Points gained by doing normal purchases or flights, are cheaper than buying cattle class ..... how many members, especially older ones can/want to do cattle class for 20-30 hr flights to BKK.... miles/points accumulate sometimes faster than you think.... even @Olddaddy is flying business 😉
Because of my passport issues, I had to refund my TK flight from Sri Lanka (which had it been cattle class I would've lost the whole ticket) and found a reward ticket in Business from BKK- Boston on Thai/United for 110k miles, not bad in todays redemptions.
Credit card points, frequent flyer miles....buy coach and upgrades, many different ways.... I've been buying roundtrip FROM Asia to N. America, usually much cheaper than the other way around.
I'm sure if you tried one of the airlines mentioned here going to BKK, you might be impressed.... Cathay, EVA, Singapore, ANA, Turkish for example......
Find out for yourself, as someone says..... 😉
Brasil you can find guys for 860-1150 baht easily
Colombia 775-1162 (maybe less, depending on the city)
Indonesia 790-1000
Mexico 850-1700
At today's exchange rates.....
Having avoided Songkran for 26 years.... being in Pattaya only a couple of nights, not by real choice....will ensure I never return during another Songkran again, lol
A foreign friend that lives there told me, the real problem is they fill up dirty trash cans with the water they are throwing, causing various eye/ear infections from the bacteria and shit that's in the trash cans.....
Ultimately I'm not into water sports 🤷♂️