captpkapoor

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?