Getting around Bangkok - Bangkok - General Tips & Advice Reviews

There are several ways of getting around Bangkok - the BTS (sky train and metro), taxi's, buses (air con and non air con) tuk tuks (3 wheeled motor vehicles) river boats and motorbike taxi's (hair raising) or if you have loads of time on your hands, the patience of saint you can hire a car and drive yourself - not recommended.

If your destination and starting point are reasonably close, the BTS system is great, its cheap, fast, clean and safe. Failing that a taxi is the next best bet, or a combination of both. Air con buses run along major routes, are also cheap but be prepared to spned some time looking out the window while stuck in traffic, I don't recommend the non-air con buses, although they are really cheap, they are usually very crowded, and very hot. Tuk tuk's are an experience you may want to forget, the drivers seem to think they are motorcycle dispatch riders on an emergancy mission, also may of the english speaking drivers specialise in one or more of the tourist scams. River boats run along the Chao Phraya and along the network of klongs (canals) that criss-cross Bangkok, they are cheap, fast and good way to get about if a handy river or klong runs near your route