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You paid the right price: 1500 LT (1000ST), you can get them for 1000 when it gets late and they know they don't have another chance to get another man. Although she's been there only for a few days, she perfectly knows what the price level is. Yes, there's a lot of young dudes but they usually don't pay more than 1000, and the girls know it....
We agreed on 1500 ST, but it was pretty late and she slept over anyways and stayed until about 5 PM the next day, so I guess I made out all right.
I wish Bangkok had some places like Tiger. I might have to come back to Phuket just for the freelancer discos.
I also enjoyed this place, not only for pick-up but also for fun. Nana disco in BKK used to provide the same style of fun but in my few recent trials there was nearly nobody there, so I sticked to BG and Nana parking lot for FLs (1000 ST).
If you want to get away from BKK, there's a much better deal in Pattaya, you can go to equivalent discos (i.e. Lucifer, Insomnia), or smaller places like candyshop in the walking street area, same fun, same type of girls, but only 1000 LT. Most girls don't even talk price and take your 1000 bill when they leave. And it's only 2h drive from BKK.
Good to know. I have yet to do Pattaya.
Nana Disco is closed.
Does anyone know of any university’s/education centers that are close enough to monger locations yet isolated enough to where the students or school officials would not notice. I have been given the opportunity to set up a summer study abroad program in economics. My employer will pay for me to take two weeks for exploratory set up and then it would be a summer program every year after that. This seems like a great opportunity to combine both work and pleasure while my trip cost and stay would be paid for by my employer. Any information on education centers in Phuket would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris
Arrived in Phuket and got to the hotel. that night checked out the scene. wow was it crowded. found out the Navy from the US had stopped by. 3600 horney guys for 2 nights. I myself found a girls and she was with me for 3 nights. Took me down the coast to Kata and Karon and the other beaches. Nice area and quieter than Patong. I have to say it was alright but patong was not to my liking. The beach was fine and the water was warmer than the hotel pool. The bad part was everything seemed to be on top of you in one long block of walking street. Lady boys were out in abundance. My girl was pointing to some n the street and others working in the bars serving drinks. Made me glad i grabbed her and didn't need to look further.
If i go back it will be to the south beaches. For those interested i stayed at the yorkshire inn. A nice place, clean, good pool area and very good food in the restaurant.
My last day there the navy had pulled out. Still crowded and some hot russian girl talent running around. Don't know if it was available.
[QUOTE=Xdentx]Is a 1500 bhat fee for a taxi (four people) from the airport to Kata Beach reasonable or a rip off? This would be a upscale hotel sent vehicle. Meeting our flight. I have no idea. Thanks.[/QUOTE]I just arrived at the Phuket airport. And paid 300 baht for two in a van with others to Patong.
The taxis quoted 600 baht to drive in private car. From airport to patong. Kata a little bit further but 1500 is because of where you stay. You pay for class.
[QUOTE=Malaysian Escort]I think just a caution for all. At the main road at bangla, there are always a few ladies hanging around at the middle of the street near the soi and the guys with iguana. Just be cautious of these ladies. One looks like a Jap girl. Fair and abit like trans but I can confirm she's not. I was there once and she offered me 1500 baht for short time fuck. She brought me to the hotel closeby where she works. I have to pay for hotel for the short time use 500baht. It's a very run down room. Quick bath and[/quote]Good report. Good to have reminders of the low lifes that prey on us players and hobbist.
I have lived in asia now for awhile mostly in Philippines. And yes there are scams and you can not let your guard down
I just arrived to phuket so I will be out looking. Sometimes I stick to the bars just for that reason that there is some insurance with the bar as the girl has to go back and the bar does not want trouble.
Thanks for sharing. I will be looking for girls tonight on Bangla.
[QUOTE=MauiDude]I just arrived at the Phuket airport. And paid 300 baht for two in a van with others to Patong.[/QUOTE]
Earlier detailed info shows the best option at Phuket Airport is to walk past all of the Taxi/Van counters and hawkers and proceed outside the airport, then turn right. The Metered Taxi stand (yellow colored taxis) is 30 meters ahead and a taxi to Patong will run about 350 baht. This is much preferred over a van filled with other people. The vans are famous for unplanned stops at travel agencies, then stop after stop for the others in the van. Take the yellow taxi and you will be sipping a Singha in Patong in 40 mins.
