We found that overall, metered taxi is the best way to get around. Forget the private limo from the Airport to your hotel. After arriving at the airport terminal, go outside and stand in the taxi line, basically the price to a downtown or riverside hotel is 200B plus a mandatory 50B airport fee plus 60B for two highway tolls. For the reserve direction, there is no mandatory fee from the hotel to airport. Inside Bangkok, the meter starts at 35B, and 50B to 100B total will get you to most places.

Public boat ferries cost 6B/person for 1 zone and 8B/person for 2 zones. We paid 8B from Pier one (Oriental Hotel) to Pier Nine (the Grand Palace). There are maps for the stops on the pier, don't pay attention to the scheduled times, pay attention to the color flags, the express boats don't stop at every stop.

You have to bargain for Tuk Tuk. Do not step in until you've agreed on the price. Their first offer is usually absurd. The best deal we had was arranged by a Grand Palace official because the Palace was closed and would not be open for another two hours when we were there. He got us a Tuk Tuk for 40B for two hours and told the driver to take us to a couple of temples near by and wait for us. We had a blast. Other times we paid 40B for a short tuk tuk trip on Silom Road, and turned down a 200B offer for another short trip, took the taxi instead and paid 50B.

The Sky Train (BTS) was fun but actually works out to be more expensive than the metered taxis if you have multiple people. Depending on the distance, they run around 40B/person.

te cheapest i have ever gone from town to airport or visa versa was arount 300+ B plus tolls....that includes late at nite...

i like the limos after a long flight to bkk from usa for the extra comfort but more especially because i can be sure that all my luggage will fit into the trunk...toyota corollas have very small trunks and i have seen more than one suitcase fall out of these excellent taxis...

i use a combo of skytrain and taxis to get around town...get stuck in one traffic jam for over an hour, even if it only costs 75B and you will do what i do...

You can buy a one day pass on the skytrain for 100 baht or 3 days for 280 baht. Our hotel concierge sold the one day passes (with our hotel's own logo on them); you cna buy 1 or 3 dya passes at the booth at the skytrain.

We also found combining taxi and skytrain (or subway) worked really well. It wasn't the cost of the taxis, but the time wasted in traffic jams that made the skytrain so much more attractive.

thats what motorcycle taxis are for... just say a prayer before you go and you should be ok.. prices are about the same as taxis...

just one prayer??? I think I'd be reciting a continuous Hail Mary!

One of our daughters really, really wanted us to go on those --planned to take a video as they went! Didn't happen, needless to say, but thats why we took a tuk tuk instead.