Oh Koh Phi Phi, What have you become?

[Aussie999]

On 6/19/2025 at 4:21 PM, short-Timer said:

Hua Hin blows. Worst beach place in Thailand. Water is brown. Place is boring. Drive is too far from Bangkok. Place only has one road in and out. Awful. Almost as bad as all your posts, Susan. 

Don't know what water you've been in, but Hua Hin beach certainly isn't brown, as for Bangkok, 2 to 3 hours, mate, just what is wrong with you, anyway, I hope you stay away, Hua Hin doesn't want whingers.

[daveAustin]

1 hour ago, Scouse123 said:

 

I remember the early nineties onwards.

 

I visited  here in the late eighties, I was a short two week stay visitor with Kuoni, so irt was basically a package holiday.

 

But, in the Nineties, when I just got a flight and found my way around, Thailand was absolutely fantastic.

Well cheap too—car rentals, flights, hotels and property etc—and exchange rates very favourable post-97. People didn’t walk around staring at their phones and bumping into things either (because there weren’t any). 🙂

Hey-ho, nothing lasts. Just think ourselves lucky we got to experience it. 

[shdmn]

Phi Phi was covered in trash when I went there around 2001.  The tsunami apparently washed a lot of the garbage out to sea, so I guess it was fairly clean for awhile after that.  Sounds like it's back to being a trash heap again. 

[Thingamabob]

Almost impossible now to avoid the effects of mass tourism, anywhere. In the 1970s/1980s my Thai wife and I used to visit many of what were then beautiful and restful places in Thailand. Koh Samui, for example, was a paradise. No roads, and accomodation was a rented hammock on the beach, cost 10 baht, meals shared with local people. Happy days...

[zyphodb]

On 6/19/2025 at 8:04 PM, BangkokReady said:

Can you add a little context please, Bob?

 

I'm not sure exactly who this new character is meant to be.  Is he a tourist or an ex-pat?

 

 Whoever he is he's certainly not Cornish...

[Zapitapi]

i feel you.. been there 1987 the first time...compared to today it was a non existing tourism industry

[Terrance8812]

4 hours ago, Harrisfan said:

Udon is good

What's good about it?

[Aforek]

4 hours ago, daveAustin said:

...Hey-ho, nothing lasts. Just think ourselves lucky we got to experience it. 

That's what I tell myself, it concerns all the places we have known and like in Thailand ( for me between 1975 and 1985)

Nowadays, the countryside is still pleasant to live in

[KhunLA]

Pre tsunami was fine, and haven't been since.   Looking at YT, won't be visiting unless there's another scamdemic 

 

Then would probably be 1st on my list to visit 😎

[Hummin]

18 hours ago, proton said:

 

No comparison, Islam more than 148k terror attacks since 1979 killing over 210k people, thats not including the 6k plus in Southern Thailand

This is far outside the original thread 

 

But Muslims might’ve another view of how things are, or have been where powerful states continuously have bombed them since the Iran Irak war, interfering for ? But let’s keep it since they overthrow the Sha in Iran, just another despot in the hand of the west who played along as long he could. Long story short. Terror is also bombing innocent people who just happened to be in the way when carrying out long distance missions.