Frommer's holds the key to worry-free travel in this exotic land, with valuable cultural insights, the latest trip-planning advice, detailed maps, and smart tips on language, local customs, and getting around. You'll find honest, in-depth reviews of luxury beach resorts, high-tech business hotels, intimate inns, and simple guest houses and bungalows, all based on recent personal inspections.

We'll show you spectacular beaches, waterfalls, floating markets, majestic temples, ancient ruins, national parks, palaces, and traditional villages. We'll lead you to amazing restaurants, and even take you elephant trekking in the Northern Hills. You'll also rely on us to guide you through the confusing, bustling, but intriguing city of Bangkok (our author, who lived there while writing this guide, knows it intimately, and discovered all sorts of hidden surprises). With Frommer's in hand, you'll experience all the wonder of Thailand!


Reader Reviews:
  Thailand's guide
This is the second edition of Frommer's Thailand I've bought. I travel to Thailand a lot and this guide book has helped make my travel more enjoyable. Not all the details are in the book, but it gives you the highlights of things and where to go, dine, and stay. I would recommend this book to any first time travelers or even your second or third trip to Thailand. Enjoy!

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Whether you met in a bar, in a university, or at work, and whether you met last night or decades ago, Thailand Fever covers your issues:

* Trusting Each Other * Sex * It's My Money! * The Parents * The Dowry * Privacy * Independence * Saving Face * Living in "Paradise"

Thailand Fever is the must-have relationship guidebook which lets each of you finally express complex issues by just pointing across the page! Everything in the book is in both Thai and English on facing pages. Thailand Fever teaches each of you about your loved one's values and culture.


Reader Reviews:
  Excellent guide and communication aide for Thai romance.
There are three books of which I always keep two copies: One copy for me, and one copy for giving to people. This book, "The Cure for Thailand Fever", is one of'em.

If I have three criticisms, they are
1) The book takes the right stance (that Thai/Westerner romances are almost certainly doomed to failure because of attitudes toward lying, sex, family, and money+romance), but should say it more loudly than it already does. It should also perhaps go into more warnings that Thailand's population is often grindingly poor with no social security, so fleecing a foreigner (by pretending to love him or inventing other stories to part the man from his money) is a commonly accepted, if torturous, way to pay the Thai family's bills.

2) The book presents matching English and Thai text, on facing pages. They're clearly line-by-line translations, and therefore make a darned good learning tool for people learning English or Thai. I'd say that the publishers missed a second chance/reason to sell the book, by not including English and Thai language advice in the margins: definitions of tough words, explanations of idioms, and so on.

3) An audio CD version should be included. A startlingly high number of Thais cannot read. Of the Thais involved in the bargirl and tourist industries, this percentage is undoubtedly greater than 50%. Also, an audio CD would be a great aid for people using the book to learn Thai or English.

Beyond that, this book is pure diamonds and gold. It should be mandatory reading for anyone considering living in Thailand, doing business in Thailand, conducting a mailorder marriage/penpal relationship, or coming to Thailand expecting romance and happy marriage or a fun, guilt-free roll in the hay.

Thailand's prozac-popping tour agents and real estate agents would have you believe that Thailand is "the land of smiles", where a Westerner can find easy friendships, hot romance, and great bargains in a stable, safe economy. Nothing could be further from the truth, and this book goes a long way toward educating the Westerner about the real Thailand, explaining the cultural gap.

If it has a shortcoming, it's perhaps that the book doesn't describe in journalistic detail the large number of suicides, bankruptcies, and heartbreaks endured by Westerners who've come to Thailand and invested in a romance, a business, a home, or all three.

It also isn't quite balanced, though it tries quite hard to be, and mostly succeeds. Where it fails to strike a proper balance is in how it describes to Westerners that the Thai sex industry attracts desperate, derided women from poor families... but fails to balance that negative image with an accurate description of the Western tourists and immigrants as frequently substance-abusing, shallow, sex-buying, culturally insensitive louts. With Thailand increasingly using Thai kickboxing camps, cheap beer, and its sex industry as primary tourist attractions, Thai women should be cautioned that Prince Charming will be a rarity amongst the tourists.

It's also a book written for the Thai person working with-- or hoping to woo or fleece-- a Westerner.

The book is NOT preachy. It doesn't recommend behaviour beyond communicating openly and being prepared to abandon many of your deeply held cultural foundations if you want the relationship to survive. The book doesn't criticise or pontificate, even on the pages describing professional hookers and their customers.

I've lived in Thailand for a year, and showed this book to many of my Thai and Western friends. We all agree that the book accurately touches on most of the top problems in Thai+Western relationships:
1) Is lying acceptable? When is it OK?
2) Dowry, and other money=romance expectations
3) "It's MY money, I earned it" versus "The biggest pole holds up the whole extended family's tent"
4) Marital fidelity
5) sex industry versus Thailand's truly puritanical culture

This book will probably scare you away from attempting a romance with Thai women. That's A GOOD THING. If you come here to buy cheap beer and sex, this is the right place. If you want real romance and don't want to drain your savings to pay for it, stay away.

  Good for learning Thai language, bad for understanding Thai people.
I was hoping that this book would provide insights into the Thai culture itself, but it was more like a guide to women in general, which I personally think is too broad of a subject to have a guide too!

There are some bits of information that could prove helpful to a Western man trying to understand his Thai girlfriend, I'll admit, but in my opinion this book won't save a relationship with one foot in the grave... maybe just smooth over an already good one.

One positive thing about this book though is it's a great language learning tool as the whole thing is written in English and Thai. So you can go through and try to translate the Thai with the answer key right there!

  Thailand Fever is a great book.
A friend of mind gave this book to me and my husband (who is also Thai) as a gift along with the book Thai Law for Foreigners. He thought that it would be fun for us to read because it's in Thai. Even though the book is for Western - Thai relationship, it's good for us because there are things that we can learn about ourselves. Being in the U.S. for along time (15 years) makes me forget some of my culture and adopt many western cultures. It's clever to have the book written in two languages.

  Thailand Fever
This is an interesting read but there are better publications out there such as `Money Number 1`, and `The Fool is Back`..I found the information in the book useful but i didnt care much for the format in that each side of a page was written in both English and Thai. The book is therefore aimed at a very small market.

  Good information
Bought 2 copies, fast read. Sent it to friend in Thailand to hear the other side of the story and to discuss when I get there. I learned a lot and hope she can too.

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