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Just copying the local lads

I have no evidence of this particular incident, but having experienced Patong TukTuk drivers i would say that story is highly unlikely. A driver asking the guy to politely move his bike and then returning to the drivers seat to wait seems highly unusual. Every similar exchange I have had with them involves being berated and surrounded by a large number of drivers within seconds. i remember a couple of years ago, stopping on the beach road for two minutes to drop off my elderly, disabled mother, and a group of them surrounded the car shouting at both of us to move the car. A group ot aggressive men shouting at an elderly lady in a wheelchair sums up their behaviour beautifully. This has been going on for years, and is a reason that our family will never visit Patong again. Ever. Covid was the perfect time to introduce a proper public transport system, removing the current fiefdoms and “taxi clubs”, but it will never happen. Too much money flowing to powerful people under the current arrangement. B0ll0cks to tourists and their safety, let’s fleece them at every opportunity.

Singapore has plenty of public toilets so I can’t see this happening. hardly a day goes by without us seeing a thai fella at the side of the road having a wee. its hardly the crime of the century. But the article is right - Phuket needs far more public toilets.

My mother is exactly the type of tourist they should want: wealthy, well travelled, loves eating out, always stays in lovely hotels, enjoys shopping and high quality trips. But can she work a smartphone? Not a chance. Different generation.

No, it’s realism day

absolutely agree. We have left the uk already !

That’s a great statistic. Probably used figures from roads that had previously had roadworks on them. When the roadworks are gone, traffic flow speeds up. But on a more serious note, it did always look like a lot of the traffic was created by manual switching of traffic lights by individual police boxes with no automatically coordination with the next set of lights down the road, so any technology to improve this is welcome. London fiddled the statistics with the introduction of the congestion charge by the way. They increased the amount of time given to pedestrians to cross every junction, therefore keeping traffic at red lights for longer, for more than a year before the charge was introduced, which created almost gridlock. ”Look at the terrible traffic” then introduce the charge, reset the lights and as if by magic, traffic improves ”Look at the improved traffic flow because of the congestion charge” I don’t trust any of them.

Lammy is an idiot. The grooming gangs were nearly all Pakistani. So call it out and deal with the issue, you can’t just say that stating the origin of the gangs is racist. if you don’t understand the cause of the problem, then you will never fix it. Left wing madness sadly.

Why was no one blowing a whistle as they took the injured off the boat in the second video? it’s not a crash in thailand without someone blowing a whistle

Bit harsh with all the development going on and losing their natural habitat?

As I understand it, bathing elephants was brought in as a result of people saying that riding them was cruel. the problem is that elephants are hugely expensive to keep, and since logging has been banned, they now have no work. If they aren’t used for tourism purposes then how to pay for their upkeep? The option is to cull them - which is horrible.

Have you tried going into the hotel and having a polite word with the manager? Plenty of hotels have managers who may understand that this is not great to for their guests or local residents and make sure its not so early again. It’s worth talking to them without an emotion.

Nope. You can think what you like. i double checked with BA and Bangkok Airways. BA have no agreement to check luggage through on other airlines in Thailand. They may do in future, but as of now, they do not.

Too many IO’s employed to check passports manually to be replaced by electronic gates. Much slower and more inefficient system to use humans than machines - keeping a huge number of people employed. Also can only imagine that rather than buying a system off the shelf that is already used in other countries, here they will try and build their own system that inevitably doesn’t work as well. As an example, I have online banking apps on my phone from Indonesia, HK, UK, Dubai and Thailand. Guess which is the worst one out of the bunch? 🤣 All good fun and games !

The guilty parties should be banned from driving for a minimum of one year, and banned from carrying passengers for life.