Guy With A Car To Drive Around For A Day

[chanchao]

Any recommendations for a realiable guy (m/f) who speaks some English, with a fairly new(ish) car or truck with good aircon to chauffeur people around for a day?

About a 1000 baht or so incl. fuel? Less? Price is not the main issue tho.

Cheers,

Chanchao

[chanchao]

Actually a red-bus driver would do, as long as the aircon works and the car is not falling apart. Just thought I'd ask here before accosting random red bus drivers with this.

[Ajarn]

Actually a red-bus driver would do, as long as the aircon works and the car is not falling apart. Just thought I'd ask here before accosting random red bus drivers with this.

What about NorthWheels? It's been a couple of years, but I got a car and driver from them for 1000 baht..700 for the car, 300 for the driver. Spoke English, and drove well. I think they have a special on Suzukis for around 600 baht now.

No question about insurance, either

[Georgie-Porgie]

Highly recommended, honest, nice person, decent English, clean, new car

Nared 09 954 7672

[walker]

Highly recommended, honest, nice person, decent English, clean, new car

Nared 09 954 7672

Does Nared have an hourly/daily/half day fixed cost? Thanks

[kenk3z]

I think Nared is going to get a lot of business. That's exactly what I would want too. Soon he will need Internet booking.............

Who exactly ruined Thailand by convincing them to drive on the wrong side of the road?

kenk3z

[Georgie-Porgie]

Does Nared have an hourly/daily/half day fixed cost? Thanks

I'm sure that he does, but he also works for the airport taxi service to make ends meet, so for part days, he probably has to consider his other job.

[Maejo Man]

Who exactly ruined Thailand by convincing them to drive on the wrong side of the road?

kenk3z

We did The frogs unfortunately got into Indo China first and just look at the mess there

[cutethaigirl]

Chanchao

THere is an ad in a few of the tour magazines for a 'man with car'.

Not in CM at the moment so you will have to find it

CT

[CMguy]

On Chang Klan road near Mc Donalds and The Royal Princess hotel about a dozen or so Drivers/Guides are to be found on most days(mornings are best). You can have a look at the cars and a talk with the drivers and negotiate after detailing your requirements. I have paid 800-1000 baht per day in and around town for 6- 8 hours, gas included for a decent car with a driver with a fair command of english. You should expect to pay more for gas if venturing away from the city. The quality of vehicles can vary greatly but the price really does not vary that much. So you should not compromise quality or comfort to much.

[Kan Win]

Who exactly ruined Thailand by convincing them to drive on the wrong side of the road? 

kenk3z

Nice Question ?

Most people in the world drive on the Right Hand Side of the Road, we however drive on the Correct Side of the Road..

[Ajarn]

Who exactly ruined Thailand by convincing them to drive on the wrong side of the road? 

kenk3z

Nice Question ?

Most people in the world drive on the Right Hand Side of the Road, we however drive on the Correct Side of the Road..

I'm still trying to figure out how the Brits came to call the outside lane the 'inside' lane...

[sabaijai]

On Chang Klan road near Mc Donalds and The Royal Princess hotel about a dozen or so Drivers/Guides are to be found on most days(mornings are best). You can have a look at the cars and a talk with the drivers and negotiate after detailing your requirements. I have paid 800-1000 baht per day in and around town for 6- 8 hours, gas included for a decent car with a driver with a fair command of english. You should expect to pay more for gas if venturing away from the city. The quality of vehicles can vary greatly but the price really does not vary that much. So you should not compromise quality or comfort to much.

This would be my recommendation as well. I've booked a/c vans for visiting friends at this spot many times, always seems to work out well. One driver in particular that I like, when he's available, is Preecha. Everyone knows him there, in fact all the drivers know one another more or less.

[Totster]

Who exactly ruined Thailand by convincing them to drive on the wrong side of the road? 

kenk3z

Nice Question ?

Most people in the world drive on the Right Hand Side of the Road, we however drive on the Correct Side of the Road..

I'm still trying to figure out how the Brits came to call the outside lane the 'inside' lane...

I was gonna try and explain it myself but I couldn't remember too well... so I found this...

Why do the English drive on the left?

In the Middle Ages you kept to the left for the simple reason that you never knew who you'd meet on the road in those days. You wanted to make sure that a stranger passed on the right so you could go for your sword in case he proved unfriendly.

This custom was given official sanction in 1300 AD, when Pope Boniface VIII invented the modern science of traffic control by declaring that pilgrims headed to Rome should keep left.

The papal system prevailed until the late 1700s, when teamsters in the United States and France began hauling farm products in big wagons pulled by several pairs of horses.

These wagons had no driver's seat. Instead the driver sat on the left rear horse, so he could keep his right arm free to lash the team.

Since you were sitting on the left, naturally you wanted everybody to pass on the left so you could look down and make sure you kept clear of the other guy's wheels. Ergo, you kept to the right side of the road.

The first known keep-right law in the U.S. was enacted in Pennsylvania in 1792, and in the ensuing years many states and Canadian provinces followed suit.

In France the keep-right custom was established in much the same way. An added impetus was that, this being the era of the French Revolution and all, people figured, hey, no pope is gonna tell ME what to do.

Later Napoleon enforced the keep-right rule in all countries occupied by his armies. The custom endured even after the empire was destroyed.

In small-is-beautiful Britain, though, they didn't use monster wagons that required the driver to ride a horse. Instead the guy sat on a seat mounted on the wagon.

What's more, he usually sat on the right side of the seat so the whip wouldn't hang up on the load behind him when he flogged the horses. (Then as now, most people did their flogging right-handed.)

So the English continued to drive on the left, not realizing that the tide of history was running against them and they would wind up being ridiculed by folks like you with no appreciation of life's little ironies.

Keeping left first entered English law in 1756, with the enactment of an ordinance governing traffic on the London Bridge, and ultimately became the rule throughout the British Empire.

The trend among nations over the years has been toward driving on the right, but Britain has done its best to stave off global homogenization.

Its former colony India remains a hotbed of leftist sentiment, as does Indonesia, which was occupied by the British in the early 19th century. The English minister to Japan achieved the coup of his career in 1859 when he persuaded his hosts to make keep-left the law in the future home of Toyota and Mitsubishi.

Nonetheless, the power of the right has been growing steadily. When Germany annexed Austria in 1938, it brutally suppressed the latter's keep-left rights, and much the same happened in Czechoslovakia in 1939.

The last holdouts in mainland Europe, the Swedes, finally switched to the right in 1967 because most of the countries they sold Saabs and Volvos to were righties and they got tired of having to make different versions for domestic use and export.

Explanation taken from: Cecil Adams, "Return of the Straight Dope" (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994).

[kenk3z]

Certainly a good explanation. But I'm not concerned with those worthless countries you mentioned above. I don't want to go to any of them.

My question was about who ruined Thailand?

<in case you can't see me from where you are, I'm smiling as this is meant to be a good-natured joke>

kenk3z

[Totster]

Certainly a good explanation. But I'm not concerned with those worthless countries you mentioned above. I don't want to go to any of them.

My question was about who ruined Thailand?

<in case you can't see me from where you are, I'm smiling as this is meant to be a good-natured joke>

kenk3z

I don't know...can't find anything about it... it's gonna bother me until I find out now... I'm taking this question to the general foum so as not to keep this thread off topic...

[Dickie]

Didn't ruin it for us Brits. Soooo nice being in a foreign country and not having to worry about nutters driving on the wrong side of the road. (Hmmm... did I just say that?!? )

[Totster]

Why do thais drive on the left.... Topic Link