Scams!

I’ve been reading the news on Bangkokpost most of the time. And I’ve been very surprised reading, the new today that it was really confirmed that there have been many unlicensed guides roaming around in the airport looking whom to devour.

Well, back to our experience last week, a tour agent told us that on our City tour we would be able to see the king’s place, temples, etc. As I wrote on my other blog that we’ve been very excited to avail the city tour because it’s very cheap. For us, the exciting place that we would be visiting was the king’s palace. I think everyone has been longing to step in at the king’s palace even just outside the gate.

But you know what? On our City tour, we never visited the king’s palace, we never even seen where the King’s palace has been located. Our tour guide brought us to two temples and we only past by the china town and we never stopped there either.

A few days ago, I’ve read some of the comments(bangkokpost) from the tourists who came to Thailand. One comment that shocked me was like someone buying some stuff at duty free and he’s being accused of stealing a pack of cigarette, that pack of cigarette, a sale lady put that in his bag and he thought that it’s free but to his surprise a policeman came to capture him. And according to that comment he was put in jail for two nights and paid lots of dollars in order for him to release from the jail. ( I tried to find, the article but I couldn’t find it)

I was really glad that we never looked at the stuff inside the duty free. If we did, we never knew might someone put something in our bag and policemen came to capture us.

Oh I remember something now, before my sweetheart came to the counter for chick in, a man came and checked his luggage. I was there listening to him, he asked a lot of questions and my sweetheart was very calmed telling that person who was wearing a blue uniform that he didn’t buy any liquor and he didn’t buy anything while he was in Bangkok and of course he bought a few clothes while he was in here. Then, that man told me that he wanted to talk to the passenger only. So, I said oh yes. I stepped behind but I was carefully watching him. When I looked at to the other passengers no one has been interrogating them. Seemed it was quite long the man interrogated my best friend so I came to them and told the man that he could open the luggage if he really wanted to be sure and knew what were inside the luggage and that’s the time he released my sweet thing. Finally, my best friend went to the check in counter and checked in. I was glad that I was much braved to talk to that person with my loud voice! Autocratic Voice...LOL

So to my fellow travelers please don’t follow us, and beware with the scammers in the airport (see here) and buying the cheap city tour and you would not be going to the right places. Ha ha ha…But my best friend and I concluded that it turned into blessings for us because we both desired to ride an elephant.

I captured these photos during our City tour while riding the van.

By the way, when I arrived Bangkok prior to the arrival of my bestfriend, I took a tax from the AOT which is the taxi airport operator, it was bit expensive but sure they always do legal things.