Popular Post ThailandRyan Posted July 6, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 6, 2022 3 hours ago, roo860 said: Are you a Special Forces operative? Say what? I can neither concur or deny any speculative posts. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThailandRyan Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 3 hours ago, Joseph98765 said: I know who is he.... it was a rhetorical question Missed it the way you phrased it. Of course my response was sarcastic 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinyara Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Never hand this guy the mic at a funeral. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabang Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Thailand is simply not appealing anymore. Make it more 'premium' (=expensive) without giving anything in exchange will just scare away rest of the tourists. Personally I felt the relative easiness and affordability plus a great weather during northern hemisphere winter were Thailand's main benefits. It seems only the last point still stands today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andycoops Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Forget the 40 million then and the huge chunk of GDP that makes up the economy. No doubt the number crunchers at TAT will have to find other jobs. It's just hi-so head in the sand thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
portlandtree Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 23 hours ago, chuang said: Goodbye Cheap Charlies... Cheap Charlies lol just wait until they are all gone not much sheit to do here anymore of anything too many restrictions dirty stinky too many dogs. You want your country back you’ll move back to 4th world country then cry for yankee dollars ,yuan ,yen , euro etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micmichd Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 7 hours ago, rabang said: Thailand is simply not appealing anymore. Make it more 'premium' (=expensive) without giving anything in exchange will just scare away rest of the tourists. Personally I felt the relative easiness and affordability plus a great weather during northern hemisphere winter were Thailand's main benefits. It seems only the last point still stands today. So, Thailand at least has one unneglible point today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrPhibes Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 On 7/5/2022 at 12:45 PM, overherebc said: I can't remember if this beach is in Thailand or The Algarve. Or Greece, or Aegean Sea coasts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 1 minute ago, DrPhibes said: Or Greece, or Aegean Sea coasts... Algarve. It has a few pink sand beaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 16 hours ago, ThailandRyan said: Say what? I can neither concur or deny any speculative posts. Nor should you be prepared to admit that they exist, and you should deny any knowledge referring to the fact that they may or may not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KhunLA Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Being called the 'cheap' destination is better than ... ... the 'racist' destination ... ???? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimTripper Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 Backpackers on gap year. Doing Asia. Cheap women. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post poskat Posted July 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2022 this is is just a reflection of thai thinking that if something is more expensive, it must be better. raising the price on something that doesnt have better benefits than a lesser priced product doesnt make it premium, it makes it bad value. I doubt anyone planning a holiday will say, "Honey, I heard that they raised the prices in thailand, so lets go there for our trip" 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berrec Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Da, that why many tourists come to Thailand, it's cheap! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Thailand ceased to be cheap a long time ago. You can make it as expensive as you want--and lose massively in the process to neighbouring countries and kill off many locals--but you can't put lipstick on a pig and call it high class. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Nose Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/5/2022 at 7:34 AM, rbkk said: "Cheap" depends on the exchange rate. Underrated comment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCP108 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/5/2022 at 12:35 AM, LomSak27 said: Anutin does what he has to do. It is the head PooYai who so wants Thailand to be a destination of the rich and famous. A nation resembling Singapore. Isn't Singapore really clean and people follow the rule of law there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bert bloggs Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 Well it isnt cheap any longer,with a strong baht etc so they have achieved their objective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaiyaTH Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 (edited) They lost the reputation of being cheap 4 years ago already, not that that is gonna help them, the opposite in fact. Vietnam is not complaining of the tourist dollars that moved in that direction, neither does Bali complain about the loads of digital nomads who now spend 2K usd average per month there. Edited July 10, 2022 by ChaiyaTH 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daithi85 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 16 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said: They lost the reputation of being cheap 4 years ago already, not that that is gonna help them, the opposite in fact. Vietnam is not complaining of the tourist dollars that moved in that direction, neither does Bali complain about the loads of digital nomads who now spend 2K usd average per month there. 