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bkkz
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Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 4:10 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
I had been going to Thailand for the past 35 years, since my 1st trip in 1971.
Would you consider me to be "new" to Thailand ?
Since you have had a lot of experience with the taxi drivers, do you feel that they have changed over the past 35 years?
As for the 35 B fare, I always give them 40 B, and most of the time, I expect them to keep 40 B even when I give them a 100 B note. There have been very few instances, I actually get 65 B change back when I pay with a 100 B note. Anyway, it's just a matter of convenience.
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Posted on: 9:05 am on Jan. 29, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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Quote: from seajohn on 4:54 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
from PussyLover 69 on 2:17 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
Looks like more and more taxi drivers are demanding more than the fare shown on the meter.
More and more? I can't remember a time when they (75% of them) didn't try these little games on anyone they thought they would fall for it. For them, it's a real mental accomplishment to come up with such a lame con.
I've been coming to Thailand for a meager 4 years, and I have never had a taxi driver try to renegotiate the fare upon arrival...
Quote: from PussyLover 69 on 4:10 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
I had been going to Thailand for the past 35 years, since my 1st trip in 1971.
Would you consider me to be "new" to Thailand ?
Yes, if you act like a newbie - not for the fact that a taxi driver was trying to ripping you off, but that you actually paid it, *AND* that you were puzzled that this happened.
Let's be serious - you could have been coming to LOS for 350 years, but if you act like a newbie, for all practical purposes, then you are a newbie.
I guess you were too busy copying and pasting articles to actually read what this forum is all about?
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Posted on: 10:48 am on Jan. 29, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Quote: from bkkz on 11:29 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
Since you have had a lot of experience with the taxi drivers, do you feel that they have changed over the past 35 years?
Yes, taxi drivers had changed over the past 35 years.
Before the introduction of the meter taxis, taxi drivers used to quote a very ridiculous high fare for tourists and you really have to bargain with them before you board the taxi.
Try taking a taxi in Malaysia and you know what I mean. Even though all the taxis have meters and are supposed to use them almost 99.99% of the taxi drivers refuse to use them and will quote you a "flat fare" which is usually about 2 to 3 times the "metered fare"
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Posted on: 5:46 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
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My regular journey to work is between 100B and 110B, I nearly always give them 120B. They almost always offer change and are told to keep it. I never get a refusal to go, nor any attempt not to use the meter, this approx 250 times a year, on that one route alone.
Rental rates on taxis and various other fess, including of course, petrol, have gone up and up with no increase in fares. It's a tough business and they are mostly good guys earning a living.
The exception are the tossers who hang around hotels. They just don't get my business, under any circumstances.
Some people smell new to a certain type of driver. Guess I don't.
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Posted on: 5:53 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
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bkkz
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Quote: from Yurune on 8:17 am on Jan. 30, 2007
Rental rates on taxis and various other fess, including of course, petrol, have gone up and up with no increase in fares. It's a tough business and they are mostly good guys earning a living.
Hey, don't worry about the petrol bit, they are on LPG. 
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Posted on: 6:25 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
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Baskoy
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Quote: from Yurune on 8:17 am on Jan. 30, 2007
The exception are the tossers who hang around hotels
And the ones who stalk you down the street sounding their horn.As if by doing that you will suddenly remember that you need to go Bang Na or somewhere..
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Posted on: 11:12 pm on Jan. 29, 2007
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PussyLover 69
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Report from The Nation dated Tuesday 30 January 2007 :-
Don Muang Airport to be resurrected
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Airlines can resume domestic flights at old airport; international traffic will continue at troubled new facility
Airlines have been given the option of returning operations to the decommissioned Bangkok International Airport at Don Muang while repairs are made at the Bt150-billion Suvarnabhumi Airport.
The Transport Ministry recommended yesterday that carriers offering direct domestic flights be allowed to return to the old airport.
It said it would take between 45 day and 60 days to prepare Don Muang to accept flights and passengers again.
International flights will continue to use Suvarnabhumi Airport.
The resolution will be tabled at the February 6 Cabinet meet-ing, Transport Minister Theera Haocharoen said after meeting yesterday with top transport officials.
"The return to Don Muang is on a voluntary basis and is required to reduce inconvenience at Suvarnabhumi, where runway, taxiway, parking-bay and passenger-terminal repairs are under way," he said.
"These could cause inconvenience now that Suvarnabhumi is busy with domestic and international flights."
He said it was not known if the return would be made permanent. But, he said, from discussions with airlines, moving domestic flights to Don Muang would reduce all traffic at Suvarnabhumi by 30 per cent.
At present, Suvarnabhumi accommodates 1,150 domestic flights per week.
Theera believed a return to Don Muang would not trouble car-riers. They would require ground services only and not heavy, permanent equipment installed at Suvarnabhumi.
In a January 11 resolution, the Airports of Thailand board approved spending of Bt66 million to prepare Don Muang. It will need to provide other facilities and services, including taxis and buses.
Deputy Transport Minister Sansern Wongcha-um noted almost all domestic carriers were ready and willing to return to Don Muang. Airports of Thailand will discuss how expenses incurred will be met.
"Airlines should be able to shoulder the expenses," he said.
Open just four months, Suvarnabhumi is operating near its capacity of 45 million passengers a year. Based on the current volume of arrivals and departures, it is calculated Suvarnabhumi is operating at a level equivalent to 43 million passengers a year.
Sansern expected the move back to Don Muang would see a delay to the building of a new passenger terminal at Suvarnabhumi.
Orient-Thai Airlines chief executive Udom Tantiprasongchai said its One-Two-Go Airlines was ready to return to Don Muang.
"As a result of lower operating costs, this should allow us to register a 20-per-cent increase in passenger numbers this year, up from our original target of 10 per cent," he said, adding the airline needed to spend about Bt40 million on equipment at its Don Muang facilities.
A Transport Ministry source said agencies at yesterday's meeting suggested Thai Airways International maintain key domestic flights at Suvarnabhumi.
This is to accommodate foreign tourists who need connecting flights to internal tourist destinations. If these flights are operated from Suvarnabhumi, travellers will be inconvenienced.
Earlier, Thai Airways said it was ready to relocate non-transit domestic flights to Don Muang.
However, flights to and from Phuket and Chiang Mai will remain at Suvarnabhumi owning to the volume of international connections to and from these destinations.
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Posted on: 7:26 am on Jan. 30, 2007
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China Sailor
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Yesterday the Nation, today the world.
It seems that the troubles with the airport have made the big time (from CNN International) :
Rocky Start for Bangkok Airport
Note to Junta:
That's what you get when you piss off CNN...
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Posted on: 11:17 am on Jan. 30, 2007
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atl
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From Thai Visa:
Cobra Swamp is reclaiming Bangkok's showpiece airport
BANGKOK: -- Bangkok’s showpiece international airport, opened last year, appears to be sinking into the swamp on which it was built. The city’s old airport will have to be reopened and some flights diverted there.
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A $250,000 geotechnical investigation could of averted (sp?) this issue...but maybe Thaksin didnt have any buddies or family members to bid on that job.....
seriously though, I cant belive the architects didnt have a full - geotech study done to validate what could be supported...its on a frekin swamp...
ahh..got to love Thai style lol
atl
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Posted on: 2:35 pm on Jan. 30, 2007
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DaffyDuck
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...and I bet no one will be blamed, and no one's at fault.
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Posted on: 3:44 pm on Jan. 30, 2007
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