Bangkok to Malaysia by Night Train
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00:00 Start
02:10 At Phra Athit Pier
05:12 Chao Phraya Express Boat
12:26 Walk to MRT
17:05 Hua Lamphong Station
25:12 Train Platform 3
33:05 On Express Train #45
45:36 Sleeping on the Train
48:42 In Malaysia! KTM Train
52:45 Ferry to Penang
01:08:44 Walk through George Town
01:19:26 My Airbnb
Oh Doug, i just know you inside Thailand. I mean i watched now all your oler vlogs from Malaysia and Burma, but in real time always Thailand. Good to see you travel through borders again. Have a great time and stay safe!
The Choaphraya taxi boat are the real vibes of every day life in Bangkok(not for touristism but many tourists love the orange flag taxi boats ,anyway) , have followed u for a long long time and think Planet Doug missed Thai vibes in the river and canals in Bangkok neighbourhood , big thanks , pls come again..
Will check out the hotel that you reviewed at the beginning when I get to visit Bangkok in the future. I got sold when you said the staff there not only answered your questions but also tried to anticipate what you needed. That’s what makes exceptional service, I think😊
I agree. I was quite impressed when they anticipated what I might need and offered suggestions and information and options BEFORE I even asked for them. They offered great service.
While I was watching your video, I was afraid of to miss the trains. 😆By the way I like so much George town because of your video. I want so crazy to visit there. 🧡🧡
Hello dear: Planet Doug🌹🌹
I hope you are in good health...your journey has many trials and fatigue..but you have benefited from the way of traveling and avoiding hardships. Accept my highest respect 🌹
Welcome back to Malaysia Doug.I miss you
Thank you. I'm happy to be back.
In an emergency you can push in the earth socket with a screwdriver which allows the two other prongs to go into the socket.
@55:40" __Danger, Will Robinson__ The soundtrack to "Psycho" is playing yet Doug doesn't flinch, bat an eye, go into a rabied delirium :-) Meanwhile, later in a cell-like room where bed sheets are withheld due to suicide risk our hero is home.
Scary stuff, Doug!
My life has consisted of a long series of rooms like this - usually very small, like closets with a bed. Even my bedroom as a child was exactly like this. I slept in a small space beside the furnace of our house. There was just enough room to put in a single bed and little more. I always feel at home for some reason. When I have more space, I never know what to do with it all.
Mr Doug,,,,Sungai Kolok last border town between Thailand deep south and Malaysia,,,
In Malaysia side that town call Sungai Golok in Kelantan State Malaysia ,,both town separate by Golok River,
Stay safe and stay happy 🇲🇾😁
Welcome back to Msia.....after a long absent....
Your itinerary is making me dizzy. Reckon this must be the maximum you have travelled with different modes of travel. Looking forward to Penang.
Interesting episode, thanks for sharing, and a fun trip thanks Doug
PBS - Padang besar station. Sungai golok also a border town as well.
Much later, I eventually figured that out. It's actually obvious, isn't it? Padang Besar=PBS. But I didn't know that at the time.
And for some reason, I wasn't able to find Sungai Kolok on Google Maps. I can see it now. I must have made a mistake in my searches that day.
But it's still far, far away from Padang Besar, isn't it? It confused me why one train would have two different cities as a destination. It can't go to both of them. But maybe the train separated into two parts at some point. One half went to Padang Besar and the other half went to Sungai Golok.
@@PlanetDoug yes one is the famous border town in kelantan, the other is on the west coast. I assume that based on demand and schedule , the train will proceed to Either location Not both which is not possible.
@@PlanetDoug actually during dry season smugglers even walk across the famous river and come over to kelantan at sungai golok.
Those fighter jets in 1:16:41 are most likely came from the Butterworth Air Base! In the north of the Butterworth train station, there is a large military air base that homes to the F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets, maybe it's a regular training or exercise for them on that day.
Your comment about the boat operators on the river making it look easy reminded me of where I used to work....a cruise port but for me I was always amazed at the forklift operators moving items around to and from the shop dockside. It was like watching a dance with so many of them working at different things but dancing around each other on the dock making it look somewhat easy, which by no means it was.
It's something I always notice. I really enjoy CZcams videos that show people with skills like that. Particularly people who work in factories or prepare food on the street. They've perfected the technique and the motions required over years of practice and then it looks astonishing. They're so fast and precise.
long time no see 😂😂 last time watch your channel that you visitting old royal palace in KL ...and taking the monorail .
