How To Travel Around BANGKOK | Buy Cards For BTS & MRT | Complete Guide 2023 #livelovethailand

How To Travel Around BANGKOK | Buy Cards For BTS & MRT | Fast Easy & Cheap #livelovethailand

How To Travel Around BANGKOK | Buy Cards For BTS & MRT | Complete Guide 2023 #livelovethailand
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[pingbookent]

As I'm Thai. I suggest you buy only BTS card and use your credit card to tap on the gate when ride MRT. (BTS still not accept credit card yet)

[edc.]

You can also pay your MRT fare with a Visa credit card that has the tap-to-pay microchip. Just tap on the reader at the ticket gate when you enter and tap again when you exit. The fare is computed automatically.

[klausw.]

Love the Public Transportation System BTS or MRT, very easy, fast, clean and safe. Highly recommended 😊, thank for explaining the cards, will use next time 😊, see U and stay safe 🙏🏼🇹🇭

[bes]

Your videos are very informative and useful ! Thanks for sharing ! Wish you good health and happiness always! From me kakak from Malaysia

[karthikrajanala]

Hands down the best guide on Thailand transport. Coming to Bkk next week and I’m gonna use this info. Thanks a lot Arsen ❤

[mwright]

Great video, give me confidence in using public transportation on our trip there this July. Cant wait to see Bangkok and Krabi for the first time~!!

[laisonalbarado]

Thanks for this video. You mentioned something about direction but I was unable to understand you said. Being here less than a week the bts will be one of newest friends

[StephanieRosales-ezxl]

Going to Bangkok tomorrow!! Dream come true!! Thanks for the video :)

[kamolhengkiatisak]

Thailand started bus service in Bangkok nearly 100 years ago, it was run by private bus operators at a reasonable price but still making a decent profit. However, about 45 years ago, a certain political party campaigned to make bus in Bangkok free and when this party came to power as a coalition govt, it nationalized bus services, buying the private operators and created Bangkok Mass Transport Authority (BMTA) to run a free bus service for a few years. When the govt could no longer afford the huge annual subsidy, it allowed the BMTA to charge a cheap ticket price for non-aircon buses and then introduced air-con buses at 2-3 times the price of non-aircon buses. The non-aircon buses have been running at a loss since then up to today while the air-con buses run at break-even. The BMTA then granted private bus operators to run non-aircon and air-con buses again about 30 years ago to reduce the BMTA's mounting debts as private operators seem to know how to run buses at a decent profit even though they charge the same ticket fares as BMTA's own buses. To this day, BMTA non-aircon red buses are still relatively cheap less than 10 baht, one of the cheapest fare in the world. Every year, the national govt allocates a supplementary budget to shore up BMTA's inefficient operation. It is apparent that the first populist policy of Thai govt does not work as is the case worldwide such as the bankrupted Venezuela and father of populist policy Argentina which seeks IMF help at least 6 times since WWII.

[heithgharib]

Your videos keep getting better and better. Thanks and keep up the good work! 👍

[MichaelMikeBurns-ps]

Thank you! Your video makes me much less intimidated about BTS and MTR and will use the public transportation on my next visit in February. Maybe I'll see you and we can have lunch and some drinks!

[SomeOldGames]

Put your transportation cards inside an id card lanyard. Wear it on your neck, it will saving time when tap in/out and also less chance to lost the card. Indonesian people usually doing this

[Stephen.Palmer_]

Another informative vlog that I'm sure will benefit many travellers to Bangkok. Cheers Arsen

[juancarlosvaldes]

Thank you for this info Arsen as it is very much appreciated! Will be there in about a month!

[sherwyC]

Thank you for your honest and detailed information on all things Thailand!

[D__Lee]

You might consider mentioning that overseas visitors to Bangkok can buy their BTS cards through the Internet and pick up the card upon arrival at the airport.

[Kevin]

Just back from Bankok. Amazing systems, so easy to get around. And cheap with the pass.

[mariadesign]

Fantastic. Thank You so much, great info. I'm back in Bangkok in July. Can't wait 😁

[essamagha]

Thanks again for explaining that kind of cards . And I'm going to use public transportation.. .🚴‍♂️

[williamchildress]

If you are a over 60, you can get a big discount on rides on the MRT. Take your passport, for proof of age, and they will sell you a "senior card" and you can ride for a lot less. This is true for Thais as well as foreigners. Unfortunately, BTS does not give a senior discount to foreigners. BTS only gives a senior discount for senior Thai citizens.