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On 10/8/2019 at 12:53 AM, metempsychotic said:

the waste side, epic.

im going to file that with "finger of speech", "statue of limitations" and "adding salt to the jury".

 

keep em coming please!

There are more burger and steak joints than ever.  For every one that closes 2 more open up.  But yea, the ThaiVisa peanut gallery say they are all going away so it must be true...

Go to Home and click on your profile picture (upper left of screen) then click on POSTS.  Beside the post you want to edit there are 3 horizontal dots (...).  Click on that and click on "Edit privacy".  You have 3 options, Public, Only me, and Friends.  You can also go into friends and exclude some of them.

I believe you can also do this before you post.

12 hours ago, Ron jeremy said:

And to think people were only coming for the beaches and temples, the new shopping mall will surely save the tourism industry.

It doesn't need saving....except in the minds of the serial pessimists around here.

1 hour ago, morrobay said:

Go team go.  Time will tell if you and the other overdevelopment cheerleader are correct in this cart before horse construction. 

Where did I say that I like overdevelopment?  It is what it is.  We are just guests here and cannot change it.

High season has already started.  Way more people around than in September.  Line ups at Central Grocery store which is new.  My midpriced mid sized hotel is full.  Bars seem fuller but as always, some busier than others.  Some always empty.

N. Pattaya is full of Chinese.  More of the flag following groups around.  More buses around.  Saw lots of people streaming into those Chinese discos around Central Marina in the evening.

The doom and gloom people are idiots.  You know who I am talking about.  They have no clue what they are talking about.  Pattaya is always adapting.  When the Russians came everyone said Pattaya was going to die, all high end stuff would fail.  Now those same morons are saying the same stuff because of Chinese/Indians.

It's unbelievable to amount of development going on Pratumnak hill and around Jomtien and around N. Pattaya.  Most of it higher end.  Some would say too much development but that is nothing new for Pattaya or Thailand in general.  The city is growing and that means more people are coming.  All kinds, from all over, including high end.  Full stop.

3 hours ago, smedly said:

he is 100% correct, have you been there recently to even form an opinion or criticize - obviously not, and rather than criticism of other posters how about offering you own views on the topic based on your own experience 

I have no idea what point you are trying to make.  So maybe make it first instead of this point shoot aim stuff.

50 minutes ago, petermik said:

The LK Group for one.....LK= Leng Kee family

I think you are confusing Chinese Thai's with Chinese nationals. 

1 hour ago, andy72 said:

This thread has went from Single White Guys to sewer systems and now shopping malls

If it is the Thai intention of stopping sex tourism fine but ultimately the Chinese tour groups is just one demographic.
The Chinese bring far more problems the drunken farang
When they set up their scamming centers as recent raids have shown both in Thailand & Cambodia
They operatre high end criminality
China had one of the biggest brothel towns in the world that Xi closed down and all those Chinese women had to go work somwwhere else
The Chinese buy sex but not in the bars they operate differntly though there are the usual massage parlors all around China with happy endings
Getting rid of one lot in favour of another unknown quantity may just bite Thailand in the ass

& of course when the army took control yes they cleaned things up a bit but it has stalled

 

You can never get rid of all the sex tourism you can move it around maybe they just want to reclaim Pattaya but where will it move to

If they were serious about getting rid of sex tourism then they would have closed NANA PLAZA a few years ago instead of giving it a refurburb ????????

Go to https://forum.thaivisa.com/ignore/ and add the word "Leaver".  Problem solved.

I talked to the manager of my mid range mid size hotel today.  They said they are about 80% full right now (during super duper low season). They said it's above average for them for this time of year. I have not seen any Asians or Indians in the lobby.  Mostly just European looking Farangs.

But...I saw a couple empty beer bars on some soi somewhere last night so Pattaya is clearly totally dead, totally empty, totally doomed. Only low end Asians and Indians come here now, all non-budget hotels empty, yup you betcha!

39 minutes ago, petermik said:

And behind those hoardings nothing is going on....just a large empty space....I,ve seen it

See those words on your picture of the wall?  "New experience coming soon" with pictures of food.  I am told it will be another reasonably priced food court like before, just renovated, whatever that means.  My guess it is being done in response to the T21 food court.

27 minutes ago, johng said:

Its certainly overpriced !  much cheaper at Terminal 21,Big C and Tesco..

Have the empty shops and old food court location re-opened yet ?

What empty shops?  The old food court is still completely covered with a temporary wall.  So it's a complete mystery what is going on behind there. I heard from someone who heard from someone who knows someone involved (in other words, take with a big grain of salt), that the newly renovated food court in the basement will be opening back up this month (October) sometime.   No idea what will happening with that Food Park in the basement when the food court opens back up but their prices are a complete rip off.  120baht for Kao Man Gai is at least double the normal price just about anywhere else.

