Fast train BKK - Pattaya, how much can you pay maximum to use it ?

[thailandbeachisland]

Hello,

I wonder how much people would accept to pay to use the Bkk Pattaya fast train if it was available now ?

How much for 1 way ?

Thank you for your ideas.

[briboy]

so are you going to set up a scam to encourage "investors" to construct a line so as to skim, the same as the govt.

[RandomSand]

THB 345.67

[wym]

There should be short-time cabins and a BJ bar-car, add B500 to the regular fare.

[RandomSand]

THB 345.67

I there was a van outside my door in Pattaya, and the traffic in Bangkok wasn't bad, then I might not care for the train at any price.

[thailandbeachisland]

I hope you will all be punished and have to pay at least 1000 Thb to use this train ! Just because you didn't reply correctly to my message !

:-)

[harrry]

BKK-Pattaya would not pay much at all.

Pattaya -BKK The sky is the limit.

[i claudius]

I doubt you or i will live long enough to ever see it ,God alone knows what prices there will be then. , now ,nothing i prefere to drive.

[noikrit]

There should be short-time cabins and a BJ bar-car, add B500 to the regular fare.

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[NBD]

Bus costs around 150THB and takes ~2 hours so I'd be loathed to pay much more than 250, though if it was right outside my house/office then I'd easily go 300 THB to be there in an hour, 500 THB at a push.

Really I don't think it makes much sense for a journey that short. If I could get to Khon Kaen in 3 hours then I wouldn't bother with flying, so that would be an easy 1500 THB.

[RandomSand]

A similar journey in the UK would be Brighton to London. £17.00 * 50 = THB 850. Ouch, and that not even a super high speed train like the one proposed.

[drx13]

There already is one I use it regularly, 35 baht, takes 4 hours, which is faster than my normal method of travel..push bike.

Actually it can travel VERY fast but has to wait at some places.

Reclining seats, actually collapsing, and hostess service, beer and all manner of Thai delicacies.

Only problem is, as it nears Bangkok (Phyathai BTS), one has to share with nubile young college girls , who are apt to squash

up on the seat with me to practise their English, most distressing.

[KittenKong]

Nothing. I dont want to go to Bangkok.

[GinBoy2]

I wouldn't spend too much time thinking about this. Given the speed anything gets done here, all of us will be long since dead and buried before the first HSR runs in Thailand......how late was the Airport link in opening, and that was only 20km????

[sirchai]

Are you a suicide bomber?-

[circusman]

Are you joking? Getting on a Thai train-and a fast one at that. Never.

[sfbandung]

Ever caught the Shinkansen in Japan? If it is anything like the cost of that then no one will catch it.

[jacko45k]

From the airport I would be very interested to get on a fast/regular train that stopped in a few convenient locations on the north of Pattaya where I could be picked up.

500 baht for a ride under an hour would suit.... I guess it could go on to Bangkok after the airport going the other way.

[ginglee]

I guess It's worth 300bht taking into account the cost of the bus. I pay 1,000 bht, airport to Patts in a nice Camry. After a 12 hour flight I couldn't get on a train or bus !

[pattayapip]

A High Speed Train and Thailand's History with Trains and the lack of keeping them upright and on the rails ? Hmmmmmm Never

[joebrown]

I would only buy a ticket on any future Thai High Speed train if it included Free Life Assurance, Accident Insurance and full reimbursement of the costs of Private Hospitalisation Care resulting from the inevitable derailment/accident!!

[sam sen]

define 'fast train' and remember we are in thailand

[slipperylobster]

Nothing. I dont want to go to Bangkok.

Nor I, Pattaya.

[Ulic]

BKK or DMK or Bangkok, if all locations had good convenient access I would pay up to 350 baht otherwise

I would just use door to door taxi service as I currently do for 1,000- 1,100 baht.

[Torrens54]

Gee, I'd pay whatever they ask if was a case of " quickly getting out of Pattaya."

[canarysun]

I Think 200 Baht is the absolute limit! ( even that is expensive when the normal ordinary train from Pattaya to Bangkok is only 31 Baht )

and here is a photo that i took of the cool " Pattaya - Bangkok " Train .............

Marcus

[Nemesis7]

One way 145 bhat

Return 275 bhat for normal couch .

One way 350

Return. 680 premium cabin

[Carl64]

You couldn't pay me enough to catch a train in Thailand. Especially a fast one. They can't even keep their slow trains on the tracks!

[NCC1701A]

1/3 of 1000 baht if it is from the airport TERMINAL and runs every 20 mins.

the question is where do you arrive in Pattaya? then more taxi and waiting?

[eddie61]

If SRT is involved, forget it. They would need to pay me....alot. If it was built by Chinese who have done it as a secret inter-government deal for a few million tons of rotting rice, still not convinced.

If built and set up by Japanese, Germans or French, 295 baht.