This time I chose the train from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. In order to ensure that there would be no accidents during the trip, I had already booked a train ticket from Chiang Mai to Bangkok online before coming to Thailand. In fact, if it is not urgent, you can go to the train station. Window purchase.
Buy tickets online
There are many procedures for purchasing Thai train tickets online, so I won’t go into details here. Visit the Thai train ticket purchasing website http://www.thairailwayticket.com/ and proceed step by step. The steps are not very complicated. The online payment system on the official website of Thailand Train Tickets may not support certain credit cards. When I tried to pay, I tried the ICBC VISA card, but there was always an inexplicable payment error. I changed several cards before completing the payment.
You can choose your seat when purchasing tickets online. Since the upper berth has no window, I chose the lower berth this time. Including the handling fee, the ticket price is ฿1041, which is more expensive than the air ticket. However, the train sleeper can save one day of accommodation costs, so the prices of the two are similar.
After purchasing the ticket, you will receive an email in PDF format. You can print it out and it will be your train ticket.
Train 10
Chiang Mai Railway Station is located on the east side of Chiang Mai City. The scale of the railway station is not large.
The train numbers in Thailand are only in the double digits. This ride Yes The new car No. 10 built by China. Most of the trains in Thailand are very old. At around 6 pm, in addition to the No. 10 car, there was also a No. 52 car from Chiang Mai to Bangkok. The environment inside the car was incomparable to the new car No. 10. .
The facilities of the train are very complete, the wash basin has hot water, and there are electric doors at the connection between the carriages. We bought a second-class seat this time. It is said that the first-class sleeper can also have a shower.
The air conditioner is very cold, and the foreigner has already put on a down jacket.
Thailand's sleeper cars are very interesting. Some Chinese people call it "Transformers" , during the day It is no different from an ordinary hard seat. At night, the conductor will come to make the bed. The two seats below are put together to form the lower berth. The seat top is opened with a key like an airplane luggage compartment. of Bed board Pull it down and it becomes the upper bunk.
The sleeping berth has a curtain to cover it.
When I was approaching Hua Lamphong Railway Station in the morning, I passed a building under construction and looked at the map. It turned out that this was Bangsu Station, a new railway station in Thailand. Bangsu Station will replace the existing Hua Lamphong Railway Station as Bangkok's railway hub in the future. The Bangkok Station of the China-Thailand High-speed Railway is here. Soon you can take the high-speed train from Kunming to Bangkok via Luang Prabang in Laos.
The Hua Lamphong Railway Station in Bangkok, Thailand, began operation in 1916 and has a history of over a hundred years.
On Thai trains, only second-class seats can change from hard seats to sleepers. First-class seats have fixed beds that are not foldable and are more comfortable, but there is no such interesting change. Coming to taking a train in Thailand is also an experience worth trying. Many semi-independent outdoor tour groups coming to Thailand have made the train experience one of the necessary items.