The Dragons Den ~ The Atlanta Hotel Bangkok

By Skytrain

From  SUVARNABHUMI  AIRPORT  to The Atlanta Hotel by  AIRPORT  RAIL  LINK  (A.R.L., the airport shuttle train), then by B.T.S. (also called Sky Train) which is the overground electric train system that serves Bangkok – only if you have luggage you can carry and walk for 700 yards / meters – buy ARL ticket in basement of airport building, then BTS ticket at Phaya Thai Station – total travel time one hour – cost under Bahts 100 – service roughly from 06:00 hrs till 24:00 hrs.

After clearing customs, follow signs to ‘Airport Rail Link’, which is in the basement of the building.  You may take the lift / elevator or the escalator.  Buy a ticket which, curiously, is a plastic coin, from the ticket window or the ticket machine. 

A ticket costs Bahts 45.  Go down the escalator or lift / elevator to the platform.  Airport Rail Link trains are frequent. 

Travel all the way to the end of the line at Phaya Thai, which is the seventh stop.  The travel time is 25 minutes.  Alight and walk to Phaya Thai BTS Station (the Sky Train system that serves Bangkok) and buy another ticket for Phloen Chit.  A ticket costs Bahts 28.  Go to platform 1, ‘Samrong’. 

Alight at the fourth stop, called Phloen Chit, which is the station nearest The Atlanta.  BTS travel time is 7 minutes.  Take exit 4 from Phloen Chit Station down to the street.  Exit 4 is the southeastern exit.  While descending the staircase at exit 4, you will see Novotel on your right.  Keep walking with the Novotel on your right till you reach the street level, then continue walking in the same direction. 

At the street level, you will find yourself walking under a huge overpass (for cars), then immediately crossing a railway line and a street.  You will soon see a sign that reads ‘Ploenchit Center’ which is an office block with shops, including a McDonald and a Starbucks.  Keep walking.  You will reach the corner of Soi 2 Sukhumvit Road. 

Opposite you is the Marriott Hotel.  The distance you have walked from exit 4 of Phloen Chit Station to the corner of Soi 2 Sukhumvit Road is about 100 yards / meters.  Turn right to walk down Soi 2.  

The Atlanta Hotel is at the end of this lane, a distance of about 600 meters from the corner.  The total travelling time from the Airport Rail Link station to The Atlanta, including waiting time at the platforms and walking time, is about one hour.

 By Taxi

From  SUVARNABHUMI  AIRPORT to The Atlanta Hotel by PUBLIC  TAXI – follow signs to the Public Taxi queue at the forecourt on the ground floor of the airport building – ordinary and large seven-seater taxis available  – travel time 45 minutes to one hour and thirty minutes – total fare between Bahts 400 and 600, inclusive of an airport queue charge and a toll charge, both of which you have to pay – 24-hours service.

 By Skytrain

From Bangkok  Hua  Lampong  TRAIN  STATION  to  The  Atlanta  Hotel  by  UNDERGROUND / SUBWAY / METRO  connecting  with  the  SKY TRAIN (B.T.S)  –  operational from 06:00 hrs till 24:00 hrs  –  practical only if you have luggage you can carry and walk 700 yards / meters, which is the distance you will have to walk from the Sky Train station nearest The Atlanta to The Atlanta  –  exit Hua Lampong Train Station through the main / front doorway, turn left, cross the road and you will see the underground / subway / metro, also called M.R.T. (Metropolitan Rapid Transit) – buy a ticket for Asok (6 stops, 26 Bahts, about 15 minutes) – at Asok, exit the station to the street level, then go up the stairs to Asok Station of the Sky Train (also known as B.T.S. or Bangkok Mass Transit System) – buy a ticket for Phloen Chit (2 stops, 22 Bahts, 4 minutes).  

At Phloen Chit Station, take exit 4 down to the street.  Exit 4 is the southeastern exit.  While descending the staircase at exit 4, you will see Novotel on your right.  Keep walking with the Novotel on your right till you reach the street level, then continue walking in the same direction.  At the street level, you will find yourself walking under a huge overpass (for cars), then immediately crossing a railway line and a street.  You will soon see a sign that reads ‘Ploenchit Center’ which is an office block with shops, including a McDonald and a Starbucks.  Keep walking.  You will reach the corner of Soi 2 Sukhumvit Road.  Opposite you is the Marriott Hotel.​

​The distance you have walked from exit 4 of Phloen Chit Station to the corner of Soi 2 Sukhumvit Road is about 100 yards / meters.  Turn right to walk down Soi 2. The Atlanta Hotel is at the bottom of this lane, ​a distance of about 600 yards / meters from the corner.  The total travelling time from Hua Lampong Train Station to The Atlanta, including waiting time at the platforms and walking time, is about 45 minutes.  

By Taxi

From  Bangkok  Hua  Lampong  TRAIN  STATION  to  The  Atlanta  Hotel  by  TAXI  –  the taxi queue is on the west side of the station (the right side as you exit the platform) – taxi fare should be between Bahts 70 and Bahts 100 bahts – travel time 20 minutes to one hour.