I can't tell you how true that was when I was working on Koh Tao years ago.margaretcarnes wrote: What we did find was that the Lonely Planet was way out of date in many ways, and in 2000 it was quoting some full room rates of 50 bt in HH. That caused a lot of hassle with backpackers arriving expecting to get rooms for next to nothing. They would reject 150 and wander off down to the wood hut rooms, only to return later defeated!
They'd show up with their heads up their asses thinking their precious bible would knock the price down!
It didn't and off they'd mooch, thinking the next place would be any different...
Right now unless you have bases, houses, places you've got on the cheap from when the goings were good and boom was on it's hard to crack into Thailand and live cheap like back then.
I'm glad I met into the 'zone' of where to go and stay in those heady days.
Coming out now with the £ falling into the abyss would of been financially impossible back then for me.
