It wouldn’t be the first time, but a Thai resort is threatening to sue a buyer over a negative review they left after their stay. The lodge, located in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima across the well-liked tourist vacation spot of Khao Yai National Park, is threatening a three million baht lawsuit over a review where the previous guest rated the resort at 6 out of 10.
The resort has not been publicly named, however the lady who stayed on the property final month left what she believed was an anonymous review on a travel company website on December 19 the place she gave the resort a medium rating saying that it was overpriced for the expertise received.
The property went berserk over the evaluate and was in a place to establish the lady who left it and served her notice demanding that the review be faraway from the internet site and that a three million baht penalty be paid inside 15 days. Not satisfied with Fortune , additionally they ordered the visitor to pay to publish a public apology every single day for 7 days in 5 main Thai language newspapers.
The lady was threatened with a 50,000 baht penalty per day that she didn’t adjust to the three million baht payment, the week of public apologies, and the elimination of her only-somewhat unfavorable evaluate.
Understandably shaken, the lady contacted the Lawyers for The People Foundation who took on the case professional bono when she requested whether or not the hotel had authorized grounds to pursue compensation from her when all she did was write what she considered an sincere evaluate of the property she stayed at.
She additionally needed to know the way the lodge got her identify and whether the travel company web site had given it to them as that they had already removed the adverse evaluate, doubtless because of comparable threats. Lawyers are investigating who deleted the publish because it was not the guest, and what direct contact the hotel and the travel agency website had relating to the case.
NOT A FIRST IN THAILAND
Writing a negative hotel evaluation can be a dangerous pursuit in Thailand, as was made well-known in a case from September 2020. After visiting the Sea View Resort on Trat province island in the Gulf of Thailand, American Wesley Barnes wrote an unflattering account of his keep prompting the proprietor to file an official complaint in regards to the ‘unfair’ evaluate.
The grievance led to criminal costs being filed and Barnes serving time in a Thai jail and being pressured to redact the lodge evaluate. In response, TripAdvisor added a banner on the resort’s itemizing warning folks that leaving a unfavorable evaluate might land you in prison, a discover that continues to be on the web page right now.
“This lodge or people associated with this resort filed criminal charges in opposition to a Tripadvisor user in relation to the traveller writing and posting online evaluations. Explode spent time in jail as a result. Tripadvisor serves its users best when travellers are free to share their opinions and experiences on our platform – both optimistic and unfavorable. The lodge might have been exercising its legal rights beneath local legislation, nonetheless, it’s our position to inform you so you may take this into consideration when researching your travel plans.”g