kinyara

How would you know what anyone coming here is paid, Indian or otherwise, are you at the airport checking their payslips at immigration. There is a clear rascist stereotype towards Indian tourists evident on this forum that fails to even acknowledge the existence of their higher spending tourists. If you look at the figures from TAT Western tourists spend more in total by virtue of the length of their holiday not particularly their daily spend, however obviously they are significantly in the minority numbers wise in the overall scheme of things. ( Not seen many wine drinkers amongst the Westerner fraternity, Chang, Leo and Singha is de-rigeur price wise just as much as it is for Non-Westerners ).

Try telling Westerners that, they seem to think Thailand's tourist industry is entirely dependent on themselves. Outdated colonialism.

This thread has run its course, Covid sorted out the wheat from the chaff and the well run favourites of old made it through to welcome their repeat loyal tourist custom back this high season. It's all about imminent openings in the lead up to the end of the year offering fresh alternatives to those that have been away for the last 2 years. Bullet Bar with possibly the biggest sign I've seen in Jomtien is an imminent opening before the turn to the beach I noticed today. The old Bruno's restaurant, ( short-lived Chinese ), is another being prepared for a new offering. The phoenix rises from the ashes, to much teeth gnashing from the eternal bitter and twisted.

What on earth are you babbling on about.

Not sure as I've only been as near as the Beer Garden in daytime and Le Pub at night since things reopened. The issue I see is when there they have always packed up and left before the late night trouble starts.

That's why I think Pattaya will have a good high season Western tourism wise, think of all the traditional longer stay snowbirds who come from Nov-April to avoid the European winter who have been away for 2 high seasons. With the rise in their heating costs it makes even more sense to spend the winter here, the increased cost of the flight will be more than recouped with the other cost savings made.

There really should be a visible police presence patrolling the main nightlife areas, Walking Street, Beach Road & Buakow/LK Metro/Treetown from midnight to 5am, the timeframe when these incidents invariably occur. The tourist police predictably leave before the peak window of likely drink/drug induced trouble starts. Stationed halfway along Walking Street would allow them to be close enough either end to deal quickly with any incidents. It doesn't require a lot of manpower, just effective use of resources. A march along Walking Street by the head honcho and his lackeys with the press in tow after a series of incidents and negative publicity, which is normally what happens, doesn't amount to anything regarding late night safety.

Try e-mailing or phoning AV Camera as they advertise the Sony A7R IV. They are just round the corner from Saphan Taksin BTS station so easy to get to if they confirm they have 1 in stock. http://www.avcamera.com/index.php/sony-ilce-camera Another option if you don't mind going the used route is Camera Plus in Fortune Town mall have the Sony with a shutter count of 3,xxx going for 72,500 baht. Try Fotofile MBK - Telephone 096-814-2000, Nikon Z7 being advertised at 68,800 Canon EOS R5 at 134,000 https://fotofile.co.th/index.php/products/category-camera/lens-mount-canon-rf.html Good luck.

I really hope so. I saw a couple of the local crazies yesterday afternoon that were a lot more aggressive than normal, ( both women ), one was carrying a knife in full view. Makes me wonder if there is some sort of bad batch of pills going around.

I thought it was a random attack or have I missed an update ?

Bringing your unique brand of misery and negativity to the countryside.

Bible John - Glasgow 1966

And therein lies an issue, I'm surprised given where you come from you're abdicating your moral standards for the get out clause that connected age and wealth forgives in this country

For me Jomtien/Pattaya is attractive as a living destination not because of any stand out feature, its strength is in the sum of the parts. Unless you've lived here for some time it would be hard for you to appreciate the total package, as evidenced by the detractors who always focus purely on the sex reputation whilst admitting they've never actually spent any time in the city. " No one likes us, we don't care ".

If their leader " Aero " is wearing his leather waistcoat in this heat I think he'll melt.

Yes but your scenario is not what is being proposed in this case, they are talking about offering only an extra 15 days for tourists. This is short term holiday stay not an avenue to relocate your working or living situation for any meaningful length of time.

I got the impression that global inflation was starting to put the dampners on people's disposable income, seems a bit of a strange time to feel there is a significant demand for longer visas. The average length of stay for Thailand's mass market near neighbours is under 1 week and for the long-haul European markets it is under 3 weeks. I doubt any change will have a material impact, far bigger issues outside of Thailand's control that are likely to affect tourist numbers in the near future.

I've gone through this route, just checking your model of phone it supports OTG so I think the problem may be that your card reader is not OTG compatible. When I had a phone that was Micro USB I bought an OTG hub, from memory around 400 baht, put my non OTG Transcend USB 2.0 card reader into one of the ports and the phone recognised it via the hub. It's easy with my USB C phone now as Transcend have a Type C Card reader that is OTG compatible, no problems. Try one of these cheapies from Lazada https://www.lazada.co.th/products/sdmicrosdtf-card-reader-to-type-c-micro-usb-usb-lightning-otg-adapter-usb30-i1189966704-s6637970031.html?exlaz=d_1:mm_150050845_51350205_2010350205::12:16450510680!!!!!c!!6637970031!135265863&gclid=CjwKCAjwi8iXBhBeEiwAKbUofT75h6vk6ehfJVbYq4zmvKI2ovqVy_gVw39ISw-IZoQO6x2qFr9V0RoCCosQAvD_BwE

It might be newsworthy if the Prime Minister could be bothered to make an appearance.

As far as public construction works is concerned Pattaya is the poster boy for a failed Mafia type city. Billions of baht spent but very little to show for it.

Fortunately picked up on this on another thread a week or two ago as I was unaware of it, new passport application went in this week. Would have lost a few months of next visa extension and as important would have meant renewing in the height of high season in the future when the office is at its busiest and best avoided.

In his words, " You want to go to Pattaya ? maybe you do maybe you don't ", against a backdrop of Bangkok. That's a compliment ?

Vietnam international tourism is recovering a lot slower than Thailand. In 2019 they got 45% of the visitor figures of Thailand, year to date June that figure had dropped to 29%.

Change from previously paying for 60 or 80 baht beers with a 100 note ? I always wake up with a pocketful of 20's and sadly never a 500 or 1,000 ????

Good to see visitors there rather than lines of people queuing for food handouts.