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2 hours ago, zydeco said:

Crackdown on online message boards coming soon!

yeah all the admins & moderators without work permits are working illegally even if its only as volunteers! 

hell if we're being pedantic i'm supporting TV's ad business just by writing this comment lol

* making mental note to duck under every tape i can find next arrival..

On 1/3/2020 at 4:32 PM, Traubert said:

On 1/3/2020 at 4:23 PM, ThaiFelix said:

If the TAT is saying numbers are healthy but the accommodation sector is complaining of low occupancy rates, where are they all............alien mass abductions??

AirBnB and similar.

 

Hotels, of which there are more than ever, are half empty. It's the hotels that are moaning.

 

And TV posters, are swirling like vultures. They can't help it. Newtons Third Law is a mystery to them.

airbnb looks dead too, maybe they're all hiding under rocks..?

On 1/3/2020 at 9:01 PM, miamiman123 said:

If there’s a war with Iran in the ME....all bets are off. You haven’t seen anything yet! 

they'll last about 5 minutes longer than Saddam did and i'm being generous there

2nd rate army + 3rd rate economy v USA

hahahaha

smashed.

3 hours ago, kingdong said:

Didn,t they have a similar scenario in1997?over valued baht imploding on itself.There's a big recession in the post.

https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-asian-financial-crisis-1978997

10 hours ago, kingdong said:

So they,'ll be an oversupply of rooms and no punters?

i believe that is what the original post says, yes

On 1/3/2020 at 3:14 PM, British Bulldog said:

Good clean Hotels at reasonable charges, smiling staff (who can speak English), a reasonably priced Mini Bar and pool side bar to help push profits alone and you'll soon be full turning the clients away, once some of the sites like Lonely Planet and Trip Advisor get onto your 'good deal' hotel, it will be full in no time ... higher turnover, slightly less profit than previously, but consistent long tearm profits as you'll be the only Hotel at 95% occupancy !

in principle this seems idyllic and oh so easy, but there is a catch. for this to work the hotels would need to own the land they are built on otherwise they'll have little to no say in the prices they can charge. even if by some small chance they were not already paying some huge lease, come next renewal, and with 95% occupancy, expect that lease to sky rocket. can't be having some foreigners making lots of money money on their land you know! its the thai way ????

oil the gift that keeps on giving, traditionally low in price right now and with a tendency to spike on bad news in the mid-east

cha-ching!

USO for the win

if he dies in IDC this WILL be a diplomatic incident, expect the UK press and (subsequently) the Foreign Office to be all over this.

i'd be handling this with a lot of care.

20 minutes ago, revup said:

Decades ago, I had a college lecturer who reasoned that since we cannot stop drunk driving, then perhaps we should teach people to drive safely when drunk.

in Europe years ago they set up drug testing kits at rave parties because the authorities reasoned that the young were going to take drugs regardless of anything they could do.

they saved a lot of young peoples lives doing that

never gonna happen, a non-o is a 90 day visa and last i checked you cannot buy a 90 day health insurance policy!

extensions of stay based on non-o, non-b, elite.. who knows

one thing that always make me laugh about these threads is that despite the universal condemnation, outside of Bangkok i can count on one hand the amount of times i've seen an expat grab a taxi or tuk tuk home after a skin full

especially true the younger the expat and the further he/she is from civilisation.. samui for example

5 hours ago, Chazar said:

thats  right  i  mean  driving  head on  into  the  opposite  traffic  lane  when  doing 20kph slowly as  drunk  and  the  other  vehicle 90kph for sure would  mean everyone just walks away with a  minor  nick............u cant make up some of the replies here can you!

so doing 80kph and the other vehicle 90kph is a better outcome then?

i swear u cant make up some of the replies here can you!

how selfish, you would have thought they would have waited for high season to end..

it's only 5 days away after all 

31 minutes ago, phkauf said:

No insurance questions and I did not provide anything for them.

were you extending an original non-oa or non-o?

TAT always looking elsewhere never trying to please the one's they already have.

maybe if more satisfied tourists returned they'd be able to ride out these economic 'bumps' a bit easier 

On 12/17/2019 at 2:21 PM, paulikens said:

same old story now coming every year and its nonsense,yes its not as busy as it use to be but trying get a hotel there and you'll find it hard to do cuz everywhere is full,and you wont get a hotel for love nor money over the xmas and new year week.

really?

On 12/7/2019 at 3:26 PM, Estrada said:

There is a housing plot opposite my house worth over B10 Million, so today they started clearing the land to plant Banana trees. The people in our community will look after the trees and for free providing we can keep the bananas, so the land owner only has to pay 0.15% tax instead of 3%.

ah, thats why all the land near me is suddenly getting cleared then

so the plan is to turn every rai of land in thailand into one giant farm then?

great.

do these people ever think anything through? guess we don't need trees..

10 hours ago, Thian said:

lowest unemployment and usage of automation the most of the world.

 

Unlike Thailand where 4-5 employee's do the job that one westerner would do.

what they don't tell us about that 98% employment rate is that only ~33% have what would traditionally be called a 'job' in the western world and pay taxes.. the other ~65% are in the grey economy or aren't looking for a job. that includes taxi drivers, noodle sellers, market sellers, sex workers, meth dealers(!), etc