Read more Posted by: Becki on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 04:56 AM
In times of the current high global oil price everything gets more and more expensive all around the globe. But the Taxi prices from Thongsala to Had Rin Beach on Phangan Paradise Island have recently experienced a massive price drop and reached its critical limit of 15 Baht per person!
After all these years with its daily insanity of Koh Phangan’s Taxi Mafia Industry you can finally get a decent price when traveling to the island’s world famous Full Moon Party Beach called Haad Rin. Isn’t that amazing?
But there’s of course NOT a single Asian soul on this island who would probably inform you about this new and fascinating taxi service on Ko Pha-Ngan Island. Instead they just want you NOT to know anything about it and pay the expected and very attractive ‘Farang Taxi Fare’ of 50, 100 or in some cases 200 Baht!
Read more Posted by: Becki on Monday, July 19, 2004 - 10:32 PM
So … this article has been in my mind for ages now and finally I have found the time to write and publish it on Koh Phangan Island News! I went to Ranong for a visa trip a couple of months ago together with my very good friend Tom from Strinz Trinitatis who comes to Koh Phangan every year once it starts to get cold in Germany. What a wise decision :-)
Anyway, we decided to hit the road with our own motorbikes, a Honda Dream 125cc and Yamaha 125cc, as it would offer us more flexibility. We could have a break where ever we want to and this idea sounded great! But after all I have to admit that it was really sort of a torture I will never forget. You can’t imagine how long 240 km can get if you sit on one of those so called “lady bikes” driving an average of 80 km/h ! You can’t imagine how painful and sensitive your bottom gets after sitting for 6 hours on one of these motorbikes! You can’t imagine how many different sitting positions you will find and try out just to make things a bit less painful :-)
However … Ranong is located at the west coast next to Burma and is the nearest Immigration point from Koh Phangan. And as we are all foreigners – or “farangs” how they call us – we frequently need to visit one of those Immigration check points to get our Thai visa renewed or just get another 30 days by leaving and entering the country again. So why not go to Ranong as it is the closest place to Koh Phangan?
In times of the current high global oil price everything gets more and more expensive all around the globe. But the Taxi prices from Thongsala to Had Rin Beach on Phangan Paradise Island have recently experienced a massive price drop and reached its critical limit of 15 Baht per person!
So … this article has been in my mind for ages now and finally I have found the time to write and publish it on Koh Phangan Island News! I went to Ranong for a visa trip a couple of months ago together with my very good friend Tom from Strinz Trinitatis who comes to Koh Phangan every year once it starts to get cold in Germany. What a wise decision :-)