Low Season When ?

[tuk tuk]

happy new year to all

can any one tell me when they think low season starts. is it on a set date or does it go on tourist numbers going down. i have been told march or is that to early i have also been told it starts on the thai new year in april what do you think

chears

[davethailand]

Don't know really but for us we're great until end of march, april is a bit slower, then we're steady (slower) for the next few months with july being the worst until october, then it starts to pick up.

Low season was good business also though.

[Phil Conners]

Rah Rah ...

Define low season. If you're looking at airline ticket prices it's fixed dates, anything else -hotels etc - depends partly on supply/demand. High season is mid-December to mid-January. Low season March-September. The rest of the time it's relatively quiet. That's not to say that everything is dead, not everything in Pattaya revolves around tourism

[COBBER]

Generally high season is from Nov.1st - April 1st for things like room rates, golf green fees etc. but you will start to see price reductions as it gets a bit slower in march.

[lampard10]

I'll go with what most of them say.

Out here in the sticks it starts in October, leading up to the Elephant round up in mid-november. December's busy, but January is traditionally our busiest month. Starts to die down mid-feb, then picks up again around Songkran. Althopugh saying that, since we extended we havn't had a really quiet day ...........yet.

[Gary74]

Peak time is few days before Christmas to few days after New Year because Thailand receives the world's loneliest people without families celebrating the holidays there.

Peak season is Mid December to Mid January.

High season is December and January.

High season for the purpose of charging extra by tourism industry is Nov. 1st to end of February. On top of this, Chinese and Thai New Year is extremely busy.

[Ulysses G.]

High season is Loy Katung in November till after Song Kran in April.

[MisterFingers]

Peak time is few days before Christmas to few days after New Year because Thailand receives the world's loneliest people without families celebrating the holidays there.

Also the only time that some people can get enough time off work to make the trip.

Hmm...Being at home in the harsh winter, sitting with your fat ass relatives watching them get drunk and argue.

or

Being in the beautiful, sunny weather of Pattaya, getting treated like a stud if you're not handsome, like a celebrity if you're handsome.

If choosing the latter puts me in your stereotype, then chalk me up baby!!

I'm one of the "lonliest people in the world without families".

[mr.buffalo]

I'm right there with you MisterFingers, never ever lonely in Pattaya, in fact I can't really remember even talking to geezers, except maybe for the motorbike taxis, just chat to the honey's, lonely when I have leave them though.

[karazyal]

happy new year to all

can any one tell me when they think low season starts. is it on a set date or does it go on tourist numbers going down. i have been told march or is that to early i have also been told it starts on the thai new year in april what do you think

chears

Generally, if it is cold in Germany or North America (wintertime) you will be in "high season" in Thailand. Christmas, New Years Day, Chinese New Years being the top of the cycle.

Low season depends on what the hotels can get away with. If they have full bookings at "high season" rates they seem to continue that higher pricing a little more. If the hotels are not full and have to compete a little harder- they drop their prices and add some "low season specials" to their advertising to bring customers in. Songkram seems like a good point in time to say that the "low season" officially begins.

Hotels are a bargain high season or low season. The biggest difference in prices seem to be in the "high end, expensive" hotels, with moderate increases in the cheaper places. Availability in some favorite hotels you prefer to stay at may be a bigger problem than price!