Website will reveal dual pricing scam in Thailand targeting foreigners
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Website will reveal dual pricing scam in Thailand targeting foreigners
A website called 2PriceThailand will soon launch its solution to Thailands dual pricing scams. It will provide a database of foreigner and real prices of different Thai tourist attractions. The website founders say that they are creating it to give the user the right to choose by showing the real and often hidden prices letting the user decide for themselves if it is worth to pay extra as a foreigner or not.
A waterfall Trad is used as an example of a typical dual pricing scam where prices are advertised as 200 Baht per foreign adult by English language signs. The Thai signs however advertise that for Thai adults it costs only 40 Baht. The website founders say that it is common that they try and hide the price by using Thai numerals but their soon to launch service will reveal the true costs.
A waterfall Trad is used as an example of a typical dual pricing scam where prices are advertised as 200 Baht per foreign adult by English language signs. The Thai signs however advertise that for Thai adults it costs only 40 Baht. The website founders say that it is common that they try and hide the price by using Thai numerals but their soon to launch service will reveal the true costs.
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I don't object to twice the price if it is advertised or even better locals go free and this is what the foreigner pays for. If it were the same all over the world , no complaints from me.
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If fee is for someplace/something significantly supported by citizen taxes, and visiting foreigners are largely untaxed, I have no problem paying a reasonable surplus. That said, I'm pretty cheap, and my idea of 'reasonable' isn't high. I'm OK with Khao Yai fees etc.
In Cambodia, where I have paid a lot of taxes over the years, it annoyed me having to pay Sokimex so much for Angkor Was visits. Now, with the new long term tickets, I would probably get the 6 month ticket if I moved to Siem Reap. Still a chunk of coin, but I still love exploring there. (P.S. Anyone know if those new long term tickets include more remote temples - Bung Malia, Koh Ker, etc. and or near Siem Reap culture and nature sites like Phnom Kulen, Kbal Spean, etc??}
In Cambodia, where I have paid a lot of taxes over the years, it annoyed me having to pay Sokimex so much for Angkor Was visits. Now, with the new long term tickets, I would probably get the 6 month ticket if I moved to Siem Reap. Still a chunk of coin, but I still love exploring there. (P.S. Anyone know if those new long term tickets include more remote temples - Bung Malia, Koh Ker, etc. and or near Siem Reap culture and nature sites like Phnom Kulen, Kbal Spean, etc??}
I also don't see the problem with dual pricing in poorer countries
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The Sokimex concession ended 5 years ago, the ticketing is state run now. Kbal Spean is under the Angkor general entry ticket while Phnom Kulen, Beng Melea and Koh Ker are separate.zzxxcc wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:32 amIn Cambodia, where I have paid a lot of taxes over the years, it annoyed me having to pay Sokimex so much for Angkor Was visits. Now, with the new long term tickets, I would probably get the 6 month ticket if I moved to Siem Reap. Still a chunk of coin, but I still love exploring there. (P.S. Anyone know if those new long term tickets include more remote temples - Bung Malia, Koh Ker, etc. and or near Siem Reap culture and nature sites like Phnom Kulen, Kbal Spean, etc??}
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I like it that locals can go into Angkor free. How many would get to see any of it otherwise?
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If you are into cycling, there are now a lot of new cycling trails being laid down around the park. We used them a bit last week when there. I was with the family so couldn't explore too much but the ones we used were good. I understand it will be an extensive network of trails when complete.zzxxcc wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:32 amNow, with the new long term tickets, I would probably get the 6 month ticket if I moved to Siem Reap. Still a chunk of coin, but I still love exploring there. (P.S. Anyone know if those new long term tickets include more remote temples - Bung Malia, Koh Ker, etc. and or near Siem Reap culture and nature sites like Phnom Kulen, Kbal Spean, etc??}
If I lived in Siem Reap I'd be getting the 6 month pass and making a lot of use of the pass and the new trails.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
So it looks like the general feeing so far is that many foreigners are comfortable paying the full ticket price and that locals get a discount or even free entry. I don’t think this “dual-pricing scam” website has much of a future.
Agreed. If you're constantly moaning about how expensive stuff is for us foreigners, living in South East Asia is going to turn you into an even more miserable human being.Guest100 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 11:53 amSo it looks like the general feeing so far is that many foreigners are comfortable paying the full ticket price and that locals get a discount or even free entry. I don’t think this “dual-pricing scam” website has much of a future.
It’s too simplistic to talk about dual pricing to foreigners in Thailand. It’s more complex that that.
When I lived there any surcharge was waived if you could show evidence of living there legally, like a Thai driving licence or similar.
When I lived there any surcharge was waived if you could show evidence of living there legally, like a Thai driving licence or similar.
It's also based on ethnicity. If you travel to Thailand with your Cambodian partner they will not ask her for a surcharge either, unless you come as a couple and pay for both of you.
I think they will be a bit short of content actually. I know it happens, but after exposing one a day for two weeks, what then?
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LOL: does not really work, even showing a thai drivers license/wp many times the guard would sayGuest wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 12:28 pmIt’s too simplistic to talk about dual pricing to foreigners in Thailand. It’s more complex that that.
When I lived there any surcharge was waived if you could show evidence of living there legally, like a Thai driving licence or similar.
No, ur not thai,
now if you had a residence card ,that will work
This is especially true in National parks
Traveling with my Khmer gf she usually didn't pay as they assumed she was thai, as long as they did not ask her any questions in thai
Its been awhile since i was in the park but can you not drive, ride aorund the park without a ticket BUT the ticket is only required to enter the temples?
thats the way it used to be
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I'm a bit amused and I've never really understood the excitement. I just went to an island national park with Thai friends. They paid 20 baht and I paid 100 baht. I spent more on my first drink on the beach and I had many. Boo-hoo. I would have been A LOT more pissed if they had enforced the stupid rule that you cannot serve alcohol on the beach.
Now that we're in the middle of a pandemic, they really look like a pathetic lot of whingers. If they have no issues beyond having to pay an inflated foreigner price on occasion, life seems to be pretty good. Clearly high school teachers with too much time on their hands.
Now that we're in the middle of a pandemic, they really look like a pathetic lot of whingers. If they have no issues beyond having to pay an inflated foreigner price on occasion, life seems to be pretty good. Clearly high school teachers with too much time on their hands.
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