Lumphini MRT Station

If you're staying anywhere near Sathorn Road, this is the stop that saves your afternoon. Traffic on that stretch can eat an hour of your day for a journey of a few kilometers, and the Blue Line just goes under it. Exits put you close to Lumphini Park, Q House and the Lumpini Park View Hotel, so orientation is easy once you're up the steps.

The engineering here is genuinely odd. There wasn't room underground for the two tunnels to sit side by side, so they were stacked one above the other. That means the platforms are on different levels and you need to know your direction before you commit to the escalator, which is a very long one on the lower tube. Worth a moment's thought if you're carrying luggage. It also tends to be less packed than Silom, one stop along, because that's where most people pile off for the central shopping and office crowd. An underground walkway to One Bangkok is in the works.