National Children’s Day is coming up on January 8 and if you’ve got no plans for it, how about taking the kids for a free ride on Bangkok’s BTS and MRT trains? To celebrate the holiday, the Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand will allow children under the age of 14 and under the height of 140 centimetres to ride for free.
The MRT will be handing out free ride coupons at the ticket offices in any MRT Station. Those coupons are valid all day through the full service hours of the Blue Line and Purple Line of the MRT.
The Bangkok Mass Transit System will offer a similar free ride experience, though they are careful to add some caveats to the free rides. They also offer free rides to children under 14 and under 140 centimetres, but to avoid unsupervised kids running amok throughout the train system, they expressly state the free tickets are only valid for kids who are…
