We have prepared an overview of popular ways to get to Bangkok on your own at minimal cost.
Direct flights from Russia
Direct communication between the regions of Russia and Bangkok allows tourists to fly with increased comfort and in a short time. You can fly from Moscow Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg airport and other large settlements of the country. The easiest way is to look for a suitable option for a flight on the thematic ticket websites. We'll take the renowned resources of Aviasales and Skyscanner and see what they offer us. For example, Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, and Qatar planes depart from the capital every day. The average cost of a ticket on the route is 17-19 thousand rubles. In terms of time, it is the domestic company that offers the best conditions. It will take only 9-9.5 hours to get to Bangkok by Aeroflot planes!
A domestic company can offer similar offers for tourists from St. Petersburg. The cost of a direct flight will be slightly more than for their metropolitan counterparts (the average price for a ticket from the company is 18800-19500 rubles). The journey itself will take a little more time - 12-13 hours.
We are looking for the cheapest offers
To find the cheapest flight deal, we recommend using Skyscanner's Deals Finder. For example, if you have not decided on a specific departure date, you can select the appropriate month in the drop-down menu of the search bar.
Let's enter the departure point "Russia", the destination point "Bangkok" and select the month "May 2016". In a few seconds, a window with search results will appear in front of us, which will indicate a list of Russian cities from which flights to this Thai city are made, the number of transfers on the direction (or it will be mentioned that there are none). Here you can also see the calendar of affordable prices, with the help of which it is possible to draw up the cheapest route option.
As you can see, in the search results, in addition to the already named Moscow and St. Petersburg, air travel services can also be offered by the airports of such settlements of the country as Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Samara, Ufa and others. Note that in May 2017 direct flights are offered by Moscow, St. Petersburg, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk. All other offers include intermediate stops at airports in third countries.
Let's choose, for example, a flight from Irkutsk. The calendar of low prices that appears shows the best price offers of the month. After analyzing the information provided, we understand that it is cheapest to fly on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays. But the highest prices for flights are on Friday and Sunday. Here is a list of companies that fly to the selected destination.
When is the best time to fly
In addition to using the low price calendar function, it is worth paying attention to the peculiarities of tourist trips to Bangkok at different times of the year. It's no secret that trips at the height of the tourist season are always more expensive than in the off-season. In the case of Bangkok, the cheapest way to plan your vacation is in the spring or early summer. From August to September until the end of the year, prices for plane tickets and accommodation in Bangkok will only increase.
Although, if you book tickets for the fall in advance (for example, in May-June), you can buy them at almost the same price as for flights today. Experienced tourists use this little trick. There is only one important nuance - you need to be 100% sure that nothing will interfere with your trip on the chosen date.
We fly with transfers
The advantage of connecting flights is their more affordable price (although this is not always the case). As a rule, tourists choose interchange routes that run through the UAE, China, Qatar and Hong Kong. This journey has its undeniable advantages. First of all, tourists get the opportunity to visit 2-3 countries at once within one trip. Considering that the transfer time is sometimes delayed for several hours, it is possible to take a short excursion to the intermediate cities or visit the long-noted exhibition complex (another attraction).
As a rule, the stopover takes place in the country to which the carrier airline belongs. I suggest that foreign airlines follow such routes for vacationers from Moscow, Novosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnoyarsk and other cities of Russia. For example, aircraft of S7 Airlines, Emirates regularly depart from Krasnoyarsk, making intermediate landings in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Novosibirsk. The cost of such a one-way flight will be at least 21 thousand rubles.
And from St. Petersburg, with one stop in Doha, planes of the Qatar company fly regularly, the price of whose services is 20-21 thousand rubles.
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From the Far Eastern regions of Russia
But tourists from Khabarovsk and other regions of the Far East will have to fork out. It will take them longer and more expensive to get to Thailand. So, the domestic "Aeroflot" offers flights costing from 33 thousand rubles with 2-3 transfers in Vladivostok, Hong Kong and Phuket. The travel time is at least 25-26 hours. The only exception to this rule is a flight from S7, which provides for only one transfer in Novosibirsk, and the ticket price is 15.5 thousand rubles, a record for the region!
Share tips
Every self-respecting tourist is simply obliged to be able to use different means to find lucrative travel deals. Using the search engines mentioned above, it is not at all sufficient to simply enter the initial data and grab the first sentence that comes across. You need to be able to analyze the prices and conditions that each carrier offers, monitor the dynamics and skillfully use filters.
