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Have just come across your excellent site. Congratulations
I have passed through Bkk on a regular basis for the past 8 years and have somehow managed to avoid most of the scams you cover,although sometimes by the skin of my teeth! On my last visit in Feb/March there was an occurrence that annoyed me at the time and still bugs me when I think of it.Scam or not? I`m not really sure but it certainly put a downer on that visit to Thailand
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Returning from a trip to a friends family in Prasat on route for Chiang Mai we decided to spend a few days in Bkk and made a phone reservation with an hotel I`d stayed at before in Sukumvit Soi19 called Jimmy`s Regent House.
On arrival the name had changed, there was now a spar, bar and a resto. All for the better I thought.
Having checked in I decided to leave most things pilferable in the lobby safe deposit box, whilst I punched in my access code the reception staff theatrically turned their backs so as not to see my magic number. The same procedure the next day when I unsuccessfully attempted to open the box -- guess I`d made an error -- but Hey Presto no problem, the management had an emergency override code and the box pops open!
Everything OK until check-out and I open my box to find I`m suddenly 500€ lighter. Cash gone but passport, i-Pod, cards, tickets etc. thankfully still there, guess I was lucky.
I would say I speak Thai fairly well and understood that this was certainly not the first time that this had happened, a fact which the owner -- although very sympathetic--strenuously denied. The Tourist Police were predictably useless.
Guess next time I`ll transfer straight to Don Muang and give the City of Angels a miss!!!
chok dee krap
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