Just arrived back in Thailand at 0630 Friday August 10. Passed through Immigration in under 10 minutes, I thanked the Immigration officer stamping me in and was ignored as usual (Do those guys ever smile?) My bag was waiting on me as soon as I cleared Immigration and I was on my way.

I decided to try the Airport Rail link, Suvarnabhumi to Ratchaparop, only 40 baht but a bit crowded since it was a work day. Took a quick taxi ride to my hotel; the fare was only 67 baht so I gave the driver a 100 baht bill and asked for 20 baht change. He was trying to give me the rest of the 13 baht change and seemed delightede with the modest tip- he even hopped out of the taxi and carried my bag to the hotel lobby

Any way, for what its worth, my airport experience was very positive

Yep, arrived back from UK on the same day with my wife, while the bags took a while they whole immigration experience was painless, hats off to the immigration officer who smiled and had a quick chat with me as he stamped me in.