Beach road is dead, for now anyway

[scubascuba3]

i just took a walk down beach road so around 4pm and it's totally dead, mostly homeless people, very few sun lounge areas are open, most things are closed, but i guess it's similar all over the world.

 

Soi 6 Weds around 4.30pm had bars full of girls, i only saw 3 guys, how long can they sustain that

[kingofthemountain]

Yes i have exactly the same experience

 

i think the ones still here will hang on untill the

supposed start of the ''high season'', as it's their only

hope to survive.

 

Unfortunately imo the situation shouldn't

improve untill the middle of the next year (At least) so we should

see more and more business closure in the next weeks.

 

Very sad and hard time for the bars, restaurants, hotels and so on

but on the other hand we can enjoy a quiet city with no traffic jams

an empty and realtively clean beach, and if you are in the P4P a lot of bargain.

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, kingofthemountain said:

Yes i have exactly the same experience

 

i think the ones still here will hang on untill the

supposed start of the ''high season'', as it's their only

hope to survive.

 

Unfortunately imo the situation shouldn't

improve untill the middle of the next year (At least) so we should

see more and more business closure in the next weeks.

 

Very sad and hard time for the bars, restaurants, hotels and so on

but on the other hand we can enjoy a quiet city with no traffic jams

an empty and realtively clean beach, and if you are in the P4P a lot of bargain.

there will be no "high season" this year, or perhaps ever again. If people here are waiting for that to rescue them, they will wait in vain.  

[bkk6060]

The bars not sure they are hurting.

I would actually say by now most of the girls are on the dating sites.  At least I have met quite a few from Soi 6.  A couple have referred me to friends they work with.   No bf or lady drinks it is good times for customers.

I usually make them a fresh ground coffee at my room they seem to like that.   ????

Edited August 21, 2020 by bkk6060

[Keyser Soze666]

It's over. Rightly or wrongly, gov's all over the world have allowed a virus to destroy businesses, folks income and normal lives for billions, etc. Really don't see a way forward, even a vaccine is going to be fraught with problems. Game over for me.

[scubascuba3]

7 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

 

Unfortunately imo the situation shouldn't

improve untill the middle of the next year (At least) so we should

see more and more business closure in the next weeks.

 

I agree, more and more Thais are giving up and leaving Pattaya

[kingofthemountain]

4 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

there will be no "high season" this year, or perhaps ever again. If people here are waiting for that to rescue them, they will wait in vain.  

Yes it's exactly what i am thinking too, i don't see the tourists 

back in big numbers before at best mi-2021

but some in the business they seem to be in denial 

[scubascuba3]

4 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

 

I usually make them a fresh ground coffee at my room they seem to like that.   ????????

Foreplay? my mate used to do the dishes to get his wife in the mood

[kingofthemountain]

11 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

The bars not sure they are hurting

Of course they are hurting

 

the few still open have very few customers and in most

of the cases the bars owners are still paying ridiculous rent to 

the Thais landlords. Losing money everyday i don't see a lot of them

staying alive in the next months.

 

The girls are on the internet sites, the bars are not paying them monthly 

anymore (they don't have the money for it) and the % on the lady drinks has

been decreased from 50 bhts to 25 bhts, then they have not really the choice

they need to find another source of income if they want survive.

Edited August 21, 2020 by kingofthemountain

[Dart12]

11 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

The bars not sure they are hurting.

I would actually say by now most of the girls are on the dating sites.  At least I have met quite a few from Soi 6.  A couple have referred me to friends they work with.   No bf or lady drinks it is good times for customers.

I usually make them a fresh ground coffee at my room they seem to like that.   ????

What sites are you referring to? @bkk6060

[kingofthemountain]

8 minutes ago, Dart12 said:

What sites are you referring to? @bkk6060

Thaifriendly and Tinder are the most used by the girls

[scubascuba3]

13 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

Thaifriendly and Tinder are the most used by the girls

i login to Thaifriendly and within 5 minutes i usually have 10 emails or "interested", personally i prefer to choose the girls

[BritManToo]

Just now, scubascuba3 said:

i login to Thaifriendly and within 5 minutes i usually have 10 emails or "interested", personally i prefer to choose the girls

Yep, "looking for fun" PMs the same day, don't meet them at the short-time hotel if you don't like surprises.

I insist on coffee shop meeting first, lucky there's one just round the corner from my local STH.

[jvs]

35 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Foreplay? my mate used to do the dishes to get his wife in the mood

Short story.Long ago stag party at a friends place,we all decided to rent a stripper for a few hours,

so one of the guys called the agency and asked for a girl who would do more then strip.

No problem as long as you pay her.

Girl arrived and was asked to change into a maid uniform,no problem.

Then she was told to go into the kitchen and do the dishes,never saw a woman disappear so quickly.

