Upon landing at Suvarnabhumi (pronounced Sue wanna boom), the new international airport in Bangkok, I was really awestruck at the aesthetically pleasing and futuristic architecture. To be honest with you, looking at the series of interconnected mounds with identical latticework containing the airport terminals and buildings, one has the impression of landing at a jetport on another planet. It sort of reminded of a movie set that you would see in Star Wars. I know you may think I’ve been smoking something funny but I guarantee you I’m telling you just the way it is. Inside the airport terminal, the décor is very austere and high tech with a dark and light gray color scheme interspersed with white. Dark gray chandeliers hang from the glass ceilings and very tasteful artwork is sprinkled throughout the airport. I have never been in an airport like this; in fact, if you didn’t see the jets parked in the hangers, you may not even realize that you’ re in an airport. After deplaning, the walk to the immigration area was a good ¼ mile; I can imagine that some of the older folk having a tough go of it having to walk so far. Maybe sometime in the future they will have a special cart for senior citizens and handicapped people to transport them to immigration area.

As an experiment, I clocked the time it took me to go thru immigration, pick up my bags and pass thru customs. Believe it or not, the whole process took place in a record time of 30 minutes. That was traveling at warp speed, Scotty beam me up!

Hanumann’s rating 9/10

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