Booking For Government Buses

[asanee]

Just to inform you-as I very recently saw ads for this on taxi's and signs at the hypermarket concerned:

Online booking for long-distance ''government'' buses (Borisat KonSong) is now possible using the

TTM= Thaiticketmajor.com site. I did not try it out, so O do not know what kind of cards they take or how lang advance is possible. Fairly often there are Qs here from panicking freaked out people who want to ''be sure'' for their holidays 8-9 month advance-thats makes no sense at all.

Also-as this site is more often used to buy tickets for all kinds of concerts, venues etc. at TescoLotus it is also possible to do the same-assuming you can communicate your wish to the salespeople (at info desk only-no need to que up at normal tills). There is a 20 bt servicecharge. Do not know if ALL shops offer it, but this seems reasonably to assume.

And once more, as in this TV site ill-informed parrotting seems the norm;

the BoKoSo ONLY runs part of the 100s of buslines from BKK to upcountry. Even on the routes they serve, there will also be numerous other private companies. In fact on most routes they simply share-like airlines do as codeshare. The BoKoSo stands out in 2 particular types of bus:

the 99 basic service, which now is driver only-no conductor and ONLY has advance sale and thus only stops at designated stops, where tickets can also be bought in a nearby shop.

The 999 premium service, purple coloured buses, mostly 2+1 seating as bisnis in planes and with full service. The tipical half naked tattooed farang should be aware, that the hi-so Thai people using these buses often complain about farang onboard )behind their back-and in Thai) and there have been many cases where they have been told ''sold out'' even when not. This is also Thailand-part of.