A businessman has described a trip to Thailand as a 'nightmare' after being stranded in the country for more than three days.

Tony Horner, managing director at Ideal Foods, Liskeard, left for Thailand on November 12 for what he thought was just going to be a straightforward business trip.

However, when he arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport on November 25, he was asked to leave the airport and was later transferred to a hotel in the centre of Bangkok.

More than 3,000 passengers were left stranded at Thailand's two main airports, Suvarnabhumi and Bangkok International, after protesters called for the government to be disbanded.

He said: 'I was in the business lounge waiting for my flight, which was due to board at midnight.' The flight was then delayed and he was forced to wait in the lounge with no details of what was going on.

He added: 'We were in there until 7am then people poured in and ransacked the lounge.'

Officials arrived at about midday and moved everyone out of the airport and Tony had to get a lift into Bangkok where he stayed for three days. He said: 'We met with British officials while we were there but they were unable to give us any information.'

Tony was then told that there were flights out of U-Tapao, a Thai military base in the north, and he managed to get a lift to the base so that he could join a flight that was leaving on November 29.

Baggage

The flight took him to Hong Kong where he managed to get a connecting flight to Heathrow airport where he then had to wait three hours to claim his baggage.

When asked if he would be returning to Thailand, he said: 'The trouble is that we had no warning of what was happening and the worry is that it could easily happen again.'

Protesters have now begun leaving the two airports and travellers have started to make their way home.