Sunday, January 13, 2008

some big earners in bangkok....

remember that day i reached bangkok?
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we arrived at the heart of bangkok, Patunam after a hard day's jam, at Bangkok City Inn. i approched the counter, they are fully booked!

i went out and i saw opposite a road that has a sign board indicating: tourisum autority thailand, that looked like this:



and it says: tourist infomation.



it has purple colour themed office that looked like thailand's offical tourism color.

not much office equipment, but a few desk for walk in enquiry.

walls are posted with tourism poster.


it does not have a offical TAT sticker or signage.

it has a licence number stating XXX/XX. i check out TAT website, can't retrieve any infomation regarding such licence number today.

out of desprerado, i booked a hotel room with their help. 1650B for one night. if i book 2 nights i can get 2900B. one night they do not have commission so they charge abit more.

i took up 2 nights and paid up as that police is still waiting for me outside, Samantha is waiting for me at the PJ hotel with all the luggage, both of us are shagged out and hungry, the bike is turning on the heater every meter i travelled.

after staying at the 2900B hotel, i realised that it was only 900B a night! wao... he made good $ on my booking. 1100B for one customer, thats about 60% mark up.we can consider doing this business mannn!!!

then, walking along the street, i noticed another 'TAT' office.

seems like Patunum is a place for tourist.... walking into those office....makes good $!

so where is the real TAT?
fellow singaporeans, the Patunum'ians' love singaporeans as they know that we are always afraid of $fine and the trouble about giving the autorituies our passports. they know that we are big 'carrots' flying into Bangkok.
so beware of such TAT places.

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