Thailand: Phuket Advice

List of banks with branches in Phuket, Thailand — with links to exchange rates:

Bangkok Bank - Phuket branch phones: 21-6256, 21-1292-5; Pa Tong branch phone: 34-4906-11.

Bank of Ayudhya  – Phuket branch phones: 21-1110, 21-1811, 21-1592, 22-1474, 21-2084; Patong branch phones: 34-0809-10, 34-0614-5.

Siam Commercial Bank - Phuket branch phones (076) 212254-5 and (076) 249176-7 (Big C branch), Patong branch phones (076) 340467-8, 342592-3.

Kasikorn Bank (warning: extremely complicated site) – Phuket branch phones: 21-1558, 21-3903-4, 21-6928, 25-6400-1.

For international calls include +66-76 prefix, for calls from different regions of Thailand add 076 prefix to these phones.

Thailand‘s currency – Thai Baht – equals to 100 satangs (coins). All coins and paper money have King Bhumibol Adulyadej pictured on front side. There are 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 and 1000 Thai Baht notes. Thai Baht exchange rate is around 30 Baht for 1  (more…)

«Thai» means «free»: Thailand is the only country in South Asia which was never colonized.

There is +7 hours difference in time between Greenwich and Bangkok (Bangkok, Phnom Penh, Hanoi, Jakarta are all in same timezone) – GMT;
+6 hours difference with Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome, Belgrade, Kinshasa;
+15 hours difference with Los Angeles (PST);
+12 hours difference with New York (EST);
-3 hours difference with Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane.

According to wikipedia, Thailand is on 49th place in the world by  (more…)