"Tchiowa" wrote in message
news:1174819409.640617.250030@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> On Mar 24, 9:39 pm, "maxwell" wrote:
> > "hummingbird" wrote ...> On 24 Mar 2007 03:19:09 -0700 'Tchiowa'
> > > posted this onto rec.travel.air:
FIRST PARAGRAPH:
> > > >I've flown in and out of the new airport a couple of times
domestically. My wife and I just returned from my first international trip
using Suvarnabhumi instead of Don Muang.
That's a RETURN. (noted WRT downpage detritus)
> > > >First the good. All of the whining and complaining about the new
airport appears to be just the standard "growing pains".
> >
> > Righto--while 'tchiowa' finding something to whine and complain about is
something different ;~)
> >
> > > Check in on departure was fast. The airport fee is now included in the
ticketprice so that delay is gone.
> >
> > Umm, yes, and that's nothing that could not have been done at Don Muang.
>
> But it wasn't, was it?
Immaterial. Fact is that as it's something that happened under the current
regime, your intentional ignorance is noted.
>Or did you come to Thailand so rarely that you had forgotten that?
You have a reading comprehension and/or logic deficiency problem?
""nothing that could not have been done at Don Muang."" directly implies it
was not done at Don Muang.
. .now weasel away from that . .
> > > Immigration was standard for Thailand (slow).
> >
> > I had scant little delay--under 5 minutes.
> > Waitaminit--downpage here 'tchiowa' is saying Immigration line so
that only took a few minutes.
> > Let me guess--it must be a reading deficiency, and not 'tchiowa'
contradicting self in the post ;~)
>
> Reading Comprehension 101. First paragraph was *specifically* about
departures.
LOL !
Go scroll back up.
Been drinking or just blinded by hunger?
> Later down was *specifically* about arrivals. Different Immigration
process. Or is this yet another of the things you don't understand?
>
> > > I flew Singapore Air. They don't have their own lounge as they did in
Don Muang but the Thai Airways lounge is top drawer.
> >
> > > >On arrival the landing was smooth. I didn't see the rough tarmac that
people had complained about. Taxiing was actually smoother than Changi. 5
minute walk to Immigration (lucked out on that one). Only 4 people in front
of me at the Immigration line so that only took a few minutes. Checked
luggage was a bit slow but not bad.
> >
> > The wait for baggage to arrive on the belt from the Cathay flight I took
in from HK was _much_ longer than Cathay to Don Muang. (or Delta, Northwest,
ANA, Thai, Japan, or EVA to Don Muang).
> >
> > > >Then came the bad. There are so many taxi touts that it is difficult
to walk through the terminal. Several tried to escort us.
> >
> > I found simply shaking my head and declaring "Mai ao !" while smiling
more than sufficed to repel taxi touts.
>
> "Mai ao krap" would have been better.
If I'd wanted to be formally polite to touts who got in my face I'd have
included the particle--which I did at times, though always the smile. Funny
how smiles given get smiles back--you must be quite the dour John by
comparison. Thanks for stating the obvious ;~)
> > > A couple tried to take our bags off the cart to "be helpful".
> >
> > Surprising! Does 'tchiowa' look particularly timid? ;~)
>
> Apparently they thought I looked like I could afford to pay for a taxi.
You apparently looked different.
LOL ! VERY hungry !
> > > Out the door and the closest road is reserved for taxis and limos. We
had to walk to the center divider to the second road so that my driver could
meet us.
> > Umm, that's how many meters compared to the hundreds of meters in from
the gates?
> Read above. No "hundreds of meters" involved from the gates.
from my first international trip
LOL !
Were you unconscious and taken off the plane in a wheelchair? ;~)
> And that's irrelevant.
LMAO! Now the lord of ambulatory whining declares one part of the arrival
passage from plane irrelevant--the LONGEST part, so that it can 'justify'
crying about an ENTIRE crossing of a lane in the road!
Were this not so pedestrian (yah, two meanings ;~) it might almost be funny.
>The additional walk and pushing a cart through to the center area is simply
unnecessary.
Poor dear.
I found that the FAR better access from parking than at Don Muang made an
easy short haul from the elevator (up to 4th level) and across to my inlaws'
auto when arriving internationally. Sorry (not) that no one meets you when
you arrive (who isn't needing money in hand for the experience), but that's
not surprising.
> > > >AOT needs to deal with the taxi tout situation. It's a whole bunch
worse than Don Muang.
> >
> > Don Muang was more annoyingly 'touted up' in my experience.
>
> "Experience"? One visit every other year doesn't really add up to a whole
lot of "experience".
I've previously offered the wager you've ignored.
> And the gauntlet of taxi touts is much longer at Suvarnabhumi.
>
> > > But other than that the experience at Suvarnabhumi was actually better
than it usually was at DM.
> >
> > > There's been a lot of recent press comment in Asia about the new
airport's problems ...cracks in the runways, taxiways and poor water
drainage etc and I believe it must be true, although I didn't actually see
> > > any of it when I landed domestically 16th Feb and left 20th Feb.
> >
> > Apparently 'tchiowa' did not sit in the pilot's cabin ;~)
>
> Cracks in the runway can be felt as you taxi over them.
Nonsense. LARGE cracks could be felt, as can ripples in the tarmac.
>Weren't you aware of that? Or don't you have enough "experience" to realize
that?
You're so very hungry. ;~)
> > > catch the Airport Express 1 coach to Silom. The signage to the AE is
not clear at all and it took me 20mins to find it. I shouldn't have bothered
because that was a poor experience and I won't using it again.
> >
> > We saw (or rather, passed by) that coach (or a similar one--on bottom
level 1) on the way to the free shuttle to the public bus terminal--it
looked like a poor way to spend a large bus fare, especially as the public
buses are clean and spacious, and run frequently from the bus terminal.
> 5555555555 "Free"? I guess that's why the taxi touts didn't go after you.
You look like someone looking for something for "free".
A desperate thing, you, and one whose actual commingling with Thai is
apparently limited to those you hire for service. Returning from Hat Yai
(Air Asia) we enjoyed seeing my wife's niece off on her bus from the public
terminal, and then took ours to Nonthaburi (the bus continues on to
Rangsit), from which we cabbed out to Bang Bua Thong. ALL of your inlaws are
up on the plateau, is that the deal?
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