Arrival We took off from Heathrow at around 12 noon Saturday (UK time) and arrived in Bangkok at about 7:00am Sunday morning. With our baggage collected, we set off in search of a taxi. Now, I'd done plenty of research before heading to Thailand, and many people had told me about the bangkok airport taxi scam. I knew I should be paying around 300bhat to get to Bangkok City on a metered taxi, and with this in mind I headed for the meter taxi desk. After telling the woman where we wanted to go, she hailed over a driver for us. I tried to ask her how much it would cost, but she just said "ask him", and pointed at our driver. Fine. As he put our bags into the boot, and we stepped intot he
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