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Home » Reader question » How unsafe is it in Thailand's four southern provinces?
Dear readers,
In November I want to visit the SOS Childrens Village in Hat Yai. However, the Dutch government has issued negative travel advice for the four southern provinces.
Can someone tell me how (un)safe it is there?
Regards,
Jac
I come to Hat Yai 3-4 times a year with my in-laws.
Personally, I don't feel unsafe and neither do my in-laws.
But of course that advice was given for a reason, so I won't say it's safe there.
That is a decision that everyone has to make individually.
I have been coming to hatyai and songhkla province for 20 years, and have never experienced anything, and I also feel safe there, the province, s yala, pattani, naratiwat must be avoided.!
When I was looking for a job as a teacher about 7 years ago and I noticed that there were a lot of vacancies in the south via the website “ajarn.com”, I was always advised not to work there… for known reasons.
Dear Jack,
My sister-in-law lives in Songkhla and we know more people there. If we go there, we will fly to Hat Yai and also depart from there. Nice shopping and cozy markets, lots of people. I've been coming here regularly for about 12 years now. It's just very normal life there, but relatively close to provinces like Yala, where there is more unrest. In all that time, a bomb has exploded in Hat Yai a few times and three years ago the mayor of Songkhla was liquidated in front of his house. So, sometimes there is something but mostly not…
and people do not live in fear every day.
Groet
Don't let that stop you from visiting Hat Yai eo. The negative travel advice mainly applies to the area at almost 100 km. from Hat Yai. (Yala eo) So Southern Southern Thailand! Have a good stay.
I traveled around Songkhla, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat for ten days last year. I never felt unsafe for a moment. It was a great trip. I'm going there again in two weeks and I'm really not a daredevil. There are, of course, problems in the south. There are also many checkpoints but most of them are unmanned. To my knowledge, tourists have never been the target of attacks.
The people responsible for travel advice are based in The Hague. As far as I know, none of the current embassy staff has ever been in that area. They are also not allowed to go there because of their own travel advice….
Hat Yai is really no problem. You will encounter many Thai and Malaysian tourists. The UK has issued an advisory against unnecessary travel for Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and southern Songkhla provinces. The cities of Songkhla and Hat Yai fall outside and are considered safe by the UK.
I think that's a lot more realistic.
Although I am not an authority like the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, I have lived in Narathiwat, one of the southern border provinces, for three years now and rarely feel unsafe. Certainly in the city there is a very small risk of disturbances. Hat Yai has had some attacks in the past, but the last one was years ago and the city is big, so I wouldn't worry about anything other than standard Thailand hazards like traffic and petty crime.
We live in Hatyai. We are from Antwerp and be sure Antwerp is much more dangerous than HatYai.
And yes, something happens here and there….but that is also in our supposedly safe little country Belgium (or the Netherlands).
If you read the previous response and take to heart the comments of people who DO live and live there or have holidays, then what is such a travel advice from the embassy worth, especially since they do not (are not allowed to) show themselves < TJA