From Khao San Road in Bangkok, is there a bus I can take to get to the following places?

Question

1. The Suvarnbhumi airport

2. Siam Center/MBK

3. Chatuchak market

I am travelling alone and i find the organized tours pretty expensive for my budget. so any other travelling tips would be much welcome. I am staying on Rambuttri road.

Answer 1

Shuvanabhum airport....

Take 511 drop in sukumvit road anywhere ( 18 baht) and take 522 around 35 baht.

To siam square take 48 non-aircon (8 baht) it's around 1 hour ride.

And jatujak take 503 or 505 around 21 baht.

Look for Burgerking ...walk to the street way and take the bus from there.

GOod luck :)

Answer 2

I can't help  you much but tell you don't even try to walk from Khao San road to Siam Center it is a good distance and with the weather as hot as it is I wouldn't try it.  Also bus numbers with two or three digits can be air or non air, the number doesn't mean anything and cost is between 12 up to 26 baht depending on distance your traveling.  I'm not sure about what bus to take, some buses have route printed on the side of the bus but in most cases it's in Thai and not English.  You could take a taxi to the National Stadium/MBK Skytrain station  Siam Center is just down the road, and JJ's is the last stop on the Sukmivit line at Mochit Station.  Or take a taxi to the Train Station at Hua lamphong and the subway is just next to it and take that to JJ's then the skytrain back to Siam Center or MBK.

Great answer Marine, I didn't know 15 when past Khao San.  Taken 15 many times but never more then The Mall Tha Phra to MBK.

Answer 3

There is a bus that takes you to the airport called the airport bus.

Siam Center / MBK try walking it. It really isn't that far.

Chatuchak Market get the underground at Chinatown stop take it to Mochit and it is near there.

When I used to be on a budget I bought a map that included all the busses for Bangkok this is not only Bangkok toursit centre but included DMK (old Bangkok airport) also. You get it for Asia Books it will be so invaluable to use. you can follow the numbers of the busses from the map then you just look out for the numbers to get. Air Con busses are generally 3 digits eg 522 etc.. and non air Con 2 digits eg 65

Air conn busses costs about 16 to 25 baht and non air con about 6 to 10 baht.

Answer 4

Other people have given good advice, I would add that 2 of the nicest ways of traveling in BKK are the river- busses (for lack of a better name), they stop at a pier about a 5 minute walk from the North West end of Koh San Rd.  You can take that to to the Taksin bridge where it meets the end of a Skytrain line. (The other nice ride), take it to the National Stadium stop which is next to MBK and the Siam center shoping malls. The Skytrain can also connect you to Chatachuck Market and the Night Market (Saladang Station)

There is a great little map of Bangkok, "Nancy Chandler's Map of Bangkok", It shows both the well known and unusual  things in the city, it even has a layout of Chatuchak market.

Answer 5

there are buses going to all of those places, but the bus system in BKK is pretty much only understood by people living there, and they are normally Thai people.  

A metered taxi to MBK should cost a little over 100B, to Chatuchak, around 200, and there are many shared minibuses going to Suvanbhumi, which isn't really that overpriced, just shop around on Koh Sahn travel agencies.  .

One thing to remember about Koh Sahn, is to walk away from the ends where the taxi vultures are and hail a cab on the main road one block away.  Both ends of Koh Sahn, which you may be aware, is loaded with some of the most unscrupulous characters in all of Thailand who are known to at the minimum not use the meter, at the worst take you somewhere other than where you asked to go.  

In my 4 years of living in Thailand, it has almost always been my experience that you are going to pay more for nearly everything on Koh Sahn than at other places like Silom and Sukhumvit.  

But Koh Sahn has such a great feel and nightlife to it, therefore people still flock to it in droves.

Have a good time and never sit down in a taxi until you have first agreed that the driver is going to use the meter.

you can say "buurt meter mai krab" (if you are a man, end the sentence in "ka" if you are a woman.  If the driver says "chai" or "khrab" that means he is going to use the meter.. if not, find another cab.  However, the rules all change when it is raining.  Funny country this is, sometimes.

Good luck!

Answer 6

1. Airport Express No AE2 Banglumpoo (Khao San) to BKK 150baht

2. Red Bus 15 will take you from Khao San Road to Siam Square.

3. Red Bus 3, Khao San Road to Mo Chit (the Northern Bus Terminal) about 7 baht (Next to the weekend market).  Get a tuktuk for about 30 baht at mo chit.  You could also take the15 bus then take the BTS Siam to Mo Chit and you would end up right outside the market.