Coming up close to a year when Bangkok's new airport opened . . . to howls of criticism (on this Board, and many other places as well) whined on about the lack of washrooms, lousy aircon, incredibily long walks between points 'A' and 'B', and miles of designer duty free shopsn but not a cup of coffee to be found.

The amateur bitch sessions then gave way to more professional misgivings . . . as airport runways began immediately cracking, all kinds of inferior building materials were uncovered, graft apparently run rife, and old airports re-opened to pick up the slack.


But there has been hardly a sound from anyone here about Suvarnabhumi in a very long time, and I was wondering what the impression is now ~ 10 months on. As I have not yet landed there, I'd very much like to hear latest impressions of how the new airport has fixed any of the smaller issues which a traveller would notice. Or, has anyone read any progress reports of how the reconstruction program is going.


Athough I don't touch down there until November, these cool little YouTube videos of life at Suvarnabhumi are kind of neat to watch, and in a small way help pave my road to Thailand (and my old man) once again.



Taxi-ing into the airport. Not much happening except it sounds like someone on board has a live chicken in their carry-on. Kind of like the local bus between Loei and Si Chiang Mai :blackeye: ~ TiT!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UapmQncz3FM&mode=related&search=[/youtube]


Tourist Board style video (Aussie accent commentatary), but gets my salivation going for November when the landing this time will be at Suvarnabhumi. Can't wait.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJjYlkTPFo&mode=related&search=[/youtube]


A night landing at Suvarnabhumi:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98b2iEGc9Oc[/youtube]


Cheers ...

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