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[Frank P. Schneidewind]

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10 countries that can still be travelled on the cheap
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Travel to the lands of 'no budget, no problem'

Thailand, the long time darling of LP is not even amongst the Top 10 anymore:

Lonely Planet's Top 10 cheap travel destinations

Somnamna Phuk@ & Co.!

[Robski]

To be fair, Thailand is not the 3rd world country it used to be.
Look at some of the countries on that list.
India, Iran, Indonesia and Sudan

[ROY]

Robski, on 30 March 2010 - 06:44 PM, said:

To be fair, Thailand is not the 3rd world country it used to be.
Look at some of the countries on that list.
India, Iran, Indonesia and Sudan

Third World? What's that?

[Ken]

No surprise.
Did you really think Thailand was going to stay cheap with the developments in the last 15 years?

[Spade]

Thailand will only get more and more expensive as the years go on and I don't mean prices rising with inflation.
Phuket has huge potential, if they did not continue to keep shooting themselves in the foot over the last decade, it would be much more expensive than now.

If Thailand one day let foreigners own land here, watch for Phuket to skyrocket.

[MrPhuket]

This is a bad thing? This is great news

[ROY]

MrPhuket, on 01 April 2010 - 10:09 AM, said:

This is a bad thing? This is great news

Ah-Hah! MrPhuket gets it....!