If I stay near the Ramkhamhaeng Airport train station but taking a night departure flight, I am thinking of making a visit to Samut Prakan for the Ancient City & Erawan Museum after checkout in the morning and head straight to the airport after that. Is it feasible ? The trouble is the luggage and the timing.

Is the Erawan Museum and Ancient City nearer to the airport or Ramkhahaeng Station ?

Engaging a taxi for the day is convenient but it will cost me about 2500 bahts, each trip may probably cost just round 200 bahts(correct me if wrong).

A dilemma, please advise.

of course this is feasible-the daft easy solution is to simply leave the luggage at that HTL (but read answer to other Q of you) and then take a taxi and go sightsee. Even you would be able to think that ARL would swish you into the airpt in some 20 mns after.

It will not save any time=well, maybe 5 mins. by dumping the stuff at pak Nam (=the common name anyone refers to the TOWN-the province is named Smt Prakarn) and then go to aiport-due to how roads lay. AND you seem to have the tipical midnight flite to EUR=be at airpt by 22.00-lkvr HTL by 21.22.

Along RKH is also bus 545 - anew yellow AC-that can bring you as far as Sam Rong-but it will take ages (via Ekemai-Sukhumvit etc.)

The better way is-again assuming you stay NASA-take 1 stop ARL to Hua Mahk-then walk back and stay same side of the jighway and via that wayofhell ends PakNam TOWN, Then hire a tuktuk to those places. There is also a crocodilefarm among them. As you need 1 hr for Erawan, 3-4 hrs for Boran TH and maybe 1 hr -if liked-for the sarakee =crocks, add 1 hr for travels in between, you are finished mid-afternn and have some 8 hrs to spend before you need to go airpt. I do not see your prob.

Also: you would not need a taxi for the day-just for half a day and thats much less as 2500. Anyway-taxis do mostly halfdayshifts. That 2500 is for a HTL-arranged private luxury car. Choice is up to you.

The Paknam family of TH-websites (google will find them) is run be a very helpful resident from there and has blogs on all those places-also google bangkokdaytrips for more info. He does not like buses.

asanee,

Thank you very much for those helpful info but pardon me for my poor English(I am a Chinese), I need to clarify with you... just to confirm....

Do you mean that after visiting Paknam, better get back to hotel at RKH, then ARL to airport rather than Paknam to airport ?

Do you mean that it's better for me to catch a taxi from nearby Hua Makh stn rather than direct from RKH station ?

Actually, I need to be at the airport by 5 pm. I guess I it's still enough time if I leave the hotel early or don't do the crocodile farm.

Thanks again.

why not take your luggage to Suvarnabhumi in the morning, store it at the reliable left-luggage-counter (lock it, of course, and don't leave any valuables inside), and then take a taxi from there (you can hail one from departure level to avoid th 50 THB surcharge and those are usually more honest anyway) to Ancient City, and in the evening return to Suvarnabhumi to same way. That seems to be the simplest way and hassle-free. you could even take a public Bus (one of those 550ies) from the public transport terminal if your budget is limited. One used to go to Samutphrakan, but there have been changes and I am not aware if that line is still operating....

why not take your luggage to Suvarnabhumi in the morning, store it at the reliable left-luggage-counter (lock it, of course, and don't leave any valuables inside), and then take a taxi from there (you can hail one from departure level to avoid th 50 THB surcharge and those are usually more honest anyway) to Ancient City, and in the evening return to Suvarnabhumi to same way. That seems to be the simplest way and hassle-free. you could even take a public Bus (one of those 550ies) from the public transport terminal if your budget is limited. One used to go to Samutphrakan, but there have been changes and I am not aware if that line is still operating....

You mean I can get taxi from departure level ? Oh, I never know that, can try it out but it will be a problem if the taxi don't speak English, Thanks.