Phuket rip-off: the trouble with tuk-tuks
Tourists in Phuket are being taken for a ride, writes Alan Morison.
Most of Phuket's tuk-tuks are red, which is the colour tourists are seeing when they encounter extortionate fares and sometimes gruff and thuggish behaviour by the drivers of these strange local taxis.
The quaint open-sided vehicles provide a ride that's about as comfortable as the back of a ute but visitors are charged a five-star luxury price for the privilege of being bounced all over the holiday island.
One Canadian tourist complained about the 150 baht ($5) fare for a one-minute journey and was punched in the face five times by a driver last month. A French tourist argued about a parking space on December 26 and had his arm broken.
The cost of a tuk-tuk from Phuket's airport to Patong, a journey of 40 kilometres, is 800 baht, about the same price as the bus fare to Bangkok, 852 kilometres away.
Phuket's tuk-tuk drivers snaffle the best parking spots along the island's popular beaches, charge more than 10 times what their Bangkok colleagues ask and the number of drivers is growing quickly.
While Phuket tuk-tuks have four wheels compared to the three-wheelers in Bangkok, that extra wheel hardly seems to justify prices that are on par with those charged for air-conditioned taxi services in the world's most popular cities.
Natdanai Chaowana, a prominent tuk-tuk owner in Patong, says: "In Patong, everybody knows that it's 200 baht just to start the engine of a tuk-tuk." When asked why the cost is so high, he adds: "'Look at the economy of Phuket. Everything is expensive here."
Patong's police chief, Colonel Grissak Songmoonnark, says there are too many tuk-tuks on Phuket. There are about 500 in Patong alone, he says, not including unregistered vehicles. "Two hundred tuk-tuks would be enough for the whole island," he says.
"Problems arise because of the rivalry between the tuk-tuk groups, which means they often cannot make pick-ups so return trips are usually made empty. It should be 150 baht to travel from Karon to Patong but because the driver has to return empty, he charges 300 baht."
Tourists and expat residents have used internet chat sites to call for a boycott, petitions and the introduction of a proper public transport system on Phuket.
Visitors to Phuket can hire cars or motorcycles or catch slow buses from Patong on the west coast to Phuket City on the east coast. Taxis from the airport, for example, can drop passengers in Patong, Karon and Kata but they cannot pick up passengers.
There are no buses linking the popular west-coast beaches, so tuk-tuks and motorcycle taxis have a monopoly along the west coast.
It is widely acknowledged that tuk-tuk drivers have supporters in local government, resulting in growing pressure for intervention by the Thai government. Even Phuket's powerful provincial governor, Wichai Praisa-ngob, who recently forced unscrupulous jet-ski operators to pay for compulsory insurance, seems unable to rein in the "the tuk-tuk mafia".
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The the Melbourne "Age"
[url]http://blogs.theage.com.au/travel/travellerscheck/2010/02/08/youvegottoha.html[/url]
You've got to hand it to the tuk-tuk (taxi) operators on Phuket island in Thailand. They've taken a leaf out of the big-business book on how to operate a cartel: forget competition; if everyone agrees to jack up the fare to the same level, the punters will have no choice but to pay it and we'll all be making a nice living.
I'm not suggesting that the way to get rich is to drive a tuk-tuk in Phuket. But, relative to the local cost of living, the hire rates for tuk-tuks on Phuket are astronomical - 10 times the going rate in Bangkok, for example.
Nice work if you can get it for a rough, unairconditioned ride in a glorified tricycle.
Scams go wherever tourists go. People on holidays, wherever they may be, are a relatively easy target for people who want to relieve them of their money, legally or illegally.
I thought, therefore, it was time for a stocktake of the latest scams that target travellers: Thailand and Bali keep coming up because they're the most popular Asian holiday spots for Australians. But what about the rest of the world?
Phuket Tuk-Tuks,Taxis: Fairer Fares Proposed
By Chutima Sidasathian and Animanun Chiwverojanakit
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Today's Updating Report
FAIR fares for Phuket tuk-tuks and taxis have been suggested and will be pursued at talks involving key parties and the Governor of Phuket, Wichai Praisa-ngob, next week.
The suggested rates: 80 baht flagfall for Phuket's taxis, with three baht for every kilometer after that, and for tuk-tuks, a 20 baht flagfall, with 20 baht for the first kilometre and 1.5 baht for each kilometre after that.