I remember that day very well. I really like using the Monorail and the LRT and MRT trains in Kuala Lumpur.
Great video, I love go by train when abroad 👍
Welcome to Penang & Malaysia.Usually the train leave at 3.45 pm for Padang Besar/Hatyai.
in thailand part i would love to visit hua lampong station one day..the penang part.. Georgetown look a bit quite and i remember the town not so shine and bright at nite..a unesco town as they say..
Hai Dough. Welcome back to Malaysia. That ferry is used only for vehicles now. Waiting to see more videos from Malaysia. FYI, wearing masks is no longer mandatory but you still see Malaysians wearing them though.
I'm sad to see the old ferry system go. That vehicle ferry was one of my favorite things about going to George Town.
@@PlanetDoug many of us feel the same.
Thank you so much for describing how the station Padang Besar works! That's so difficult to find out =)
Very details journey from Bangkok to Penang.... appreciate it very much...but what a maze at the pier b4 boarding the ferry
That is definitely a maze. It's been like that for many years because of all the construction. I thought that by this time, it would all be finished. But the path from the train station to the ferry is still pretty complicated.
Recently, I watched a bunch of videos from CZcamsrs that went to Penang, and I kept hoping one of them would show this long, complicated walk in their video and talk about it. But none of them did. Their videos just jump to them being on the ferry or at the ferry ticket window without showing how complicated it was to get there. 😅
I can't help it but show everything.... It's all part of the story of getting to George Town.
welcome back to Malaysia!
this was very interesting
Hey Doug. Been watching your cycling in Malaysia last time and your gadget purchase in Midvalley. Also enjoying your search for the old design of the Casio watch in Jalan Pasar. Btw, I'm just wondering, how many kilos of your backpack with all the vlog equipment? Our style of travel is the same as using a backpack and vlogging.
Right now, I don't really know how much my backpack would weigh with my usual stuff plus the vlogging equipment. On this trip, I was just going from Mae Sot to Kuala Lumpur, and I decided to bring everything I had with me. I wasn't really travelling anywhere, so I didn't think it mattered if my backpack was unusually heavy.
So, I brought all the stuff I had bought while in Thailand: a full set of queen-sized bed sheets and pillow cases; an electric kettle; household goods; etc. I also had a lot of duplicate camera gear and electronics and other things. So my backpack was extremely full, and it was probably twice as heavy as it would normally be. I tried to make it look easy in the video, but I could barely pick it up and put it on. It was hard to even walk and go up stairs because it was so heavy.
My plan is to consolidate all my gear and make my load much, much smaller and lighter. However, it will still be heavy. I always travel with a lot of stuff anyway. It's just my style.
nice vedio
The best bargain in Thailand is the 10 baht shower at Hua Lamphong, need your own towel though.
What I find with the sleeper cars is to leave on the latest train possible as sitting with two people facing like that is uncomfortable and lots of time the later trains have the beds made when you get on.
I enjoyed the video and was wondering if making so many videos where you're talking into the camera causes you to talk as you're walking around and not filming?
I saw signs for some kind of shower in Hua Lamphong. And I really wanted to take advantage of that. But I wasn't sure if it was open or not. It looked to be closed, and I wasn't sure what I could do with my luggage while I was in there. It all seemed complicated, so I ended up just soaking my hand towel in the sink and sort of cooling off with that. A shower would have been nice, though.
welcome back..merdeka118 almost completed..second tallest buildings in the world
I'm oddly happy to see it. I walked by Merdeka 118 all the time when I was in Kuala Lumpur before when it was under construction. Now I can't stop looking up at it when it's almost completed.
Welcome back to Malaysia, Doug. Soon you'll be reunited with your things in storage in KL. If I recall correctly, that includes a bicycle. Maybe we'll see more of the cycling Canadian then, eh.
Sounds like jiayou nation youtuber.
You remember correctly. It's my old beast of a touring bicycle - a mountain bike that has been converted into a touring bicycle. I bought it in 1999 for a trip to Ethiopia, and I still have it today.
To be honest, I should have upgraded to a newer bike by now. But I still have this older one. I don't know if I'll be cycling in Kuala Lumpur at all. I might take the bike out occasionally just for fun and for special occasions. But it's easier to get around KL by MRT than by bicycle. 🙂
Late train departure ! - It is very unusual for 🚂trains to depart from its starting departure main Bangkok station late as there is usually enough time between the arrival of the train on the previous schedule (even if it came in late) and the next departure schedule, as the cleaning staff need time clean the couch cars, seats, toilets, etc.
