Re: [103attendees] Traveling to Grand Palace

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This works great but plan ahead -- the palace closes at 3:30 PM.

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>Quite late now, but maybe someone still might find this useful:
>
>Having only a few hours of spare time this week I tried to figure out what to do best to see a bit more of
>Bangkok. Clearly the top-1 tourist site seems to be the Grand Palace connect with the Temple of the Emerald
>Buddha. But how to go there if you don't like taxis?
>
>What worked well for me yesterday was to use the BTS Sky Train to go to Sahang Taksin (Silom line stop S6;
>change at Siam), then use the Chao Praya Express Boat to Tha Chang. Costs 94 THB per trip (44 BTS + 50 for the
>blue flag tourist boat). My outward journey took about 90 minutes, return journey 70 minutes. Could be faster
>(and cheaper?) if you used the Orange flag boat instead, but you'd have a little more walking to the Palace
>and miss the chance to have an even better view from the upper floor of the boat. Not sure whether taxis are
>much faster, but you get a view from the river to the city and spare the hassle to have the driver switch on
>the meter.
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