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Those proposed fares won the endorsement of Germany's honorary consul, Dirk Naumann, during a remarkable summit meeting last night between the governor and representatives from 16 nations that provide the majority of Phuket's tourists.
In a frank exchange of views for the first time, several key issues relating to tourism were discussed, with the focus primarily on Phuket transport.
Governor Wichai told the honorary consuls and observers that the transport problem was a long-standing one that could not be resolved overnight, but a start would be made with a ''holistic approach.''
Any attempt to resolve the issue straight away was likely to meet ''lots and lots of backfires,'' the governor told the national representatives, with the help of a Foreign Ministry translator.
He said he will also look at the example of Haad Yai, the southern city hub, where there are many tuk-tuks running, but with fares much lower than on Phuket.
At the meeting were representatives from Germany, Australia, Britain, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Russia, Korea, Finland, Austria, Italy, France, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Denmark and Estonia.
The governor said that if there were attacks on expats on Phuket, police would be instructed to inform the governor who would inform the relevant honorary consul, or for police to inform honorary consuls directly.
Mr Naumann said: ''We appreciate this very much and we would like to ask police to report not only on arrests but on any foreigner who is taken into custody, any foreigner who has an accident, any foreigner who dies, and we would lke this to happen immediately.
''If it happens tonight, I should receive a call [by] tomorrow morning.''
He said that honorary consuls met on December 24 and agreed to raise one problem at the meeting with the governor: transport on Phuket.
''The Phuket taxis are not only the worst taxis in South East Asia - and I'm talking about the tuk-tuks, not the taxis.
''Taxis are all right. They need meters and we appreciate your comment to propose 80 baht for the first flagfall then three baht for every kilometre.
''They are air-conditioned, they are comfortable, and they are nice.''
''However, I think your justification for the higher fees, saying that taxis cannot pick up people because there are not enough people, not enough users of the taxis, is to me somewhat difficult to accept.
''The reason why taxis cannot pick up passengers in Patong, in Karon, in Kata in Surin and wherever on the west coast is because if they do, they get shot.''
Governor Wichai did not require this section translated. He understood.
''If the reason that the taxis are more expensive on Phuket than in Bangkok, is because Phuket is very expensive, in fact the most expensive place in Thailand, there I would support you.
''Now let's talk about tuk-tuks. Before coming to this meeting, I searched the Internet to see whether I could find an article by someone in the world, some newspaper, complaining about tuk-tuks.
''February 6, Sydney Morning Herald, one article: 'Phuket rip-off: the trouble with tuk-tuks.'
''Noone talks about taxis. The taxis here on Phuket are expensive, and your proposal is good. They talk about tuk-tuks, and I can assure you if I look back I can find an article every week in Germany, in Sweden, in Denmark, in the UK, in the USA, in Australia, even in Estonia, about the rip-offs, the unruliness and the mafia-style activities of the tuk-tuk drivers.
''I firmly believe, and I think I speak with the voice of all my colleagues when I say that for the tuk-tuks, we do need a different approach.
''The tuk-tuks threaten their passengers. They go into a dark road, and force more money. They charge many more hundred baht per person, not per tuk-tuk trip, per person.
''They cause constant trouble.
''If a private organisation wishes to pick up people from a hotel, they make a protest in front of the hotel and let nobody in, nobody out, and they win.
''The hotel cannot do anything. I believe that the tuk-tuks, which are very uncomfortable, very expensive, and I would add very cheap to run, they should not charge 80 baht for initial fee.
''They may start with 20 baht and maybe 20 for the first kilometre and 1.5 baht for each additional kilometre.
''That would be justified, But for a tuk-tuk to charge 80 baht, we would have the same . . . on and on and on.''
Despite the meeting's importance to Phuket's future, not a single arm of the local Thai media sent a reporter to the gathering at Royal Phuket City Hotel.
In attendance were representatives from the Tourism Authority of Thailand, the director of the Foreign Ministry, Phuket, the Orborjor, the Chamber of Commerce, Immigration at Phuket Airport, the Resources and Environment Phuket Office, Phuket Tourist Police and the Chief of the Provincial Administration Group.
In Patong I would often have used a bike taxi but can never find them - no chance of anything other than a tuk tuk at each end of Bangla
Did manage to get a tour of the island by tuk tuk once for 1200 but that was probably a fluke!
