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Miss Noot has joined a dancing troupe and is scooting off to unknown parts of Thailand. Okay, not really. She is having a big party at the university she attends, she has finished her degree and it means party time for them all.

It’s no secret what attracts many people to Thailand on their holidays is the idea of cheap getaway and Thailand does have the reputations of being a cheap destination. It’s also true to say many residents will tell you Thailand is anything but cheap with dual pricing for tourists and locals, over inflated prices in tourist areas and high inflation over the last few years. I thought I’d do a little investigation into this trickly question and started by researching the prices for a single adult in comparison to the nearest equivalent in the UK

People are already planning their holidays in Thailand for 2010 and so we thought we would help out by letting you know the dates of the main events and holidays. I know so many people keep asking “When is Loy Krathong in 2010?”.

Holidays are on the horizon. I can smell the holidays they are that close. Tomorrow is the last day of school for students

The aim for www.thaitravelblogs.com is to give you ideas of what to do during your next visit to Thailand. We have reports on all the latest travel destinations as well as festivals and events. In the old days, people just relied on guidebooks to help them plan their holidays

Getting into Cambodia costs you a 20 dollar visa fee. Well it should. I’d forgotten to bring any of the world’s preferred currency, so an eagle-eyed airport official waiting to pounce on newbies and idiots who should have known better by now (my third trip to the capital) disappeared with a wad of baht, and [...]

Any trip to a foreign country these days implies carrying out some sort of risk assessment, especially for those travelling with children. Westerners in particular are accustomed to strict control of many areas of our lives; from food hygiene to safety standards in sporting activities, travel operators, and the like. In recent years what some [...]

As I mentioned in an earlier post I was lucky enough to spend the Thai New Year, known as Songkran, in 4 different provinces. I spent the first day of Songkran in Pattaya on soi Diana playing with all the bar girls and the subsequent days I spent in Mukdahan, That Phanom and [...]

As Thailand swelters in the heat and humidity of the hot season and any self respecting Westerner turns the air conditioning up a couple of degrees life in rural Prachuap Khiri Khan continues unabated. While in Bangkok despite the weather the politicians seem to have cooled down and started to concentrate on governing the [...]

The words festival and Thailand really do go hand in hand, scarcely a week goes by without some Thai festival being celebrated. Songkarn has only just finished but already we have a festival in Prachuap Khiri Khan.
MTF and I went to check out the latest Thai festival yesterday afternoon. Now it was supposed [...]

British kids aren’t all bad no matter what the newspapers say about them. There’s some good one’s out there surely…..somewhere in the world there must be…
…..Not only were British children ranked ‘worst off’ in the developed world - with the highest rates of drunkenness, obesity, bullying, early sexual intercourse, cannabis-taking, and teenage pregnancy - they [...]

I hadn’t been planning to go to Kanchanaburi this year, but somehow I ended up there. I was surprised to find such a laid-back, relaxed, friendly little city so near Bangkok, less than two hours away from the new Sai Tai bus station. I enjoyed staying by the river (on the river!), watching the birds, [...]