Thailand Travel Tips: Prepare to Arrival.
Among all of Asian countries, Thailand is one of the most popular destinations. The country has more than 10 millions foreign visitors throughout the year who go to various destination within the country. The word of mouth from people who have just visited Thailand to their friends and relatives and bring them to this popular tourist destination. However, for the first time visitors, it’s going to be very hard to prepare them on arrival. It might not be as complicated as going to other country but it’s still good to know before hand and this could help you reduce time and cost.
At the airport
There are some issues that may concern you for the visit. One of those is about visa that you have to obtain before get into the country. For people who holding passport for some countries that has diplomatic agreements with the Thai government and they can obtain visa on arrival to enter Thailand. There are 20 countries, which are; Kingdom of Bhutan, China and Taiwan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Maldives, Mauritius, Oman, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. However, People from these countries are allowed to stay for vacation or business purposes not longer than 15 days, otherwise, they will need to have visa from the Thai embassy in the country of residence.
Get out of the airport
This maybe a bit strange but from my experience, it is some kind of fact. If you have planned for someone to pick you up at the air port, it may not be complicated suc as you may have an appointment with hotel or travel agent to pick you up on arrival because they will be waiting at the entrance of the arrival gate. But if you are the person who has no plan about airport transfer and wish to use public transport, it might be a little bit difficult. As the new international air port, Suvanabhumi Airport, still does not have mass public transport to get access. The only one type of transport here is take a taxi. This maybe quite costly for someone and also risk if you do not know the exact location of the hotel or destination that you want to go. However, you will find taxi service very easily and just use the service from airport taxi service which will cost you according to the distance + 50 THB for service charge.
Fortunately that many of taxi drivers now have been trained to speak and understand simple English. You can say some simple word to clarify your place or destination to them. But it’s still better if you know more detail of the hotel to ensure that the taxi drive under stand where it is. This is because sometimes there may be some hotels in the same name but different location, you may have to provide the exact location such as road or district etc. If you can do so, that will help you save a lot of money and time as well as make you feel save from lost in the Bangkok’s traffic which is very busy traffic jam, especially during rush hours.
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