Tomtomtom69

A pink ID card is NOT proof of Thai citizenship. Acceptable forms of Thai citizenship include a Thai birth certificate indicating you're a Thai citizen by birth (though for anyone old than about 7, this document isn't normally used), a Thai ID card, Thai passport, Thai government ID and a Thai driver's license with a 13 digit Thai ID number on it. Therefore, unless you're a Thai citizen, count yourself lucky if any venue gives you the Thai price for entry.

Huh? Well, as a Thai citizen, you have the right to be treated without discrimination. You have certain inalienable rights, as a Thai. This does NOT apply to foreigners. Hence why, in the very very rare cases where some racist ticket collector might think he or she can get away with charging a Thai citizen the foreigner price, you have the right to make a stink or even sue them.

While I agree with your sentiments, I'm not sure there would be any justification for imposing only a small difference in pricing. If the difference between foreigner and Thai pricing at national parks were reduced down to 3 times, then I would see it as being able to attract more foreign visitors, especially expats, but ideally, there would be residency based pricing for us. I still wouldn't visit a national park (except when they run free entry promotions) even if the price difference were reduced down to 3 times from the present 5-10 times

Which is why dual pricing in Thailand, a much poorer country than Singapore, will never go away as long as wealthier countries are still practicing it. The way forward is for Thailand to drop dual pricing in some settings; reduce the price difference between foreigners and locals; impose more residency based pricing whereby Thai speaking expats holding appropriate ID that proves their residency get in for the same price as locals and finally, always ask for ID to get the Thai price. Never use racial profiling. No Thai ID = you pay the foreigner price. Period.

Thai Airways doesn't have special pricing for Thais. You're making this up.

Rofl. Paying more for being white makes me unhappy and thus no possibility of having a good time. I'll have a much better time if I don't go.

Nonsense. Bring along the kids ID card or passport and they'll be charged the Thai rate of course. If there's any dispute about it, call the police.

Chinese are usually charged the Thai rate as they look Thai. Burmese, Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, Singaporeans, Malays and Filipinos = typically charged the Thai rate. Arabs are usually considered to be farang. Indians = 50/50. Sometimes, charged the Thai rate (mainly in more rural, less touristy places), while in Bangkok, Chiang Mai etc they're treated as farang and charged the farang rate.

"All hospitals". No, just most public hospitals. Thai Airways flight prices - nonsense! Massage parlors?? Again, nonsense. Never had a massage anywhere, where I'm paying more than a Thai. The rest of your post I agree with; sadly, it's true that mostly farang are affected by dual pricing in Thailand. Asian foreigners typically pay the Thai price. Perhaps they should be more honest and put up signs saying: "Price for Asians" and "price for westerners".

What I also find strange is how dual pricing only applies to entrance fees but not anything else. For example, what is the justification for foreigners (including resident expats) paying 200 Baht to enter the Sam Roi Yod national park while Thais pay only 40, but for the short boat ride across to the next beach, everyone pays 400? If a Thai can afford to spend 400 for a boat, they can also afford an entry fee of 200. Conversely, if 200 is too expensive for a Thai, then a 400 Baht boat ride (which goes up to 1000+, for longer boat rides) is astronomically expensive. Therefore, why are Thais not paying just 10-20% for the boat ride? I'm not advocating for more dual pricing, but trying to find the logic in this absurdity.

Well, the problem with that greedy logic is that there will be a person called quake2 who says they need at least 10 rai, and quake3 will need 100 rai and soon the whole country will belong to foreigners, which will build resentment, lead to racial tensions / anti-foreigner sentiment and so forth. No one is limiting your wife from owning more than 1 rai; if you love her, then it's almost like it's your land anyway.

Because the Chinese will buy up the entire country, pricing everyone out of the market. Why does land need to be in your name anyway? So you can brag about it? Also, why should anyone be forced to sell land to you, or any other foreigner? It can be in your Thai wife's name or your Thai citizen children's name..that should be good enough.

Here's a thought: just register the land in your Thai citizen children's name(s). They're allowed to own land, even if you aren't.

Lol. Never heard of the last 7 and I don't think anyone else has either. Scoozi is no longer in business, last I checked. They closed most of their stores around 2018-2019. It's not the second and third one either, as those are now mostly take away style and generally not located inside malls, but rather, gas/petrol stations and sometimes, small community malls. Thus you know which one of those it must be.

