DonniePeverley

What's the indian situation ? Most are saying Pattaya is now little India

The European Union itself is weaker without the UK, the second biggest economy it had, and the strongest defense partner. Utter lunacy on their behalf to not try and get the UK back in somehow. It's like the idiots have learnt nothing.

Cheap mass tourism has turned away quality spending tourists. The solution should not be add more cheap tourists to make up for the shortfall in income. Disgraceful, and an enviromental disaster.

What an absurd joke. She's achieved nothing as of yet, and has got into her position because of nepotism. Nothing inspiring at all. The country continues to rely on cheap mass tourism.

If you don't live in the UK, you shouldn't be getting any pension or an ability to come back and use the NHS.

We have the AC cleaned every 3-4 months.

I will look on the remote for some sort of sleep mode. But i can't see it anything obvious.

I think scientifically this is perhaps going down the right path ... the lack of oxygen in the room.

They need to levy much higher fees for Indian and CHinese tourists. India has not bothered to reciprocate the visa free scheme for Thai's, so it's not a 'face saving issue' as it would be with the Chinese.

I will look into the humidifier issue. Honestly, back in the UK and no a/c system and waking up is a breeze. In Thailand even if i get my full quota of sleep i am waking up in such an extreme rough way.

It's usually set to around 23 degrees, sometimes 24 during these cooler days. I sometimes i am waking up around 1pm, so a/c on is vital. Opening window is not an option during the evening usually due to mosquitos. I do air the room during the day though. The a/c system we have is meant to be one of these new eco effiencent ones. Personally i can't see how. Even when the temperature is reached, it keeps blowing. Apparently this is meant to be more efficient for the room.

When in Thailand, the heat obviously lends to sleeping with the AC on all night. The system we have keeps air flowing, even when the temperature is reached. But my sleep is effected .... i wake up as if i've been 5 rounds with Mike Tyson. I literally feel hungover for 10-20 minutes getting up, such a heavy feeling. I'm not drinking alcohol or any drugs. I can only put it down to the a/c. Couple of times i've slept at mates in cooler temperature with just a fan and it's great. I am currently back in the UK, and the weather is cool. Sleeping much better. What's going on here ?

10% service charge, and adding the 7% vat on afterwards. They aren't getting any tips with this crappy Americanism with bills.

You mean back packers with a laptop. This is nonsense, especially with Indians and Chinese eligible for this. Just going to push rents up, which will harm local Thai's. Going to destroy any sort of tourism experience we enjoy too.

Pattaya is over run by Indians. It will be an Indian.

Suppose the accusation is the hypocrisy - as did he fair bit of moaning about in opposition. What does the guys who give him free stuff get out of it is the question? If you look at all the big decisions ... Rishi Sunak made the rite call on most things. Economy looked to be improving, and now Labour may use Albania copying the Rawanda scheme.

They can say what they want ...all they will do is open the borders for more cheap tourism. An addiction to cheap mass tourism and not diversifying the economy is horrific.

CHEAP mass tourism is turning away quality tourists. The policiese of this current government to open the doors to tourists from China and India WITHOUT ANY RESTRICTIONS was a disgusting mistake.

No other country (not even African countries) let's in Indians as easily as Thailand has decided to do this year. Horrific mistake.

I dislike how Pattaya is now catering for Indian tourists on an extreme cheap budget.

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Open up the country to cheap mass tourism and these are the consequences.

Go look at the spending average per visitor. Indians are the lowest spenders. Even African countries have tighter restrictions on allowing Indian visitors than THailand. What's also a smack in the face, is that India don't let in Thai's without a strict visa !!!! Yet Thailand this year has just waved the red carpet for them. When there GDP per person is 3 tiimes less than a Thai's ... they will start coming here to work, just watch.

Thailand has opened the flood gates to cheap mass tourism from India and China ... which in turn has driven away quality tourists (who do not want to spend time with mass tourism). Vast majority of indians do not go shopping in malls or eat in restaurants. So when you direct policies to attract cheap tourists, you should not be surprised when you see cheapness around you. Why not attempt to clean up the tourism industry by attracting quality? More numbers is not always better.

The economy needs diversifying from mass cheap tourism. But it's stuck in a constant addiction to the cheap mass tourism because of the actions of the rules put in place. As with ever it's always the quick cheap fix. Policies of letting every man from every country enter thailand and essentially now stay as long as they want is going to harm the country. It will be cheap tourists. Do you see many indian tourists going into shopping malls ? No. The economy has been warned so many times it needs diversifying, the way Malaysia and Vietnam are doing.