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Tourist Trap: Cheap, but its not cheap as you think of
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This places are a tourist area and all the hookers would like to get extra money from 1st timer tourist like me. As i thought all the thing over patong area will be cheaper, but i was wrong about it. Eg. a simple sandle same as in malaysia i can get at RM6 which is THB50 only, but when i get there, i was asking for the sandle and they gave me price at THB220 which is RM20. The sim card in malaysia you can get at THB100 only (for those who can speak thai) and me i get it at THB400 with THB50 free credit. This all has been tought by my friend who live there for 9 months, according to him, for those who cannot speak thai at all, they will giving you a double price or even more than what they offer to the local. And if you can speak little thai, says at the average, you have middle low price and if you are a thai or can speak excellent thai, you can get even lower price as local can get. Other than that, if you deal with a tourist agency, my advice to you is, better check at many tourist agency as you can and believed me, you can get a prices at far different range from each places you went. That is my experience, i finished a lots of money because of this trap.
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Alternative: Learn at least a little thai or get a friends who can speak thai and ask them to company you when you do shopping, at least you can make different for the prices.
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sarahreynold Sun Apr 1, 2007 09:39 UTC
Nice page for Patong beach. | Donna-Lee Wed Dec 20, 2006 23:32 UTC
Thanks for your tips, I enjoyed reading your pages, the story about the sun screen bloke on Patong Beach made me smile, I`ll be sure to look out for similar characters, hehe. Im going at the end of July & wont mind the occasional showers :) | PotatoChips Sat Oct 21, 2006 07:55 UTC
I like the advise that when one is alone, one can see and listen to anythingm but shld not trust it...takes for the reminder :) | sweetie_inc Fri May 12, 2006 02:19 UTC
Guess it's very fun to travel alone & you get to see more things and meet more people... Will definitely do it myself sometime... hehe.. Great tips! |
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