How are the bars, restaurants, agogos, massage shops, gentleman clubs and any business doing during covid?

[spidermike007]

I hear some of those gals go days without a customer. Many are just barely hanging on. Most have gone back home. So many bars have closed. So many shops. 

 

And now I hear they ordered another shutdown in Bangkok? What kind of relief is the ridiculously rich army offering the people? 

[Leaver]

22 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well providing the drink bought for the girl over the internet is actually alcohol and not water shots!

That's only one example of purchasing alcohol over the internet, if it is actually alcohol, as you allude to.  

 

I thought the law was more aimed at buying a bottle of Sangsom, for example, and having it delivered to an address, in a similar way the food delivery apps operate.  

[metisdead]

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[Leaver]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

What kind of relief is the ridiculously rich army offering the people? 

Are they even going to pay for the vaccine to be rolled out nation wide? 

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, Leaver said:

That's only one example of purchasing alcohol over the internet, if it is actually alcohol, as you allude to.  

 

I thought the law was more aimed at buying a bottle of Sangsom, for example, and having it delivered to an address, in a similar way the food delivery apps operate.  

Well I was involved in a sub-discussion about the way many GG bars are now on-line streaming and getting sad souls many miles away to buy a drink for a bikini clad gal scrounging in front of a camera. Quite a few have committed to this idea and I wonder if they have any real on-site customers at all. This opens new avenues like savings on the venue, savings on graft, a wider audience and girls who need to do very little work, and not get mauled. I expect this will remain a feature after Covid.

The on-line sales ban is just a nod to the puritans, and a great inconvenience to those without their own vehicles, who would normally have a few cases and bottles delivered to their door. It is still how 99% of the beer bars and GGBs and even my neighbour get booze, what is the difference if it is a website or simply a phone call?

[HashBrownHarry]

12 hours ago, Leaver said:

Are they even going to pay for the vaccine to be rolled out nation wide? 

Why do you care, are you thai?

 

Are you suggesting they should pay for farangs to be vaccinated? Good luck with that!

[scubascuba3]

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Well I was involved in a sub-discussion about the way many GG bars are now on-line streaming and getting sad souls many miles away to buy a drink for a bikini clad gal scrounging in front of a camera. Quite a few have committed to this idea and I wonder if they have any real on-site customers at all. This opens new avenues like savings on the venue, savings on graft, a wider audience and girls who need to do very little work, and not get mauled. I expect this will remain a feature after Covid.

The on-line sales ban is just a nod to the puritans, and a great inconvenience to those without their own vehicles, who would normally have a few cases and bottles delivered to their door. It is still how 99% of the beer bars and GGBs and even my neighbour get booze, what is the difference if it is a website or simply a phone call?

A further business opportunity would be for say Soi 6 Nighwish bars to do porn videos like Asianstreetmeat and all the other ones using the girls in the bars who punters can go and see after

[redwood1]

 Well it looks like a new Pattaya lockdown is here......This thread will be getting busy as the marginal businesses shut the doors forever...

[scubascuba3]

34 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

 Well it looks like a new Pattaya lockdown is here......This thread will be getting busy as the marginal businesses shut the doors forever...

Yes Buakhao bars, massage shops have been told to close, even Pratumnak Park they've shut the gates. Restaurants takeaway only. Looks like they aren't following straight away

[Leaver]

8 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Well I was involved in a sub-discussion about the way many GG bars are now on-line streaming and getting sad souls many miles away to buy a drink for a bikini clad gal scrounging in front of a camera. Quite a few have committed to this idea and I wonder if they have any real on-site customers at all. This opens new avenues like savings on the venue, savings on graft, a wider audience and girls who need to do very little work, and not get mauled. I expect this will remain a feature after Covid.

The on-line sales ban is just a nod to the puritans, and a great inconvenience to those without their own vehicles, who would normally have a few cases and bottles delivered to their door. It is still how 99% of the beer bars and GGBs and even my neighbour get booze, what is the difference if it is a website or simply a phone call?

The Soi 6 bars could be making some money by staging online "private shows" upstairs for punters willing to pay. 

 

The problem is, if it becomes popular, and stays after covid, the girls could freelance from their rooms, and arrange to meet tourists / customers when they eventually holiday to Thailand. 

 

The bar misses out on a staff member, lady drinks, bar fines and short room hire,  and when the bar closes, so do the Thai police, in tea money.  

 

Here's a foreign couple that were arrested in Krabi for making their own movies.  There was also a case of a foreigner and a Thai bar girl live streaming themselves having sex for paying customers.

 

 

 

[Leaver]

8 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

Why do you care, are you thai?

Geez, a tough question, Harry, but I will try to answer it for you.

 

Until a high percentage of the Thai population is vaccinated, boarders will not open, thus tourists can not return, hence the Thai economy slips further down the hole with even more people becoming impoverished.

