Hello
I send this email after an event I witnessed on Tuesday with taxi drivers and a minibus driver located at your resort, threatening other Thai minibus drivers and especially a female guide who came to pick up guests staying with you.
I do not know everything that went on, but my Thai wife translated to me what was happening.
We were there to see other friends of ours who we ironically recommended to stay with you as it is a such a nice place. I have lived in Thailand for nearly ten years and it makes me sick that tourists are still being used and exposed in this way. (Regardless of all the grandstanding and ongoing bullshit from government officials and police that say they are addressing it. Why should they anyway, so many of them will lose protection money)
After seeing and hearing the threats that went on, i will no longer be recommending for friends and customers to stay with you.
Additionally, I have taken photo's and number plates of these aggressive and intimidating drivers and am supplying them to the newspapers, overseas travel media and the DSI.
They are weak, cowardly thugs that need to be got rid of and your resort apparently supports them and has done for a long time. Thai's against Thai's openly using violent threats.
I don't know what happened to the confused tourists, but probably taken to selective rip off and commission paying venues. Even though they were all males, some of them looked quite perturbed at what went on. What a good way Katathani, to promote tourism in Thailand.
Lets get the media involved and see how that inturn affects them and your resort.
Probably only one or two Phuket media will have the desire or initiative to follow up, at least until the DSI report on the matter, but overseas and Bangkok media will run with it for sure.
Goodbye, you will not be seeing me or my friends/customers again at your resort.
Brian