Following the China artist kena kidnapped to KK and cancellation of concert. Is Thailand still safe for travelling?

Very dangerous, any second landed kk land without notice

Ape mau takot ... mati pun sekali je.

i wont be visiting for a while. quite scary though.

Stay at home safer.

avoid taking grab lo...just walk from one place to one place

grab is safe, they have tracking and help button just in the app.

unknown taxi/van is worse still.

Been in Bangkok since October. It's fine if you exercise the usual caution.

Sucks right now anyway. Air pollution is pretty intense right now. Schools in Bangkok are closed and many offices are practising work from home.

This post has been edited by mesothelium: Jan 24 2025, 10:45 AM

go take bus & lrt like local

Too rampant ad..

U go massage, give u some fainting scent, then wake up at kampung kk

another one of this thread

dont go. stay at your kampong is safer.

double post

This post has been edited by 19 Degree South: Jan 24 2025, 10:45 AM

From taxi kidnap, now spread disease until street kidnap, massage parlour kidnap.. and will go worst all because of money

Avoid tourist areas
avoid being alone
if che0ng find freelance. Avoid going to port
stay in hotel after 10pm
don't get drunk

don't speak mandarin especially with china tongue
don't simply friend friend with random mandarin speaking people

go with no "free lunch" mindset , use app call ride don't take random taxi/tuk tuk rides

get a trusted local thai girl / girlfriend / katoy with you
if you have a white / western face alike bulky friend with you that will help too

Scary

miskin, where also safe

massage parlor also one of their base? wow

make ringgit great again.

Stop spending money in Thailand.

you organs worth a lot of money. they sees u as walking RMB

what is kk?

if you dont speak mandarin and going for sex tourism only then should be fine la

yeah. In reddit I think I saw people saying avoid those "tourist daytrips" . If go anywhere, DIY and use grab je.

Bangkok is dangerous need to be super conscious. Take MRT and walk better. Grab also cannot be trust. Lots of snake head...

Meanwhile Hatyai CAN GO. Super safe there

owai

I also cancel my plan to go BKK

rather staycation at high class hilton KL

that not trusting Grab is automatic....
i too have the same feeling over things we cant control seems to be dangerous...
i would trust Grab more than TukTuk thou

not safe, rosak akidah kita. cabar iman kita

This post has been edited by 68 others: Jan 24 2025, 11:06 AM

How come their sir pollution so teruk? Too many factories?

go hatyai.

very safe. kelantan 2.0 there.

Veey safe, dont worry be happy

Btw there got secret passage to lala land aka kk land

It's pretty safe as long as you don't be too Chinese over there. Avoid using WeChat or Michat, a lot of the scammers and kidnappers using those apps. Don't go around speaking mandarin,.coz that's how they target you for KK.

Best advise if you look Chinese and wanna go there, act like your an ABC or banana Chinese.

Massage parlors are safe, just go to those well established big ones, don't try to be a smartass and risk danger by wanting to save that few ringgits for cheaper service.

Open burning

just act you are oku

so far oku are safer there than local

Didn't know thai also kuat open burning lol.

2nd person to ask....

why they target chinese?

easy to scam?

Language capabilities, especially Malaysian Chinese coz can speak and type in English and Mandarin.

Plus China ppl got money, so make more sense to focus on scamming them than other parts of Asia wut.

Safe? I heard ppl say their airport is filled with all sort of scam artist within and outside of the airport, if you go alone you are automatically put on the scammer's wanted list.

If this is true so many ppl that go to solo cheing there all already end up kena scam or kidnapped la.

If course their airport full of scammers, like most airports in SEA, you land in KLIA2 also if you don't look like local you see la those scammers loitering around the arrival gates, showing you their phones saying they are grab and all that. Bali also same shit la.

If you a sohai that go solo without any proper plans then land at airport terus go approach random ppl for cab rides if course Ur gonna get scammed or kidnapped. Just do some proper planning, get a hotel there and ask them for airport pickup (pay if need to pay) then you should be fine.

Like that

Better dont go

they said u go massage and u will be at kk land the next second without notice.

kk land = myanmar

what is your skin colour bro?

they only want chinese people because they want to scam high net worth individuals in SEA, and need native speaker for that

Nons better don’t go. Even my parents 60+ years old wanna go with trip kena me and siblings advised till no go.

See what they do to youngsters there, can’t imagine old pipul kena treat how.

Hatyai no kidnap case?

Nobody want to kidnap you la.

PRC kidnap PRC to operate scam center to scam back PRC.

baiklah pigi batam

Might as well say Scammers bribe Airasia pilot divert whole plane to KK land then.

Brilliant conspiracyteori!

see street food stall, order and eat, next moment KK LAND!!!!

Actuali ppl go bangcock 4 wat huh these days…? Malls. ours better… massage. v oso got… weather / air. ours MUCH better, food ours bestest!…

Kena gongtau?! Haha!

Our malls better? HAAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH

I'll never step into KL. Ever. Malaysian mall suck balls

TRX world kelas no?

Hahahahaha.... Go there motorboat and KTV and gentleman club la... So much better than Malaysia..

Just because you have nice pretty interior and a small handful of luxury shops doesn't make your mall 'best'.

Just MBK in Bangkok is like ten times better than ours based on the sheer amount of varieties they have.

Centralworld mall is like the size of 1U + Midvalley combined, and its fully occupied, not 1/2 empty like our Pavillion BJ.

If you want 'pretty' malls, ICONSiam mall design/decoration is INSANE.

They do target mainly Chinese speaking customers and I didn't mention a single thing as absurd as what Ur suggesting above.

Simple just avoid speaking Chinese, using WeChat, michat and taxis. Avoid dodgy massage parlors, only go to big well established ones. It's a reasonable safety precaution.

so bascially, don't go Chinatown, because anyone speak Chinese go to KK land?
no go dodgy massage how to get happy ending?

you're just spreading baseless fearmongering. Kidnapping cases are only those that came looking for jobs, not tourists.
You're not going to get targeted for speaking Chinese, you're not going to get kidnapped from a small massage parlor.

This post has been edited by Sichiri: Jan 24 2025, 08:52 PM

Avoid tuk tuk. Dangerous
Avoid bars and nana soi
Grab and taxi are safe (at least for me)
BTS is the safest

like that don't go Bangkok la, just go Langkawi

All their mrt and certain buses are Free for one week now due to bad Weather . Just use public transport

Last year I went there alone (for work) and even walked on the street for almost 5KM back to the hotel (in the evening), didn't even realise that it has been so rampant and dangerous.

Bangkok shuts nearly 200 schools as toxic air chokes city
https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2025/0...kes-city/164384


Pollution-hit Bangkok closes hundreds of schools and offers free public transport

Government orders ban on burning of leftover crops and says train and bus services will be free from Saturday
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/...ublic-transport

Yeah, it's pretty bad. Brings back memories of the haze in KL in 2015.

bangkok is safe if u travel for holiday.
If you travel to meet a china/chinese friend, you are dead.

It's safe because you ugly and they won't bother you.

scammer boss needs to clarify a bit they dont target tourist but targeted those come Thailand because of their scam call

you come Thailand spend money we no tangkap
you come Thailand earn money, sorry, our call centre no enough people…......

Bangkok
First visit in the 90s
Second visit around 2015

Don't even feel wanna revisit again lol, many say food nice , mall nice, clothes nice etc

Just a big city and crowded and traffic jam

Prefer those nature places where u can find better on in msia (just lack of advertisement / maintenance)
Well equip yourself if you are going one, definitely need more refurbishment and facilities here

This post has been edited by AyamBlend: Jan 25 2025, 08:27 AM