Does anyone know if it's easy to catch buses to Bangkok? (I'm in Chiang Mai)

 

I'll book a flight and travel down to Bangkok if the cabinet don't talk about amnesty tomorrow.

11 minutes ago, finy said:

Does anyone know if it's easy to catch buses to Bangkok? (I'm in Chiang Mai)

 

I'll book a flight and travel down to Bangkok if the cabinet don't talk about amnesty tomorrow.

Easy. This is the best bus service(Full recline, Food, and Wifi) ==> https://www2.nakhonchaiair.com/view/

Why BK?  You can't extend in CM?

Edited September 21, 20205 yr by audaciousnomad

14 minutes ago, finy said:

Does anyone know if it's easy to catch buses to Bangkok? (I'm in Chiang Mai)

 

I'll book a flight and travel down to Bangkok if the cabinet don't talk about amnesty tomorrow.

Buses are never that difficult. The train with a sleeper can be difficult to book at short notice. Flights are usually expensive when booked at the last moment.

24 minutes ago, audaciousnomad said:

Easy. This is the best bus service(Full recline, Food, and Wifi) ==> https://www2.nakhonchaiair.com/view/

Why BK?  You can't extend in CM?

Airport.

 

12 minutes ago, BritTim said:

Buses are never that difficult. The train with a sleeper can be difficult to book at short notice. Flights are usually expensive when booked at the last moment.

Yeah, just wasn't sure because of coronavirus.

 

In the past there were millions of options between CM and BKK daily.

 

I don't even know if social distancing is still in play.

2 minutes ago, finy said:

Airport.

 

Yeah, just wasn't sure because of coronavirus.

 

In the past there were millions of options between CM and BKK daily.

 

I don't even know if social distancing is still in play.

Hope you get sorted and don't get forced to fly out. Good luck!

Edited September 21, 20205 yr by audaciousnomad

6 hours ago, finy said:

I don't even know if social distancing is still in play.

I have been on inter provincial buses in the last few days, and there is no social distancing being enforced. Masks are mandatory.

An airport bus leaves regularly but most people take the Rapid Transit System/ MRT which has non stop over ground and under ground trains so why would anyone use a bus? The trains come and go every 10 minutes.

1 hour ago, Nout said:

An airport bus leaves regularly but most people take the Rapid Transit System/ MRT which has non stop over ground and under ground trains so why would anyone use a bus? The trains come and go every 10 minutes.

I wish you told me years ago about the MRT link to Chiang Mai and would have saved me loads of trouble.  

How fast can you run?

But what do you do after you catch one

Its way too big to keep in a condo  

I know some farang are doing it tough right now,  but catching a bus !

12 hours ago, Nout said:

An airport bus leaves regularly but most people take the Rapid Transit System/ MRT which has non stop over ground and under ground trains so why would anyone use a bus? The trains come and go every 10 minutes.

CM to Bkk every ten minutes?

20 hours ago, finy said:

Does anyone know if it's easy to catch buses to Bangkok? (I'm in Chiang Mai)

 

Are you asking about riding local buses once you've already arrived to BKK? Or, about buses that will take you from CM to BKK...  Two entirely different things.

 

Are they letting dirty covid ridden foreigners back on the buses now then?

2 hours ago, KhaoYai said:

Are they letting dirty covid ridden foreigners back on the buses now then?

This line is really getting old now.  

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

On 9/22/2020 at 1:00 AM, BritTim said:

I have been on inter provincial buses in the last few days, and there is no social distancing being enforced. Masks are mandatory.

There was even a DLT checkpoint near Ratchaburi, the other night.  A peasant family scrambled to put on their masks.  They boarded, and did a visual check..that was it.  Totally different than typical police/border patrol checkpoints around Chiang Rai.  

21 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

This line is really getting old now.  

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

 

I haven't heard anything to the contrary. Last I heard some bus companies had banned foreigners as had some of the bigger temples in Bangkok.  According to my Mrs the government have portayed foreigners as the devil when it comes to Covid and a good % the public are firmly 'anti farang'. So it may be an old line but to the best of my knowledge, its still current.