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    Theft at the new bangkok airport

    By Anonymous, Created on: 17/04/2007, Last updated on: 15/10/2008

    » People pretending to be security guards who pat your body down while another searches your carry-on luggage. I discovered this when they asked me to give them my bag for security...and then realized they had no badges and reched my bag before they opened it. I became quite loud in my objections...

    • Anonymous commented : SHAME ON SUVARNABHUMI ! There is a new comment on the post "Robbed Redux: Sticky Fingers at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Part 2". http://www.uncorneredmarket.com/2008/02/robbed-redux-sticky-fingers-suvarnabhumi-airport/ Author: Bruce Comment: Hi guys. We were also robbed at BKK airport while in transit from Krabi to Chiang Mai. With us though the things were taken from our checked-in case. The attitude of Airports of Thailand was grossly unprofressional and a disgrace to Thailand. We followed it up to the max - a police report, a report to the airline, letters to the Bangkok Post and the Nation as well as to the office of the tourism ministry. The airline let is be known that they felt the items were lifted by an employee of a contractor company that moves luggage around the airport (company name provided). Only AOT could investigate however and they would not provide contact details for the company in question. I am sure this happens at BKK MANY MANY times. Trying to contact anyone in AOT is a sick joke, they make it as hard as they can for you to reach them and then ignore you when you find some contact details. Just to let them know the depth of my displeasure I emailed them once a week for about 3 months afterwards. They finally answered and said they had referred my details to the lost property department. Completely unacceptable! Shame!

    • 2 replies, 5,035 views

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    Immigration Police

    By Anonymous, Created on: 10/06/2007, Last updated on: 03/08/2007

    » This is to complain of the highandedness of the immigration police at the internation DM airport. I was totally unprepared for the harsh behaviour of most of the staff to us, tired travellers. What could have been a half an hour procedure took over 3 long hours thanks to the silliness of one person...

    • 9 replies, 4,517 views

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    My Thai wife

    By Anonymous, Created on: 21/03/2007, Last updated on: 06/10/2007

    » I recently married a thai girl, I love her so much, but it seems I can do nothing to please her. She moved to Canada and now she is so lazy she will do nothing, I do all the housework " I do not mind" But now she keeps asking for divorce. Is there anyway to please them. I would like to know...

    • Anonymous commented : hi paranoid , i think that you being arrested by police or held by immigration just cos your wife left you in america is pure dreamsville ,anyway how would they know unless you told your ex that you was comeing back to thailand,do you honestly think your face would be on wanted posters in every airport in thailand ,i think you,ve been watching too much of "fantasy island" on tv ,just get a grip of yourself and start to live in the real world !!,regards ,colin .

    • 31 replies, 16,240 views

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    welcome back to Don Muang

    By Anonymous, Created on: 22/03/2007, Last updated on: 12/06/2007

    » I find it very humorous but also to my delight that after a sentimental farewell to Don Muang, we will be going back to use the old yet effective airport. I hope that it will help alleviate the congestion of the terminal, which you’d never be able to find a place to sit. Thailand should not...

    • 2 replies, 2,248 views

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    No water spouts at the new airport

    By Anonymous, Created on: 04/02/2007, Last updated on: 07/02/2007

    » along with the current problems, it looks like there is not a single drinking water spout before security at the new airport. In the old airport, there were water spouts outside every toilet - whereas in the new there are not any anywhere at all. At the gate, there seems to be some water spouts,...

    • 1 replies, 2,078 views

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    new airport

    By Anonymous, Created on: 15/02/2007, Last updated on: 16/05/2007

    » The new airport is one off the biggest scams that "magician" Sinawatra ever preformed. bigger than hudini. the airport is way too small, has no service and bad facilities. there's no warm welcome, what used to be Thailands flagship. a warm and welcome on dong muang is now letterly a...

    • Anonymous commented : > The new airport is one off the biggest scams that >"magician" Sinawatra ever preformed. > bigger than hudini. > the airport is way too small, has no service and bad facilities. > there's no warm welcome, what used to be Thailands flagship. Considering the airport design was done WAY before the time of the "magician", I think you should ask yourself, why do you blame the "magician" for all of Thailand's problems. As you can see that nothing has really changed since the "magician" left town. Maybe Thailand as a whole has to be looked at, rather than focusing on one person!

    • 4 replies, 2,623 views

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    16 year old

    By Anonymous, Created on: 19/11/2006, Last updated on: 19/11/2006

    » Wow, It 'amazes' me that Thailand has taken a a long long long long time to plan and build an airport. And still a comedy of errors are taking place internally and externally. If I was a pilot, I would be scared for my life to land on a ' half ass' built structure; risking innocent...

