Earlier today I had to make a trip from Maenam to Koh Phangan on the Lomprayah Catamaran I have been doing this often over the years. Today being Full Moon I made sure I arrived in time to my surprise it was not busy but what did strike me was a young lady standing by a set of weighing scales ensuring all passengers placed their baggage on the scales I was amazed to see how many were being charged due to their baggage being over 20KG a party of 4 tourists ended up paying a huge amount, when talking to them they told me they had been charged 20 baht for every KG over the 20 kg weight allowed I would estimate that the ferry was less than half full. In the 8 years of living here I have never seen this happen before yet another way of ripping off tourists AMAZING THAILAND !!!!!!!

I'll bash with the best of them but a dollar a pound seems reasonable. A "huge amount" would mean a huge amount of articles.

I wish the airlines back in the States would enforce the rules and stop idiots from taking on these massive wussy-boy rolling suitcases that weigh a ton and fill a single compartment. One of the ferries I take in LOS has people with bags and boxes they dump in seats, making people sit on the deck.

Then again, I'm a pro traveller. I have one medium-sized backpack.

Based on what I've seen here over the years, maybe this girl wasn't even with the ferry.

The ferries between Singapore and Bataam do the same, so hardly a Thai scam thing