mr_lob

Hub incoming!

Knee jerk reaction to some isolated high profile cases involving foreigners. Meanwhile cases of rape, abuse by teachers and bent coppers are kept silent

CP. Fingers. Pies

Too small for our requirements and to get green plates, unfortunately

No major issues ever. We have 3 Fortuners and they are just superb.

I am staying away from Honda also. We bought a Civic about 6 years ago and had endless problems with it, which was surprising given their reputation. Not a patch on the Altis

They are used for airport transfers. Its a 2017 model

Hello All, We need to replace one of our SUVs as it is nearly at 900k kms - we wanted to stick with the Toyota Fortuners as they are so reliable, but with the new model now delayed until at least the end of the year, we can't wait that long, and don't want to buy the old model. What are your recommendations? Have already discounted the Chinese stuff Thinking Ford Everest or Isuzu Mu-7 - any others worth considering? TIA!

My Mrs reckons a lot of this behaviour stems from the time when she was little - much of what they bought from shops came wrapped in banana leaves - they would then of course toss the leaves on the side of the road. This has continued, but sadly with plastic instead. 🙉 see 🙉 do

*UPDATE* Staff attended court a few weeks ago. The lawyer was very ill prepared and fumbled his way through bits of paper. He seemed to think airbnb was like facebook or instagram...he had no idea that only airbnb hosts to whom he had made a booking request could see his review score. Twice he took our staff out of the courtroom to try to get a large cash settlement, saying "i've asked for 300k so what will you pay me"? Staff stuck to her guns and said "nothing, zero". A week later we heard from the court that they rejected the case from him, so all ended well.

Good news for the Shrimp population of Chiang Mai

Shame 😔

Those who complained should be identified, dragged in front of a court and tried for defamation. How dare they criticise this bastion of the aviation World.

Bless him. There is no greater gift to give

Yes we do charge if excessively dirty but in this case we didn't

Very good points made here. Thank you

We do not charge a cleaning fee because we have full time cleaning staff. The state they left the villa is was beyond filthy. Electric and water are included.

I don 't have a 1-10 scale for you but when airbnb asks us to write a review, we do it honestly

Not illegal in our case, we are a licensed resort. We checked all the legalities years ago regarding this.

Retardius, why do you assume we skirted rental laws? We are a licensed resort, we pay our taxes. So it serves us right??

We are a licensed resort and have been doing vacation rentals for 15 years

I spoke to airbnb, they said that our review does not go against their review policy. However, I asked them to remove it immediately, which they have.

Unfortunately we don't have pictures, but we do have our housekeeping group chat fromt he day confirming that one villa was left very clean and this one very dirty. Our housekeeping staff are willing to testify this in court. If we get fined for this, it will set a precedent - any Thais can book an airbnb, trash it, wait for a bad review and then sue for defamation! Yes, he really is a lawyer

Last year, a Thai group stayed in one of our villas - after check out the villa was left in a really bad state. Appropriately, we gave him a poor review on airbnb - a simple 2 sentence statement that the villa was left very dirty and they didn't respect the place. Now, months later, we received a court summons - the guy *who is a lawyer* accuses us of ''defamation through advertising is despised and hated.'' He said that because of our review, other hosts are not accepting his bookings. Erm, that's the whole idea of the airbnb system!! He is seeking damages of 300,000 baht. Yes, you read that right, 300k. For a 2 night stay which we got 10k and a filthy villa from. Welcome any comments from anyone who has been in a similar situation! Thanks guys

They were absolutely NOT at fault! The truck was 7.5 tonne size, he was speeding, undertaking, then lost control and crossed the central reservation, hitting our SUV head on. I have it all on dashcam. The penalty, sir, speaks volumes for yet another miscarriage of justice, which happen here daily. The coppers actually told me when i asked how long the driver would get that the court was very sympathetic to the driver *song-saan*. And for the families he destroyed? Disgusting.