Reader's Queries

[Wisarut]

Yep, very serious since the Embassy of Japan has requested the Security Gaurd in Phetburi station to enforce the security rules to maximum ... Photograph inside Subway Station is STRICTLY PROHIBITED!

[Ganyc]

Where are the public toilets built by BMA ? Are they sub-standard ?

In Singapore, the public toilets are at MRT stations, shopping centres and coffeeshops.

Bangkok should have good public toilets even if the Sibway and BTS do not want to have public toilets. Otherwise, many Thais wil be susceptible to kidney problems if they have to bear with urine.

[Wisarut]

Khun Ganyc,

For the case of BMA Toilet, you can see them near the followign skytrain and subway stations

1) Victory Monument - in fornt of Rajvithi Hospital
2) Mochit (in fornt of Chatuchak park)
3) Onnut (in front of Tesco Lotus)
4) Kamphaengphet (Gate 2 - inside Chatuchak weekend market)


However, most people woudl prefer the restrooms inside department stores since it is REALLy well-maintainted ....
BMA restoom seem not to be well maintainated at all depite of 3-Baht fee for each person ... Many just want to reap the profit without paying attention on the maintainance until it is full ....

[Ganyc]

Why are Thais like that ? Why is BMA so lazy ? Don't Bangkok Tourist Bureau care at all about the cleanliness of the public restrooms ? BMA is only adding the pressure on Thais' lifestyle.

Seoul and Singapore have been sprucing up the cleanliness and attractiveness of the public toilets with Seoul's the best.

[ncr]

Have you noticed the yellow letters that have recently appeared on the subway ventilation shafts? As far as I know, all of them either say "VS" or "VN". Could that probably signify "ventilation shaft - northbound line/southbound line"?

My idea is based on the follwing thought:

Inside the stations, at the ends of the platforms, there are also such yellow signs: N and S (never E or W), which accordingly has to mean "northbound" and "southbound" tunnel. (It does not represent the actual orientation, just where the tunnel heads to - that means towards Bangsue (N) or Hualamphong (S). Sometimes, like in Chatuchak Station, "southbound" can mean Northeast in reality, due to the turns that the line takes!)

[Ganyc]

How to get to Bangkok Airways Head Office ? Is it located near Subway station Chatuchak/Jatujak and accessible by walking ?


How to get to Leconcorde Tower at Ratchadapisek Road in Huay Kwang district ?

[Wisarut]

For the case of Bangkok Airway HQ, the address is:

99 Mu 14, Vibhavadirangsit Highway,
Chom Phon, Chatuchak, Bangkok, 10900, Thailand
Tel : 66 (02) 265 5678
Fax : 66 (02) 265 5500
Ticket/Reservation : 66 (02) 265 5555
Reservation Center : 1771
Fax (Reservation) : 66 (02) 265 5556
Fax (Sale) : 66 (02) 265 5522
Email Address : reservation@bangkokair.co.th


That mean you have to drop down at Phaholyothin Station
at Gate 2 and then take a motorcycle taxi to that HQ which
may NOT be far away from Thai Inter HQ

For the case of Le Concorde Tower, You better drop down at Huai Kwang Station
at Gate 2 and make a short walk passing a bus stop

[ttaaee]

Wasn't it today a year ago that the subway was unofficially opened?

Correction: It was opened officially on the 3rd of July 2004.

[ncr]

Yeah, and no celebration / special announcement / marketing campaign (correct me if I'm wrong)?

[Wisarut]

BMCL DID make a marketing campaign ... tossing a pair of giant dices and yopu'll get the wristband + pen at Lad Phrao station .... if you get the same colors

[Ganyc]

Dear Bangkok,

URGENT !!! How to go to Manorom Building from MRT Queen Sirikit Convention Centre ? How far is Manorom Building along Rama IV Road from Charn Issara Tower I and Charn Issara Tower II ?

How to go to Charn Issara Tower II if travel from MRT Huay Kwang ?

I want to go to these places on August 13.

Is there also web-site of Bangkok Railway Station ? What are their timings back to Bangkok Airport from Hua Lamphong ?

[Wisarut]

Manorom Buiding is opposite to The Esso (Thailand) PCL Office ... so it is NOTwithin the reach of either BTS Skytrain or MRTA Subway as the map indicated
http://www.se-ed.com/sbc/map/59.gif

Therefore, there are 2 Choices for this matter:

1) Dropping off at Queen Sirikit center (MRTA) or Phra Khanong and then
riding the bus that go along Rama 4 Road (from Klong Toei to Phra Kahanong)
2) Callign Taxi or Motorcycle to go along Rama 4 Road (from Klong Toei to Phra Kahanong)

[Wisarut]

For the case of Charn Issara Tower 2, it is on New Phetburi Road near
Klong Tan Station ... so you have to ask for Taxi or Motorcycle to pick you to Manorom Building .... via Ekkamai Road and then turn left to Pha Khanong
and then turn right to Rama 4 road ...

For the case of Charn Issara Tower 1, it is near Silom Station at Surawongse Intersection. So you better take subway from Silom to Queen Sirikit center and then takea taxi to manorom building.

[The Enforcer!]

Originally Posted by Wisarut

it is NOTwithin the reach of either BTS Skytrain or MRTA Subway

..is anything?

The Enforcer!

[Ganyc]

Where is Charn Issara Tower II exactly ? How to go there from Manorom Building ?