ChaiyaTH

So there is your answer, you were wrong but you personally rather save 200 baht on the room only. The guesthouse doesn't care, you don't care, nobody cares.

That is totally subjective to say, that there are rooms similar to it for 500 baht, or better ones for 700 baht, says zero about the reasons for another business to price it in whatever way. If they were actually so wrong, 80% of them would been closed since a decade. You might think it is a loss, they might think they rather have 10 days of 800 baht, at one go. Then to have 20 days of 400 baht spread all over the month. You would also need more cleaning, more time, staff on more days. And this is just one tiny example of thousands. Last but not least, I have seen rooms worse than your example, even in middle of Isaan, that cost also this amount. Or way worse ones that still cost 400 baht, the 24sqm studio types with no view and noise. If you now paid the higher rate, you kept your relationship, perhaps that resulted in 2 free coffees worth 120 baht aside of getting early and late check outs, or being better located.

BTW to stay on topic, I think in this case those guys knew perfectly well, as it is unusual to pay 2K (1K is normal) and source it this way (everywhere available in PTY).

I remember having been at bars that would always have girls that are at least 20 years old, usually the youngest would even be 25 on average, and many older already. However the longer I stayed I noticed how things didn't make sense, for example I have seen girls I did not sleep with myself that recently celebrated her 21st birthday, then I realised she is around 5 years already, the thing is that means she had a baby at 16 already too from a Thai. In terms of appearance, so often they are much older than they look as well the other way around. Only way to notice potentially would be if they were unexperienced but usually they already passed the Thai entertainment places before arriving with farang places. Think they should be focusing on the latter, it all starts at those local places from as young as 15 year old, with weddings. I find it kind of a conflicting thing in Thailand, it is perfectly fine to let your parents decide at 15 years old to be 'sold' to whatever guy interested. It is also to have sex. But it is illegal to work in a bar, even if not drinking, even at 18, until the age of 20.

True usually Thai girls get real from 30, also as they grow up later here than in the west, usually.

Well I almost weekly see half naked girls at some beach areas in Phangan, but if a guy would do it, they call the police. O no sorry, we don't really have police on Phangan. Life is good here.

This is the common 600-900 baht room, specially at that size and with a balcony. Not sure what you are whining about. It's super cheap, specially with today's forex. I average always end up paying that, if not taking the 1000 upgrade to a lucky deal sometimes at for example Ibis or Holiday inn etc. Let me guess, you were only a repeating customers since covid or before it and now think you should be given a red carpet and 50% discount lifetime? I guess I should complain with Sofitel Bangkok too that the prices aren't 2K a night anymore now.

Common we can't blame the guy, he likely thought taxi's were to use and share just like you have those scooters and bikes. After all he is from a leading WEF country and the quote of WEF is 'you will own nothing and be happy'. --- Jokes aside, a Thai would get away with this.

The name Bangkok, used commonly by foreigners, is, according to one interpretation, derived from a name that dates to the time before the city was built—the village or district (bang) of wild plums (makok). Do you also think that Thais with a last name with 'porn' in it are actors? I thought that when I just arrived.

They are constantly in the south and there is no issue for them. As always it is only us westerners making it such a drama. To then blame the whole financial crisis on it on top of course. In fact my volleybal telegram group consists of 50/50 Russians and Ukrainians, many of them are actually behind Russia too.

The correct saying is Saam Saam Saam, 3 inch, 3 minutes, 3000 baht. Not 4.

I have quite a few male Thai friends but to be honest, all of them behave as if they are 10-15 years younger, even they might not with their job or business itself. Usually they bore me, only for socialising with food and drinks, as they can never make any decision themselves and basically behave like teenagers, also in what they like to do. Those who are different, are usually just as busy as I am, so we rarely meet, but very few of them.

If you want a real bodyguard, armed, gonna be at least 20-30K baht per 12 hours. I'd say pointless to have an armed one as they won't shoot anyone for you at those rates anyway. More likely that they would cheat you, if people are after you and it's worth money. So you might as well hire a random Muay Thai guy in that case and just have cash ready for issues.

Yeah it is pretty easy indeed, my yearly extension is due early December, almost considered to just do 1 weekend trip to Vietnam or Kuala Lumpur + get 60 days non-o child extension on top = 105 days each time... At least from next year I will do that in between, then it is more like 15 months in total if doing a year extension at last.

I guess that is why we see more XTC and Ketamine dealers lately.

55 is like barely 2 mags with 5.56 average. Normally if new they are on plastic clips as well so this sounds like he is just one of the less bright people around us.

If you pretend you sold the wrong article by accident it is a civil case and not considered fraud, some criminals use nominees to setup endless seller accounts on platforms, cash the money out until the platform finally blocks them (if at all). Or some even do refund if the consumer is not giving up, returning it etc etc as they know few will, with the latter, they can go on forever.

Classical fake just like with USB sticks on Lazada and Shopee. Even you could get 20TB for that price, I would be scared, as you can't rely on the normal lifespan of the disk due to quality.

That is actually ironic if you think about it, they made it more attractive to do border runs than to get a tourist visa. Certainly not worth the 15 days more knowing it costs 2K in fees aside of longer duration abroad (hotel cost etc).

Any professional user would change after the average of 5 years anyway, then if it comes to some security bugs due to older versions, that is just not a statement at all. First of all because the main target is still Windows computers aside of a majority of Windows computers running on outdated software too. The usual unsupported updates for older Macs also usually barely affects functionalities or the ability to still use all software over a full decade.

Hope she leaves you soon

Only one way to find out anyway so pointless to fear something unless you know more than you tell us. I would personally actually do a border entry in such cases, as at least it's less hassle then when being refused. Could just go back to Malay, Lao or Cambodia hehe.

I don't believe a word of any of the things they say there, in terms of THC or CBD percentages. Not to mention I would not be surprised half of those 'newbie ganja farmers, usually Thai farmers doing the actual work, using pesticides and the like to get the best results or avoid bugs, while not flushing with water the last 4 weeks. If most weed was actually even close to 15% of THC, the crappier cheap ones would be much nicer and also more populair. I think the majority hardly makes it to 7% even.

Private stock, sativa, 500B per gram. Keep in mind taste, smell is 3 times as good, and 1/3rd compared to a cheaper one is needed for the same. A 150-200 baht per gram weed might sound cheaper but overall cost you the same by smoking more of it while having a poorer smell and taste.

In Holland we would call this garbage. You get it for free basically.