rheinwiese

Lumpini Park an attraction?? Really?

Two years later and there are still problems with this most basic populist policy, I am beginning to think this government couldn't organise a chook raffle.

Yeah, Thailand's best and brightest and our tax Baht at work.

If the numbers are to believe , they haven't abandoned Phuket - yet?

26. May 2013

According to the Provincial Office of Commercial Affairs, the No.1 foreign arrivals direct into Phuket airport in the 1st quarter were:

1. Russians (130,000)

2. Chinese (121,000),

3. Swedish (62,000)

4. Australians (57,000)

5. South Koreans (47,000)

Boeing 738 ? A new model ....

//wait Google tells me it's a 737-800

All other 738 are leased and mostly former Ryan Air and Air Europa aircrafts which had been replaced with newer aircrafts.

There was a plan used for 7 years???

The flag rate has barely gone up for 20 years.

I think this is fair enough.

The last taxi fare increase in BKK was in July 2008.

12% rise from the previous fare.

So they'll be selling smaller portions

Happening gradually since a long time.

Buy a Khao Pad Kung today. You are lucky if you find 2-3 tiny shrimps in you bowl.

Some one should tell the BiB they could make a fortune from testing exhaust emissions, the amount of emissions coming out of all types of badly maintained vehicles is beyond belief.

These days when I pull up at traffic lights I look at the other exhausts to see which one's are splattering out oil and the like, then manoeuvre away from them. I don't understand why the Thai authorities are not clamping down on this.

Exhaust fumes are choking the city.

Exhaust is tested every year when doing the yearly reqistration for cars 7 years or older.

Tested by who?

Did you actually ever see one of those tests you mention?

Nothing is tested, ever.

You pay a fee, get your stamp and that's it.

since 15 min me and my wife try to log our BKBK accounts.

the website either doesn't load at all or the log in button is not working.

anyone else with this problem?

And again they have quietly increased the 30-day smart pass prices. But no mention.

New smart pass fares effective June1st:

50 trips (22 baht per trip)
40 trips (23 baht per trip)
25 trips (25 baht per trip)
15 trips (27 baht per trip)

This is the 3rd ! time and 35% total increase in 6 years.

Back in 08 a 20 trip pass was 400 Baht. (20 Baht per trip)
Now under the new fare table it's 27 Baht per trip. (15 trip pass)

On a side note:
for the vast majority of working Thais in Bangkok the BTS tickets are way too expensive.

They can't afford to pay 100 Baht per day or more for their daily commute.

Preparations for future floods. With the gazillion of cars in BK, everyone needs a place to park when the floods hit.

Thais only understand things when it hits them in their wallet. So, to that end, charge the customer 1 or 2 baht for every bag used (small bag = 1 baht, big bag = 2 baht).

Also, some time ago at Terminal 21 I bought 6 pasteries at one of the bake shops in the basement. Yup, you guessed it, each pastry went into it's own little plastic bag to be sealed shut with cello tape, and the lot went into a big plastic bag. So for 6 pastries I walked away with 7 plastic bags and about a meter of cello tape.

Trying to get Thais to cut back on plastic bags is going to be a hard sell, but charging for each bag would go a long way to making it work.

Exactly, spot on. Awareness only goes through the wallet. 1 or 2 Baht might not be enough to make a significant dent.

Make it 5 Baht for the big bag and 2 for the small, and the 500 Million bags per day will be cut at least in half in no time.

Suvarnabhumi came in 38th in 2013 Skytrax Awards (down from 21st in 2012)

http://www.worldairportawards.com/Awards_2013/top100.htm

As in the old Don Muang days, all car parks are usually occupied by airport employees.

Wifey found this on a Thai website.

Another proof that a complete failure of the brain does not inevitably lead to death.