I know, always happens to me, my friends always tell me that. I try to be too nice or accomodating and especially in these kinds of situations where you are a paying customer, it just doesnt work as people may and will try to use it to their advaneforum.xxxe and in a way its hard to blame them as they are just working for the cash themselves. You are right about the FL, met up with this FL who used to be a BG the last time i was here, she is awesome and so much fairer to me, never once brought up money and always seems to want to spend time with me, even to meet her sisters etc, i had to offer to give her money as she never brought it up. I wasnt even sure if she wanted to leave but i sort of didnt ask either way, i just assumed it and also wanted some alone time although i felt guilty afterwards.
sounds like BGs require a bit more hard line / up front behaviour. I guess i start feeling guilty as i dont want to push anyone around etc but that probably just backfires.
BTW what is the best / cheapest way to get back to the airport from patong beach. I think my hotel will give me the option of 700baht for a trip back to the airport but i wasnt sure if there was any cheaper methods like a tuk tuk or taxi? I will ask my hotel anyway just in case.
Besides the water activities / tours and the shooting range and things like that. ARe there any activities i can do in patong beach which doesnt take up too much time, have about 1-2 days left to do stuff before i leave, i generally cant do the long activities as the girl stays till around midday or later. I was really intrigued into this idea about caves and seeing large spiders and other insects, but i cant find much information on it besides what one person said on one of these threads.