General Reports

[Daddy07]

Thailand has a way of bringing out the kinky side in us:

http://www.pattayadailynews.com/show...EWS=0000009404

How embarrassing! He should have gone to Tulip.

[MauiDude]

Originally Posted by AndyBKK

A good driver 25000B per month.

I am trying to feel this out because I hate the fu$king Taxis in Thailand and think they are are Issan swines, who are out to rob and cheat you, so I figured with a car and driver, a newbie in Thailand can be shown the sites (p4p) which are higher end without the potential for rip offs and commission scams by the fu$cking pigs of thai Taxi drivers. Yes I hate the guys that want to cheat you. But it a mental exercise to keep them honest. And some are great guys just working to feed their families.

Check out the airport transport thread and it has great info on transport in Thailand.

Also the hotel cars can be hired by the day at most places in Bangkok and they cost more but no hassle usually.

Part of travelling is just dealing with the bs.

I have had some taxi drivers try to drive away with out me and take all my bags with them had to force my way back into the taxi to keep them from leaving.

And I am usually able to jump out and walk away if they start giving me the bull. Like if they don't use the meter or start trying to extort more money.

But I also tip well if they are no hassle.

Much cheaper and more fun for me to expierence more of the local scene.

[MauiDude]

Originally Posted by AndyBKK

When the topic of rental car was posted I thought about my current situation.

I am thinking about buying a SUV and hiring a full time driver just to take me and my friends around to the bars, massage palors, and karaoke places.

The SUV would be a Toyota Fortunner, which can sit 6.

Cost about 20000B per month with insurance.

A good driver 25000B per month.

And since I don't go out everynight, I was wonder would anyone be interested in sharing this with me.

I use taxis and public transport and love that it is really easy once you get use to it and learn how to get around. Also I like walking as much as I can and even like to get lost once in awhile to find new places.

Yes some drivers rob you? Not really but they take advantage if they can. Part of why I like to travel. I got to think about what I am doing and in retirement its easy to quit thinking.

I took a taxi from honolulu to the airport for $35 usd.

And got ripped off by a taxi driver in manila for 500 pesos. Equal to $11 usd so even overpaying is still cheaper then a car rental or taxi in the more affluent countries. (I hear london is insane with high prices? )

I take the taxis bus and trains. Its a great expierence and even if they over charge once in awhile then its a learning expierence for me and I am very happy to save money from transport to spend on pussy.

So if you want a better adventure and to work your mind. Get in the taxis and find the other transportation.

Don't get too worried about a few extra dollars the driver is trying to make to keep his family fed.

Just my opinion and the way I like to travel. Its been fun for me.

[Opebo]

A good driver 25000B per month.

I am trying to feel this out because I hate the fu$king Taxis in Thailand and think they are are Issan swines, who are out to rob and cheat you, so I figured with a car and driver, a newbie in Thailand can be shown the sites (p4p) which are higher end without the potential for rip offs and commission scams by the fu$cking pigs of thai Taxi drivers.

A few points, Andy:

Firstly, as Old Asia Hand has so ably pointed out (while managing to self-aggrandize at the same time), you could probably have 3 drivers for 25,000 baht per month.

Secondly, on a related note - many of us expatriates don't make all that much more than 25,000 baht a month, and very few make the 40,000 baht a month you propose for your transportation.

Thirdly, (and I speak from experience having done the job as a student back in the Bad Place) taxi drivers everywhere are out to cheat everyone, or at least anyone they perceive as having a lot of money or being stupid. I cheated people right and left, and it increased my income by about 10%. Means a lot when you're living on 300 bucks a week.

[Crazy4Thai]

When the topic of rental car was posted I thought about my current situation.

I am thinking about buying a SUV and hiring a full time driver just to take me and my friends around to the bars, massage palors, and karaoke places.

The SUV would be a Toyota Fortunner, which can sit 6.

Cost about 20000B per month with insurance.

A good driver 25000B per month.

And since I don't go out everynight, I was wonder would anyone be interested in sharing this with me..

I can understand how you would come up with this plan. IF you could get someone to share this with you, there might be some benefit but I seriously doubt that it would be financial.

Im sorry to say that people will fuck you when they can. I built a boat in Thailand and could tell you all about it. None of those guys drive taxis. While I'm complaining about the fucking I'm getting, my friend in the US tells about the fucking he's getting there.

some people would say you must be gullible or stupid. Maybe. I say you can't know everything and people will fuck you if they get the chance. Even your own driver.

