Fed up at New Year! Thai tourists suffer burglary from Prachuap resort

[webfact]

Fed up at New Year! Thai tourists suffer burglary from Prachuap resort

 

Source: Daily News

 

A group of Thai tourists in Prachuap Khiri Khan returned from a night out to find two resort hotel rooms had been broken into and more than 100,000 baht of valuables stolen. 

 

Muang district police and forensic staff went to a large resort on the seafront and found doors forced in rooms B8 and B7. 

 

In one three phones and 55,000 baht in a bag were missing along with a two baht weight gold bracelet. 

 

In another a civil servant lost 10,000 baht and a teacher was robbed of 60,000. Along with credit cards and ATM cards six bank books and four house registration documents were also missing. 

 

The party of Thai tourists had gone out on Saturday night and returned at 5am to find their rooms had been broken into. 

 

Daily News reported lax security at the Koh Lak Resort on the Suan Son - Ao Noi Road. 

 

There was only CCTV at the restaurant and some of the rooms did not lock properly. 

 

Daily News said the tourists were fed up at New Year. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[keith101]

3 minutes ago, webfact said:

There was only CCTV at the restaurant and some of the rooms did not lock properly. 

Why would you stay there unless it is extremely cheap and if that is the case then you got what you paid for , total insecure accommodation .

[Power of life yoga]

55 minutes ago, keith101 said:

Why would you stay there unless it is extremely cheap and if that is the case then you got what you paid for , total insecure accommodation .

Exactly!

[Chazar]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

In one three phones and 55,000 baht in a bag were missing along with a two baht weight gold bracelet.

Yeah sounds  really true

[neeray]

It all depends on the quality of care by the cheap place. I stay at a cheap place in CM (800 baht/night) and feel very secure, never a problem in a hundred nights.

 

But if out at night, my valuables are secure on my person.

[ChipButty]

That was rife some years ago robbing resorts where mainly farang stayed, in Rawai loads of small resorts they would just go around trying the sliding doors

[ChipButty]

9 minutes ago, Chazar said:

Yeah sounds  really true

Does sound a lot to be leaving around

[Roy Baht]

Sounds fishy: "six bank books and four house registration documents"? Who brings that on vacation?

[ChipButty]

31 minutes ago, Roy Baht said:

Sounds fishy: "six bank books and four house registration documents"? Who brings that on vacation?

Maybe they thought it was safer than leaving it with the family

[anterian]

In my wandering days, most cheap hotels that I used had hasps fitted to doors to which you could attach your own padlock. 

[legend49]

There was only CCTV at the restaurant and some of the rooms did not lock properly. 

 

Obviously no maintenance and no one cares about the resort.

[BobinBKK]

First of all if you travel with that much money and don't secure it when you leave the room I have no sympathy for you!

 

Secondly why should we even believe that you had that much money with you, can you prove it?

[Happy Grumpy]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

a teacher was robbed of 60,000.

I for one completely believe that a teacher had 60,000 baht in cash, then left it in the room of some shabby 400 baht a night 'resort'. 

[RichardColeman]

 

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

There was only CCTV at the restaurant and some of the rooms did not lock properly. 

 

Obviously no maintenance and no one cares about the resort.

I guess the thinking is that they paid in advance for the room so they had the tourists money and the CCTV in the restaurant as they had not paid yet. Why worry about CCTV when you already have their money ? 

[Prairieboy]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

In one three phones and 55,000 baht in a bag were missing along with a two baht weight gold bracelet. 

 

In another a civil servant lost 10,000 baht and a teacher was robbed of 60,000. Along with credit cards and ATM cards six bank books and four house registration documents were also missing. 

And why would they be carrying all that superfluous <deleted> with them on holidays - bank books, house registration documents and what Thai in their right mind would leave their telephones behind - how could they take selfies and photos of their meals? If going out for a night of revelry would you leave your money in the room?  Sounds like an insurance scam to me!

[baansgr]

21 hours ago, neeray said:

It all depends on the quality of care by the cheap place. I stay at a cheap place in CM (800 baht/night) and feel very secure, never a problem in a hundred nights.

 

But if out at night, my valuables are secure on my person.

Is 800 baht now considered cheap...that's 20 quid, I remember paying 200 in Samui about 3 quid

.

[Vacuum]

1 hour ago, Prairieboy said:

what Thai in their right mind would leave their telephones behind - how could they take selfies and photos of their meals?

You're right, it's unheard of.

[Tchooptip]

On 12/30/2019 at 9:32 AM, keith101 said:

Why would you stay there unless it is extremely cheap and if that is the case then you got what you paid for , total insecure accommodation .

When I go in Poen Charoen since I do no want to sleep in the house of my wife's parents we go in the only hotel of the place situated on a main road . There are large signs, it is very well marked and lit ...but the word "hotel" is nowhere written in English, and it is  almost full everydays. The room are about 40 square meter, there is someone present at the hotel reception all the night. It is absolutely clean, they change the towels every day...400Bahts.  

[WonnabeBiker]

Pardon my ignorance, but how can the burglar use those bank books? Getting a matching ID card won't be easy, will it?