Five hours and you are on the coast
Prachuap Khiri Khan is about three hundred kilometres south of Bangkok, and the train is the obvious way to do it: roughly five hours on the southern line, with four services a day and a fare that costs less than a taxi across Bangkok. The line runs inland at first and then swings towards the water, so the last stretch is the good bit.
The station sits in the middle of town, ten minutes' walk from the seafront. That is the part people miss when they compare it with the bus, which drops you at a terminal on the edge of things.
Transport
Tickets & connections
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Route at a glance
Bangkok to Prachuap Khiri Khan
- Distance: about 300 km by road
- Train: around 5 hours, four departures a day
- Bus and minivan: 4–5 hours from Sai Tai Mai
- Car: about 4 hours on Phetkasem Road (Highway 4)
Good to know
Good to know
- Trains leave from Krung Thep Aphiwat, not the old Hua Lamphong station.
- The station is in town; the bus terminal is not. Factor that in.
- Ao Manao beach is inside an air force base — bring your passport.
- Ban Krut is seventy kilometres further south on the same line.