Anyone know f the Pattaya to Ekkamai bus is running?   If so, would you happen to now the schedule?

 

The Jomtien to Suvarnaphumi bus is not running this month.

i saw a post somewhere that it is running but at a reduced schedule, not the usual every hour or whatever it was before.

@shortstop2 Much reduced service. Only five times a day. Scroll down on the Pattaya bus site front page. Here's the link:

 

https://pattayabus.com

3 minutes ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

Much reduced service. Only five times a day. Scroll down on the Pattaya bus site. Here's the link:

 

https://pattayabus.com

5x a day is still not too bad.

27 minutes ago, shdmn said:

5x a day is still not too bad.

I see if one turns up not long before departure, and the bus is full, you will be sitting around usually for 3 hours.  So get there early I expect.

27 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I see if one turns up not long before departure, and the bus is full, you will be sitting around usually for 3 hours.  So get there early I expect.

Indeed. 

And (at least in the past) that bus terminal doesn't allow pre-purchase of tickets the day before travel.

 

This day and age, and given "the situation" one might be wiser to endure the cost of a door-to-door taxi.

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

I see if one turns up not long before departure, and the bus is full, you will be sitting around usually for 3 hours.  So get there early I expect.

I'd do two things; go to the bus station the day before intended travel and ask if it's possible to buy a ticket and if not I'd show up the day of travel early early in the morning and purchase a ticket for later in the day. 

28 minutes ago, bbko said:

I'd do two things; go to the bus station the day before intended travel and ask if it's possible to buy a ticket and if not I'd show up the day of travel early early in the morning and purchase a ticket for later in the day. 

They used to only issue tickets for the next available bus. Sometimes the wrong one......

9 hours ago, jacko45k said:

I see if one turns up not long before departure, and the bus is full, you will be sitting around usually for 3 hours.  So get there early I expect.

Then they would add more buses.  That's kind of the whole reason there are fewer buses in the first place.

12 hours ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

@shortstop2 Much reduced service. Only five times a day. Scroll down on the Pattaya bus site front page. Here's the link:

 

https://pattayabus.com

Ekkamai – Pattaya

DEPARTURE TIMES

09:00 – 11:00 – 13:00 – 15:00 – 17:00

Bus fare 119 baht per seat

 

 

• Pattaya – Ekkamai

  DEPARTURE TIMES

  06:00 – 09:00 – 12:00 – 15:00 – 17:00

  Bus fare 119 baht per seat

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9 hours ago, shdmn said:

Then they would add more buses.  That's kind of the whole reason there are fewer buses in the first place.

Yes I expect they would, if they had the customers.... but I don't expect they would put one on for one or two passengers. I suspect the timetable will react to supply and demand.