Hongkong Disneyland are now offering an annual pass (Disney passes aim to lure visitors) with prices that vary according to when you want to go there. My advice (for what it’s worth) – don’t go there on a very hot day (because there’s not enough shade) or when it’s very busy (the queues are too long, and very few attractions currently have ‘Fast Pass’ available) and definitely don’t go next week or over Chinese New Year (for obvious reasons). Apart from that it’s a great place to go. Well, maybe.
Bangkok now has a new airport (New Thai airport opens to acclaim) which follows the trend for being big and modern but also much further from the city centre, and (in the fine tradition of Kuala Lumpur & Shanghai) they will only get round to finishing the public transport links in a year or two. Maybe they were anticipating further delays – it seems that many airlines must have been, because several haven’t got their lounges open yet.
You have to feel a little sympathy for Thaksin Shinawatra – this was one of his pet projects, and if only it had opened a few weeks earlier he would undoubtedly have been there, “bigging it up”. As it is, he is in London with only his vast personal fortune to console him. Meanwhile, the BBC reports that the US imposes sanctions on Thailand – because, I suppose, a pointless gesture is required.
Ordinary Gweilo 
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