From Bangkok Center To Samut Prakarn By Bus?

[khit]

Hi all,

Im going Bangkok next week, but I dont know how to go to Crocodile Farm (the cheap way, not by taxi )

Could u show me how to take bus to Crocodile farm in Samut Prakarn?

Many thanks!!!

[Thanyaburi Mac]

Hi all,

Im going Bangkok next week, but I dont know how to go to Crocodile Farm (the cheap way, not by taxi )

Could u show me how to take bus to Crocodile farm in Samut Prakarn?

Many thanks!!!

http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/bangkok_ad...odile_farm.html

Accessibility : By road 28 km. from Bangkok by Highway No. 3 about 30 min. drive.

By bus : Take a No. 8 or 11 air-con bus to Samut Prakan and then take a local minibus

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#11 runs on Sukumvit, forget where #8 runs.

Mac

[tartempion]

I did just that many moons ago by taking airco 11 (now 511) somewhere on Sukhumvit.

Tell the driver you go to Croc Farm, he will tell you where to get off the bus.

I went to Muang Boran (Old City) that way, problem was to find a songteaw going thete.

I highly recommend a visit to Muang Boran, take half day to visit the place, maybe combine both places?

[asanee]

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By bus : Take a No. 8 or 11 air-con bus to Samut Prakan and then take a local minibus

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#11 runs on Sukumvit, forget where #8 runs.

Mac

This is advice from the last century: since around 2000 all the former AC-nr lines have been renumbered into the 500 series: thus its 508 and 511. Pak nam (=the common Thai name for the main town where all those buses end) has MANY more busroutes.

The poster should have said where s/he was staying in BKk as this determines a lot. Also note that on the 508 MOST buses do not go all the way anymore, this is only noted on some Thai sign on the bus.

However there is just 1 BMTA bus that ENDS at the parking lot beside said croco-farm (farm charakhee in thai): the nr 536, AC, starts at Mochit Busstation, runs via Victory Monument, then Pratunam, on the Expressway, ands at bang na and the only and now VERY clogged up main road into SamRong-Pak Nam, then ends, as said.

Other buses to pak nam(note that to travel by bus all along Sukhumvit or ramIV can take VERY long time): 25, 507, 554A(from airport!!), 102, 142, 365.

Ive always thought that knowledgeable expats etc are mainly on this site, but am quite disappointed as to how they give advice re buses (mostly by simply telling: take taxi): sending people first to old Don MUang from the city, to catch a minibus from there is like sending 1 from London to Stansted; as there is where direct bues to Gatwick start!

[khit]

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By bus : Take a No. 8 or 11 air-con bus to Samut Prakan and then take a local minibus

xxxxxxxxxxx

#11 runs on Sukumvit, forget where #8 runs.

Mac

This is advice from the last century: since around 2000 all the former AC-nr lines have been renumbered into the 500 series: thus its 508 and 511. Pak nam (=the common Thai name for the main town where all those buses end) has MANY more busroutes.

The poster should have said where s/he was staying in BKk as this determines a lot. Also note that on the 508 MOST buses do not go all the way anymore, this is only noted on some Thai sign on the bus.

However there is just 1 BMTA bus that ENDS at the parking lot beside said croco-farm (farm charakhee in thai): the nr 536, AC, starts at Mochit Busstation, runs via Victory Monument, then Pratunam, on the Expressway, ands at bang na and the only and now VERY clogged up main road into SamRong-Pak Nam, then ends, as said.

Other buses to pak nam(note that to travel by bus all along Sukhumvit or ramIV can take VERY long time): 25, 507, 554A(from airport!!), 102, 142, 365.

Ive always thought that knowledgeable expats etc are mainly on this site, but am quite disappointed as to how they give advice re buses (mostly by simply telling: take taxi): sending people first to old Don MUang from the city, to catch a minibus from there is like sending 1 from London to Stansted; as there is where direct bues to Gatwick start!

Many thanks for your information!!!

I'll stay in Chinatown, then I'll have to take taxi to Bus station at Mochit.

[asanee]

NO, you do NOT need to go to Mochit, as this is quite far out of town. in fact, in BKK: do NEVER take taxi+bus, in that case simply use taxi all the way: it wont cost that much, actually normal full-fare busfares in towns like London or Paris for same distance are even more as a taxi on the meter in BKK.

FROm Ch-tiown (which also is quite spread out and has VERY big traffic jams: take bus 73 to Pratunam (=just AFTER the stop at World trade centre), then get off, and find stop for the 536 just after the Pratunam Centre.

[leisurely]

I've got a much better idea. Don't go to the crocodile farm, it is depressing, smelly and expensive. Just go to muang Boran, interesting, attractive and much less malodorous!

[milesm]

i agree--it's double-pricing at its best. i'm pretty sure thais pay less than 100 baht; i paid 500 a couple of years ago.