Are there designated Smart Bus stops in Rawai or can it be flagged down anywhere?

 

Hi Chainsaw.

 

Yes there are designated stops, but not set in stone.  My experience with Smart Bus, they will pull over if you flag them down. I have seen this multiple times between Kamala and Patong.

 

Good luck

Go to Rawai Pier. That's where it's starts it's route and finishes it. 

There is an app somewhere on the web so you can track the buses. They are quite happily doing pickups and drop off on request these days.

 

To the disappointment of some they are getting quite popular and over the past few weeks I have seen quite a few standing room only (no doubt some will even complain about that!)

Does anyone lnow if they accept the exact fare in cash?

1 hour ago, Mysterion said:

Does anyone lnow if they accept the exact fare in cash?

 

Some sort of prepay card only. You can buy the card on the bus.

You can buy a rabbit card on the bus and there are several locations around the island where you can purchase them or top up, although it seems you can't top up at the card purchase point or vice versa.

 

The card is 300 Baht. 100 for the card which is good for a few years and comes topped up with 200 Baht.

Read The “PAYMENT” section carefully. It's all on their website at

 

https://phuketsmartbus.com/

 

You can track and get timetables at

 

https://phuket.cloud/bus/

 

Thanks everyone. Very helpful.

 

1 hour ago, LivinginKata said:

 

Some sort of prepay card only. You can buy the card on the bus.

Some guy on trip advisor recently said they he paid the fare with cash. Just dropped the cash in a box next to driver.

2 hours ago, Mysterion said:

Some guy on trip advisor recently said they he paid the fare with cash. Just dropped the cash in a box next to driver.

 

Expect driver position monitored by camera. Driver might be in trouble if this really happened.

On 1/11/2019 at 2:26 PM, LivinginKata said:

 

Some sort of prepay card only. You can buy the card on the bus.

NOT true;

u can pay 170 baht which is the MOST charged>
I had to pay that one way Kamala-airport cause they didn't have any cards to sell.