    • 0 replies, 2,181 views

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    First Impression - disappointment

    By Anonymous, Created on: 01/10/2006, Last updated on: 19/02/2008

    » Thursday night I landed on the new airport on a Thai flight from Korea. I expected some glitches and so I was not surprised when we had to disembark on delayed buses. I only travelled with handluggage to avoid problems with luggage handling. Arrival up to immigration and luggage retrieval was otherwise...

    • Anonymous commented : Flew out from the new airport last night 28th dec................Well its 3 months on from opening and already its becoming "grotty". In particular the inadequate toilets. I went into one with 5 wash basins. Two had cardboard signs hanging from the taps with string declaring "Out of order". Sitting on the toilet seat i grabbed some toilet paper to wipe my backside only to discover that i was "sinking darkies" with my hand UGH!......... it appears that the pan was either blocked or leaking back as the water level was only about one inch short of my rear end ! Unfortunately there was no cardboard sign there, but guess that does'nt matter as one cannot see that ? I also saw holes in plaster walls where fitings have fallen off and cracked floor tiles, whats the place going to be like in 12 months. It seems that the contractors have been paid in full so will now have to be paid again to do repairs. Here in oz we have got things in place like retention monies and maintenance periods plus final inspections, so it could'nt happen.......Wake up Thailand !

    • 7 replies, 4,382 views

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    Taxis at airport

    By Anonymous, Created on: 03/10/2006, Last updated on: 20/03/2010

    » I/ am a frequent business/holiday traveller all over the world. In the 30 years that I have flown everywhere, I have yet to land in an airport where I could not board a taxi straight after customs clearance and straight to my hotel.Well, the impossible has happened here at the brand-new state-of...

    • Renaissance commented : [color=#0040BF:2pjlqn6a]When the new sky train link between Bangkok and the airport starts, it is going to have a noticeable impact on the taxi business at the airport, and the Airports Authority of Thailand officials who organize the Taxi Mafia on the Ground Level will be seriously affected. It therefore remains to be seen whether they will erect a sign outside the Arrivals Hall stating where arriving passengers can catch the train service. I think that they will erect it after the Mafia Taxi Funnel. The Mafia Taxi Funnel was created at a time when a lot of people were using the taxis on the Departures Level (4th Floor) to avoid paying the 50 Baht "service fee" on the Ground Level, which allowed them to queue up and take a taxi whose meter often did not seem to be working at the time. (How very odd!) I mean, a lot of people! It was sometimes difficult to get a taxi on the 4th Floor. The AOT officials were probably in danger of not being able to keep up the payments on their 700 Series BMWs or whatever, so they created a Taxi Funnel to try to force arriving passengers to go out of the door leading to the taxi mafia. For quite a few months after the airport opened you could leave the Arrivals Hall and go almost straight into a lift taking you to the Departures Level, but nowadays, there is a long line of barriers preventing you from getting in a lift for about 80-100 metres. When you eventually get past the barriers, you end up putting your trolley on the escalators as the queue at the lift is probably too long, and at least you are moving upwards. Yes, you can walk back to the lifts at the barriers, but by now you are at the escalators, so people put their trolleys on the escalators. It is at this point that you are likely to be approached by the people who will sell you to a taxi driver on the 4th Floor for an inflated non-meter fee. They are a pest, but you can eventually get rid of them before getting outside. Sometimes they are waiting outside, so if none of them has approached you before you leave the building, you may still be lucky enough to meet one of them outside. The taxi drivers don't need them anyway as they can just pay 20 Baht to the guards to let them park until a passenger comes. The AAOT officials don't like them to park because it creates a competing line of taxis for their Taxi Mafia, but park, they do, because the guards want their continuous stream of 20 Baht. In practice the taxis don't have to wait long because many Thais and local foreigners take the trouble to go up to the 4th Floor to avoid the Taxi Mafia. Many foreigners will think, "It's only US$1.50. Who cares?" This is not the point. If there were a need to charge to have staff issue a queue ticket, 10 Baht would cover all the costs more than adequately. But they charge 5 times this per passenger so you can see that people's pockets are being filled, and this must amount to a small fortune EVERY DAY. It would be nice to think that the money is being used to improve the airport's facilities, but dream on! Have you ever seen an extra toilet being built? It's such a silly and corrupt system, but then the AAOT officials and their Taxi Mafia are more important than the passengers after all. [/color:2pjlqn6a]

    • Anonymous commented : Apparently Mr Chan is a new visitor to Thailand. If you were familiar with Thai logic this is very logic. Why should a taxi be available outside the terminal. As much of logic is based on individuals and their economy, it is logic that you place the taxi stand a long way from the terminal. In this way an entrepreneur – probably with some good connections - can make a nice lot of money. Never mind the hassle it creates for the millions of passengers arriving at BKK AP every year.

    • 36 replies, 221,685 views

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