Not really true at all. Chains have a vested interest in defending their reputation and ensuring they meet certain minimum standards of quality and safety. Small restaurants don't necessarily care. This is Thailand after all, a lot of people will simply do things the way they're used to or how they like, with little consideration for the consumer. Most of the time, it comes out right but this can't be guaranteed.

I visit malls and eat at them all the time, though very rarely dine at the pizza company as there are better options. While I've never had a major problem at hole in the wall Thai restaurants either, I find their standards can sometimes be poor. I agree that small bone fragments can be an issue in such places, which puts to rest the idea brought up by another poster, that small restaurants don't encounter such issues, because they have more of a "vested interest" in ensuring their food is safe. In general, I'd say most chains have such a vested interest, as they have a reputation to keep, hence why such incidents are so rare.

Actually there's only one. The second one can be found in some malls, but only one is found in every Central mall, the Mall and various others.

That's completely bizarre. While I have my own cars and motorcycle now, whenever I've rented a car in Thailand, they always want to see my license (which would either be my foreign license or Thai one, since I have a Thai one now). I've never been able to rent a car without showing a driver's license. Why would it be different for scooter/motorcycle rental (except for maybe the smallest 50cc bikes)?

Stay away from supposed "free" insurance offered by the Thai government, which doesn't exist. Buy your own travel insurance in your home country. Don't engage in risky behavior.

There are summer thunderstorms, mainly in the north and north-east between February and April. They tend to be isolated at first, then become more widespread, especially after Songkran. The occasional thunderstorm may hit central Thailand including Bangkok too, but in my experience, they tend to be more widespread and stronger up north and north-east vs Bangkok during that time of year. Then, around mid-May you start to experience almost daily thunderstorms, which last into early June. That's followed by light or moderate rain, generally without thunderstorms, until early July when there's a mini dry season lasting 1-2 weeks (speaking of Bangkok and anywhere east of the Dawna range). West of the Dawna range, along the border with Myanmar, it's far wetter and June, July tend to be VERY wet. Mid July until late September tends to be rather wet in Bangkok and much of upper Thailand. 2021 was VERY, VERY wet in Bangkok at least, beginning in mid July and lasting until mid September or so, but the wettest period was during the Tokyo Olympics until roughly, mid to late August. Depending on the year, the rain reduces significantly starting in the 2nd to 3rd week of October. This year, at first it seemed like the rainy season was over around September 27 or 28, but a few days later, the rains returned. While it's been mostly sunny most days since the second week of October, there has also been a bit of rain here and there and it continues to be humid, so feels like the season change isn't going to be upon us until maybe mid November this year. Unusually, February 2022 was very wet, with 10 consecutive days where there was some rain, at least in central Thailand. All the smaller canals filled back up and the humidity was as high as in September, so it can definitely rain at anytime of year in this part of the world, even during the so called "dry season". As for cold exposure - this is only an issue at higher elevations or sometimes, in the north or north-east among poor, elderly villagers who can't afford blankets or warm clothes and live in houses, which get cold during the night in those areas during December or January cold snaps because they aren't insulated. The south has a different climate, with a second, wet monsoon season beginning in December, particularly on the east coast.

Those aren't cold months. They're dry months with cooler, drier nights but during the day, it's still hot most of the time anywhere in the country that isn't in the mountains.

It's a common reaction among Africans to go on rampages when things don't go their way. Doesn't happen much in Thailand simply because there are hardly any Africans here.

It is. It's both the law and the right of a business to decide that smoking is banned on their premises. It's a market area. You making up your own alternative facts because you somehow believe this uncouth behavior is acceptable leads me to question your sanity. This guy acted like a real jerk. He's the type of tourist who should be deported and blacklisted, because he's a rude, low quality tourist that brings zero value to Thailand.

At the very beginning, but the Thais were quick to boot those farang from the cockpit as they're not Thai.

What nonsense. 20 years ago, I flew inside Thailand and on Thai registered aircraft into Thailand and it was only ever Thai citizen pilots. I have met Chinese, Korean and Japanese cabin crew working on routes to those countries for THAI. However, foreign pilots are NOT allowed to work for Thai registered airlines and this was already the case 20 years ago