Thailand vacation. Essential Thailand holiday planner and shopping resourceCheap holiday thailandMajor hotels and restaurants add ten percent service charge to bills, otherwise tip around cheap holiday thailand ten per cent. Hotel porters and bag boys B10-20. Taxi drivers tipped to next 10 cheap holiday thailand Baht above meter fare shown. Government offices work a five day week, Monday-Friday, 8:30 am cheap holiday thailand to 4:30 pm. Business offices usually open rather later and some work Saturday mornings. Banks cheap holiday thailand open Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. THAI operates domestic flights to 21 key cities, cheap holiday thailand towns and resorts throughout the country. Thailand's rail and trunk bus services are efficient, but cheap holiday thailand travel times can be long in this large country. Roads in Thailand are good. Driving cheap holiday thailand is on the left and self - drive or chauffeur driven rental cars are easily cheap holiday thailand available, from airports or hotels. Thailand has five international gateways: Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, cheap holiday thailand Phuket and Hat Yai. In Bangkok, THAI operates a reliable airport-city transfer service. An airconditioned cheap holiday thailand limousine costs between B450 and B650, depending on model, to any city destination. Provincial airports cheap holiday thailand are mostly served by public taxi or hotel limousine services. A regular, free shuttle-bus operates cheap holiday thailand between Bangkok's international and domestic air terminals. A THAI limousine from Bangkok Airport to Pattaya cheap holiday thailand Beach costs B1,500, one-way. THAI also operates bus services to Pattaya three times daily, fare cheap holiday thailand B150. Airport tax: B250 for international flights, B30 for domestic. Free baggage trolleys are available cheap holiday thailand at airports. Airport caution: In Bangkok, unauthorised taxi and sightseeing touts may seek to divert cheap holiday thailand arriving passengers from their pre-arranged Royal Orchid Holiday travel plans. If in doubt, ask to cheap holiday thailand see THAI staff authority. Thai currency is the Baht, divided into 100 Satang. Exchange rate, cheap holiday thailand as at March. 2002, approximately 45 Baht to the US$. Thai notes are in denominations cheap holiday thailand of B1000, 500, 100, 5O, 20 and 10. Coins are of B10, 5 , I cheap holiday thailand and S50 and 25.Cash and travellers cheques can be exchanged freely, with banks or money cheap holiday thailand changers giving etter rates than hotels.Major international credit cards are widely accepted in hotels, restaurants cheap holiday thailand and shops. Thailand, once called Siam, is today widely known as 'The Land of Smiles', cheap holiday thailand an accurate description, as visitors from abroad soon discover. Covering an area of 518,000 square cheap holiday thailand kilometres (about the same size as France), Thailand has a population of some 61 million cheap holiday thailand people, of whom over ten percent live in the capital city, Bangkok. Thailand is a cheap holiday thailand constitutional monarchy, with a democratic system of government -and a much beloved monarch, HM King cheap holiday thailand Bhumibol Adulyadej, Rama IX of the Chakri dynasty. The Thai people are believed to have cheap holiday thailand migrated originally from southern China, but archaeological remains have been discovered dating civilisation here back cheap holiday thailand over six thousand years. Over 95 percent of the population are Buddhist, with Muslim, Christian, cheap holiday thailand Hindu and animist minorities. Their national language is Thai, although many speak local and Chinese cheap holiday thailand dialects. English is also widely spoken, especially in cities and towns. Thailand's climate is tropical, cheap holiday thailand with three main seasons: hot - March to June; rainy - July to October; and cheap holiday thailand cool November to February. Average day-time temperatures range from 20- 35 C. The weather is cheap holiday thailand always cooler in northern and mountainous regions. All visitors to Thailand require valid passports, but cheap holiday thailand visas are not necessary for most nationalities for a stay of up to 28 days, cheap holiday thailand For a longer visit a tourist visa, issued by overseas Thai consular offices, is valid cheap holiday thailand for a stay of up to 60 days. It must be used within three months cheap holiday thailand from the date of issue and can usually be extended. Visitors are permitted to bring cheap holiday thailand in duty-free 200 cigarettes and one litre of wine or spirits. Strict restrictions apply against cheap holiday thailand the import of weapons, narcotics, pornography etc. Any amount of foreign exchange in travellers cheques cheap holiday thailand or drafts may be imported, but cash in excess of US$10,000 must be declared on cheap holiday thailand arrival. It is not permitted to import more than 2,000 Baht per person, nor export cheap holiday thailand more than 50,000 Baht per person in cash. Certificates of inoculation against cholera and yellow cheap holiday thailand fever are not required, unless arriving from an infected area. Some remote areas of Thailand cheap holiday thailand are still malarial, so visitors should take appropriate precautions. Bangkok has excellent medical facilities and cheap holiday thailand hospitals, with all hotels having doctors on 24-hour call. |
|
| Thailand vacation | |