5 Tips for Dealing with Taxis in Bangkok

the line of taxis to the right all waiting for their next victim

I thought I would write about the taxis here in Bangkok with a few helpful hints to tourists or new expats.  I was thinking I would have loved for someone to have explained to me how it would work using the taxis, tuk tuks, and BTS.  Enjoy what I think is essential information on how to navigate Bangkok.

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Overwhelmed

Yesterday was so overwhelming that I couldn’t even write about it when I got home.

The night before I try to do laundry in the washer dryer combo machine that really can only hold about 3 pieces of clothing at a time and boy that was an adventure in and of itself. First I run one load of clothes and I don’t know how to work the machine so no soap gets to the clothes to actually wash them. I ask Chris to get me the manual to figure it out and he shouts from the kitchen “would you like the Thai or Japanese version”. Awesome. So then Chris takes a crack at it and finally there is soap in the mix now. Now it’s time to dry the clothes, who knew how long this would take! It took all night of the machine beeping and then I took some clothes out to make it dry faster and nope that didn’t work… So I just took all the clothes out and hung them up around the condo. Blah. I miss my washing machine and dryer and especially them being 2 separate machines…

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