Airport Area Hotel - Bangkok Thailand accommodation
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 Bangkok
International Airport, about 25 kilometers north of the city center,
is generally a trouble-free experience, though Thailand's popularity
as a tourist destination can mean congestion at immigration counters
- a foretaste of what the visitor will experience on Bangkok's grid-locked
roads. Baggage handling is fairly fast and efficient. Passengers
usually find their bags waiting once they come out of immigration.
Don Muang airport, as it's commonly known, handles 160,000 flights,
25 million passengers and 170,000 tons of cargo a year, way above
its designed capacity. Since its construction in the 1920s, the
airfield has grown to be one of Asia's busiest crossroads. Two large,
airy international passenger terminals plus a domestic terminal
are strung out north to south along the east side of Vibhavadi Rangsit
Road. Relief for the bottlenecks at immigration will be provided
by the new Nong Ngu Hao airport emerging from paddyfields and cobra-snake
swamps on Bangkok's nondescript eastern fringe.
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