I enjoy taking the Hat Yai/Bangkok Special Express train with sleeping barth before the Covid 19 pandemic. There were once we arrived very very late in Bangkok Hua Lamphong railway station because many roads are closed even for train road crossing in Bangkok due to a cycling event, but we still arrived before the next departure schedule.
From my many trips by train, I noticed many Thais will get off the train once the train arrived in the Bangkok Chatuchak area (North of Bangkok ! The railway actually go up farther north before turn down south possible due to the big Chao Phraya river) as the train will stop very often due to the many railway road crossing in Bangkok. I once have similar experience when taking the train from Ayutthaya. So the next time if you happen to take the train to Bangkok, do as the 🇹🇭Thais do👍🏽, get off early in Bangkok Chatuchak area.
I was wondering about that. My impression was that the trains in Thailand ran on time. I know people who took the trains in Thailand recently, and it seems like their trains always left right on schedule. They were never late.
So I was surprised when this train left an hour and a half late and then arrived in Padang Besar more than three hours late. It seemed unusual to me.
Hey Doug, just wondering if you saw my message to you on your last video about how to turn off sleep mode on your laptop, and if it was helpful or not, Cheers.
I did. 🙏 And it was helpful. I just haven't had time to reply to comments for a while. It's been a busy series of days and weeks for me. 🙂
Hye Dough , PBS maybe stand for Padang Besar Station 😅 have a safe journey
I think you're right. I just wasn't able to figure that out at the time. I guess I wasn't thinking clearly. 🙂
Vehicle ferry is discontinued. Sadly.
I have same line problems 😂
Is'nt it amazing & super cool the rapport between the 2 countries Thailand & Malaysia??
obviously doug is so tired of people asking what camera he used that he posted the equipment he uses in the description of every videos uploaded, but somehow people still kept asking
I don't mind when people ask about cameras and other gear. I love talking about that stuff. 😀 In fact, I usually can't find people who are as interested as I am. I bore people when I start talking to them about cameras.
Quite often, when I watch CZcams videos from other people, I am like a detective as I try to figure out what kind of camera they have. I wait until they walk by a mirror or reflective window and pause the video so I can zoom in and try to make out the brand and model of camera and what kind of microphone they have. I love it when they put an equipment list in the video description.
In a way, my equipment list isn't very helpful when you think about it. It lists ALL the gear that I have. But it doesn't specify which camera or lens I was actually using in specific videos. I should probably add that. 🙂
Wow this vlog is 2 weeks backdated
Make Ramly burger your first meal when you're back in M'sia.. special Ramly burger...
I'm in luck. There used to be a Ramly burger outlet on the street right outside of my normal hostel in Kuala Lumpur. If it is still open and operational, I can have a Ramly burger right away.
The bathrooms are located where the platforms are to ensure only passengers get to use them. You have to use it before exiting the turnstiles
That makes sense. I looked for the bathrooms back then, too. They were probably there, but I must have missed them.
@@PlanetDoug Sometimes they are upstairs where the overpass to cross the platforms is
You can only get on the old ferry vehicle by riding motorcycle or bicycle. Car transportation for the ferry has been abolished.
Thanks for that information. I remember now that I cycled past the old vehicle ferry terminal near the bus exchange, and I saw a sign that said (in Malay) something about how only bicycles, tricycles, and motorcycles were allowed. I wonder how often this ferry goes across. It's probably not as frequent as the old vehicle ferry.
Couldn't you have contacted the airbnb hosts on for the password problem?
I think he doesn't have local sim card yet
I didn't have a SIM card for Malaysia yet, so my phone wasn't connected to the Internet. There was no way to contact anyone. If it turned out to be impossible to get in, I would have gone to some kind of cafe and had a coffee and used their WiFi to contact my Airbnb host. So I wasn't trapped or stuck or anything. But I was able to take a guess and figure out what the proper door code was. I just had to add an extra 0 to the front and make it a 4-digit code. 🙂
Hi Doug do you know you can fly from Don maung airport Thailand, to Penang with Air Asia for 1050 Baht.Why put yourself through all that agro.
I thought about flying originally. It seemed to be the easiest option, and it didn't seem expensive. But my journey was starting from Mae Sot, not from Bangkok. So even if I flew Bangkok-Penang, I'd still have to get to Bangkok overland. And I figured that since I was already starting off by traveling overland, I might as well just keep going the whole way.
