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Busy compared to when? You refuse to answer this question. Your broad comments are just dribble.

You said 2 bars. Now it's several. Name a couple of them. Well, can you you say they are "thriving" when you don't go there?

You have admitted to where you haven't been, that's enough. ????

Chinese - American girl, living in Thailand, with her mother living in China. Must be more to this story. Perhaps the grandmother is living in China, whom may have been her primary carer in the past. Possibly left unsupervised, and ran away.

Perhaps Cheap Charlies will become a franchise all over Thailand in the future. ????

What bars did you go into in these Soi? You declared "Pattaya is thriving." I guess you think Walking Street and Soi 6 aren't in Pattaya. ????

Was only going on the information posted in that thread.

That's the point I am making, it's coming back to life when compared to covid numbers, but still nowhere near low season 2019 numbers. Further to this, and I have posted links, tourism was not doing well here pre covid.

You've been to 2 bars on Baukhao, and nowhere else, particularly, by your own admission, Soi 6, and you call "nonsense." ????

As another member has said, that appears to be the case. They need the big pipes straight out to sea.

That's exactly what I thought they were doing. Obviously not.

That's exactly my point, aussiexpat. When I mentioned this route was in competition with Bangkok Airways, HammerMan said, no, it's about the "onboard experience." Photos of the bar were also posted. As more information is forthcoming, we are seeing this service is more about "transport" than an "onboard experience" or "cruise." With so few rooms available, one can spend hours in a chair on a "ferry" as opposed to a "cruise ship", or spend an hour in a chair on a flight and be sitting on a chair on Chaweng Beach Samui within an hour after landing, for a cheaper price. Comments have been made about being able to take a vehicle, but that's the expat market, not tourists. I asked what market this service is targeting, no reply.

If they haven't properly installed pipes that size to adequately transport storm water, all hope to stop flooding here is lost.

Ok.

Interesting high season coming up. If it doesn't materialize, more closures early 2023.

I'm living here. It's quiet, more so than low season 2019. More staff than customers in most of the bars.

How's Walking Street going? How's Tree Town going? How is Soi Pothole and Soi Lengkee going? How are Soi 7 and Soi 8 going? How's Soi LK Metro going? You wouldn't know how Soi 6 is going because you don't go there. You go to two bars on Soi Baukhao, which you will not name, and declare "Pattaya is thriving." ????

How is my post a troll post? Some may be prepared to spent 17,000 baht a night, but I would suggest most would not. For those that would not, there are only 10 rooms on the ship available. By all means, take the ship to Samui, but if you want a room, be sure to book well in advance, otherwise, you will end up sleeping in a chair. Is this not fact, as opposed to troll?

Maybe it's a second outlet. Perhaps "Cheap Charlies 2."

Another member has posted there are only 15 rooms onboard. Your screen shot shows three different types of rooms. I do not count the "comfort room" which does not have beds. That's 5 rooms for each style, and if you are not prepared to pay 17,000 baht for the suite room, there's only 10 rooms available to you. Book well in advance.

So most passengers onboard do not get a room.

Those pipes are very large. There would be a considerable flow of water through them during big storms. There would be enough flow to move sand, if they have some "fall." They must have really messed it up if pipes that size are completely blocked with sand.

Well, HammerMan stated the ship was all about, and I quote, "an onboard experience." I would think the price of food & beverage could have an effect on many people's "onboard experience."

Well, if Cheap Charlies on Soi Baukhao is relocating in the near future, it will close, will it not?

No, just saying, you regularly post on things that you have no recent experience in, or any experience at all. Eg. Soi 6 bars.