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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
I arrived in Bangkok on the 19th August and spent two nights at the DMA Pavilion Hotel, On the second night my boyfriend and I decided to go out for a meal. The porter at the DMA asked us where we were going. We told him that we were looking for a restaurant. He told us that he could recommend a good one and that we would be driven there for 20 baht. There was a car parked directly oppostite the hotel entrance i.e. on the hotel ramp. He called a man over and asked us to get in. It was not a taxi. The man drove us to a restaurant about 2km away. The hotel had a car park in front of it with taxis parked there. Our driver drove us right in under the roof of the restaurant i.e. a porch like area. As soon as we got out of the car, we were surrounded by three staff members, shown a display of fish on our left and then taken to the seating area of the restaurant. We felt pressurused but did not protest because we were hoping that it would be a good restaurant as it had been recommended by staff at the hotel. It was, in fact, a very ordinary tourist class restaurant but the prices were exhorbitant. Main courses that would normally be 60baht in any other restaurant were 300 baht and more at this restaurant. We ordered a plate of plain fried noodles as well as rice to accompany the two main courses we ordered. They charged us a further 300 baht for the noodles. Overall, it was a very banal meal for a very exhorbitant price. Since then we have eaten in some exclusive gormet restaurants that were cheaper than this one. We were surprised that the staff at the DMA were involved in such a scam. We would not have gone to a restaurant recommended by a random taxi driver or tuk tuk driver but felt that we could trust the staff at our hotel to give us a genuine recommendation. Unfortunately we were badly stung in the pocket.
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