I also say that you ought to take another look at your numbers. You could do a HELL of alot of hired transportation for what you are talking about.

[NoCBJ4Me]

Actor David Carradine of "Kung Fu" fame found dead in a Bangkok Hotel rooom


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31103217/

Too bad, and he was in the perfect place to cheer himself up, too! He was at a 5 star hotel - Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel - their website quotes 4300 -9800 baht per night - ouch!

[Run Mann]

Actor David Carradine of "Kung Fu" fame found dead in a Bangkok Hotel room


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31103217/

[The Pro]

Most strange.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009...s_30104421.php

BREAKING STORY

David Carradine found dead in Bangkok

Kung Fu and Kill Bill star David Carradine was found hung in a hotel room in Bangkok on Wednesday, Thai police said.

Police believed he committed suicide.

Carradine, 73, was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and stayed at a Suite Room 352 of Park Nai Lert Hotel on Wireless Road since June 2.

The film crew went.

[The Pro]

The fee's are cheap yes.

http://www.ru.ac.th/english/english2008/fees.html

But what about apartment rental, clothes, food, school books, utensiles etc.....

Unless they come from Bangkok then they are staying away from home to study there.

You are talking shit if you think that 1600Baht covers everything that a student needs for one year.

FYI: The tuition for Ramkhamhaeng for one term is 1600B. ( so cheap even a girl on a butt-***** salary can afford it) . If your talek tells you to send 30,000B to pay for her tuition at Ram, you know it's BS now.

Source: The official university receipt.

[The Pro]

Utter bollocks and complete load of shit.

FYI: Short side story on why I think so lowly of Thai taxi drivers.

When I first got to Bangkok I thought highly of all Thai people. And why shouldn't I, I come from a culture where you were lucky to get a "Hi" unlike like Thailand where people wai to you left and right. I befriended a few Taxi drivers. During the course of hanging out with these guys I realized that they think all foreigners are marks.

They would brag about how a rich farang took them to a fancy seafood restaurant where the total bill was 6000B and they got 1000B commission from the establishment in addition to enjoying a delicious meal of the finest seafood and cocktails with this tourist who was thinking he made a new Thai friend.

Another time they talked about how some white businessmen were either too business or lazy to go to the go-go and call him to ask for him help in finding some late night entrainment. They told me how they went out to petchburi and pick up some Thai street walker for 1500B and told the farang 6000B. Oh, the farang wanted a threesome, so it was 6000x2. Smiling and laughing at how they pocketed the difference of 4500 from each girl.

The next time you are in BKK and think you have found a new friend think again. Behind that smile, he is thinking of the ways he can burn you, his newest mark.

So that's my encounter with the local Thai taxis drivers. They should all be rounded up in a large truck and driven back to Issan to live with their pigs.

_______

Poor Issan girls grow up to be *****s

Poor Issan boys grow up to be Taxi bandits

There's an irony to this story. While we're fucking the Issan girls, the Issan guys are fucking us. Think about this the next time a Bangkok Taxi driver takes you on an unwanted tour of the city.

[Old Thai Hand]

FYI: The tuition for Ramkhamhaeng for one term is 1600B. ( so cheap even a girl on a butt-***** salary can afford it) . If your talek tells you to send 30,000B to pay for her tuition at Ram, you know it's BS now.

Source: The official university receipt.

It's cheap because it's a shit university, for the most part, except for its law school. Many of the students are absolute crap and go there because they can't get in anywhere else. The only thing positive I'd say is that the international college pays quite well.

[NicFrenchy]

A good driver 25000B per month.

That's one to be cautious about... many Drivers were ex-Taxi drivers.

I usually take the Skytrain and a taxi if I really have to (like go to the Airport).

Usually I always take a taxi for small distances so it is hard for them to try and pull a fast one. Just tell him where you're going (in Thai) and don't reply to his questions... he'll know to shut up adn leave you alone.

[Andy Abs]

When the topic of rental car was posted I thought about my current situation.

I am thinking about buying a SUV and hiring a full time driver just to take me and my friends around to the bars, massage palors, and karaoke places.

The SUV would be a Toyota Fortunner, which can sit 6.

Cost about 20000B per month with insurance.

A good driver 25000B per month.

