sandrew33

You saying it doesn’t happen?

To be fair there’s new hotels built every second week and there remains myriad brilliant ones. Perhaps avoid crap old hotels and fat bar girls and you’ll have a better time.

A few years ago this was the dream but when we observe them replaced by bulk Russians, package tour Indians and those objectionable man bag wearing Benidorm types it’s basically a nil all draw at best 🙂

To be fair this isn’t a new issue either. I rented a condo in Suk Soi 23/1 for 2 years back in 2012-2014 and there were a couple of condo owners doing short term tourist rentals against the rules. My condo was directly above the pool and once a month or so you’d get young tourists (90% Brits) who would be at the pool with “friends” (mostly rentals) as late at 2-3am music on etc. it is frustrating but it is on the owners breaching the condo rental rules and they are the starting point for action. In our condo they were all Thai owners.

Plenty of Thai beaches are paradise. Just not where the manbag wearing Benidorm refugees head

Yeah, one suspects that there are a few important details of his story missing TBH

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And yet in 15+ years in Thailand I’ve never needed to piss/<deleted> in the streets but I see certain demographics do this quite regularly. Why is that you reckon?

The guy is clearly an idiot but I’m unsure why every case of people being an idiot = problem with visa policy? How exactly would things be different if the Visa rules were stricter?

Nowadays they just stand around in groups and always introduce themselves and kindly ask if I'd like to buy some illegal medicinal substances, further up they road I am accosted by a lot of "sisters" who seem to be offering to comfort and tend to me for a fee 🙂

I’m not sure they need a 15 point plan to spot the African crime gangs and their employees. Just walk down Soi 4, cross Suk Road and walk down to Soi 13 with some Police detouring down Soi 11 and you’d identify about 300+ crims on any given evening. And if they need a 15 point plan to identify the criminals in Pattaya well they really aren’t fit to be Police 🤷🏻‍♂️:)

One mans perfectly comfortable is another mans <deleted>hole and many have plenty enough money that skimping on the hotel room is an unnecessary "hardship"

We are really describing the Vogue as “swanky”? Does the author live under a bridge?

Nope. The electronic boarding pass was scanned at the initial gate before the escalator up to the scanners. Was never looked at by a person at any stage.

16 years of at least monthly arrivals and this has never been an issue. But sure …