 

The vaccine is only 95% effective, that's 5 in every 100 tourists coming to Thailand that MAY have covid. 

 

The Thai government would need to vaccinate a decent amount of the population to protect from this 5%.  Will they pay to do so?  Have they ordered the vaccine?  Are they they making / copying their own?  How long will that take to test?  How long will it take to at least vaccinate 50% of the Thai population.  These are all questions that will determine when boarders open.     

 

[TaaSaparot]

1 minute ago, Leaver said:

The vaccine is only 95% effective, that 5 in every 100 tourists coming to Thailand that MAY have covid.      

 

There is no guarantee that your 100 Tourists are all free from transmitting the virus.

[HashBrownHarry]

8 minutes ago, Leaver said:

Geez, a tough question, Harry, but I will try to answer it for you.

 

Until a high percentage of the Thai population is vaccinated, boarders will not open, thus tourists can not return, hence the Thai economy slips further down the hole with even more people becoming impoverished.

 

The vaccine is only 95% effective, that 5 in every 100 tourists coming to Thailand that MAY have covid. 

 

The Thai government would need to vaccinate a decent amount of the population to protect from this 5%.  Will they pay to do so?  Have they ordered the vaccine?  Are they they making / copying their own?  How long will that take to test?  How long will it take to at least vaccinate 50% of the Thai population.  These are all questions that will determine when boarders open.     

You haven't answered my question, just asked more??????

 

btw tourists can return ( for the meantime )

[Leaver]

20 minutes ago, TaaSaparot said:

 

There is no guarantee that your 100 Tourists are all free from transmitting the virus.

 

That's true, but if all 100 of them were vaccinated, in their home country, prior to travel, and a high percentage of Thai's were vaccinated, the odds are a lot better than 100 vaccinated tourits coming to Thailand and being in close contact with Thai's who have not been vaccinated.  

[Leaver]

15 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

You haven't answered my question, just asked more??????

I answered your question, then asked more questions.

 

16 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

btw tourists can return ( for the meantime )

So, all is well then.  ????

[rott]

6 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

Leaver, sorry but the word is borders 

[HashBrownHarry]

8 hours ago, rott said:

Leaver, sorry but the word is borders 

Do you just use this forum to correct spelling mistakes?

 

Thanks dad.

[Leaver]

15 hours ago, rott said:

Leaver, sorry but the word is borders 

And they should be closed, even provincial borders, in order to protect other provinces from Chonburi.  

[jacko45k]

1 hour ago, Leaver said:

And they should be closed, even provincial borders, in order to protect other provinces from Chonburi.  

From pirates doing the boarding?

[Wongkitlo]

16 hours ago, rott said:

Leaver, sorry but the word is borders 

He is talking about boarding schools reopening.

[Nout]

Some better than others. You need to go out and check for yourself. There are still good times to be had. Good food, good girls, good music and good company.

[Leaver]

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

From pirates doing the boarding?

Posts such as yours make me bored.  ????

[jacko45k]

11 hours ago, Leaver said:

Posts such as yours make me bored.  ????

You mean someone drilled a hole into your head?

[Rimmer]

Please stop with the grammar and spelling police posts, all they do is hijack the topic.

[Leaver]

8 hours ago, jacko45k said:

You mean someone drilled a hole into your head?

No.  They bored the hole.  ????

[scubascuba3]

Today Buakhao is desolate, massage shops are 99% closed, even the straggler sois like Soi Honey most girls have gone. One lady said to me at a big shop girls were arrested for not closing. Pattaya is going into a coma, not sure for how long

[petermik]

7 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Today Buakhao is desolate, massage shops are 99% closed, even the straggler sois like Soi Honey most girls have gone. One lady said to me at a big shop girls were arrested for not closing. Pattaya is going into a coma, not sure for how long

Pattaya is finally dead...no resurrection no resurgence that,s it KAPUT....we are all DOOMED...I,m heading for the nearest high building..........

p.s. there are nooks and crannies all over sin city...seek them out and your desires will be fulfilled....

[kinyara]

A bit surprised to see 3 prominent street side bars open along Buakow this afternoon with plenty of drinkers. I may be wrong but I didn't think any of them were restaurants but I guess they must have the right licences. 

[redwood1]

14 minutes ago, petermik said:

Pattaya is finally dead...no resurrection no resurgence that,s it KAPUT....we are all DOOMED...I,m heading for the nearest high building..........

p.s. there are nooks and crannies all over sin city...seek them out and your desires will be fulfilled....

Well if your headed for the top of View Talay you might have to get in the que that place seems to get pretty busy...

[VBF]

39 minutes ago, kinyara said:

A bit surprised to see 3 prominent street side bars open along Buakow this afternoon with plenty of drinkers. I may be wrong but I didn't think any of them were restaurants but I guess they must have the right licences. 

Or connections ????