We recommend that you subscribe, thanks to which you can receive interesting and relevant offers from carriers to your e-mail box. Be sure: sometimes the cost of tickets for one week, but on different dates, can be drastically different (by 30.50, 70%). We also advise you to analyze prices by departure / arrival cities. Sometimes you can get to a neighboring settlement by train or bus, thereby reducing the cost of a plane ticket. It is also not necessary to look for a flight ending in Bangkok. Resort Krabi and Phuket can also be suitable for such a trip, and getting from them to Bangkok is not difficult!
Please note: those who buy round-trip tickets at once can save a lot. You can buy tickets with discounts up to 60-70%. By doing so, you automatically save yourself the risk of not getting a ticket on the desired departure day. This is especially true for vacationers who go to the eastern countries at the peak of the holiday season. In addition, in winter, Thai tour operators tend to increase prices for the return trip for Russians.
Do not neglect the opportunity to book a hotel via the Internet. Today there are many resources that provide such services. Using them, you not only get a guarantee of a room availability upon arrival, but you can also become participants in a profitable promotion!
Why do I need a return ticket
Remember that you can stay in Thailand for only one month without a visa. After that, tourists must leave the country. That is why, when passing the border control, tourists may be required to show a return ticket. If it is not there, you can forget about the beaches of Bangkok and soon you will find yourself in Russia.
Discounts and promotions
Sometimes you can buy a ticket to Thailand for a promotion. Most often, such sales are held for residents of the capital and St. Petersburg, but tourists from the regions should not despair either. Such sales are regularly organized by Qatar Airways, Etihad, Emirates, Vietnam Airlines. Some carriers manage to discount up to 50% of the ticket price and arrange similar sales 1-2 times a month. In order not to miss the great deals, you should follow the news of the companies.
Charters
Do not forget about such a profitable flight opportunity as the services of a charter company. Such offers can be found on many popular tourist destinations. The easiest way to follow such offers is through the site tourdom.ru.
The only drawback of such offers is that they appear only a few days before the departure date, which allows them to be used only by those tourists who are not burdened with work or other obligations, and are also "light on their feet." That is why young people most often use charter services.
Another drawback of such proposals is the need to call travel agencies and confirm the relevance of information found on the Internet. You will have to pick up tickets in person at the company's office.
Flight to Thailand via third countries
Sometimes tourists choose this particular travel option. This practice is especially common among tourists who live near the state border - residents of St. Petersburg, the Far Eastern regions, etc. For example, residents of St. Petersburg can get to one of the Baltic airports by ground transport, from where they can successfully fly to Bangkok.
Residents of regions that border on Asian countries choose the path through Hong Kong, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, India, Malaysia, etc. The fact is that local Asian companies offer more favorable travel conditions. There are also low-cost low-cost airlines operating in the region, which systematically arrange sales on popular destinations. Just imagine that a flight between two Asian countries can cost tourists only 1000-2000 rubles!
The leader in this regard is Malaysia, which is famous for its lowest prices in the region.
Bangkok airport
<> One of the largest airports in the region has a difficult-to-pronounce name - Suvarnabhumi. It has one terminal, which is designed to receive passengers, both domestic and international. The building consists of four floors, each of which is dedicated to a specific area. So, the first floor accommodates a bus stop, a first-aid post, bathrooms and a cafe. On the second tier there are passport control counters. On the third floor, you can have a good rest and a snack, and the last floor is reserved for the departure area.
It is on the last floor that the check-in counters are located for passengers planning to take off on domestic or international flights.
How to get from the airport to the center of Bangkok
Remember: in order not to waste time in long queues before passport control, you need not to waste time and immediately after boarding move to the indicated counters with the Foreign sign. Here you will be required to present your migration card and stamp your passport.
If you bought a tourist tour with a transfer to the hotel, the travel agency will take care of your delivery. Otherwise, you will have to get to the city on your own.
There are three main ways to quickly get to the center of Bangkok - use the services of the Aeroexpress, taxi or buy a bus ticket. The most expensive is the services of a private cab driver - you will have to pay 200-400 units of local currency for the trip. Don't forget to bargain! The disadvantage of such a trip is the presence of traffic jams. Therefore, the travel time often exceeds 50-60 minutes.
For those who do not speak the local language, it is worth using the services of Public taxi. Its essence lies in the fact that at the counter (first floor of the airport) a special person acts as an intermediary between the tourist and the taxi driver, explaining to the latter where the passenger needs to be taken. These services cost an additional 50 baht.
A bus or minibus trip will be more economical. Such a trip will cost tourists only 20-45 baht. But most often tourists prefer to travel by Aeroexpress. You can get to the city center in this way in just 30 minutes, passing six stops. And the fare will pleasantly surprise you - it is only 15-45 baht, depending on the destination.
