Reader question: By bus from Phitsanulok to Chiang Mai

With the green line bus about 250 baht and about 3,5 hours. By train in 6 hours. The train runs very slowly and stops in almost every village.

This is what I'm going to give up: dead simple questions that are already printed in every do-it-yourself travel guide. Just go to the bus station-city bus or tukx2, look a bit desperate and someone will come to your aid in no time to point you to the right counter- practically every hour throughout the day, choice between VIP/1st/2nd cl, although many buses are passing through from elsewhere and they only know if there is room when they walk in, costs depend. of the class less or about as much as that damn train, without the sky-high commission on it, would cost.
From now on, the editors can always preprint the same answer themselves, right?
Incidentally, this route is in fact too short for a night ride - about 5 hours.

It is sometimes difficult to find a bus station in TH. So it's not such a silly question.
Because I can reasonably help myself to ask for directions in TH, it's not much of an issue for me.

But found my first time in Pitsanulok, also my first time exploring outside of PTY TH, quite funny. I had arrived in P'lok by train, booked a hotel and boarded a tuk-tuk at the station the next day. I wanted her Sukhothai. And he said 50 Baht. I thought, no money for 50 km. But that smart guy dropped me off at the bus station. And I would never have been to that bus station otherwise.