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frenchfrog Premium account Joined: Dec 05 Points: 26139 Posts: 60 Posted: 2009-05-15 03:03:00    www.seat61.com, is an independent travel site This website will tell you the best train times and approximate fares from London to major destinations all over Europe. It will tell you what the trains are like, and how to buy your ticket. This website will provide you with essential information how to travel by train and by ship - Within the Uk and Ireland - From The Uk to Europe, providing links to major train operating companies in Europe. - I Asia, Africa, north America and Australasia. Just check it out it is really worth a look! --- "It is far more better to have seen it once than to have heard about it a thousand time." Mongolian proverb Reply    Reply with quote    Contact frenchfrog   eirekay Premium account Joined: Aug 03 Points: 19539 Posts: 214 Posted: 2009-05-15 03:03:00    Thailand State Railroad: http://www.railway.co.th/english/index.asp For the cost of $24 USD, we took a night train for the distance between Chiang Mai and Bangkok and found it to be our best night train experience EVER! The seats are in pairs facing each other with lots of leg room, a table can be dropped on to a clamp on the side, a ladder/rack sits along side each pair of seats, and the sleeper beds are actually comfortable and roomy! A porter comes around at 8:30 to convert the beds and hang drapes for privacy. We ate dinner off a menu that is brought around early in the evening and for $6 USD, had a beautiful four course meal complete with bananas for dessert. I should note that we took a 2nd class, air conditioned car. The total trip time was 14 hours. The route between Bangkok and Chiang Mai actually could have been used to visit most of the sites we took in: Autthaya, Kamphet, Sukhothai, Lampang and Lamphun. Had we realized how nice the train service was, we would have considered using the train the full way through![edited by eirekay at 2009-05-15 02:28] [edited by eirekay at 2009-05-15 03:03] --- Life is not measured by the breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away. Profile Pic: Tikal, Guatemala Reply    Reply with quote    Contact eirekay   rocks Joined: Feb 09 Points: 29 Posts: 6 Posted: 2009-10-09 07:54:00    if u r in a hurry then plane but if u want the enjoy the journey and scenery then train. _________________ www.imagerentacar.com/Sports_Teams_15_Passenger_Van_Rental.html Reply    Reply with quote    Contact rocks