How to take the Airport Rail Link from Suvarnabhumi?

Airport Rail Link (Suvarnabhumi - downtown Bangkok)

As its name suggests, the Airport Rail Link (ARL) is a train line connecting downtown Bangkok to the city's main airport, Suvarnabhumi Airport. Air-conditioned and reliable, it gets you there without the hazards of Bangkok's heavy traffic, for about a tenth of the price of a taxi. The City Line runs between Phaya Thai (connected to the BTS Skytrain) and Suvarnabhumi (45 THB for the full journey). The Airport Rail Link's own red tokens can be bought from vending machines or ticket booths. The machines display a map of the line: after switching the language to English if necessary, touch your destination station on the screen, select the number of passengers and pay. At the end of your journey, the exit gate swallows your token to recycle it (so don't lose it). There is also an information counter at every ARL station.

The Airport Rail Link connects with the MRT Blue Line at Makkasan station (Phetchaburi MRT station), with the MRT Yellow Line at Hua Mak station and with the BTS Skytrain at Phaya Thai station. It also connects with the Khlong Saen Saep boats at Ramkhamhaeng station (Ramkhamhaeng 1 pier). You can also change directly to mainline trains at Lat Krabang and Hua Mak, which are stations on the Eastern railway line.

The trip from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Phaya Thai takes 30-40 minutes.

Airport Rail Link map

Bangkok Skytrain

Bangkok's Skytrain is called the BTS. Its air-conditioned trains glide above the capital's heavy traffic. It doesn't go everywhere, but combined with the Chao Phraya Express boats, it takes you to Bangkok's major temples.

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Chao Phraya Express

The Chao Phraya Express boats run regularly along the river that flows through Bangkok and stop near all the monuments and sights on its banks, including Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho and Wat Arun, the three must-see temples in Bangkok. Fares are cheap.

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Bangkok bus lines

The bus is clearly neither the easiest nor the fastest way for a foreign tourist to get around Bangkok, but it is the cheapest. The network is huge and you can go almost anywhere – you just need to be patient.

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Transport in Bangkok

So far the only Thai city with a metro (a project is planned in Phuket), Bangkok offers the widest choice of public and private transport in Thailand (metro, buses, boats, tuk-tuks...). No, there's more than tuk-tuks and pink taxis to get around Bangkok!

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