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2 hours ago, ChasingTheSun said:

 

Have you tried using the Grab taxi app to arrange fixed price or taximeter Phuket?

 

it is easy to use, very reliable, and no haggling. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I gave up on Phuket years before Grab was invented. Loathed the attitude of the locals, but would like to visit again one day. Until then am very happy with Vietnam, and a shorter, and cheaper, flight.

Just now, LivinginKata said:

 

Don't see many TuK Tuks. Just no tourists to fleece.

Since I have limited mobility these guys were the reason I stopped visiting Phuket many years ago after 3/4 visits a year for over a decade.

Are the taxi drivers still behaving like aholes and holding out for 200 a trip?

On 9/8/2020 at 11:17 AM, JonnyF said:

I refuse to drink drive so I did on occasion need a TukTuk or taxi. Rarely was I quoted under 500 Baht even if you're going a few hundred metres up the road (a 50 Baht trip in a modern air con car in Bangkok). The place is a total rip off. 

 

 

500 Baht, good grief! I was living in Hong Kong and making several trips to Phuket each year.

Could catch an 8.30 morning flight and be having lunch on the beach.

We sought alternative places, mainly Vietnam which is also a shorter and cheaper flight, when the tuk tuks started being inflexible at 200 Baht a trip. 500 is just disgraceful.

2 hours ago, sanemax said:

No, the female  performers emit ping-pong balls from their vaginas

Why do they do that?

On 11/14/2018 at 6:45 PM, Sydebolle said:

Out of curiosity; how do you check-in 500 kgs of anything onto a flight to Australia without being noticed? Assumingly it was brought as excess luggage it must have cost  fortune as the fee is 1% of the single first class tariff. Just wondering .............. 

My baggage allowance was 40kg, and that was biz class.

Takes some balls to go to check in with 500kg. "Did you pack it yourself sir?"

3 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

Doesn't take much for the TVF brigade to get offended and start babbling on about Thais

That's what I love about this site! Such a load of absolute nutjobs on it!

On 12/17/2018 at 2:57 PM, Joe Mcseismic said:

I'm betting those photos were taken between 06:30 am and 07:00 am.

The shops are open at that time?

On 11/26/2018 at 5:17 PM, Nanaplaza666 said:

Dont know if you guys know this but their sex in their pasport can be changed to female so actually their female (if the whole operation is finished by the way)

A piece of paper and an operation does not transform a man into a woman.

Does this "woman" have ovaries and a uterus? Thought not, it's still a man. End of!

19 hours ago, ThaiFelix said:

Should have chosen to be a catholic priest instead, then he would have got away with it.

Not quite, he would have had to say a few Hail Mary's, then absolved from all his sins, and free to repeat offend.

Worked well enough in the Uk Catholic schools.

Isn't Mr Georgie/Georgworgy one of the regular members here?

Same one?

On 6/21/2018 at 6:12 PM, The manic said:

Say no politely and you have no problem. London is much more violent than Pattaya. These are stupid stories and should stop.

True, did you see the story last week of "pavement rage in London"? Man brushed against another guy on pavement, and was thrown into the busy road.

On 11/20/2018 at 8:21 PM, Jerry787 said:

few time ordering Grab, arrives the notice that the Taxi or car its arrived, and if i late of 5 minutes they will charge 20thb, i come down and the taxi was still far .... 

 

 

That happens in every country. Just ask them to call you when they have arrived.

On 11/19/2018 at 4:11 PM, meinphuket said:

So he violated the sanctity of someone's property, then entered a bedroom with his hands in the air ? And who is ever to know he held up his hands ? I too would have shot him anyway, bugger the consequences.

Totally correct. If anyone climbed into my daughter's bedroom, it would be the last thing he ever did.

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Perhaps a 10 year old is too young for social media.

Or to be left alone to talk to strangers.

Get him in the cells and deported!

Just keep him in the prison, sounds punishment enough.

1 hour ago, lordblackader said:

April Fools Day is every day in the LoS ????

Just what I was thinking!