Quote Originally Posted by ceejay
It's possibly worth considering buying a mobile while you are here as well. If all you want is to make calls and texts you can get a perfectly adequate one for less than 1000 baht (┬г20). If that goes missing in a bar, its no great loss - and you don't lose all the data on your UK phone either.
Big C now sells those-radio incl, for 495 bt=around 10 ''quids''. The trick is of coruse it has to be UNLocked-all Thai mobuys are. 1-2-call and dtac are TH main proders-both have several plans-the time your SIM keeps valid varies with plan.