Trains and buses

Now that Krung Thep Aphiwat, APW (aka Bang Sue Grand Station) has been open for a few months, what do fellow travellers think of the experience of using it? I fainted (literally) trying to get to the city centre on MRT after arriving at APW on an overnight rain from Surat Thani. I saw the distance involved in going to the food hall for breakfast (inconveniently tucked away in one corner of the station) and reckoned it would be about a kilometre walk from breakfast to the MRT platforms (situated away from the opposite corner of the massive railway station). So I forgot breakfast and got straight on to MRT in the rush hour. After ten minutes of excruciating standing …