And I thought it would be fun and interesting. There are a lot of challenges in that kind of trip. But it's also full of variety and you get to see a lot of new things and have a lot of new experiences along the way.
I remember looking into how much it would cost on Air Asia, and I don't think I saw anything as cheap as 1,050 baht. I can't remember what the fares were back when I was looking, but I checked just now for a one-way flight in October/November, and the cheapest base fares are 1,900-2,200 baht. With taxes and standard luggage fees, it comes to 3,061 baht. And I was travelling with a LOT of extra luggage. It would have cost at least another 1,000 baht or more for excess luggage fees.
On top of that, the flights I saw left at 7:30 in the morning, which would mean losing practically an entire night of sleep to get to the airport on time. And then likely the cost of a taxi to the airport on top of everything else plus a taxi/Grab from the Penang airport to Georgetown.
With the train option, it was FAR cheaper. It left at a comfortable 3:10 in the afternoon, arriving at a good time in the afternoon. And I was able to sleep on the train and have a great time and simply walk and take ferry boats to get places. In the end, I think it was the right choice for me. I had a really good time. 🙂
19:30 theres actually 2 different train routes with the interchange station at Hatyai Junction
Train 37 goes all the way to Sungei Kolok on the east coast
Train 45 goes to Padang Besar
49:13 the train is running late than scheduled due to the contruction along the railway as they’re upgrading the tracks to double tracking.
51:11 that station technically is on Malaysian part of the border, acts as a shared facility for both country. The thailand side station is approx 200meters further.
Anyway welcome back to Malaysia 🎉🇲🇾
Thanks. That makes perfect sense. At the time, my brain was too befuddled to realize that a train can actually go to two different places. It's not like a bus. A train can split up with some cars going to one city and other cars going somewhere else.
I kept thinking that Train 37 and Train 45 were two different trains. And I didn't want to get on the wrong one. But in this case, I guess the two trains travelled as one unit for a while. And then, as you said, in Hatyai they split up. Makes perfect sense. 🙂
What the prize for that room??
Do you mean the Airbnb room in George Town? It cost 34 ringgit per night. That's about $7.25 US, I think.
Wonder what is the difference between an uber ride vs walking-boat-walking-mrt in Bangkok non busy hour?
In terms of the price, I don't know. I'm sure the cost of an Uber or Grab or even taxi would be reasonable. Of course, taking the ferry and MRT would be cheaper, but I could have taken a private car if I wanted. I guess I enjoy the slow pace of the complicated method. And I had plenty of time before the 3:10 train. I was in no rush. 🙂
Thanks Doug for sharing your adventure and taking us along on your trip, BTW Doug, I was watching a YT video and thought you might be interested in this foldable compact luggage trolly, czcams.com/video/WQzlsjH4L9k/video.html it might help you with your heavy luggage.
Thank you again and wish you a pleasant stay in Malaysia.🙏
My backpack was so heavy on this trip that I actually thought about picking up some kind of cheap trolly like that. It would have been handy just for this one trip. Normally, my backpack would be heavy but not quite THIS heavy.
I really do like the idea of trailers and wheeled devices, though. They do come with a lot of problems, but I like bike touring with a trailer. I bought a bicycle trailer from a company in the Netherlands, and they also make a special hiking trailer. I've often wondered how it work out in real life. But it looks interesting as long as the trails were relatively flat and even:
Of course, it's not meant to be packable, lightweight or cheap.
www.radicaldesign.com/wheelie-v-skeleton-walking-trailer
why masking - malaysia doesn't require it inside or outside?
I still wore a mask in my country,Malaysia....
Yep, I don't get it either. Could be a Canadian thing.
If you are in public transports it's still mandatory. In buildings, it's up to the buildings' management. Outdoors up to you...
I'm not fully up-to-date on the current rules. They keep changing. But as far as I know, you still have to wear a mask in public transportation. And all the shopping malls and restaurants and even outdoor markets I've visited still require masks to be worn.
In any event, the vast majority of the local people are still wearing masks everywhere, even when walking down open streets. So I lean towards doing the same just to be polite and fit in and make people feel comfortable around me.
@@PlanetDoug Interesting. At the risk of being guilty of stereotyping that comes across as being very Canadian. We've been travelling for 8 months across spain turkey malaysia indonesia malaysia(penang) bangkok and malaysia(kl again). In every case the moment the rules change we have left the mask in our pocket. In the sky train and lrt we stood out. In bangkok we often got the condo elevator to ourselves because locals fled in fear. chacon pour soi