[MrDK]

A year and a half ago I scheduled a train ride from Kuala lumpur to Hat Yai, with a limo pick-up in Hat Yai to Phuket. The Limo company strongly suggested that I arranged the pickup at the border (Padang Basar) to avoid Hat Yai.

Whether that recommendation was exaggerated or not, I don't know, but after we had passed Had Yai in the Limo the drivers commented that we now were on the good side.