COVID-19 scare: 30% of hotel bookings cancelled in Pattaya, says business leader

 

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The chief of the Pattaya Business and Tourism Association said that concerns over the Egyptian soldier who tested positive for coronavirus in Rayong were directly responsible for 20-30% cancellations of hotels in Pattaya.

 

Ekkasit Ngampichet said that all it took was that Pattaya and Rayong are close to each other. 

 

He called on the government to restore confidence in Pattaya.

 

And issued his own plea to Thai tourists that Pattaya had all the coronavirus restrictions in place and was perfectly safe for visitors.

 

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Takes over an hour to drive from one place to the other.

 

So, did the Covid 19 take a bus to Pattaya, stay a few nights, and do some shopping. 

 

Every town or city within 60 minutes drive of Pattaya could say the same thing. ????

 

Nonsense.

8 minutes ago, thequietman said:

Takes over an hour to drive from one place to the other.

 

So, did the Covid 19 take a bus to Pattaya, stay a few nights, and do some shopping. 

 

Every town or city within 60 minutes drive of Pattaya could say the same thing. ????

 

Nonsense.

I have points for a few free nights at a swanky hotel in jomtein area on the beach, but my lady says no because of covid in Rayong and we live in Rayong province.

Its Becoming nearly comical now.

Yeah a cough travels 30 miles! The covid19 has not infected a single local person for 40 days and the Thai people are terrified of catching it from Rayong if they visit Pattaya! TIT.

i just wish that was reflected by a corresponding decrease in traffic jam

2 hours ago, thequietman said:

Takes over an hour to drive from one place to the other.

 

So, did the Covid 19 take a bus to Pattaya, stay a few nights, and do some shopping. 

 

Every town or city within 60 minutes drive of Pattaya could say the same thing. ????

 

Nonsense.

It is a little know fact that the covid bug has wings and that they can fly really, really (really) fast.

about a right time to cash on a news, rain, yes bookings cancelled, flood, bookings cancelled. How Rayong 1 Covid case could affect Pattaya? go figure

Seems crazy thais worrying about getting a virus that's killed 58 (yeah I don't believe it either) but are happy to travel on the roads to the hotel that has killed 7,000 of them

2 hours ago, thequietman said:

So, did the Covid 19 take a bus to Pattaya,

It might have used the same minibus the Huay Yai driver did!

I expressed my confidence that Pattaya is OK by doing Walking St last night... I feel unwell today but that is my own fault of over-indulgence.

Worse is to come especially if the Government do not extend the visa situation come August / September 1,000s of Foreigners will be heading back home there is an estimated 3 to 400,000 stuck here just think about the loss of income if they all pack there bags and clear off . I’m okay but my wife is stuck in the U.K. if things dont improve I to will be departing for at least a year until everything quietens down and the restrictions are removed I have already got someone in mind to live in my property and I’ll head to The Canary Islands and meet up with my wife. I will see how the next three months go but if I’m honest I cannot see it improving ☹️☹️

Just now, crazykopite said:

I to will be departing for at least a year until everything quietens down and the restrictions are removed

You think that'll be as soon as a year?

IMHO it'll be at least 2 years before flight prices become frequent or affordable.

And I suspect the $100,000 insurance will be permanent.

3 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Pattaya had all the coronavirus restrictions in place and was perfectly safe for visitors

Really ... that's not what I have seen!

2 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Its Becoming nearly comical now.

It has long since become comical. I would put the beginning on the day the Health Minister was handing out masks in Bangkok (can't remember the month) and threatened to boot out any foreigners that wouldn't accept them.

It doesn't really matter what the reality of the situation is because you are dealing with what peoples perceptions are and the two are often in contradiction with one another. It's the way the brain works. Fight or fright! When faced with a situation like this it kicks in with fright and there is nothing you can really do to reverse that. It just takes time to restore confidence.

Who sow the wind (of fear) reap the whirlwind (of cancellations)...

 

26 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

You think that'll be as soon as a year?

IMHO it'll be at least 2 years before flight prices become frequent or affordable.

And I suspect the $100,000 insurance will be permanent.

I left Thailand in February after a decade of living mainly in the Kingdom; I left with the notion that I would return asap but that thought has slowly declined, not because of it being unrealistic but because I don't want to. I would rather be living somewhere that is trying to maintain normality yet which has measures in place to prevent the spread of the virus. If more people lose their jobs and livelihoods in LOS, and things start to become more pricy due to inflation later down the line, things will get really ugly really fast. Not to mention the political unrest simmering under the surface 

Edited July 18, 20205 yr by Mung

4 minutes ago, Mung said:

If more people lose their jobs and livelihoods in LOS, and things start to become more pricy due to inflation later down the line, things will get really ugly really fast. Not to mention the political unrest simmering under the surface 

Things as you describe them would become like in the US...that would indeed be ugly...

I suspect it's a lot higher than 30% and it will get worse

No tourists coming into the kingdom = Job losses at the airports.

No tourists at the airports = Taxi drivers struggling to make a living.

No tourists staying in hotels = hotel workers losing their jobs through lack of bookings

No tourists going to restaurants and bars = job losses in them industries which means no money going to mama and papa.

22 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

Things as you describe them would become like in the US...that would indeed be ugly...

No that is a terrible example. Look at South Korea, look at the vast majority of Europe, Australia and so on. They have flattened the curve down to a very low stable number of cases, this is the middle way (something Buddha always talked about) - You do not totally kill the economy and go ape<deleted> over 1 case in a single region of a country. That is not the way to be doing things in this pandemic. 

Edited July 18, 20205 yr by Mung

   It's not just Pattaya.  My partner and I are in Bangkok for a week or so.  Today we took the MRT and it had so few passengers we could actually sit down.  Can't remember the last time that happened.  The malls we visited had a fair number of people but we noticed at lunch time that a number of the restaurants had few customers.  

29 minutes ago, Brunolem said:

Things as you describe them would become like in the US...that would indeed be ugly...

USA vs Italy 
You can pretty much see the same sort of graph for most Eu countries and places like Australia or Canada as you see with Italy.

Life must go on, borders must be open and jobs must be worked. The real crux of this is how a country deals with infection, and not that it tries to totally block it out in delusion 

 

2 minutes ago, newnative said:

   It's not just Pattaya.  My partner and I are in Bangkok for a week or so.  Today we took the MRT and it had so few passengers we could actually sit down.  Can't remember the last time that happened.  The malls we visited had a fair number of people but we noticed at lunch time that a number of the restaurants had few customers.  

Reality and things will only get worse.

Fair dinkum what a load of <deleted> where do they get these stories from

10 minutes ago, newnative said:

   It's not just Pattaya.  My partner and I are in Bangkok for a week or so.  Today we took the MRT and it had so few passengers we could actually sit down.  Can't remember the last time that happened.  The malls we visited had a fair number of people but we noticed at lunch time that a number of the restaurants had few customers.  

We were in Bangkok at the end of June and were able to sit in the BTS at Siam station, the usually most crowded of all!

19 minutes ago, newnative said:

we noticed at lunch time that a number of the restaurants had few customers.  

Eat with what money, the 3,000 baht for 3 months gift from the government?

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

He called on the government to restore confidence in Pattaya.

After they screwed up again... Thais are fast becoming tired of this regime/military and its cock-ups !

2 hours ago, DoctorG said:

It is a little know fact that the covid bug has wings and that they can fly really, really (really) fast.

As fast as pigs?

Collective hysteria.

Classic case of human overreaction.  Same stupidity in America when sales of Corona Beer tanked, due to Wuhan-19 virus fear.