6 hour Stopover Bangkok Airport

[petethompson]

Guys, some help and advice please, I have a 6 hour stopover coming up in Bangkok, is that enough time to leave the airport and have some fun or do I just book a massage at the airport and keep my fingers crossed?

[Steely Dan]

You are on the cusp.  There is the time it takes to enter Thailand.  Then the time to get to, say, Nana.  The time to play.  The time to travel back.  The time to get back through security.  And the time you want to be early for your flight time.  I'd think these are:

Passport: 45 min.  Train and Metro: 75 min. Play 60min. Return trip: 75min. Security 30 min.  Be early by:60 min.

So I think this is 5 hours 45 min.  Tight.  But you could start down the path and see how goes security.  If it seems shit at any stage, abort.

[Prince_s]

You could find a massage shop near the airport.

At the airport itself i doubt extras will be available.

[Malvolio]

Do you have a bag you need to collect and then check-in?  If you do, I'd say you won't have enough time.

[petethompson]

No it will be hand luggage only

[petethompson]

And are there any massage places near the airport?

[Dark Vader]

Is it just massage you are after? You could book a little budget hotel near the airport and have a freelancer meet you there.

[Primemeridian]

Settle for massage in Airport. I think anything else, i.e. considering a trip to more central Bangkok, would put you dangeriously close to missing your connecting flight.
Plus there are subbtleties (i.e. bar find fees, suckered into some set-up for poor service, etc) about a Thai SP that should not be rushed.
Enjoy a 6-hour relaxing time in the airport. Come back to Thailand later when you have morre time.

[Prince_s]

And are there any massage places near the airport?

Looking at google maps yes there are. You will probably need a taxi and it will take 10 minutes max to get there. Go somewhere where theres a couple massage shops just in case one of them are busy. I stayed in a hotel once in the lat krabang area which is next to the airport and there were massage shops nearby. I think this is the safest punt you can do in a 6 hour stopover with hand luggage

[Rory B Bellows]

Had some stopovers in BKK earlier this year, traffic to downtown was terrible like 1.5/2hrs from the airport. Wouldn’t risk it with 6hrs

[petethompson]

Thanks, I think Im going to try one of the establishments just by the airport.

[METEOR]

I'd imagine the best you could hope for is to book a hotel next to the airport and pre arrange a girl to go there.
Like others have said it can take a while to go through immigration and traffic in BKK can be awful

[hamchang]

Plane lands but its still 20-30 mins before you get to the terminal. Then 10-15 mins to immigration.
If you do not know Bangkok or Thailand you're only chance would be to throw money at it. Fast track immigration. AOT car there and back. Then it depends on the time you are arriving?

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But it might be 40 -60 mins each way depending on time.

60 minutes doing hte deed

To get to the gate in time to get your flight?  you are cutting it way too fine, and will probably miss your flight.

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No point though - who the fuck wants all that bother on a flight.  Just have a wank.

[billybob69]

Thanks, I think Im going to try one of the establishments just by the airport.

The last time that I was in Thailand, I stayed in a hotel close to the airport (lat krabang) as I had an early morning flight. I put a profile on Thai Friendly (it is a dating app, but in Pattaya it is 99% freelancers) set my profile to lat krabang area, hinted on the profile that I was looking for P2P and got ZERO responses. So I not sure that there are many freelancers in the area. There are massages places around lat krabang area, not sure how legit they are.

Incoming at BKK airport the time killer is immigration. You can easily spend an hour getting from the landing gate to finally passing through immigration. Although there is a paid-for fast track service. There is a thing called 'Thai logic' where they have a knack of making straight-forward, process-driven systems into an illogical clunky mess. Nothing more so than if you get a pre-arranged taxi. That will eat up a chunk of time. I'll guarantee security and immigration to get airside won't be stress.

Seems an awful lot of effort just to potentially get a hand job off a 40 year old.