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Home » Flight tickets » Guide to Don Mueang International Airport
Guide to Don Mueang International Airport
Many of us fondly remember the old international airport of Bangkok: Don Muang. With the arrival of Suvarnabhumi, the old airport was even temporarily closed. Fortunately, Don Muang (DMK) reopened in 2007 and is now the main airport for domestic and low-cost flights.
Many passengers are now using Don Muang again when they fly with, for example, Nok Air, NokScoot, Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion Air or Orient Thai Airlines.
Shuttle bus between Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang
What some people don't know is that there is a free shuttle bus service between the two airports. The bus runs from 05:00 to 24.00:XNUMX and the journey takes between one and two hours depending on the traffic on the road. The bus departs every hour, but more frequently during busy periods.
You can of course also take a taxi that should cost about 350 THB.
Video: Guide to Don Mueang International Airport
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Hey, I didn't know about that shuttle bus. Thank you.
There is a condition to that shuttle bus. On the outward journey I always show the flight (on paper) that I will be making that day. On the way back I can only show you the departing flight from Survarnabhumi which normally only leaves several weeks later. Never had a problem with this. But just print out your flight.
However, it is sometimes a bit of a search for that bus on Don Muang. It arrives and departs from hall 1. There is a table outside where you have to show your papers. (also on suwanapoom by the way) And you get a stamp on your hand.
As far as I know (experience) the bus is only accessible for free for transit passengers. So not just for free. So you cannot take the bus from, for example, Jomtien Thappraya to BKK and then "free" to DMK. That's not possible. You must have a “same day” ticket for BKK when you arrive at DMK or vice versa. Not quite accurate reporting.
Don Mueang Airport processed more than 30 million passengers last year, just do the math and you come to an average of about 2300 arriving passengers per hour with 18 operational hours per day.
Those few shuttle buses per hour provide some relief, but the vast majority of people queue for the public taxi. You can connect somewhere in the hall, you will probably see an endless queue that will eventually take you to gate 8, the 'taxigate' where you will be united with many hundreds of like-minded people. Although there are about 8 'lanes' leading outside, with 5 arriving taxis per minute and an average of 2 people per taxi, you can only get 600 people out per hour.
If you don't feel like becoming an expert on this minor suffering, I would like to point out the possibility to leave the queue in the hall where you can join the queue and join the Airport Limousine in the same hall Service. You pay considerably more there than with the Public Taxi (depending on the car you want), but by Western standards it is not too bad.
For a Toyota Camry I paid last year to Pattaya I think 2700 Baht, which I think is over 1000 Baht, about € 30, - more than the rate of a Public Taxi.
One may find that a waste of money and prefer to stand in line for a few hours, for the other it may be an affordable option to stay within his or her comfort zone.
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Photo of the queue in the arrivals hall with sign pointing towards taxi gate 8, and photo of the taxi gate. Not completely sharp, but you still get an impression.
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https://goo.gl/photos/1YgegGXPhN91HDQS7
I hate DMK. Dark, long corridors, long waiting times. After you have finally been checked and photographed, you find your luggage somewhere on one or the other (but which?) heap thrown up for thieves. At the time I had a local flight from Phuket but BKK. BKk has modernity, no dark corridors, but lots of high incoming daylight everywhere. Processing time was short. How different, gloomier, longer-lasting was the course of events when I arrived at DMK recently (from Mandaley). (Leaving at DMK, that was fine in itself).
I will be taking another domestic flight in December. Unfortunately again to and from DMK. I don't know how to get to DMK yet. From somewhere in Bangkok, where I have to go the day before my departure, that is a problem. At least not with the bus that takes me to the mud pit called Mor Chit, and by the way when I got there, what then? I think with bus 40 and then with the train (that train needs a full hour). It also costs me a hotel. They only have one there, the expensive Amarihotel is that (and I can't sleep off that price in a single night). And then I have to go back a week later. How do you do that? By shuttle bus to BKK and then by bus to Jomtien? Well, you can, but only if you also pay for a plane ticket, a ticket from BKK to you name it. And that if you only want to go to Jomtien (bus cots from BKK 120 Baht).
Wouldn't it have been better to build a much bigger BKK and close down DMK? That would have been better in many ways, in terms of accessibility and also in terms of flight traffic control (because on the ground it may take you hours to get from one airport to the other, seen from the air those airports are on each other's welcome mat ). Well, of course I'm just a mate with my feet flat on the ground.
The fact is that the low budget airlines have been banned to Don Muang. Thai Airlines and the state will try to keep it that way.
Firstly, BKK is being expanded but the low-cost airlines will not come there as the take-off and landing fees are more expensive and there are very close to DMK in the Lak district a cheaper hotel and that is about 10 minutes by taxi and construction is going on very fast on the new BTS line with, as far as I know, 1 switch from BKK to DMK, but it will not be ready in December, so please be patient
Now you can also take a special bus from Don Muang to mochit to transfer to the BTS.
Extending the BTS would be really nice.
For years I flew back from Don Mueang at night with Eva of China. The queues were very short, I was able to go through customs half an hour before departure, which I often did. Usually I had a few nice beers that were made on site by the Huisbrouwerij. That way I fell asleep quickly and usually woke up when we were already in Europe :-).
From Bangkok to Don Mueang you can also take the BTS + Bus.
Bus A1 from BTS Mo Chit (so not from bus stop Mo Chit).
Walk across the footbridge (towards Chatuchak Market) to the main road.
There you will find that bus. Goes straight to the airport.
I mean bus station Mo Chit of course.
What Martin says is also not entirely correct. When departing from bkk I always have a flight ticket for the next day from Don Muang and this is no problem at all, I have never tried several days.
Now it's getting all messy.
What I wanted to write was:
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Bus A1 from BTS Mo Chit (so not from Mo Chit bus station).
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