Muay Thai Stadium Double-pricing, Anyway Around It?

[Smithson]

I used to go to the Muay Thai and take friends when they visited, but I've long given up due to the cost. Even those on holidays consider it expensive compared to other things over here for similar prices.

Is there anyway to get the Thai price or even something close to it? Last time I checked it was B200 - B250 for 3rd class for thais and B1,000 for non-Thais. Ringside is B2,000, although you may talk them down to B1,700.

With most double pricing over here I can get around it by speaking Thai, showing my licence etc., but this doesn't seem to be the case for Muay Thai. The vultures out the front are too stubborn.

Has anyone been able to get Thai pricing at Lumpinee or Ratchadamneon? What about contacting the stadiums directly and showing the tax receipts?

[Gerry290]

In Pattaya it is the same, to my knowledge. I stopped going to see the fights even though I love to train MT & go see people I meet in the camps fight.

I live in Pattaya, and I work and I am not stingy at all, but 1000 B (30 US Dollars approx) for ring side, and is it 800 or 600 to sit on them uncomfortable bleacher circus tent style seats. your better off stumping up to 1000 B to stop a sore arse!

For someone livng here, I find the tourist price a bit unreasonable. especially if it not a top fight card.

I have no problem paying more than the Thai price either. Fair or unfair, its the way it works over there much of the time, so I go with the flow within reason. anyway I make a wee bit more money, so I do not mind giving a bit back. However I do think the 1000B tourist price I get nailed with, is excessive, and I no longer go to the staduim in Pattaya for this reason.

When I lived and train MT up in Nong Ki Burriram, if it was not free which most of the time the Isan fights were, it was 20 bhat and there is no premium for being a farang. In fact I would go further and say my close to 12 months up in Nong Ki Burriram, no one once, as much as tried to over charge me or up a price my 1 baht, because I was a foreigner. not one person ever. I really think most Isan people especially when their not "on duty" making a buck in pattaya, are wonderful warm people, great sense of fun, reminds me of what Ireland used to be like, before big companies like Intel and HP come, employed 1000s of people outside dublin, stuck them in those office cube set ups, and brain washed them all to wear cream coloured chinos, ralph laurent shorts (pink or pale blue with little polo player logo) and work to 8pm each night on their little cubes, even though their only paid to 530pm.! <deleted> the whole of Ireland up that did! It was better fun when us paddies were potatoe farmers! LOL!!!

Gerry