Opposite the Chequered Flag Sports Bar in Thong Sala, there is a travel agent. They run a taxi service network all over the Island similar to the visa run networks in Suratthani.
This is the scam:
- A tourist books a Sawng Tao (taxi) from his resort to the pier, or books a visa run etc from the travel agent
- The travel agents sawng tao turns up an hour or so early to collect the tourist
- The tourist is taken to the travel agent to wait for the boat. He is now charged the taxi fair and told to wait at the travel agency for his transfer to the pier. There are loads of bars and retuarants around this area but he is told to wait in one place, from what we can tell, their isno choice, it is an aggressive request to STAY PUT!!
- He is charged a fortune for crap food and drinks for an hour or so
- He is then charged and additional 50 THB for a 1 minute ride to the pier! (you can walk it in less than 5 minutes).
In addition, they run a motorbike rental scam. If you so much as scratch the bike you get a 10,000 THB plus repair bill, regardless of the fact that a brand new part only costs a couple of hundred THB.
MFers.
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