FAA, EASA or God himself could downgrade the Thailand Civil Aviation Authority to CAT 1,000,000 and it still wouldn't stop anybody here from
flying into BKK to do what we all enjoy doing in Bangkok .
i know a lot of people like Bali, and i gave it a try a few years back and i took 2 great LBs from Cascade with me. the one thing the 3 of us agreed on was that 99.99% of the food we had during our 5 days there was any better than mediocre. one plate of nasi goreng was ok.
as a professional chef, and food and beverage manager, i was stunned that even in the villa resort we stayed at the food was absolute shit. i would hope that some of the major chains like Sheraton would have decent food, but the local fare we had was horrible. we even went to a cooking school/restaurant thinking that would be ok, and it not only sucked, but it was the most expensive meal we ate there. one night we went to a beach-side seafood BBQ where you choose your own live seafood, and that too was close to inedible.
IFO will never go back despite the fact that the beach was awesome. IMO there are so many other places that are so much better.
despite the fact that the villa was awesome, we ate one meal at the hotel on arrival (despite 2 meals/day being included) and then spent the next 5 days trying to find something passable.
