Travel feedback of the week: February 20-26

Published: 10:20AM GMT twenty-six Feb 2010

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Readers wrote in with reports on the state of Thailand"s shoreline, 10 years on from the creation of The Beach Photo: Alamy

Thailand revisited

All the resorts referred to in your essay on Thailand ("The Beach revisited", Feb 20) are for the wealthy. There is insanely great worth to be had but profitable a happening in Thailand and the broader region, generally if you transport in low season, from Apr to November. Jon Hoff, website comment

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As referred to in the article, Koh Lanta is, indeed, roughly the undiluted hideaway. What this essay doesn"t discuss it you is that Lanta has majority some-more glorious small resorts where you don"t have to outlay five times the cost of a internal splash as you do at the unusually overpriced Pimalai. The locals are additionally a little of the nicest people you will ever meet. Anonymous, website comment

We not long ago returned from a four-week legal holiday in Thailand, staying in 3 opposite resorts. Railay Beach has been ruined. We stayed in a road house on the easterly side and the beach there is disgusting. If this had been the initial ambience of Thailand I would have been unequivocally disappointed, but opportunely we have been on vacation for scarcely twenty years. We will collect the destinations some-more delicately in future.Dianne Brooks, by email

Safari promotion

It was erotically appealing to review Graham Boynton"s essay about the new-style safaris in southern Africa ("Are as well majority tourists murdering Africa"s wildlife?" , Feb 13). Let us goal this unequivocally does symbol the commencement of a some-more cordial epoch in this majority argumentative area of tourism.

His outspoken call for a protest of one sold operator, Somak, is clever things and is to be applauded. What is not so enlivening is the announcement by Somak on a after page, compelling the unequivocally wake up underneath the microscope. If the journal disapproves, the initial and majority in effect move is certainly to decrease promotion or am I being as well maudlin in this blurb world?Peter Miglori, Bournemouth

Service for the infirm

I write with anxiety to your headlines essay ("Travel industry unwell to support for the disabled"", Feb 20). The complaint majority infirm travellers and carers face is the far-reaching movement in services and liberality offered.

At a road house in Tromsø, Norway, we were supposing with a specifically blending room for my aged mother, sandwiched orderly in in between a stand in room for my father and I, and a atmospheric singular room for my brother. All were on the tip floor, served by a lift, with smashing views of the harbour. Staff could not have finished any some-more to safeguard we had a gentle stay. They even lent us a wheelchair for the outing so that we wouldn"t have the con of receiving my mother"s on joining flights.

Contrast that with perplexing to revisit Towneley Hall, Burnley, on a cold, soppy Sunday afternoon in January. Finding no infirm parking places available, I thought no one would mind if we used a indifferent brook for a short while. We got a parking sheet inside of fifteen mins of arrival, even though my mother"s blue pinned token was on display. An upsetting and unnecessarily antagonistic experience and, weeks later, we are still watchful to see possibly the interest will be accepted.J L Grey, Andover

Jet loiter tips

I remonstrate with the recommendation published on jet loiter ("Ask Gill", Feb 13) for the integrate travelling to Australia around Singapore. In 2009, I trafficked to New Zealand and behind and, with assistance from my son, who continually crosses time zones, I did not experience jet loiter possibly way. My tips are: on boarding set your watch to the time of destination; on attainment do not go to bed until it is time to go to bed at the destination; take Melatonin, convenient on medication from your GP I found one sip adequate; and finally, stop worrying and suffer yourself.Ann Sugden, Prees, Shropshire

May I suggest the swimming pool on tip of the Ambassador Hotel by Singapore Airport"s Terminal 1? It is about twenty minutes" walk/shuttle float from Terminal 3. A float and make use of of a towel costs about �7 (you contingency have your own costume), and the cost includes a soft drink. You can compensate by credit card, so you don"t need currency. It"s warm, outdoors, and a provide in in in between flights and is open from 7am to 9pm, I believe. I instruct some-more airports had this facility.Malcolm Derrick, by email

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