I'll be changing €500/600 on arrival at BKK to cover my loom, taxi and my first night out. Is there much of a difference between the various kiosks? I don't want to spend time looking to save a few Baht. But I'd spend a few minutes to save a few hundred. Does it matter where I change my cash? Thanks.
Hitchhiking's more of a challenge on the road less travelled.
Depending on the amount being changed Joe it can soon add up to quite a reasonable difference - but if it's a one time thing just to get you out of the airport and away then it's probably not that critical - in general in swampy the desks DOWNSTAIRS are slightly better than those in the main arrivals hall ( apparently ?) - but surely all you need is your taxi money and the rest you can sort once you arrive ( which is usually better than the airport rates generally)
joe552 (August 5th, 2019)
Joe . if you need to change cash at bkk the best is super rich downstairs near the train station ,but i would advise just getting enough to pay for transport to pattaya,from the main dealers then go to the TT currency exchange when u arrive in pattaya ( yellow shops ), the best rates around. I am not sure where u are staying , but there are 2 about 50m from boys town on 2nd road each side of the road.Todays rate is 1euro gets u 34-18 bhtOriginally Posted by joe552
And Joe I'm sure you're aware of it already but if you're trying to save a few quid you know there's a bus goes straight from the airport to Patts now dont you - I think it was 190 baht from memory or there abouts ....
Better than that now , it must be the only thing going down in pattaya , i paid 135 bht in march , it goes between bkk and food mart in jomtiem if that is the one u mean
Another vote for the booths at the bottom of the airport at the train station...NOT the booths you pass on the way to Immigration.
Joe...after you are through EVERYTHING just keep going down the escalators until you get to the bottom floor. Its worth it. They give 2.5 baht more than the other booths which on £600 will get you an extra 1500 baht!!
I change everything in one go. Saves other visits to other booths which i hate doing!
I find they are exactly the same rate as TT. in Pattaya
Jellybean (August 6th, 2019), joe552 (August 5th, 2019), Nirish guy (August 5th, 2019)
Thanks all. I've the taxi already booked. 1000Bt. (recommended by Moses).
Hitchhiking's more of a challenge on the road less travelled.
Glad to see you have already received quite a few recommendations for the money exchange booths located downstairs, near the train station, at Suvarnabhumi Airport. And that you have now booked your taxi to Pattaya, joe552. I thought you wouldn’t mind if I went off topic and I inserted a post about earplugs for use during your flights to and from Thailand.
I don’t know if you have trouble sleeping aboard airplanes, or if you are one of the lucky ones who can easily fall asleep on departure and wake up refreshed on arrival. Today, while reading Gaybutton Thai forum, I noticed on The Rainbow Club Jomtien topic, a post by fountainhall about wax-based earplugs in which he said:
Link: https://gaybuttonthai.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=9913Not sure if anyone takes ear mufflers into a gogo bar with consistently loud music. I use these occasionally when travelling and they can be a godsend if you are stuck in a hotel with loud traffic outside or some other noise pollution. I don't mean the ones you get for overnight flights in aircraft in biz class which only reduce the drone of the engines. The ones I use can be purchased in boxes of 10 from Boots in the UK, are wax-based and mould themselves to your inner ear. They are amazingly effective. I recall Boots in Thailand used to sell them. Not sure if they still do.
You will have noted, fountainhall said they were available at Boots. I had not previously heard about them and, in all my years of travelling out to Thailand, I have relied on the not very effective memory foam (?) type earplugs given out by airlines.
At Boots today, I bought two packets of five Muffles Wax Earplugs at a cost of £2.69 (€2.92) per packet and will test them out on my flight to Thailand in January 2020. If you are troubled by loud noise in go-go bars or have trouble sleeping on airplanes and were not already aware of these earplugs, you (and of course any other of our members) might care to pop into Boots (other pharmacies are available) and buy the wax-based earplugs. As you will be going out to Thailand ahead of me, if you decide to buy them, perhaps you could let us know if they were effective.
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christianpfc (August 6th, 2019), joe552 (August 8th, 2019)
Definitely go all the way down to the airport rail link to change your money.
10 booths close together.
The busy ones probably have the best rates, so check the GBP rate there first, then see if any beat it.
There is usually a quiet kiosk further on which matches the best rate and has no queue.
I have used SuperRich green or a red kiosk on it's own to the right, both matching the best rate.
Brilliant point and I actually meant to post the same info after my last trip as I too invested in a good pair of ear plugs for my journeys and I can honestly say that it was the best money I've spent in YEARS ( when it comes to flying etc).
I wore ( a pairs of the item below) loads of times during my trip, both on the various planes I was on and elsewhere and they were INVALUABLE. There seemed to be screaming kids in every other aisle and also just noisy people generally everywhere (including unnecessary bloody flight announcements ) it seemed and they totally just blanked the whole lot instantly. I even wore them when just walking about the airport and to my gate etc and they just totally chilled me out as instead of the usual airport craziness I had almost total silence. ( One of the pleasures of travelling alone being that you dont have to endure listening to a travelling companion babbling on about nothing in particular when you want peace)
I too had tried the orange foam versions and while they're cheap and ok they're just "ok" as after a while they lose their shape and also then their so effectiveness ( and as they are throw away cheap I tend to misplace and loose the bloody things then when it seems i need them most too !). So I invested about £20 and bought the plug(s) below from a company called FLARE (https://www.flareaudio.com) you can also buy same on Amazon etc I see now too. But as I said the BEST money I've spent in ages and now I dont fly without them. I've slept and relaxed more on my past few flights when using these than perhaps ever before. So, needless to say I recommend both these products and using ear plugs on planes ( and in clubs! ) generally,
( This comes by the way from someone who suffers from hearing loss and tinnitus now from NOT wearing the likes of these when perhaps I should have in the past when going to too many noisy nightclubs in Thailand and elsewhere. Unfortunately I got the message about ear plugs too late for my hearing but thankfully , but these simple plugs got me a relaxed flight and a good sleep, so definitely well worth the £20 quid!)
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