Popular Post webfact Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Hua Hin smiling again after the crisis: Tourism is back - 70% midweek, 90% long weekends, TAT Picture: Ejan Hua Hin is showing early signs of recovery, post COVID lockdown, Thai news site Ejan has reported. The report pointed to a marvelous present and a seemingly even better future for the resort. According to Ejan - and the local TAT rep she quoted - Hua Hin is smiling again after the storm clouds broke and the sun and the blue sky shone through. It's gone from "zero" to hero and the traders are happy to welcome everyone back. The Ejan reporter said she had gone there yesterday, September 1st a normal midweek day, and it wasn't full but nearly all the shops, hotels and restaurants were fully open. Picture: Ejan She was greeted everywhere by happy locals. She based some of this positive vibe on her chat with "Phee Gift" of the TAT who said: "We're smiling again. It's a completely different picture to during the height of the pandemic. "There were no tourists at all then now we are getting back to 100%". She said that on midweek days tourism had recovered to 60-70% of previous levels. On weekends it was better, "It's 90% on long weekends," Gift enthused, citing the resort's proximity to Bangkok, ease of travel from the capital and abundance of local attractions as reasons for the recovery. Ejan said that there were no foreigners to swell the ranks at the moment but said that the locals were all pulling together to promote the province and could smile again. Source: Ejan -- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2020-09-02 - Whatever you're going through, the Samaritans are here for you - Follow Thaivisa on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates 2 1 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sharp Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Errrh! I was there the other day and my experience bears no resemblance to this report.! 44 15 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post tokyoblond Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 absolute, utter twaddle 32 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BritManToo Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 And in another Hua Hin story they've closed 2 schools because of migrants with suspected COVID. 11 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Poet Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, webfact said: On weekends it was better, "It's 90% on long weekends," Gift enthused This finally proves, conclusively, that the Thai tourism industry does not need foreigners and that, going forward, domestic tourism will be more than sufficient to generate the foreign currency reserves required for Thailand to thrive. Edited September 2, 2020 by Poet 5 67 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldie Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 So forget foreign tourists then. Much too complicated and dangerous. The others like Phuket and Samui should learn from Hua Hin. Perhaps they built the wrong infrastructure. Look at Pattaya. Thais are no sex tourists. So they suffer now with all their sex business. 2 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 I live in Hua Hin and it is very busy. especially on weekends. of course the businesses geared toward white foreign tourists are still slow but that is not what this story is about. 9 1 3 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, NCC1701A said: I live in Hua Hin and it is very busy. especially on weekends. of course the businesses geared toward white foreign tourists are still slow but that is not what this story is about. I passed through on a Tuesday evening, couple of weeks ago. Bar area was desolate, but more normal areas seemed not so bad. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Eindhoven Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Poet said: This finally proves, conclusively, that the Thai tourism industry does not need foreigners and that, going forward, domestic tourism will be more than sufficient to generate the foreign currency reserves required for Thailand to thrive. Is this a joke on your part? How does domestic tourism create Foreign Exchange Reserves? 7 3 1 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Saltire Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 I just got back from 4 nights break in Hua Hin on Monday. I never seen the place so deserted. Yes many restaurants and bars open but the wife and I were almost always the only customers eating and drinking. The beach was particularly deserted, the only people we seen in the sea were locals collecting shellfish. There were 4 rooms occupied in our 25 room hotel. We stayed Wed Thus Fri and Sat and the weekends were no different. Saw a group of 10 same-tshirt wearing staycationers who had obviously taken advantage of the Hilton and other 5 star resorts in the government initiative. The Market VIllage mall and the night market was also deathly quiet. The only busy place was behind Blueport Mall where there was a festival of sorts aimed at locals. Tamarind Market was about 20% full. The Father Ted Irish bar had a (very bad) Rolling Stones Tribute Band on the Friday night, and it was packed with farang expats, but everywhere else was deserted. The bar area in Soi Bintabaht was the quietest i've seen it, and there is whole row of 5 or 6 closed-down restaurants. The locals/owners we spoke to are thinking late next year for any real recovery, if they can survive till then. Very sad as it is my favourite place to have a short break. 