First time in Phuket but I knew where to go. Arrived after a long flight from Europe to the hotel, around 9PM, took a shower and walked to the Bangla Road. First night I am looking for good looking women, not so easy, find one place with good looking girls. Although I am horny I decide not to take a girl with me but promise one of the girls I will come tomorrow and take her for dinner and then the night is open. My Original plan was to stay for 2 weeks and travel with a girl in Krabi and or Phan-Ngha and have a good girlfriend experience. I know it sounds naive but. Any ways next day I meet the girl which was 30 years old and quite nice, we went for dinner from the bar. Once we are done with dinner we go back to the bar I pay the bar and we go to the hotel. That was a quickie but once we done she said she wants to go back to the bar. Fine with me. I guess I have to look for some one else.
Next day after walking through the bars with no big expectations I see a girl unlike others which does not call the welcome call, but sits and drink bear. I approach and ask her if she wants to play whatever games they have. She is tall, beautiful, sexy almost perfect. She is 35 years old and she does not look 35. I am thinking to myself she saw it all she knows what I want and knows what to ask, perfect trade. Since it is early I suggest to pay the bar fine and go to my hotel have shower and then go to eat.
That's what we do. We come back late at night and have sex. It does not look that she is enjoying very much and I do not come at the end. It was very hard to sleep that night being so horney. Next morning we eat breakfast at the hotel and I rebook the hotel with her name so I do not have to pay additional 700 baht for guest. We basically agreed that we will be together for around 10 days. She tells me that she needs to get her cloths from Chalong Bay. Till then we do not discuss money, my fault, she ask for 500 baht for phone ticket, I give her and off I go. She said she will call me around noon. She calls around 10pm from the bar and I am a little annoyed. She asked me to come to the bar and that's what I do, I ride the scooter I rented the day before and bar fine her again. I started with a business talk about what I will pay her to put it out of the way, I offer 2000 baht inc her bar fine which is 400 baht so she is netting 1600.
She agrees and I am happy. We go to eat again and she is having 2 glasses of wine on top of the drinks she already had in the bar. After dinner we go and have some more drinks at her bar and then she asks me if I want to go to the disco, I decline the offer. Walking back to the scooter I had to hold her so she won't fall she was a little drunk. She was a bit cold and coughed a bit. She was not feeling well it was obvious, but I could not understand how she wanted to go to the disco half an hour ago.
Out of nowhere after throwing out she started to cry and say that she had enough and wanted to finish everything, suddenly I find myself with someone that is talking about killing herself her bad life as a bar girl etc wow. I am thinking to myself I am trying to run away from my problems and here I am getting involved with someone else's. She was really sick so I go to a seven eleven store and get her chicken soup essence and some other medicine – no sex that night.
Next day she stays at the hotel and I go to the beach. Later she is leaving to her place and I come to pick her up we are having sex and we go to eat dinner.
That night I was called back to my home office. I had to leave Thailand within 3 days for work reasons. In the morning I tell her that I might leave soon. We spent the whole day together but I feel it is different she does not hug me when we ride the scooter. Any ways we meet in the evening at the bar she tells me that I look troubled, which I was, and she advise that tonight she will not come with me and she would like to remain a friend. We departed
I am sure she did not wait too long before she went on to the next guy but I felt awkward about her behavior and I thought I treated her like a real lady. I cannot figure out the puzzle. I am 48 does not look my age and thought by others as good looking.
Is it me?
Is it her?
Or are these Thai women?
By the way I think the quality in phuket is good but you really need to look around
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[QUOTE=Mackin]Arrived in Phuket and got to the hotel. that night checked out the scene. wow was it crowded. found out the Navy from the US had stopped by. 3600 horney guys for 2 nights[/QUOTE]Might want to avoid Phuket for at least a month after these guys leave. The women in Phuket are going to be a bit worn out for a few weeks for sure.
[QUOTE=Dagi123]First time in Phuket...Is it me? Is it her? Or are these Thai women?[/QUOTE] I would say, just normal crazy Thai bargirl behavior. Most of 'em are baht-sniffing nutcases on a good day!
You have your job, and she has her's (squeezing money and attention out of guys like you). A 35-yo bargirl knows the ropes pretty well.
Next time don't pick the one sitting alone by herself nursing a beer (bear?), as that was a subtle red flag right at the start. Just be glad you got away.