Just a quick update to say that while the center of Bangkok – and the main tourist districts remain flood free, the water does seem to be creeping closer whilst it washes through Bangkok. Our local partners are doing a sterling job re-routing people and making all the necessary arrangements – and this despite being flooded themselves in some cases. Thank you so much Addie, Siriwan, Cherry and all at Destination Asia Thailand for your enormously hard work.

The rest of Thailand is now not affected at all and the sun is shining. Currently we are re-routing all clients travelling over the next week away from Bangkok – if that is what they choose. Though all flights are going through the main airport as normal.

Note though that Suvarabhumi Airport is open and functioning entirely normally. The main Bangkok Airport was built fairly recently and they had flooding very much in mind as flooding is very common in Thailand in Bangkok in particular as it is a flood basin in effect. They built huge flood defenses and no one expects these to be breached.

The Thai authorities were furious with what they felt was a very misleading picture in the foreign press recently – have a look here if you are interested –

We are putting together Thailand holidays as normal and expect the situation to normalise soon.

Our thoughts go out to all the affected people in Thailand and indeed Cambodia.