I took a college from Italy on a tour on of the river boats yesterday and I have not done that since I was first a tourist. We went to the pier and asked for the price and he wanted 600 per person and I saw he gave another price for 1500 for 2 other people. I think it is so boring why they can not have a fixed price and that’s it. This kind off things will just scare people away from Thailand at least for the second time. We manage to take the price down to 1000 THB for 3 people but I know you could get it from 500 THB on another pier.
The tour was ok we took a slow boat because I know that the fast river boat make a lot of noise and I wanted to talk to them during the boat trip. They off course stopped and let some people try to sell us junk. I said in Thai they we did not want and they just continue selling, finally I told the boat girl to drive on I did not want to buy something.
Next stop was something I do not remember but they just stopped and the boat was tied to the house next to the river. When I asked what was this stop for and she told me it was stop and said what stop and they said Snake farm so I just told them to drive on, we do not want any snake farms. The female drivers smiled and drive on and we had no other tourist trapped stop during the rest. When we came out from the small canal at the same place we started I asked if she could take us to the Grand Palace and she said no problem.
About 10 min we arrived at the pier and the first thing I hear is 20 THB, the mafia in the pier wanted 20 THB per person for landing fee if it was from a Private boat. No receipt no nothing just 20 THB. I just laughed and remember why I never want to become a tourist in Thailand again ever.