16 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said: They lost the reputation of being cheap 4 years ago already, not that that is gonna help them, the opposite in fact. Vietnam is not complaining of the tourist dollars that moved in that direction, neither does Bali complain about the loads of digital nomads who now spend 2K usd average per month there. I wouldn't be too sure about your comment on Bali not complaining, do a quick Google Search and u will see the headlines from a few months ago, no more backpackers only quality tourists wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 3 hours ago, JCP108 said: Isn't Singapore really clean and people follow the rule of law there? Yes, and more, especially in quality of education. At least 100 years more maybe some progress here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blumpie Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 I know that i'm adding to the rest, but honestly it just won't. IT's impossible. The infrastructure, sewers that smell, the rats, and everything else... it just won't happen. It's fine that they want to go that way. I disagree with it but then things change all the time. Everything does. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blumpie Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Daithi85 said: I wouldn't be too sure about your comment on Bali not complaining, do a quick Google Search and u will see the headlines from a few months ago, no more backpackers only quality tourists wanted. I agree with you - but if you want to go elsewhere in Indonesia then there is so much more to see and go. Even backpackers now, the new ones don't want to live in rat trap places necessarily. All the young people that I hear talk about Bali, certainly not Thailand. Thailand isn't what it used to be and it never will again I feel. Could certainly be wrong, have been wrong in the past once or twice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jotho Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 What a bunch of delusional people that want to decide for alot of good thai´s that never get listened to what they want... Thailand is nowhere close to being a world class destination with all their open severs, dual pricing, corrupt taxi system and in way too many places dirty streets... I wish Thailand actually could be a world class destination that offered security and where tourists could feel totally safe, but there are way too many things that need taken care of before they even get close to that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daithi85 Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 6 hours ago, Blumpie said: I agree with you - but if you want to go elsewhere in Indonesia then there is so much more to see and go. Even backpackers now, the new ones don't want to live in rat trap places necessarily. All the young people that I hear talk about Bali, certainly not Thailand. Thailand isn't what it used to be and it never will again I feel. Could certainly be wrong, have been wrong in the past once or twice! When I first arrived in Thailand everywhere I went the place was full of backpackers, bus stations ,train stations backpackers everywhere. Like u say it has changed unfortunately.I for one miss the old Thailand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 ... Awh, the 90's KaoSan Road were such a welcome back then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greeneking Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 15 hours ago, Blumpie said: I know that i'm adding to the rest, but honestly it just won't. IT's impossible. The infrastructure, sewers that smell, the rats, and everything else... it just won't happen. It's fine that they want to go that way. I disagree with it but then things change all the time. Everything does. Thailand is a country happy with private wealth and public squalor. It can not be high class. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatsNext Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 After living in Thailand for a few years i can sum up the pro's and cons easily : - rubbish, dogs, unsafe everything, traffic deaths, double pricing, corruption, silly visa rules, hot, rice with stuff is not a world class kitchen + Good affordable houses, cheap gasoline (i come from Europe), nice people, no income tax in my situation. For Mr. Anutin : Higher prices for mediocre stuff has never ever worked, if you want tourists Thailand has only 2 cards : Lower prices and girls. Without those no one would come. If one of the plus item's is no longer true, i'll be out of here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyk Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 (edited) Confused, why would anyone want to go to a polluted cesspool if not cheap! Come live where air pollution alone kills millions and shortens life expectancy by years and pay a premium for that... Difference strokes I guess. Edited July 11, 2022 by garyk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyk Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 (edited) I think I will buy some land over a garbage dump in the US and build a premium resort. It will have three different themes. 1: Issan theme, every morning and evening I will set fires and blow the smoke over the Issan room. 2: Island theme, I will dump all the sewage into the lake around the rooms. 3: BKK and city theme, I will set up diesel engine belching black smoke and carbon monoxide and blanket the rooms. And of course have one 10 story balcony for the people that want to escape and jump... And charge a hefty price for the Thai experence. Edited July 11, 2022 by garyk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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