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--- Quote from: Joab on October 23, 2011, 07:32:54 PM ---
WHAT??? 100 USD and the driver doesn't want?? 4500 baht..
Now the driver takes 150 USD?
Omg. The driver's apparently WRONG!
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Note exactly. As long as 4500 baht was the approximately correct fare for the combination of lengthy trips in the Phuket area, then by today's exchange rate 4500 baht = $145
Even more telling is that on June 28 2011 (closest date on which I have a currency exchange rate, 31 baht/USD would have resulted in 4500 baht = $143. It looks to me like that old lady haggling on behalf of the taxi driver was in fact correct!
Prophet:
She may have had her calculations correct, BUT did the taxi ride warrant that much expense?
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--- Quote from: Polaroid on October 23, 2011, 07:40:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: Joab on October 23, 2011, 07:39:33 PM ---Ernie and Cindy got the EXPRESS BUS. Omg. They're in first is it?
sO Ernie and Cindy got the EXPRESS BUS... i'm sure they're allowed to take the Express Bus right?
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It must be because they have the Express Pass. :lol:
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Maybe. That certainly sounds good! However, I think knowing the rules and being more aggressive in checking bus options or maybe just plain luck had something to do with it.
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--- Quote from: Joab on October 23, 2011, 07:57:49 PM ---It's because of Liz and Marie we see all the nice thai people who're willing to help Americans in troubles... I wonder how many minutes they're behind Jeremy and Sandy.
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Do you mean how many hours behind? They started at the Bangkok Bus terminal with Laurence/Zac, who finished ahead of Jeremy/Sandy. However, Liz/Marie had severe money troubles, so they must have wasted a lot of time walking.
I don't know precisely how far it was from the Southern Bus Terminal (in Thornburi) to the Bangkok Noi Canal (also in Thornburi). What I do remember is visiting that canal (known to the Thai as a Klong) and watching the floating feast come by of every conceivable type of food prepared on boats and offered for sale from those.
The Royal Barge Museum is also on the banks of Klong Bangkok Noi. I wanted to attach a map of the Thornburi district which shows the Klong and that museum, but it was slightly too large for RFF guidelines. If you want to see it, go to http://wikitravel.org/en/Bangkok/Thonburi and it is on what would be the bottom right of the first page if there were pages. It is unknown where the "feed the fishes" task was along the banks of the Klong.
Just remember that World Race Productions or CBS editors are sneaky and want you to think it's a tight finish when it really isn't.
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--- Quote from: Joab on October 23, 2011, 08:04:19 PM ---I didn't like how easy both Roadblocks were, it was so pointless to have 2 easy Roadblocks in a leg? I believe they intended to go to Phuket since the last leg was pretty well structured? But this Bangkok leg.. it's bad!
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Since the "Bangkok leg" you refer to had all of its significant tasks in the Phuket area, I don't think calling it "Bangkok leg...it's bad!" is warranted. Leg 5 was predominantly a second Phuket area leg. There was only 2 taxi rides and throwing fish food in the water in Bangkok.
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