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Rent car for 5 days or Grab everywhere?
Family of 4, toddler seat needed. Laguna to Old Town twice, beaches daily.
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Grab stack for Laguna family often beats rental once you add child seat uncertainty, insurance, and left-side stress. Rent if you're doing Big Buddha + Old Town + north beaches daily — 1200–1800 baht/day plus fuel, parking easy at malls. International permit required — checkpoints fine. Scooter not with toddler. Grab family XL exists but wait longer. Old Town parking tight — plan morning. One rental day for circum-island beats five days idle car at resort.
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Grab only — car seat gamble, spent 4000 baht week on rides, zero parking stress.
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Rain — Grab surge Patong hill; car nice those afternoons only.