Thailand/Bangkok QA thread

No man, Bangkok is siff. All it's good for is shopping.
Most people either love it or hate it while I have a sort of middle ground feeling about the city. I hate it when I'm stuck in Bangers for more than three days, but then find I miss the place when I'm away from the city for more than a month and the cycle repeats.
 
Would be great if we had decent street food areas minus the war zones.
No street food scene in SA, especially not Caoe Town, where everything gets regulated out of existence, and the big chains bully the guys with food stands because if nuances in their names and menu items. West is greedy.
 
one legit question I have, are they really Strict about their king, for instance if you insult their King, you get thrown in jail almost immediately

so its not like the British Royal family, where everybody laughs at them quite openly

also, is it really true about the lady boys there? they can fool anybody, even if you look really closely.
They can, but in my experience, they're not there to fool you into screwing them. People travel there for that.
 
No street food scene in SA, especially not Caoe Town, where everything gets regulated out of existence, and the big chains bully the guys with food stands because if nuances in their names and menu items. West is greedy.
For sure! Here I only support 7/11
I don’t touch franchise food.
It’s 95% street food which is much better quality and better tasting that franchise shyte.

SA it’s all about franchise bull.
Fking ridiculous.
 
For sure! Here I only support 7/11
I don’t touch franchise food.
It’s 95% street food which is much better quality and better tasting that franchise shyte.

SA it’s all about franchise bull.
Fking ridiculous.
A lekker ham and cheese toastie from 7/11 goes down very well after a night of Sangsom and Changs.
 
A lekker ham and cheese toastie from 7/11 goes down very well after a night of Sangsom and Changs.
It’s legendary. It’s a worldwide thing that everyone knows about 7/11 toasties. Lol
I must confess I also fcking love a 7/11
 
Is there public transport between Patong and Old Town Phuket because then I might cut out Old Town Phuket completely?

Obviously just go to the Andaman Water Park for my sons birthday.
I just got back from Thailand about 2 weeks ago. Andaman water park was epic. Loved it. A taxi (car or minibus) was 700 bhat from Kamala to Phuket old Town but Kamala is further than Patong. I'm sure you could get there for 500 bhat from Patong and then 500 bhat back. You can negotiate a bit but I found taxi prices to be pretty consistent between them. Fuel is not cheap for them. If I recall correctly it was about 34 bhat a litre. So taxis aren't as reasonable as it was when I was there in 2018. There is a nice go kart track next to Tiger Kingdom if you like that kind of stuff. I went to Fantasea and personally found it over priced and hardly worth the visit. The dolphin show was great though. Enjoyed that. Food in cheap in the restaurants around Patong and its good as well. Service all round was great.
 
What amount of spending money did you guys take with? We a family of 4 (2 kids under 10) that do not intend to do anything extravagant. Should R20k be enough for the 14 days. This excludes the hotels costs.
 
What amount of spending money did you guys take with? We a family of 4 (2 kids under 10) that do not intend to do anything extravagant. Should R20k be enough for the 14 days. This excludes the hotels costs.
Tours and activities will eat into your budget pretty quickly, but you will be fine. That's pretty much my monthly budget for my son and me (excluding accommodation and school fees) and we survive quite comfortably with the occasional luxury thrown in.
 
What amount of spending money did you guys take with? We a family of 4 (2 kids under 10) that do not intend to do anything extravagant. Should R20k be enough for the 14 days. This excludes the hotels costs.
Yes should be more than enough if you don’t go on a big shopping spree.
With R20k you don’t really have to count pennies.
For tours on Phuket, get the hop on hop off bus. It takes you to all the main attractions on the island for about R80pp
As Norrad said, if you going to take a trip to another island off Phuket then you might want to check and negotiate pricing.
Never take the first price. Specially if you going as a family. Shop around.
 
What amount of spending money did you guys take with? We a family of 4 (2 kids under 10) that do not intend to do anything extravagant. Should R20k be enough for the 14 days. This excludes the hotels costs.
If you eat at Thai restaurants and don't go binge drinking every night then 3000 Baht a day should be enough.

Eating seafood, steaks and western food and drinking dozens of cocktails and bottles of wine then that won't be enough.

Some days you will spend less, some days more.
 
Tours and activities will eat into your budget pretty quickly, but you will be fine. That's pretty much my monthly budget for my son and me (excluding accommodation and school fees) and we survive quite comfortably with the occasional luxury thrown in.
As I have mentioned before we will be staying in Ao Nang as well and the only thing I want to go see that involves a trip is Railay Beach and I believe transport for that is 100 Baht one way which is nothing at all. Was considering Phi Phi but damn it looks extremely boring.
 
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Yes should be more than enough if you don’t go on a big shopping spree.
With R20k you don’t really have to count pennies.
For tours on Phuket, get the hop on hop off bus. It takes you to all the main attractions on the island for about R80pp
As Norrad said, if you going to take a trip to another island off Phuket then you might want to check and negotiate pricing.
Never take the first price. Specially if you going as a family. Shop around.
The idea is to kind of operate like a local. Honestly, I do not get the idea behind going to a foreign country to go on shopping sprees. It just seems like a waste of time and money. Luckily my wife feels the same. When we were in Bali we avoided this and doing touristy activities which made the experience must better. We did one day trip to a neighboring island but that was absolutely fantastic and I will do it again.

I have tried getting prices for tours just to get an idea but the prices differed a lot from what I read. I have kind of resorted to checking the prices when I get there.
 
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