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Sep 10, 2006

All around Bangkok, whether you are catching a taxi, a tuk tuk, or walking to The Grand Palace, drivers or people on the street will tell you that the place you want to head to is closed, but they are happy to take you somewhere else.


DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM!!!


It's a very common scam in this city.  They say it because they are going to get a kick back from the other place that they take you to.  Although I was warned of this myself prior to going, from friends that had already been there, I was absolutely blown away with the frequency that this actually occurred to us.


Please, don't miss a place you want to see or go to by listening to the people that say this; they can be very insistent, but it's not the truth.

geovnni says:
Tell me about it. We wanted to go from the Grand Palace to Silom rd. and we ended up at a tailor store wasting valuable time waiting for the tuk tuk driver to get his voucher. Finally we showed the driver 500 baht to zip through the horrible traffic and got there in record time.
Posted on: Sep 21, 2006
lisalush says:
I knowingly fell for this scam because the tuk tuk man was quite upfront saying that if he took me to a different place he'd get a petrol voucher. I went to his place and spent far more than I intended trying to get him taxi vouchers. In the end I the poor cabby would have made more out of me in tips than vouchers and I got a trinket I didn't really want. live and learn!
Posted on: Sep 13, 2006
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