20 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4MyEgo Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 @NCC1701A Heading there for the long weekend, and will soon find out. That said, going to find me a beach a little out, hopefully with some shelter, food service and some grog and just take it all in. Any recommendations ? I have one, but the more the merrier as want to entertain the kids too, but not paying for those water works places, beach and sand castles is what is the preferred, good looking females in G-strings would be a bonna, sorry, meant to saY a bonus. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eindhoven Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, Oldie said: So forget foreign tourists then. Much too complicated and dangerous. The others like Phuket and Samui should learn from Hua Hin. Perhaps they built the wrong infrastructure. Look at Pattaya. Thais are no sex tourists. So they suffer now with all their sex business. Don't forget that they have royal palaces in Hua Hin and it's close to Bangkok. So don't expect replication in other places. 1 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Poet Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) 14 minutes ago, Eindhoven said: Is this a joke on your part? How does domestic tourism create Foreign Exchange Reserves? Whoosh! Yes. It was a joke. Edited September 2, 2020 by Poet Reason for edit: Explain it to me like I'm a 5 year old 2 1 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post connda Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Wowie-Zowie!!! Wall-To-Wall people packing the beach. "Where to sit. Where to sit!" Children jostling ln line to board a banana-boat. Hotels and malls full! Vendors heading home with pockets full of cash.Happy Dayz Are Here Again!!! A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 (edited) 49 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said: Any recommendations ? the very large Baan Khun Por Food Market will be packed starting around 7pm. Live Thai band. cheap good food. try the BBQ ribs and mashed potatoes(opposite the stage), whole BBQ fish(at the entrances) and the little Indian food stall(in the corner next to the stage) are good. many other thai food stalls: https://goo.gl/maps/tr1bGrGrp4WzAk1g6 Tamarind Market in the evening only open thurs-sunday: https://goo.gl/maps/bedzYnmohEJX2KTr5 for the beach If you have kids go here so at least you will be around other people and easy to get to. https://goo.gl/maps/ZaqxBsSFVZrc34BT8 or here beach near my house where cool people live: https://goo.gl/maps/gkkCuGbAoAaX83aD8 restaurant with nice view: https://goo.gl/maps/TtYcSrLzkTiZrspP6 Bluport Mall for getting out of the heat for lunch. Swenson's Dairy Queen for kids. same Market Village. Market Village is better for kid's than Bluport. White Lotus on top of the Hilton for a nice sunset drink. forget finding any eye candy. Edited September 2, 2020 by NCC1701A 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Saltire Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Taken around 10 AM at the Hilton entrance to the beach on 27th Aug 2020 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post connda Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 25 minutes ago, Saltire said: I just got back from 4 nights break in Hua Hin on Monday. I never seen the place so deserted. Yes many restaurants and bars open but the wife and I were almost always the only customers eating and drinking. The beach was particularly deserted, the only people we seen in the sea were locals collecting shellfish. There were 4 rooms occupied in our 25 room hotel. We stayed Wed Thus Fri and Sat and the weekends were no different. Saw a group of 10 same-tshirt wearing staycationers who had obviously taken advantage of the Hilton and other 5 star resorts in the government initiative. The Market VIllage mall and the night market was also deathly quiet. The only busy place was behind Blueport Mall where there was a festival of sorts aimed at locals. Tamarind Market was about 20% full. The Father Ted Irish bar had a (very bad) Rolling Stones Tribute Band on the Friday night, and it was packed with farang expats, but everywhere else was deserted. The bar area in Soi Bintabaht was the quietest i've seen it, and there is whole row of 5 or 6 closed-down restaurants. The locals/owners we spoke to are thinking late next year for any real recovery, if they can survive till then. Very sad as it is my favourite place to have a short break. Nowadays the purveyors of 'fake news' are the established mass-media outlets. However, in reality it's not 'fake news' as it does have a more accurate name: Propaganda. And a primary axiom in propaganda is simple: “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” The masses must be made to believe that happy days are here again - especially those who are unemployed. Make to masses believe that all is well and there is less likelihood of civil and social unrest. