MrPancake

Ah ok :)) Thx Didn't know that !

Thailand's army secret weapon: a lethal sense of humor !

My god, bro. You have to stop speculating. I don't sleep in the cheapest hotel on Agoda. It was a cheap one with misleading pics and I ended up in a trash can. I don't order food on Grab but I had a look at it to have an idea of what was on offer in town. I'm staying right next to the busiest place in town. I'm lazy but not that lazy. Yeah I know Si Saket. It's a sh$thole. No wonder you'e enjoying PP if you live there. I don't know how you don't get depressed. I stayed 1 week in Kalasin once. Nearly died of boredom. Anyways. As long as you're enjoying your life, I guess what I think about it all doesn't really matter. Ok I'll have a look at Momondo. I have a platinum VIP status on Agoda so I'm getting some serious discounts already. Cheaper than that would be great though I'd probably start to feel like a criminal ripping hotel owners off :))

Street food is traditional thai food - well not always but often. I don't get it. What do you want to know ?

Might be a high efficiency model ?

1) No accommodation, food and drinks are the cheapest in Vietnam. Pretty easy to verify. Hotels, you go on Agoda. Food and drink you check on Grab. Transportation might actually be cheaper in Cambodia. I can't remember how much I paid for my Grab tuk tuk the other day but I remember think "God, that's cheap". But that's because I went through Grab so the driver didn't have a say regarding the fare and couldn't try to f$ck me over. 2) I don't understand your Kasikorn shenanigans. Seems to me you're talking about something that only applies to Thailand. So completely off-topic. But I'm happy you found a way to pay for your stuff. I do everything with my Wise card and account. So far it has been the best deal I've found. 3) Happy pizza. Right. Just the name I already know it's some sort of small disgusting street food pizza. No thanks. I rather eat two large grilled pork sandwiches for that price. Don't worry, I'm cool. Always.

Minivan drivers operating between Chiang Mai and Pai are nuts. I nearly threw up on my way there...

With a name like yours, I guess it won't be you though. It's nice to know I have a fellow dumbass in this community.

Ok so essentially you don't understand yourself and why you thought this post was a joke in the first place. So let me clarify because you're obviously struggling. The way I presented things was kind of a joke. You know ? Like the gif saying I'm laughing not to cry, etc... Over-dramatization if you will. What is not a joke is the fact that the entire system is design to get as much of your money as possible in exchange of nothing. I'm a capitalist and I like to get stuff for my bucks. I didn't say Cambodia wasn't a beautiful country. I said PP sucks. Restaurants might be good. They're also horrendously overpriced. Everything is far more expensive than in Thailand and Vietnam. And there is no credible justification for that. You can say whatever you want, the fact remains that the entire city riverside is in the business of ripping off tourists. PP is just terrible value for money. Cambodian ATMs are a rip-off. Dollars are useless. And, as demonstrated in my OP, in the best case scenario (that is if you use a wise card), you'll need to pay a 5% fee on whatever you want to spend in order to be able to spend it. If you ain't using Wise, It's probably more like 8-10% depending on how f$cked up your bank is. This is BS. Period.

You're absolutely right.

It is kind of a joke post. 20 dollars ain't the end of the world. I just find it dumb to get dollars, pay more, and then end up with riels anyway. It makes everything more complicated, increases the risk of being scammed. Doesn't bring any added value. Dollars are just unnecessary imo. Now if you like using them. Do it. Especially if you get them at a good rate. As for PP, it sucks. It's dirty. It's expensive (in relative terms of course). There's almost nothing to do. You got hustlers and children bothering you every 5 minutes. I haven't been able to sit on the promenade and have a drink without being bothered by a kind of dumbass. And believe me I've been trying for 3 days. No wonder expats look like bums here. After a week, the only thing to do is drink and smoke to kill time.

The only $1 beers I've seen in PP were in bars with happy hour. I actually found a place where you pay only $0.75 during happy hour. Passed happy hour, draft beer is now $1.75 within the riverside area. That said I didn't try all places so maybe you can find a few remaining hidden gems here and there.

Whoever you use to exchange your dollars in riels will take a commission (which is normal). The best way to do things is just to not bother with dollars in the first place and withdraw riels. It also avoid some people taking advantage of you when giving you riels back. Some try to give you less counting on the fact that you won't be able to calculate the right amount of change in riels. Happens to me twice already. Thanks god I'm not too at mental calculation so I kindly reminded my interlocutors to please stop f'ing around. Anyways. That's Cambodia.

True.

Good point. It was probably a bit better prior to covid though. I've been talking with a guide selling stuff near the Tonlé Sap. He told me things didn't really picked up of the pandemic. Riel holding on good on the Forex compared to the Lao kip though...

Get a malinois attack dog.

Might be true for 100 and 500 riels notes but starting from 1000 onwards, they use their local notes everywhere. Have you ever been to Cambodia, bro ? Because it surely feels like you've no idea how things work here. And don't tell me it's the other way around because I'm in PP as we speak ;)

Outside of cities like PP nobody uses dollars on a regular basis. In Phnom Penh every cambodian I've seen is paying in riels. Change always comes in riel as well unless you ask for dollars. They ain't stupid.

The only thing I've understood is that I should get a life. The logic of everything that follows is above me. Sorry. Got a low IQ.

I'm aiming to become the next Bill Gates. Not gonna lie. Very unlikely.

J-Pop Powerplay Kawaii blasting in my sh$tty cambodian "hotel" room. Take thaaat mother f$ckers !!!!!!! I'm wondering how long it will take for someone to come knock at my door... yolo This is Willy Wonka style music ! Feel good music kinda stuff....

Underrated for sure ;)

Why would I do that ?

By the look of it, it's already dead.

Not really. They don't even look like women. More like teenagers with their boobs just starting to grow. I'm not into that crap. If I had to listen to garbage for women I would go for Jennifer Lopez. Too bad I'm not american, I have to admit latinas have something special...