Your Travel Guide to Thailand
All information & tips to prepare your trip in Thailand
But outside Bangkok and its vicinities, where taximeters in circulation are very numérous, taxis are more there to be ordered when needed. Most of the time, the reception of your hotel will do it for you on request and it's better because all taxi drivers do not speak English. But there are also smartphone applications that allow you to order taxis or even cars or vans with dirver. They are practical and more and more tourist use those apps when traveling in Thailand.
For the capital, check the page about strong>taxis and mobility apps in Bangkok.
Here is the last known list of destinations in Thailand where Grab is available:
Website: www.grab.co
Other applications like Bolt are also availalbe in Thailand. But BOLT can only be used, that in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Pattaya. Bolt is generally, for the same journey, a little cheaper than Grab.
There are other apps in Thailand like inDrive which works in the same cities as Bolt.
The Bangkok Skytrain is called BTS. The trains have air condition and let you go over the heavy road traffic in the capital but you can not go everywhere even if connected to the Chao Phraya Express baots, it can let you go to major temples in Bangkok.
The Chao Phraya Express boats run regularly on the river running through Bangkok. They go to all monuments and interesting places on the river shores including Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Pho and Wat Arun, the three must see temples in Bangkok. Fare is cheap.
Taking the bus to get around is clearly not the easiest mean of transportation to use for a foreign tourist in Bangkok neither the fastest one but it's the cheapest one. Bangkok bus network is wide and you can go almost anywhere but just need to be patient.
Only Thai city for the moment to have a metro (there is metro project in Phuket), Bangkok is the city in Thailand that offers more choices of public or individual transport (metro, bus, boats, tuktuks...). No, there are not just tuk-tuks and pink taxis to get around Bangkok !