captpkapoor

They hate the Chinese # 1.

And I can show you a larger number of whites walking and spending nothing, conserving their pension cheques

So are loads and loads of "whites". Are the dorms and hostels in Khao San Road at $ 15 per night full of whites or Indians? Are the beer belly singlets and shorts wearing flip flops in Pattaya hopping around on a scooter and living in 28 sq m tiny apartments "white" or Indians?

50,000 baht is peanuts over a 5 night or 7 night trip. Hotels, shopping, sightseeing - coz a lot of them come for family holidays and go for all the touristy things to do and see - and if they're in male groups, "night entertainment", it's very easy to exceed this figure. Unfortunately, a lot of people in this forum have made it a habit of "India bashing" or any non-white country.

50,000 baht over 5 to 7 nights is peanuts. Extremely realistic figure. Count hotels, food, shopping, "night entertainment", and it's easy to well exceed that figure. Of course, I can't help you with your biases.

China is the biggest bully in this part of the world. Grab, grab, grab, is all they know. Disputes and what is called "salami slicing" with each and every one of her neighbours, from tiny Bhutan and Nepal where they're quietly siezing small territory each time, to India, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan - you name it. Everything was "theirs" historically. So I fully support any country that has the guts to stand up to them. Nixon and Kissinger unleashed a monster country on the world. And Western companies in their greed for cheap labour and what they thought was a big market, let the Chinese copy their products and get the technology for free. Look at the way they've got small countries like Sri Lanka by the short hairs and taking control of their ports because of unpaid debts with BRI projects.

Seems like a hello of a lot of these arrivals are Indians, judging by the Bollywood and Punjabi music being played on the Chaophraya dinner cruise boats every night.

I distrust ANYTHING Chinese (PRC, I mean, mainland China). Period.

Is there any place in Bangkok where I can get fluffy pillows, comforters, etc vacuum packed so they occupy less space in my baggage?

https://www.ndtv.com/business/which-countries-and-companies-are-still-buying-russian-oil-2831338 It's just business as usual!! https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-rejects-calls-for-banning-russian-oil-and-gas/

Load of <deleted> from you, as usual. Go rant to your fellow country men who live in 24 sq m hovels in Pattaya and roam around on scooters in singlets and flip flops.

India has not sided itself with either Russia or Ukraine. Simply abstained from the resolution. Please do read my comments earlier about reasons why. And Indian PM Modi has been calling both Putin and the Ukrainian Prez to stop.

Nothing to do with Hindu nationalism or otherwise. In more than 5000 years of recorded history, India has never ever invaded a single country. It has been invaded by many. And has absorbed all the various religions and nationalities into itself. No, this act of abstaining from the UN resolution is purely historical and political, and I dare say, at this time, prudent. For reasons I have already written before.

Many reasons, a lot of them historical, for India to abstain from voting against Russia. I could write a detailed note. Ukraine has voted against India in the UNSC, supplied Pakistan with T-80 tanks, and has actively asked for UN intervention in Kashmir. Russia or rather USSR has many times vetoed US and UK sponsored resolutions in the UNSC. In 1971, when Pakistan's army was pillaging, raping and murdering their East Pakistani brethren (now Bangladeshis), Nixon sent the Seventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal to scare India, even the HMS Eagle was despatched to the Arabian Sea. Russia helped India then. Also, India is still dependent on them for a fair bit of military hardware, even though India and US have cozied up in the past few years. But Russia and China are buddies, so India can't afford to antagonise Russia. Plus, Pakistan has been making overtures to Russia ever since the US started pushing them away, as a pariah state.

I'd say the north - i.e. places in Himachal Pradesh or Uttarakhand states, beautiful mountains with snow and valleys, lovely little guest houses, too; many were erstwhile so-called "hill stations" which the British created to escape the summer Indian heat. Stay away from the regular touristy cities, go to the smaller places.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I've lived in Bkk since 2013, and Indians are way higher spenders than most Westerners I've seen. Prejudices and stereotypes can be hard to overcome, of course; but when you see a chartered plane with 300 invitees fly from India for a destination big fat Indian wedding at Hua Hin and Phuket, you'll get some idea of what I'm talking about. That said, there are bound to be cheap travellers, just as so many Western backpackers living on less than $ 15 a day in dorms on Khao San Road.

That is the cheapest. I checked various hospitals both govt and pvt, and medconsult is the cheapest.

I got the same and mistakenly responded. So far I have been safe, but it was a mistake to respond.

Unfortunately their standards have dipped horribly over the years.

Ukraine has consistently voted against India at the UN, supported actions against India. Whether Russia is right or wrong in this case (their invasion is an invasion, when the US does it it's a liberation, 55555), is a moot point.

Yes definitely spending a hell of a lot more than the white guys in singlets and shorts and flio flops running around on scooters that we see everywhere

Medconsult just Google them in Bkk it's 2000 baht and very reliable

Where do you want to fly to in India? Thai is operating repatriation flights on Mondays and Wednesdays to New Delhi. There are no restrictions based on citizenship, AFAIK. You can call the Thai office in Bangkok.

I really haven't had much of a problem travelling to Dubai etc, neither entering Thailand under the Test and Go scheme in early Dec, only 1 day quarantine in a Bkk hotel. Neither do I anticipate much of a problem returning home next month; one just needs an RT-PCR test 72 hours before. Not a biggie.

Near Victory Monument, the one I know is Rajavithi, are you referring to the same one?