 13-10-2007, 02:38 AM

The only way I coped with bus travel here was a hip flask and BYO beer.
That train must have been pretty bad to cough up 100 Baht per Chang.

**Jet Gorgon** · 14-10-2007, 03:38 AM

^ Usually get beer, BBQ chicken and sticky rice through the window at a major station stop, no?...but can't beat the dining car for laughs.

**dirtydog** · 20-10-2007, 11:56 PM

Time to get to the important stuff and toilets on Thai trains, now I assume most people aint a fan of these but when needs be you may have to use them.

This first picture is on the Chumphon to Bangkok train in the 3rd class carriage, it would take a better man than me to be able to have a poo in that while the train is moving along, I only went in to take the picture, this being not a local train it didn't smell so bad, so maybe the more upmarket Thais have a better aim than they do on the local trains.

At least this one has toilet paper in the aircon section.

A quick video of the smoking room on the train from Hat Yai to Chumphon.

**RickThai** · 10-04-2012, 04:34 AM

Great!

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