The Land Transport Department is clarifying the recent news that taxis in Bangkok can charge special handling fees for luggage after the announcement received public scrutiny. The department’s deputy director Tanee Suebrerk says this special fee only applies to metred taxis travelling to and from Bangkok’s two airports.
He says that those taxis who do not deliver passengers or pick them up from the 2 airports cannot charge the special fee. Tanee further clarified the legal jargon of the new fees with the details below:
• 20 baht for every bag that measures 26 inches in width, height or length.
• 20 baht for every additional item of luggage after the first 2.
• No more than 100 baht per piece for sports equipment such as bikes, or musical instruments that are 50 inches or more in size.
SOURCE: The Nation
Oh yes. I have a baht bus driver tried to charge me for luggage in Pattaya.
Now there is a chance, they will charge everywhere in Bangkok.
Do not put your bag in the boot!!!
Thanks, Thaiger – that makes a lot more sense.
and I’m sure they will oblige
So get a grab taxi than…LOL. At Don Mueang, simply walk over the passenger bridge and flag one down at Amari of get a grab there. Only for principle.
I’m far more lazy,just go to departures and grab on there like the staff do.works well at most airports worldwide.
Drivers in town taking passengers from one hotel to another will want to be paid the handling fee too.
….great, thanks for clearing that one up then….plain sailing ahead….
The lower tier subcultures of thighs cunnive and swindle away from PROPRIETY at every flatulent semblance of any derivation of transparent stability .
Their dystopian delusions of grandeur are frittered away from the onset of their early educational development ; fanatic immersions in rote memorisations of photocopies of extinctified Data keep their questionably qualified academic lecturers in linear employment .
Have offed my services
Yes Dean Cordovando, very eloquent but what does it have to do with ripe off baggage handling fees at the airports ?
Dean put the dictionary away please. Your wisdom will reach a larger audience.
You spelt “connived” wrong… I can’t talk, I spelt “additive” wrong today, and your left a space before your semi-colon and full stops… No idea why you use a capital for “data”.
When you say “offed”, it sounds like a good idea… thighs eh? one-track mind much?
that’s even worse
I always tip the driver. Im pretty sure others do as well especially from the airport. No more tip
Why would anyone pay extra for luggage in a taxi? It’s a pith-take. I’d sooner go on the train.
I have taken numerous taxi in Thailand and rarely does the driver step out to handle my luggage. He usually pops the trunk and I place my bag inside.
Skytrain next
Graham Smith : Skytrain Next !!
You are right man. I was always drive by Taxi, but the prices become more and more, so i take the Skytrain !!