On 11/1/2018 at 7:13 AM, TunnelRat69 said:

• Lower prices for Hotels
• Lower prices for Food, drink, and bakeries
• Lower prices transportation, dependable tour busses with connections all over country
• Did I for get to mention Lower prices??
• Plenty of Night Clubs, P4P is not blatant in your face, but it exists and easy to find.
• No hassles Visa's, no TM-30 on arrivals to th airport one year multiple entry Tourist visa's are possible, I got mine in July
• Cheap airline travel between all cities, Thailand has some very good deals as well  thats a 'tie'
• First class beaches - Surfable Beaches in Kan Hoa, Qui Nhon, Danang
• Virgin Diving spots all along its coast
• and and and lower prices for just about everything.
• I am a little jaded, been living between Thailand and Vietnam since 2000.

sounds great, ive been ti vietnam several times, going to Da Nang next week..

if i get bored with living in thailand, im sure na trang or similar, will be my next spot..

is there anything to be wary about--in vietnam{other than the traffic}  ???

We've had this debate recently, in fact we have it every year.  In my humble opinion, there is little to no difference, at least in Pattaya, from the supposed high season to low season.  There are peaks and troughs throughout the year.   The only exception is at Christmas/ New Year (same everywhere tourists go) and arguably around Christian Easter

On 10/30/2018 at 4:57 PM, SheungWan said:

Or. More likely. The eerie calm is in anticipation of when I arrive in town.

Is that dread then?   ????

On 10/31/2018 at 11:57 AM, Mac98 said:

Just wondering. Visa on arrival?

14-day waiver on entry for the big Euro counties (Brits, French, Spanish, German, etc.)

Aussies and Americans not included.

 

On 10/31/2018 at 11:54 AM, soistalker said:

There are adjacent countries with nicer beaches, nicer people, and less violence.

Exactly. Having first visited Thailand in 1984, now in 2018 I have no use for it, except for medical. The welcome is gone. There are adjacent countries that are, now, the way Thailand was back when I first came. 

All the traffic is stuck back up by the "dolphin" round about due to the terminal 21 madness