Tip: United is Thai Airways partner
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Tip: United is Thai Airways partner
Hello
I just wanted to share a tip to remember that if you have United frequent flyer miles they might be a great alternative to buying tickets on Thai Air. It's 20K miles to get from BKK to Denpasar. Pretty good!
I just wanted to share a tip to remember that if you have United frequent flyer miles they might be a great alternative to buying tickets on Thai Air. It's 20K miles to get from BKK to Denpasar. Pretty good!
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After much work I have a few more tips:
-The 1st class train fare from Bangkok to Chiang Mai cost MORE than flying on Nok Air.
-Nok Air has a Plus class which allows you to have 30KG of luggage.
I booked economy to CM and Plus back to BKK, knowing I'd be shopping a lot in northern Thailand.
The full ticket came out to 3400 Bhat including all fees.
A one way train ticket would have been $68. (I know you can go overnight and save a hotel cost but that didn't work with my sched.)
In the Firefox browser, Nok Air had an error completing payment so you'd want to use IE.
That's all for now!
-The 1st class train fare from Bangkok to Chiang Mai cost MORE than flying on Nok Air.
-Nok Air has a Plus class which allows you to have 30KG of luggage.
I booked economy to CM and Plus back to BKK, knowing I'd be shopping a lot in northern Thailand.
The full ticket came out to 3400 Bhat including all fees.
A one way train ticket would have been $68. (I know you can go overnight and save a hotel cost but that didn't work with my sched.)
In the Firefox browser, Nok Air had an error completing payment so you'd want to use IE.
That's all for now!
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Train is fine if you are not in a hurry as it takes ages compared to flying. It does cost$1 more per person but to offset that you do not have the airport taxi fares. Also by taking the early evening train from it does save a hotel room. Fly one way, train the other.