I guess she was a little upset!

[BritManToo]

40 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

I usually make them a fresh ground coffee at my room they seem to like that.   ????

I take them to a themed hotel, they ain't seeing where I live (and it's more fun).

 

[Pilotman]

44 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

It's over. Rightly or wrongly, gov's all over the world have allowed a virus to destroy businesses, folks income and normal lives for billions, etc. Really don't see a way forward, even a vaccine is going to be fraught with problems. Game over for me.

The cure has become worse than the disease. Poverty will end up killing far more people than Covid. 

[Andy from Kent]

46 minutes ago, Keyser Soze666 said:

Game over for me.

 

What?    Are you contemplating suicide?

[Leaver]

49 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

I agree, more and more Thais are giving up and leaving Pattaya

How long before a lot of the foreigners follow, particularly those in business, who stand to lose a lot of money?

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by Leaver

[CorpusChristie]

11 minutes ago, jvs said:

Short story.Long ago stag party at a friends place,we all decided to rent a stripper for a few hours,

so one of the guys called the agency and asked for a girl who would do more then strip.

No problem as long as you pay her.

Girl arrived and was asked to change into a maid uniform,no problem.

Then she was told to go into the kitchen and do the dishes,never saw a woman disappear so quickly.

I guess she was a little upset!

Who ended up washing the dishes ?

[bkk6060]

5 minutes ago, Leaver said:

How long before a lot of the foreigners follow, particularly those in business, who stand to lose a lot of money?

 

Geez, seems like quite a few have.  Every Soi seems to have for sale or for rent signs boarded up businesses.

Lots of carnage out there.

 

Edited August 21, 2020 by bkk6060

[jvs]

3 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

Who ended up washing the dishes ?

Not me for sure!

[banglay]

It's sad to see and hear farang bar owners trying to put a  positive spin on the situation .....they say one thing but there face and demeanour says something else ...they either have very very  deep pockets or are in total denial of the facts in front of them ...

You can almost see the Daily News headlines in 6 months time  " Yet another  local business owner accidentally falls from his 32 floor Condo ".

It's now the "Law of the jungle" and only the fittests will survive ... Sad but true. 

 

[jvs]

13 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

I take them to a themed hotel, they ain't seeing where I live (and it's more fun).

 

Are you sure that are the only reasons for not taking them home?

 

[Leaver]

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Yep, "looking for fun" PMs the same day, don't meet them at the short-time hotel if you don't like surprises.

I insist on coffee shop meeting first, lucky there's one just round the corner from my local STH.

I get them to meet me in a bar.  I buy them a drink.  If there's a good vibe, long time is at my place, after some food and drink, and some live music, but short time is a nearby short time hotel.  

 

The days of lady drinks and bar fines are coming to an end.  

[Leaver]

8 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

Geez, seems like quite a few have.  Every Soi seems to have for sale or for rent signs boarded up businesses.

Lots of carnage out there.

 

It's the businesses that catered for expats, and those that have deep pockets, that will survive.  The rest will wither away over the next 12 to 18 months. 

 

For those with the deep pockets, they will have to weigh up whether there is even a remote possibility of recouping their outlay. 

 

Pattaya / Thailand's tourism woes extends past its closed boarders, and will do for sometime.  They could open the boarders here tomorrow, but nothing would change for months.   

[scubascuba3]

39 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

How about the ladies waiting for customers along the beach road?

Are they still there? More? Less?

It's a long time since I was last in Pattaya. That's why I ask to get an idea about it.

I am not planning to meet any of those creatures.

Only the homeless, 1 with mental issues did offer a short time. Apparently night time desolated too

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

i just took a walk down beach road so around 4pm and it's totally dead, mostly homeless people, very few sun lounge areas are open, most things are closed, but i guess it's similar all over the world.

As you guess, then! What did you expect to find?

[Dart12]

48 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

The cure has become worse than the disease. Poverty will end up killing far more people than Covid. 

yeah, but now they have excuses to track you and install spy software on your phone/ computer, etc.  That's where they are salivating.

[Pilotman]

1 minute ago, Dart12 said:

yeah, but now they have excuses to track you and install spy software on your phone/ computer, etc.  That's where they are salivating.

Can't say I'm too bothered about that, although I don't know how they are going to do that.  They have so many ways to monitor what an individual is doing nowadays,  that a few more won't make much of a difference, unless you have something to hide of course.   

[Chivas]

As regards Soi 6 which Scubascuba mentioned in the OP that was dead pre covid despite the protestations of one or two claiming "all is well"

Its clearly not and like many areas in Pattaya its game over for the forseeable

 

2-3 years before regular tourists can come in without restrictions and that frankly is optimistic

Edited August 21, 2020 by Chivas