A post on X by John LeFevre:
I’ve been to Thailand a dozen times or so when I was living in HK and Singapore.
I always felt bad for people who made it a bucket list or honeymoon destination from the other side of the world.
Don’t be fooled by the White Lotus hype; it’s disgusting:
Phuket – crowded and gross beaches.
Koh Samui – average beaches, terrible SCUBA.
Bangkok – horrible traffic, dirty, and Patpong will scar you for life. The Mandarin Oriental is cool but that’s about it.
Pattaya & Krabi – where society’s dregs go on vacation.
Phi Phi Island – where backpackers go for drugs, and the water is filled with trash. Even the beaches from the movie The Beach are too murky to even snorkel.
Chang Mai – full of ped0s, fake temples, and depressed elephants.Thailand is only nice as a really cheap alternative for deviant Germans or lower class Brits to retire; it’s better than some dreary place like Liverpool in terms of women, weather, and the price of a pint.
My response, of which I am proud:
Thank you for applying for a job at the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Based on your essay, however, we are unable to offer you employment at this time.
Note that I actually liked what little I saw of Thailand on a 2001 business trip there. See “A Photographer’s Guide to Bangkok”, from which these photos are excerpted:
It doesn’t look that bad on gootube. For a place where no-one can afford a car, it’s apparently not walkable. The mane attraction seems to be cheap vacations. Surprised the mane attraction isn’t prostitution, but it’s a sign of these left voting religious worshiping times.
Don’t forget the AIDS. There’s a lot of AIDS in Thailand. If you want to be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, Thailand is a good place to go.
Other things to be careful: confusion as to methyl and ethyl alcohol when served to tourists. Gonorhea, Anti-biotic-resistant Gonorhea, Syphilis, Anti-biotic-resistant Syphilis, Unrecognized viruses and bacteria that may cause epigenetic change, child prostitution, food poisoning. a botched sex change, etc., etc..
Oh yeah, I almost forgot there’s a muzzie problem. I think there’s some sorta religious kinda you-know sorta ethnic cleansing, and who can blém èm (whoops)..
Thailand is total trash. Don’t go there.
Unless you want to see how stuffing a live hamster into a vagina looks like in the real life. Or you want to sample a ladyboy. Then that’s the place to go.
One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster!
Substance abuse, cheap prostitutes and depressed elephants? Sounds like a plan
In Thailand, it’s “Anals of Tourism Promotion.”
Back in the late 1980s, college students on spring break often traveled to Bangkok for cheap sex and to Florida for expensive sex. Is this still a trend today?