That is why almost all the Russians now go to T21 food court.  If the newly renovated food court in the basement of Central has competitive prices to T21 then I'm sure so people will come back. Hard to see how they can compete with T21 food court prices though.

Over priced Food Park in Central Festival totally empty.  Only Asian and Indian low end tourists.  Those Farangs you see in this picture were photoshopped in to fill in the TOTALLY empty food court.  All high end hotels empty.  Pattaya totally doomed!

1 hour ago, JamJar said:

Airport Family Mart sells phone credit with no issue. Have done it many times....

 

Yes, one can buy a basic 49 baht Traveller SIM, but that option will block you from all of the best data promotions.

 

Better to buy a normal, non Tourist 49 baht SIM downtown.

Nope.  They could not sell me AIS phone credit when I was there a few weeks ago.  The did not give me the impression it was some temporary thing either but TiT so who knows.

Is that Eatigo app legit?  Like are there any catches at all or do you just get a discount with no catches whatsoever other than making a reservation?

Sounds like there is one catch according to the above poster, where they add taxes and service charge after, effectively watering down the discount

3 hours ago, Balooo said:

The easiest way: https://www.ais.co.th/travellersim/

You can pick up SIM card at airport

I recommend this.  That is pretty much all they want to sell you at the airport anyways.  They will do it all for you.  Set up your phone etc.  Just give them your money.  Only decision is how much data you want.  I would recommend going with the lowest cost option.  Like just 1 day of data or whatever. 

It's really easy to add credit and more data later.  Just install the MyAIS app and go to any Family Mart to buy credit (but not at the airport Family Mart, because that would be too convenient apparently).

17 minutes ago, sunnyboy2018 said:

Good. It means people are discerning. Why would anyone travel to Thailand to visit a dreadful yank franchise. However, I expect it will be busy at the weekend, especially with Thais.

Some Starbucks seem to do pretty well.  When I went by the Starbucks in T21 the other day it was pretty busy in the early afternoon on a weekday.  That mall is really busy on weekends so it must be pretty busy at that time as well.

I think the beach Rd Starbucks near Royal Garden is pretty busy earlier on in the morning, as is the one in Avenue.  It was not that busy around noon today but hardly completely empty all the time as one poster here seem to be trying to imply for some strange reason.

Beerbars totally empty tonight.  Pattaya is doomed.  Doomed I tell ya!!!

R-Con open air bar filled with farangs at noon during the hottest part of the day.  It's a ghost town I tell ya!

Soi Buakao totally empty during the hottest part of the day.  Those are not real farangs.  They are paid actors posing for me.  I didn't get a shot off in time but that bar that is always filled with farangs at the intersection of Soi Diana I just passed was still filled with farangs.  At noon during the hottest part of the day.  Gets much busier later or.  But yea, the town is a ghost town, totally, you betcha!

The Tuesday Buakao market was dead.  Only the places were expats usually congregate were totally filled with expats (as usual).  A clear sign expats are leaving in droves.  It's over, case closed.  Put a fork in it!

Starbucks totally empty.  Couldn't have been more than 20 people in there.  The place could hold like maybe a 100.  Pattaya is doomed, case closed!

McD totally empty.  No Farangs anywhere (well, actually they were EVERWHERE).  Tukom was an absolute zoo.  So yea, it's totally a ghost town according to the serial pessimists around here!

Near entrance to Tukom.  Dead I tell ya.  The town is doomed booga booga (scary music).

The town is doomed.  Doomed I tell ya.  I know because Leaver the sad clown prophet tells us so.

All the 5 star hotels are empty.  I know because Leaver says so (taken today).  Those are not real customers at Avani.  They are actors I paid to pose for this picture.

I am just waiting for dusk, when most people come out, to show you just busy a lot of areas are.  I feel the need because there are some who are selectively taking pictures at certain times of the day to try paint this illusion that the whole town is dead or something.  I have no idea what their malfunction is to want to do that.  All I know is that they appear to be intentionally trying to spread nonsense for some reason.

Near entrance to Tukom.  Dead I tell ya.  The town is doomed booga booga (scary music).

1 hour ago, Searat7 said:

I went to Pattaya (Jomtien area) this past weekend and found it very quiet compared to past years at this time. A number of bars and stores have been shuttered and the only places with customers seemed to be bars with live entertainment. Also saw a For Sale sign on a restaurant which was always busy in the past. 

So I guess that TOTALLY explains the fact Jomtien is growing.  You guys crack me up.  Like a previous poster said.  You go to the same bar/soi every year and you declare Pattaya dead because that bar/soi is not as busy.  Meanwhile, there are 10 new bars that have opened up on other sois since then that everyone has moved to.