6 tips for your Thai car rent trip (update 2025)

6 Tips for your Thai's car rent trip

ECOCAR rent-a-car's Car Rent Thailand is going to represent their 6 important tips for your car rent trip that they make you go anywhere in happily when you come to Thailand. Which ones you ought to learn ? Let's see their details below !!


1. Keep focus locations on your mobile phone during your car rent trip

This is the main basic thing for your car rent trip in Thais when you come to unknown places. It must keep about "the places name" or "Special locations for knowing" that they can help with their local people. They are easy for them to help and give some clues easily; for example, Khaosan Road, Nana, Silom, Yaowarat (China Town), BTS Stations, MRT Stations, landmarks, etc.


2. Keep emergency numbers to call for your car rent trips

These are the most knowing numbers when you get some problems on the way of your car rent trips. Most of all, there are English and other languages speakers when you hear the automatic reply which they consist of:

  • Police call 191
  • Public Ambulance (Everywhere) calls 1669
  • Public Ambulance (Bangkok) calls 1646
  • Fire Department calls 199
  • General number calls 911
  • Tourist Police call 1155
  • Highway Police calls 1193
  • Private Ambulance (Bangkok) calls 1724 or 1719
  • Telephone Directory Assistance calls 1133


3. Know your home-land embassy phone numbers

This is the most thing for you after knowing about the emergency phone numbers. Because of your home country people, who work in their embassies in Thailand. They can help for your request easily including they can help for your passport if you make it lost. We are going to appear their phone numbers for many foreign embassies in Thailand for calling such as 

  • United States of America : (+66) 22 054 000 
  • United Kingdom : (+66) 23 058 333 
  • Australia : (+66) 23 446 300 
  • Canada : (+66) 26 464 300 
  • Japan : (+66) 26 963 000 
  • Korea Republic : (+66) 22 477 537 
  • China : (+66) 22 457 044
  • Malaysia : (+66) 26 296 800 
  • Singapore : (+66) 23 486 700
  • Indonesia : (+66) 22 523 135
  • France : (+66) 26 575 100
  • Germany : (+66) 22 879 000 
  • Russia : (+66) 22 349 824
  • Brazil : (+66) 26 798 567 
  • India : (+66) 25 803 006 
  • Sweden : (+66) 20 026 742
  • Qatar : (+66) 26 601 111 
  • United Arab Emirates : (+66) 24 024 000
  • Turkey : (+66) 23 555 486
  • Philippines : (+66) 22 590 139


4. Keep your belongings with you all your car rent trips

This is a good reminding when you drive our car rents anywhere in Thailand. You ought to keep some belongings in the nearly reaching such as your passport, money, expensive electronics as notebook laptops or power banks, etc.


5. Feet up on the backs of chairs and tables

This is the serious manner in Thailand that you should not do it. It is impolite so much if you do like this, for it is so disrespectful in most places e.g. temples, restaurants, etc.


6. Learn some few Thai words

This is the basic thing for contacting with Thais. If you can speak in a few words that you can be taken care of easily with them. Their basic Thai words consist of:

  • Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening & Good Bye = Sawasdee Krub / Kha
  • Thank you = Khob Khun Krub / Kha
  • How much? = Thao Rai Krub / Kha
  • Where? = Thee Nai Krub / Kha
  • What time? = Ki Mong Krub / Kha
  • Yummy = Aroi Krub / Kha
  • Beautiful = Suay Krub / Kha (Be careful that it is the same sound with Suai: Unlucky.)
  • Sorry or Excuse me = Kho Thod Krub / Kha
  • Pretty = Na Rak Krub / Kha

** Krub is the last polite word for men & Kha is the last polite word for women) **

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