And since I don't go out everynight, I was wonder would anyone be interested in sharing this with me.

I am trying to feel this out because I hate the fu$king Taxis in Thailand and think they are are Issan swines, who are out to rob and cheat you, so I figured with a car and driver, a newbie in Thailand can be shown the sites (p4p) which are higher end without the potential for rip offs and commission scams by the fu$cking pigs of thai Taxi drivers.

FYI: Short side story on why I think so lowly of Thai taxi drivers.

When I first got to Bangkok I thought highly of all Thai people. And why shouldn't I, I come from a culture where you were lucky to get a "Hi" unlike like Thailand where people wai to you left and right. I befriended a few Taxi drivers. During the course of hanging out with these guys I realized that they think all foreigners are marks.

They would brag about how a rich farang took them to a fancy seafood restaurant where the total bill was 6000B and they got 1000B commission from the establishment in addition to enjoying a delicious meal of the finest seafood and cocktails with this tourist who was thinking he made a new Thai friend.

Another time they talked about how some white businessmen were either too business or lazy to go to the go-go and call him to ask for him help in finding some late night entrainment. They told me how they went out to petchburi and pick up some Thai street walker for 1500B and told the farang 6000B. Oh, the farang wanted a threesome, so it was 6000x2. Smiling and laughing at how they pocketed the difference of 4500 from each girl.

The next time you are in BKK and think you have found a new friend think again. Behind that smile, he is thinking of the ways he can burn you, his newest mark.

So that's my encounter with the local Thai taxis drivers. They should all be rounded up in a large truck and driven back to Issan to live with their pigs.

_______

Poor Issan girls grow up to be *****s

Poor Issan boys grow up to be Taxi bandits

There's an irony to this story. While we're fucking the Issan girls, the Issan guys are fucking us. Think about this the next time a Bangkok Taxi driver takes you on an unwanted tour of the city.

It sounds like you have Thailand all summed up! You have obviously been here a very long time? Issan seems to stick in your mind for some reason. The only people that get fucked over here are the gullible and the stupid. Back in the UK it was said that all Scousers were robbers. Umm. Funny thing was I had more trouble in London than Liverpool.

I wish people would not come on here and just generalize: all taxi drivers are from Issan. Bollocks. All poor Thai girls from Issan end up as P4Ps. Double bollocks. Can I ask. Did you just win the lottery?

[AndyBKK]

I find there is close correlation between a Girl's English skills and the number of years of secondary schooling or other English schooling.

Sorry to disappoint, but you will not find girls from family who have enough money to send them to "English schooling" in the go go bars and soapies of Bkk.

And from the hours of 12pm to 6pm each day the bar girls have nothing to do but practice their English by reading text books. One of the best buyers of basic English grammar books are bar girls, trust me on this one because I have visited the rooms of many working girls in Bangkok and I can say that all of them have some type of English grammar book. Some even have a collect of English grammar books.

The funny thing is that I have hooked up with non-working university girls and they can read everything in the English news paper, but no understand a word I say. There working girl counterparts can understand everything I say, but can't spell and in many cases read a basic sentence.

I know a girl who is currently 18 and has worked in a nana go go bar for 3 yrs. She can speak English fair well and is enrolling at Ramkhamhaeng University this term.

FYI: The tuition for Ramkhamhaeng for one term is 1600B. ( so cheap even a girl on a butt-***** salary can afford it) . If your talek tells you to send 30,000B to pay for her tuition at Ram, you know it's BS now.

Source: The official university receipt.

[AndyBKK]

you are willing to spend over 40k baht a month so you do not have to use a taxi?

I wish I had your money

Why not just find a private taxi ("limo") that hangs out at a hotel (not the vultures in front of the hotel) and have them on call when you need them....

and buy beers for the rest of us with the money you save !

BK

I have yet to find a private limo service that is reasonably price. I think the car and driver is the least expensive, but I am open to ideas. You have to keep in mind the odd hours. It's not like a 9am-5pm deal here, so the driver has so be available during the early evening and late night.

In addition to the above, having a private car and driver is a status symbol here and will land you a lot of freebies. ( not that is my main reason.) It just the Thai girls naturally assuming you're loaded and someone of rather high importance if you show up in a car with a driver. It's all on the outside BS here in Thailand. I probably have the same amount of money you do.

Let me know if you have any limo service that you would recommend.