4 hours ago, D M G said:

Frankly, the GPS-location data is not 100% accurate.

In March. we (family and I) were returning from a holiday and hailed a Grab on the app claiming it was 5 minutes away. Turned out the driver was nowhere near us (we were at Don Meung airport). We waited around 25 minutes for the guy to show up. More recently, I was at an event in central Bangkok and hailed a Grab Taxi on the app, again indicating just 5 minutes away. I was at a hotel lobby, and the concierge had to talk to the driver who couldn't find his way. Some 20 minutes after that, watching on the app as the guy went around and around in circles, the driver cancelled the ride. I headed to the BTS.

21 hours ago, iaminwa said:

Well, the Motorbike Taxi mafia outside my hotel gave me the death stare when I used a Grab bike once last month - if I hadn't been a longtime visitor and instead been a new tourist, it probably would have been quite scary.

For me the reason i use grab is obviously cheaper but also when you book with Grab you know they will know where the location is.  If i get a taxi from a motorbike taxi rank they haven't got a clue where anywhere is unless it's a few hundred yards from the taxi rank.  they're abysmal.   Only in Thailand would you have taxi drivers that don't know where anywhere is.  Also at least with grab you don't have to stand about for 5 minutes haggling the price.   They have brought their own downfall.   

I'm only concerned that the expat price upfront won't include those great discounted rates.

 

Imagine doing a job like these bike drivers. Makes my eyes water.

 

Any tip is a help for their misery.

On 8/6/2025 at 11:49 AM, ronnie50 said:

Guess who owns it - oh, okay, it's one of the oligarch families - no surprise.

I am interested. Are you reluctant to say?

4 minutes ago, greeneking said:

I am interested. Are you reluctant to say?

Google is your friend.

Where to find this expat pass in the grab application? And how much does it cost?

We use Grab all the time a excellent and efficient service and not expensive 

The normal Thai taxi service after their usual ripoffs over pricing 

Need to change dramatically 

Maybe a tourist leaving his money in a taxi needs reporting 

I’d like to see Grab employers teaching some road etiquette skills within these new tools to all grab riders, they are mostly a menace with their face stuck to the phone and dangerous maneuvers

On 8/6/2025 at 8:41 AM, jaywalker-2 said:

1999 & no WIFI. Just internet cafes here & there. It was redicilous.! I got Grabbed many times.

Women mind you. I got grabbed by a katoey once & broke his arm.

I'm married folks. Leave me be.

Broke his arm. Yeh sure you did. 

On 8/6/2025 at 3:03 AM, Bday Prang said:

To be honest I'd rather my food was handled by as few people as possible,   (especially if in the UK where many of these delivery guys are illegal muslim immigrants  who hate us)  probably less chance of that over here though

You need some help, mate

3 minutes ago, Maypole31 said:

You need some help, mate

 

 

Too late......

1 minute ago, Maypole31 said:

You need some help, mate

Not from the likes of you I don't.    Nothing wrong with facing the truth,   in he UK many of the grab riders are illegals. and they do hate us .    I have no wish to encourage the situation or put  myself  or my food anywhere near them , common sense "mate"   now off you go , and join a chanting mob , don't forget to "say it loud and say it clear " 

6 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Too late......

meaning?   

1 minute ago, Bday Prang said:

meaning?   

 

 

I wasn't talking to you.

1 minute ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

I wasn't talking to you.

but you were talking about me to another member  , unless I am mistaken 

36 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Too late......

I couldn't agree more.

On 8/6/2025 at 10:32 AM, Bday Prang said:

me neither , seems that not only are many too lazy to cook  they are now to lazy to even walk to collect their own fast food.   

I am sixty-four years old and recovering from hip fracture surgery.  Food delivery has been instrumental for me.  I assure you I use the apps, but I am not too lazy. You might want to think before you criticize.

On 8/6/2025 at 10:45 AM, RayOday said:

I am boycotting Grab. Used a foreign card on Grab Mart, card was debited the funds, Grab stated the order was unsuccessful and refused refunding the payment. I even submitted the bank advice.  Customer service was useless. The amount wasn't worth my sanity in going after them legally. I just refuse to use their services. Competition is good.

In instances like that, I find you can contest the charge with your credit card and easily get a refund.

On 8/6/2025 at 9:07 AM, NanLaew said:

 

Human translator? AI does that.

 

For those encumbered with a lack of Thai language skills, try Google Lens.

How can one be encumbered with something one does not have?

Google Translate is better for face to face chatting. Lens is more for Document translation.

50 minutes ago, SmokeandIce said:

I am sixty-four years old and recovering from hip fracture surgery.  Food delivery has been instrumental for me.  I assure you I use the apps, but I am not too lazy. You might want to think before you criticize.

        You might want to think before you take offence  Mr Snowflake,  I said "many are too lazy to cook and many are too lazy to collect it"   many being the operative word  obviously I should have added   "not including the disabled community specifically @SmokeandIce "  just for clarity.   

         I guess the surgery was mentioned to gain sympathy ,but you picked the wrong guy to try that on   I'm also recovering, and from something far worse. although I am managing ok without fast food

          Chill out and don't be so sensitive, I wasn't  talkin about you,  a few others  probably are now though

3 hours ago, KannikaP said:

How can one be encumbered with something one does not have?

 

If you can't speak or understand Thai language, this is an encumbrance or burden when faced with an app that's only in the Thai language.

 

Same as a one legged man can't play football.

4 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Google Translate is better for face to face chatting. Lens is more for Document translation.

 

Google Translate is good on websites on a PC or laptop but I haven't tried it on a smartphone app which is the context here. Although it's not slick, Lens works fine on a foreign language smartphone app.

Target yes, and literally. One of Grab's drunk, half-blind motorcyclists hit me three years ago. It caused me  a shoulder rotator cuff injury and a non-displaced hip fracture. Yes, it was his fault, but there was no CTV where it happened, so it took the police two weeks to get him to the police station and when he first arrived, he was completely broke and under the influence. So, the police tried to explain to me in an apologetic way that he didn't have a license and the motorcycle was owned by a friend. He didn't even have the money to pay the symbolic fine the police gave him as a penalty, far from offering me any compensation,

Now the day I get so lazy I use something like this company or any similar to get me my food I better look for the coffin. Btw, some reading below about how delivery service can affect our health.

Felt

 

How Food Delivery Hurts People and the Environment

 

The negative effects of food delivery: From pollution to malnutrition | Society | EL PAÍS English

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Google Translate is good on websites on a PC or laptop but I haven't tried it on a smartphone app which is the context here. Although it's not slick, Lens works fine on a foreign language smartphone app.

Translate and Lens work perfectly on my Poco X6 Smartphone, both by typing or speaking, as do all the AI  apps.

49 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

12 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

Google Translate is good on websites on a PC or laptop but I haven't tried it on a smartphone app which is the context here. Although it's not slick, Lens works fine on a foreign language smartphone app.

Translate and Lens work perfectly on my Poco X6 Smartphone, both by typing or speaking, as do all the AI  apps.

 

I'm not arguing otherwise. The context of this discussion was a member stating that the Grab app, as it appears on-screen, doesn't have embedded translation or an English language option, whereas FoodPanda did.

 

On 8/6/2025 at 8:21 AM, Wuvu2 said:

 

Yeah, because FoodPanda had a much better English interface, but it is now out of business.

 

I offered that Lens does a half-decent job of translating from the screen capture of some apps, including those that inhibit copy/paste to use in Translate.

 

If you can't understand how that Thai word displayed on the screen is spoken in Thai language, typing and speaking it is redundant.