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post connda Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 3 minutes ago, Saltire said: Taken around 10 AM at the Hilton entrance to the beach on 27th Aug 2020 "Look at all those footprints!!! There must be thousands of people there!!!" Where'd they all go? "Errr, lunch? But they'll be back. My television and newspaper told me so!!!" 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peabody Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 37 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said: @NCC1701A Heading there for the long weekend, and will soon find out. That said, going to find me a beach a little out, hopefully with some shelter, food service and some grog and just take it all in. Any recommendations ? I have one, but the more the merrier as want to entertain the kids too, but not paying for those water works places, beach and sand castles is what is the preferred, good looking females in G-strings would be a bonna, sorry, meant to saY a bonus. Try the military beach down the road a bit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DirtyHarry55 Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 52 minutes ago, sungod said: I passed through on a Tuesday evening, couple of weeks ago. Bar area was desolate, but more normal areas seemed not so bad. Guess most Thai's don't go for the Bars then? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Saltire Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, connda said: "Look at all those footprints!!! There must be thousands of people there!!!" Where'd they all go? "Errr, lunch? But they'll be back. My television and newspaper told me so!!!" 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post connda Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 2 hours ago, BritManToo said: And in another Hua Hin story they've closed 2 schools because of migrants with suspected COVID. Thank God it wasn't a dirty Egyptian or other nasty foreigner from outside ASEAN otherwise they'd have to close the town and province down. Just relatively 'clean' local migrants. Dodged a bullet there! "Whew!" 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DirtyHarry55 Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 23 minutes ago, connda said: Wowie-Zowie!!! Wall-To-Wall people packing the beach. "Where to sit. Where to sit!" Children jostling ln line to board a banana-boat. Hotels and malls full! Vendors heading home with pockets full of cash.Happy Dayz Are Here Again!!! A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Charles Spurgeon Thai's don't typically lie on the beach sapping up the Sun as Westerners do in fact they avoid it. At Midday go check the Air Conditioned shopping Malls that's where they'll be. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sungod Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 Just now, DirtyHarry55 said: Thai's don't typically lie on the beach sapping up the Sun as Westerners do in fact they avoid it. At Midday go check the Air Conditioned shopping Malls that's where they'll be. yep, they sneak out at 5pm when the sun goes down. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said: Any recommendations ? after one day you will quickly realize that there is nothing left to do so: cha am https://goo.gl/maps/kUhAYpRecehnJcYFA pranburi https://g.page/oxseafood?share Roi Yot beach: https://goo.gl/maps/GcwfiTvbVAkgVKuJ7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post connda Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 19 minutes ago, DirtyHarry55 said: Thai's don't typically lie on the beach sapping up the Sun as Westerners do in fact they avoid it. At Midday go check the Air Conditioned shopping Malls that's where they'll be. The wife and I vacation at Cha-am. I know what a beach full of Thais looks like. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike787 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 great,.so how did the tourists get in??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post potless Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said: want to entertain the kids too, but not paying for those water works places, beach and sand castles is what is the preferred A friend went to Hua Hin last week and told me there were large amounts of jellyfish in the sea. I dont know if they were a dangerous variety. Just to make you aware. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post NCC1701A Posted September 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 2, 2020 5 minutes ago, potless said: A friend went to Hua Hin last week and told me there were large amounts of jellyfish in the sea. I dont know if they were a dangerous variety. Just to make you aware. yes this is a problem in Hua Hin. the jellyfish are very large, between 8 to 14 inches. you will see them everywhere dead on the sand during certain times of the year. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matzzon Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Okay, if the tourism have recovered 90% at weekends. Hell yeah, then it=s only to wait until the 40 million tourists are back. Then it will have recovered 350 000%. But, but,.....that's not possible......., right?????? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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