Pattaya: The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming...back

[rooster59]

Pattaya: The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming...back

 

Image: Sophon TV

 

The head of the Thai Hoteliers Association of the eastern seaboard has painted a rosy picture for tourist numbers in Pattaya in the near future with a resurgence in the number of Russian tourists making up to a 10% improvement on last year.

 

Sanpetch Suphabowonsathian said that the number of Russians now visiting Pattaya was virtually back to the levels seen in 2013.

 

Many Russians had stayed away after rouble trouble and other economic problems back home. 

 

The return of the Russians means that total tourists at the resort for this end of Thai school term period is likely to be 5 to 10% up on last year.

 

The first quarter of the year showed numbers similar to last year but school's out means visitors up with 80% occupancy expected.

 

 

Source: Sophon TV

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-03-10

[Chang_paarp]

That will make some people happy.

 

Not sure who though.

[Samui Bodoh]

27 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

...The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming...back...

All I can say is;

 

RUN LIKE HELL!

[marginline]

33 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The Russians are Coming...back

FWIW...they never left.

[gk10002000]

The Russians are Coming was an entertaining movie from the  60s

[sirmud63]

[Get Real]

More crime to Pattaya. Great!

[Prairieboy]

Perhaps they heard about the available sex lessons. 

[kaiyaibob]

Best stock up on Vodka and get more staff in the 7-11

Yippee

[Jack Mountain]

Good, the average farlang lady beauty will go up!

[Lupatria]

Looks like more and more of them miss living under a communist regime.

[Destiny1990]

The Russians somehow  no longer annoy me so welcome back. 

[RichardColeman]

26 minutes ago, Jack Mountain said:

Good, the average farlang lady beauty will go up!

Yes they are quite nice when under 30, but after that they turn into a 400 lb granny that tries to fit into a pair of shorts made for someone 30 years younger and 300 lbs lighter !

[lanista]

A spike in shoplifting offences would be a good indication if Russian tourist numbers have increased.

Doubt if it will have any impact on farang beer bars .

Up here in Bangkok  Kao San rd and surrounds is packed with farang tourists young and old.. Never seen it so busy.  Maybe it has something to do with cheap food  ie  40 -50 baht for Phad Thai or noodles etc. Clothes are still a rip off though.  Thais buy all that junk at BoBe night auctions and also road freight in from Burma.

I can buy better quality t-shirts ,shorts and footwear at flea markets  back home in OZ for less money!!

 

Apparently Surit Thani province is full of Chinese tourists but few farangs about. Maybe farangs are sick of being shafted all the time down south.

[ross163103]

More of those quality tourists-like the Chinese, that Thailand is looking to attract.

[JSixpack]

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Yes they are quite nice when under 30, but after that they turn into a 400 lb granny that tries to fit into a pair of shorts made for someone 30 years younger and 300 lbs lighter !

 

And so many are in fact under 30. Older Russians may well have lovely daughters, too. Looks like a nice young thang gettin' off the bus in the pic above.

 

I'm enjoying the enhanced scenery.

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Destiny1990 said:

The Russians somehow  no longer annoy me so welcome back. 

Yes, I find a few other of our visiting select groups do that for me!

[JSixpack]

Just now, jacko45k said:

Yes, I find a few other of our visiting select groups do that for me!

 

I know. Brits.

 

[jacko45k]

Just now, JSixpack said:

 

I know. Brits.

 

You do, how do they put up with you?

[JSixpack]

6 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

You do, how do they put up with you?

 

By my avoidance, of course. You? But there seem to be fewer of them about. Exchange rates, I guess. Or maybe those Brit babes have hotted up since the 90s. 

Edited March 10, 2018 by JSixpack

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, JSixpack said:

 

Avoidance, of course. You? But there seem to be fewer of them about. Exchange rates, I guess. Or maybe those Brit babes have hotted up since the 90s. 

Similar.

Not really on the Brit babes issue, bulked up maybe.

[shackleton]

4 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

That will make some people happy.

 

Not sure who though.

The Thai Tourist  board  Condo owners,  hotels , restaurants 

could go on 

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, shackleton said:

The Thai Tourist  board  Condo owners,  hotels , restaurants 

could go on 

7-11s!

[JSixpack]

49 minutes ago, ross163103 said:

More of those quality tourists-like the Chinese, that Thailand is looking to attract.

 

Yeah what happened to the real quality that graced Pattaya before the Chinese & Russians?

 

 

[Sadanava]

Actually the amount of russians is greater than that of Chinese on Samui now.

[Bangkokazy]

Here we came last year

[Rimmer]

A derogatory slur has been removed

[robert888d]

There are loads of Russians in the Jomtien area where I live.They tend to be  families with children, which is a change  from  the hundreds of old , unattractive men chasing after poor young women and sometimes men.But they rarely speak English and aren't very friendly and also tend to be mean!Thais will eventually realise the loads of Russians will  not bring a great deal of happiness for Thailand but they  will be vastly outnumbered by the Chinese in a few years!

[Curmudgeon1]

5 hours ago, Chang_paarp said:

That will make some people happy.

 

Not sure who though.

All the small businesses whom the Chinese zero dollar tours avoided.

[Curmudgeon1]

2 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Yes they are quite nice when under 30, but after that they turn into a 400 lb granny that tries to fit into a pair of shorts made for someone 30 years younger and 300 lbs lighter !

 .. my experience is guys who critique body image don't have mirrors.