Suvarnabhumi adds more hotel counters after reports of chaos

An air traveller looks for the name of his hotel at a counter in the arrival area on Sunday. (Photo from @spin9 Twitter account)
An air traveller looks for the name of his hotel at a counter in the arrival area on Sunday. (Photo from @spin9 Twitter account)

Suvarnabhumi airport has added more hotel counters for inbound passengers after reports of chaos in the passenger arrival area.

The airport general manager said nine more counters for hotels had been added on the second floor, reserved for inbound air travellers, taking the total to 17.

The move followed complaints by airport users on social media on the weekend. Pictures showed frustrated passengers looking for the names of the hotels where they wanted to stay or had made reservations before travelling.

"Hotel staff shouted the names of their hotels and desperately shook their heads. When passengers complained to them, hotel staff told them to complain to Airports of Thailand," a post on the Twitter account @spin9 said.

Airports of Thailand manages Suvarnabhumi and other international airports in the country except Samui.

Arrivals at Suvarnabhumi have risen since the lifting of pre-travel RT-PCR testing on April 1.

AoT predicts even more passengers passing through Suvarnabhumi and other airports during Songkran.

Vocabulary

  • chaos: a situation in which everything is confused and in a mess - การจราจล
  • complain: to say that you are annoyed, unhappy or not satisfied about somebody/something - บ่น, ร้องทุกข์
  • desperately: feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others - ทิ้งไพ่ตาย อย่างสุดชีวิต อย่างเอาเป็นเอาตาย
  • frustrated: feeling annoyed and impatient because you are prevented from achieving something - ผิดหวัง,ท้อแท้ใจมาก, หงุดหงิดใจ
  • inbound: travelling towards a particular point, particularly into a city - ขาเข้า (opposite of outbound ขาออก)
  • reservation (noun): an arrangement to get something in the future; an arrangement for a seat on a plane or train, a room in a hotel, a ticket for a seat at a sports match, etc. to be kept for you - การจอง
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