STUCK IN PATTAYA

'After an 11-hour flight, we had to wait another three to four hours to get our luggage, because the airline had no ground crew in Pattaya. We are really not sure when we are flying back to Singapore.

Nobody seems to know anything. Right now, I really just need a shower.'

Mr Joshua Goh, 38, an executive in a youth organisation, speaking to The Straits Times by phone from Pattaya. Mr Goh's Singapore-bound flight from Jerusalem with a stopover in Bangkok was diverted.

SCARED TO TRAVEL

'I am now scared to go back because the airports and roads are closed.'

Singaporean housewife Wanthong In Kaew, 45, who had planned to go to Bangkok and on to Chiang Rai to visit her mother. She was among hundreds left stranded at Changi Airport yesterday morning.

CAUGHT UNAWARES

'We wanted to come here very early, so we slept very early.'

A Singapore Airlines traveller who wanted to be known only as Mrs Heng, on why she did not know about the protests in Thailand. Her husband and two teenage girls were travelling on a 7.10am Tiger Airways flight. She was to take the 8.45am SQ flight. Both flights were cancelled.