A shame because it is a beautiful island. Phuket is the worst place in Thailand to get around without Grab or baht buses or the like. I don't like driving in Thailand or hiring motorbikes so cheap transport is top of my list. Still it did not stop these Thais from trying to scam a foreigner. And Phuket was dead with hardly and tourists. But tourists do not know where to go.Įven this last year, Thaiger posted an article which showed a ferang charged more at a restaurant simply because he was a ferang. Some Phuket expats will comment, If you know where to go you will not be swindled. Phuket has become the most expensive place in Thailand due to unfettered corruption, and the engrained Phuket Thai addiction to ripping off tourists. They have even made beaches national parks to charge tourist to go on them. I refer to the outrageous double pricing they have imposed for tourists. Since then the Phuket government has become the mafia. Some were jailed, and the local police and government were stopped from assisting the Thai Mafia. The mafia had even erected illegal taxi shelters and these were demolished. To be fair when the junta came in they did arrest a few of the Thai mafia, and stopped them blocking hotel car shuttles to and from the airport.
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