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Trip report Bangkok, Pattaya January 2023

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A very nice trip report and looking forward to more of your adventures, thanks for sharing 

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13 hours ago, Londoner said:

Thanks! It always cheers me to hear of posters' happy returns to Thailand! Happy and eager to follow.

I was amused by your "lost" taxi driver. Recently, I took a taxi from the airport to the Jomtien Complex and we ended -up exploring parts of that fair city ( in the dark) which I didn't know existed after the driver got lost. Heaven knows where we ended-up, a frustration after twelve hours in the plane. "Jomtien Complex!"  I repeatedly cried which , when he    used his google sounded like....well, I don't know what but it certainly had nothing to with Jomtien. Or Complex.

Eventually, I said to him "Talay! Talay"  (the sea), and even though my Thai pronunciation is worse than his English, we arrived. 

I suspect the " lost taxi driver " is a scam tactic for some of the drivers to make the trip longer and increase the costs it happened to me twice from the airport to Silom area although the knew the exact addresse I showed them in advance in Thai they somehow managed to "get lost".

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5 hours ago, fedssocr said:

Given how little money taxis make it's quite likely the drivers just don't know where they're going. It's not like they have to pass that test London cabbies do

Most of the drivers are fine but the 2 cases I had from the airport to Silom area were obviously a scam I know the area and I explained to them which is the correct way to the hotel but the taxi drivers ignored my instructions pretended don't understand what I am saying to them and "got lost " mirically after endless rounds on the roads they found the correct way to my hotel.  

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8 hours ago, fedssocr said:

Given how little money taxis make it's quite likely the drivers just don't know where they're going. It's not like they have to pass that test London cabbies do

Last time I was on route to the Raya from the airport, the driver asked me to get in the front so he could look at the route on my google maps! 

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40 minutes ago, Pyrrhus said:

Happy Beer Garden

Love Happy Beer Garden. Some of it is quite pricey I think for what it is, but it is friendly, the beer is cold, and the service is great. 

Nice to hear the night markets are back. I went to one in April last year and it was dead. 

Posted
15 hours ago, Londoner said:

 I paid the agreed fare. I've always found Thai taxi drivers honest and considerate.

 

I kind of thought the same  but no longer after in Nov driver dumped me almost right away  for insisting meter must be used

Posted
15 hours ago, Pyrrhus said:

at the traditionally Thai-named Happy Beer Garden.

translated to English it means Happy Beer Garden

15 hours ago, Pyrrhus said:

. Eventually we get a driver for 200. J is satisfied with this and we hop in. As we ride past driver 1, J waves at him and holds up 2 fingers.

I wouldn't do that demonstration , your driver may get into trouble with others for undercutting price

15 hours ago, Pyrrhus said:

The waitress ...calls me by my name! She must have read it on my credit card earlier in the day, and remembered- I was surprised

Next time pay cash and rest assured she will not call you " Your Majesty ", been there , done that.

 

Congratulation of fabulous reports and entering forum with Big Bang, at 27 'likes' your Day 1 post is surely among most popular posts of all time on forum 

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4 hours ago, vinapu said:

I kind of thought the same  but no longer after in Nov driver dumped me almost right away  for insisting meter must be used

Isn’t it the law?

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