Been here a week. What an overpriced shithole.

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Off topic but is it just me or does the Donald look like a really tall midget.
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NeverNude wrote: Sat Jun 16, 2018 4:32 pm
Been here a week.
Well, you've covered nearly every requirement to join "The League of Extraordinarily Naive Travelers" and you did it all within a week. I'm surprised you didn't make the palace trip with StroppyChops visiting family.

First time abroad, old boy?
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Yes... Cambodia is way overpriced...
--- A typical day......
$2.50 bacon and egg breakfast at western style place
$1.5 Lok Lak beef and rice for lunch street side
$1.5 chicken thigh and rice off street vendor.
$1 pack of cigarettes.
50 cent beers in the evening,,,,

and the total.... less than $8 for the day

OMG... So expensive... I could have saved a dollar if I was in Vietnam !!
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Back in December, while in Siem Reap, I picked up a pack of ciggies from a little shop for 50 cents. It was like being transported back to the seventies.
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I pay 25 cents.

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MikeMike58 wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:59 am Back in December, while in Siem Reap, I picked up a pack of ciggies from a little shop for 50 cents. It was like being transported back to the seventies.
FYI: i dont smoke, but yesterday looked at the price of cigs in 7/11 "Marlboro's " 165 baht!!!! ( $5.15)
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Barang chgout wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:53 am I pay 25 cents.

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Must be really good smokes.
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hanno wrote:
Barang chgout wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:53 am I pay 25 cents.

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Must be really good smokes.
Not bad surprisingly. Iza, made by the Ara company.

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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 9:54 am
MikeMike58 wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 8:59 am Back in December, while in Siem Reap, I picked up a pack of ciggies from a little shop for 50 cents. It was like being transported back to the seventies.
FYI: i dont smoke, but yesterday looked at the price of cigs in 7/11 "Marlboro's " 165 baht!!!! ( $5.15)
Must be Phuket pricing. In Bangkok and Pattaya, Marlboros are 145 baht -- unless they raised the price yet again since I left week ago. My Mild 7 brand is 150 baht. In VN, my same brand is 32 baht/$1 from a carton -- one-fifth the price of Thailand.
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Looks like a good black market smuggling business opportunity for someone.
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