RandolphGB

This was nothing but a bribe to get votes. It will bankrupt the country. Typical Taksin.

Agree 100% . Most normal people grow out of water fights after 11 years old.

Thais are the most infantile nation of people on the planet. There is quite simply no comparison. Overgrown child, the lot of them. From the very top to the bottom. Sue me.

Thais are a funny breed. Complain about their flag carrier's appalling service and outright corruption. But refuse to hire a foreign management team with executive level aviation industry to reform the failing airline. Better still... sell the the airline to a group like IAG with license for them to do completely turnaround the airline how they see fit.

This is not difficult to implement. Shopee, Lazada, AliExpress etc etc just need to collect the 7% at checkout and pass it onto the Thai government. The amount will be hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Somebody has to pay for the Shinawatra family's private jets and property empire. And it sure as hell isn't going to be them.

There's a barber shop staffed by Arabs at a very prominent location - literally within the eye line of a police box - opposite Sukhumvit Soi 4.

Perfect summary of all the problems in Thailand. Often, they all come down to laziness.

He wasn't smart enough to dispose of his media company shares before the election, despite it being the same technicality that Thanathorn broke four years earlier.

Especially when you have helped to fund the crime family currently in government.

Finally found something useful for those damn shrines.

Nothing but a shameless ploy to attract Chinese tourists. And pocket a few baht for themselves by receiving backhanders to issue licenses. Thais will continue gambling in their own venues, like they always have done. The local mafia won't be affected.

After a woman's leg was chopped off by the shoddy machinery at the airport. If you think that all of the 36 billion baht is going to the airport, or that it will be finished by 2029, I have magic beans to sell you for a million baht each.

Do you understand percentages?

Not a bad price. As long as the woman doesn't have kids already or a previous husband. In which case, the family should be paying him.

Not a bad price. As long as the woman doesn't have kids already or a previous husband. In which case, the family should be paying him.

I'm sure that the world's richest airport operator (according to Bloomberg) will re-invest every single penny of that increase to improve facilities, like the Don Mueang Airport, which is basically a relic of the 1970s. The extra revenue (millions of baht a month) will definitely not disappear into the coffers of managers and executives. Pig's might fly! Seriously though... there's something seriously flawed in the Thai national mindset at every level of society that they see foreigners as their cash cow.

He's Austrian not Australian. Thais and geography don't go together well.

I wanted to update people on the outcome of this case. The Coffee Club Thailand head office confirmed that there is no service charge when points are redeemed on their app. The 12 Baht charged by the branch on Sukhumvit 11 was a breach of their own terms and conditions. The manager refunded the 12 baht and made an apology. Now, this isn't about the money, or the fact that the staff chased after me so it looked like I was trying to leave without paying. When I returned to dispute the service charge, every one of the staff were insistent that making a service charge for the 'free' drink was correct. This is despite me explaining to them that I had redeemed points in the same branch just a couple of weeks earlier and not been given a service charge. Indeed, I've redeemed points on their app at branches around Bangkok and the rest of the country without ever having been made to pay a service charge for the free loyalty reward drinks. Unfortunately, cases like this are symptomatic of Thais in almost every walk of life, but particularly in the service industry. When they don't know the answer or they do things incorrectly the simply come up with some fabrication or nonsense explanation (translation = BS) for what they're doing. The majority of Thais accept what they are told in these circumstances without questioning it. It's always the customer that loses out. I would implore everyone never to accept the words that are told to them in Thailand question them critically and rationally.

This significantly improves the view of the monument.

I've read them. No mention of service charges being added when points are redeemed.

We're all 'working people'. Stop the patronizing attitude that just because people come from semi-developed countries it's ok for them to cheat.

If a cafe can wrongly charge 12 baht to one person for one 'free' coffee, they can do it for other items, to other people, on other days, which in a year adds up to significant amounts.

I've used the Coffee app for the reward points for a while and never had problems. But at the weekend I used the loyalty reward points to get a coffee from the branch on Sukhumvit After finishing the the drink, they brought a bill for the 'service charge' on the initial coffee price. No actual money was exchanged for the one 'free' coffee but I had to pay 12 Baht service charge. This has never happened before in any branches of the cafe when using their reward points. It also makes no sense to add a service charge to something that's 'free'. There are no mentions of this in their app terms and conditions. What are the legalities surrounding this? Has anyone had a similar experience with this company.

They should start with Pattaya and some of the big shots there who think the laws don't apply to them 'because it's Pattaya'.

We can't post the real reason. This forum doesn't allow.