Getting around · 01 of 8
Airports & arrival
Which airport you land at changes everything that happens next.
Information changes. Times, prices and ways of doing things are a guide only.
Bangkok has two, and they are 50 km apart:
- Suvarnabhumi (BKK) — almost all long-haul, including every routing from Sofia. Connected to the city by the Airport Rail Link.
- Don Mueang (DMK) — low-cost and most domestic flights. No rail link; taxi or bus only.
Allow three hours if you have to change between them, and never book a self-transfer with less. They are separate airports on opposite sides of a city with serious traffic, and a missed connection between them is not the airline's problem.
Other airports you may land at: Phuket (HKT), Chiang Mai (CNX), Koh Samui (USM), Krabi (KBV) and U-Tapao (UTP), which serves Pattaya.
Before you join the taxi queue: file your TDAC, have your hotel address written down, and ignore anyone who approaches you inside the terminal offering a ride. The official taxi rank is outside, downstairs, and it is metered.