What should I be looking at paying for a taxi from the airport to pattaya (north) roughly.

Is the only way to get from chang mai to krabi to fly via bangkok

We are on for the 10 week. Yipeeeeeeee

still don't understand the visa thing would we be able to get one for this length of time?

rough plan is

pattaya 10 nights chang mai 5 (over songkran) krabi, koh lanta, trang then finish off with a month on Samui.

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Oh and another thing cheap domestic flights any suggestions?

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Hi Jax
Where are you staying in Pattaya and who are you flying with this time?
Never having been to Pattaya before we had transfers in with our booking. Leaving Pattaya we booked the Rabbit transfer service at 1,900 bt which is very expensive but we drove in absolute style. I think it should be up to 1,500 bt which will include ALL tolls.
I remember seeing lots of boards advertising extremely low transfers to airport (800bt) and I'd read to be wary of them as those prices don't include tolls.
We have booked our flights and seat allocations for October and got JK at the back, but couldn't get them coming home... however, we got the 2 on the left hand side A B, lets hope there isn't a medical emergency as they use those seats for stretchers cases. There was one coming home last year... some poor bloke had had a stroke on holiday and was in a poor way.
Can't help with the visa as we are lucky to scratch two weeks at a time.
Cheers Geri

Dont think you can get a a tourist visa for more than 60 days but best to enquire at the Thai embassy,failing that you would have to do a visa run somewhere along the line.
A taxi from the airport should be about 1000/1200 baht from the public rank on the bottom floor,but depending on your arrival time you can get a bus,departures every 2 hours from 8am to 6 pm and bookable, which is 150 baht per person and you get taken by large coach to nth pattaya terminal and then transfered to a mini bus to be taken to your hotel which is a very economical and efficient service,and works the same in reverse with the first bus from pattaya terminal at 6am.
I believe you can fly from chiang mai to phuket and then you could get a bus to krabi,about 2 hours on the bus I think,so would depend on timings i suppose.
Cheapest domestic flights would be air asia,normally cheaper the further in advance you book,but dont try to have a very short time between flights on the budget flights as if you miss your next flight for any reason,even delays on the previous flight,you have to pay for another flight,also the budget carriers normally only have a luggage allowance of 15 kgs.Other budget airlines are Nok air and 1-2- go airways,think that is the correct name of the last one,but Thai also will fly so if you are flying with them internationaly you may get some sort of deal if you book domestic at the same time.
Ted

One more thing,if you flying into bangkok on domestic and then on to somewhere else with another airline make sure they both use the same airport as most domestic flights go from Don Muang but air asia for instance use the new airport.
ted