JoeyMac

Many abuse the system. Little grasp of English, some elderly, their families simply put them down as needing wheel chair assistance. This automatically means they get taken to their gate and onto the plane, despite having no such issues walking up. It's abused massively, and i am surprised no one ever makes an issue out of it.

Indian behaviour i've noticed. 1) As soon as the tyres of the planes hit the ground, they get up grab their bags and head to the door. Despite pleas to remain seated they take no notice. The irony being most of the low cost carriers just turf you onto a bus to the terminal, so you gained no advantage. 2) The vast majority of these men are sex tourists, if you go by their behaviour in Pattaya and Phuket. Yes some come as families and they are the types of tourists Thailand should try and encourage, not these groups of single men. The indian tourists you get in Europe and America are the upper class. 3) For many it's their first international holiday, and bring some bad habits with them - like trash on the floor, the dreaded urinating on walls. My worst experience was when a mother told her child to just urinate in the pool (i can speak some hindi). A man nearby bought up some phlegm and just spat in the pool too. Another was passing by and decided to wash his sweaty face in the pool. 4) Thai's do not like Indians, and look down on them. They are very racist towards them if you can speak some Thai. 5) Whilst not as bad as chinese tourists around a buffet they come close for panicking the food will run out. 6) If a tour included food option, they will constantly complain about when food is coming. They will make sure they eat enough for 3 days. 7) They do not shop in any fancy malls. You go to any major mall, one thing you will notice how rare it is you see an indian. 8 ) They hit 7/11 and just completely ransack the instant noodle of the shelves.

We've seen protests in Europe and other asian countries to stop over tourism from the locals. I was in Japan and locals were furious. Same in many SPanish and Italian cities. I give it a year before the locals start to get annoyed and protest. You simply can't have this number of people visiting, it is not sustainable.

The Rich in I have news for you ... the billionaire or rich Indians aren't coming to Thailand. Like the Chinese, the well off citizens there dream of heading to Europe or western countries. The type of visitor attracted to Thailand are low rent. They are there on a budget. And now arriving in huge numbers because they are perhaps one of the only countries that are allowing them in. There is no country even in Africa that let Indians in visa free. Mark my words in a few years they will out number Chinese for visitor numbers.

You would need 10 indians to replace a decent spending foreign tourist. No wonder the roads are blocked in parts of Pattaya with heavy traffic. You then turn away the high spending foreign tourist. No one is going to holiday in a region that is spiked full of low spending Indians on their first holiday. There was simply no need to stop the restrictions on visas. You go into Terminal 21 or Central there and there are no Indians in there. They are notorious low spenders, especially the ones heading to Thailand. The galling issue is India have offered Thai citizens no free visa, so i am curious as to what bilateral relationship they are talking about ? Thai logic is to look at the numbers of arrivals, and TOTAL spend - as opposed to spend per visitor.

Think i won't be going back to Pattaya anytime soon then.

I think you need to address the issue of her giving land to her brothers. You need to put a stop to that.

India doesn't even give Thai's a reciprocal visa free entry. Yet Thailand is rolling out the red carpet for them.

Allowing so many Indian tourists is damaging to wanting to have 'quality high spending tourists'. Indians make up for very low spend tourism. But their numbers are massive, and for many it's the first ever holiday (as no one else lets them in so easily) and you get ensuing poor behaviour. You will never find them in malls for one ... look around next time.

Bali was a paradise back in the 80's and 90's ... such a beautiful place. It is now a dump, that is solely for cheap tourists who go for a drink up. With Thailand's beautiful islands they could attract quality tourists ... at least keep away cheap mass tourism. But nope, they simply have done the opposite. Income from tourism is down, so the Thai solution is to get even more numbers in. The experience from tourists is awful.

The damage done to Phuket is irreversible. I remember a college lecturer at my university talking about the dangers of over tourism. It all makes sense now. A beautiful place, now nothing but some shoddy beaches, no infrustructure that will suffice for cheap Indian tourists, and Russians escaping war.

He has almost 140,000 in 2 months deposits from me.

I'm being quoted 3000 to have my a/c cleaned. There are 3 of them. It's not really the money aspect, it's the fact i feel i'm being taken advatage of here. 'get your bed sheets cleaned professionally', 'get the property cleaned and show reciept' - i can clean my property myself.

Embarassing.

Even agent now saying we should clean a/c, have the whole room cleaned with reciepts and even get bedding cleaned. Totally taking the mick. Agreement only says 'a/c must be kept in good condition'. No where does it state 'clean a/c before returning'. We've had the a/c cleaned so many times on our own, the last just a few months ago. Been taken advatage of with the deposit being held. This is not a backstreet condo, but high end condo in the heart of Sukhumvit with a major developer behind it.