Tuk Tuk
written by bobk_nyc, May 02, 2008

I can understand the issues, the tuk tuks do smell bad, and drivers are always looking to drag people to clothes stores or other stores, where they get commission in gas...In a way though, they are a part of Thailand. would be nice to just clean up their act, and keep them around. 5555 I never use them, but I think they are part of the landscape.

owner
written by TUK-TUK-USA, May 21, 2008

Well at least they are running CNG.

Tuk Tuk in Bangkok
written by Kenneth Egeland, June 23, 2008

We been hijacked by TukTuk drivers in Bangkok several times,We asked to be driven to a restaurant but ends always up at a tailor shop.The last time we refused to pay anything before he drove us to the original place.He did not do that becouse he wanted us also to visit another tailor first.Then we just left him and his Tuk Tuk.You could see that he got mad.After this last incident we alvays go by MeterTaxi in Bangkok.

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written by null, May 20, 2009

While the tuk-tuks that operate around toursit areas are generally as described, they do serve a very useful and productive purpose within the general local population of BKK. They are almost indispensible to the thousands of folks who haul stuff. Tuks haul supplies for food stands, clothing sellers, and a million other things that don't fit well into taxis or would damage taxis if it were hauled in it...think a vat of paa-la here. Losing the tuk-tuks, as foul as they are, would be a sad loss overall...kind of like the loss of the hundreds of elephants that used to roam all over BKK where now only an occasional elephant is seen in tourist areas.