Krabi tourists and locals kick up a stink about smelly toilets


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KRABI:-- Tourists and locals have joined forces to report the disgusting state of toilets on an idyllic beach on Koh Lanta.

The toilets are outside the local authority offices of Koh Lanta Noi and were erected for tourists but the municipality have let them go so they are filthy and without running water, reports Daily News.

One tourist said that no one will go there again if those are the kind of facilities on offer.

The taps are broken and there is no water in the makeshift rusty shed.

Local municipality spokesman Sujit Yonkit said that the building was a temporary one and there was a problem because water had stopped flowing to it. He even suggested that it had got dirtier because tourists had not taken any water with them when using the toilets.

He promised that a new set of toilets would be built soon.

Posters on an online news site were unimpressed: one, Suchart, said "The local authority don't care. This is the true Thai civil service for you."

While another, Sailom added: "They have just had several days off when they could have done something about this while the rest of us were working and paying our taxes so they could sit about."

Source: Daily News


-- 2016-05-11

They budgeted new toilets 7 times, but the money mysteriously disappeared! Time to budget for an 8th time! I wonder what will happen this time?

"He even suggested that it had got dirtier because tourists had not taken any water with them when using the toilets."

If only TAT posted a warning to all tourists that they need to bring their own toilet water to be able to flush this would never have happened.

because tourists had not taken any water with them when using the toilets. Give me a break In the west they do not have ONE toilet that requires you to take water with you when you do your business. So how on earth are the tourists going to know to take it

Just very poor planing on the part of the town Very poor

You really couldn't make this up, could you. The toilets are filthy but tourists are to blame for not taking their own water. The Thai way - always blame someone else.

There is so much money made around Krabi. No money for Toilets, me, me me.

It's Krabi right? So the bad smell is probably caused by the Naga's bad breath...

They budgeted new toilets 7 times, but the money mysteriously disappeared! Time to budget for an 8th time! I wonder what will happen this time?

Don't go to the Philippines if dirty toilets and government corruption bothers you that much.

...they don't rake in enough dough....

...how cheap and pathetic can someone be.....???

My god once again, No one over here accepting responsibility.Tourists bring ur own water, I've never heard anything so pathetic.

This country is getting more crazier by the day. ????

Tourists know they have to bring their own toilet paper; now they've been warned to bring their own toilet water and later IU guess they will be warned to bring their own portable toilet.

Tourists are suppose to know to bring your own water??? Thats nuts!!!