Pattaya fills-up as Bangkok residents escape the floods

[Gabor 296]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xmnxGJIL-1U

 

 

Somehow the youtube thing not worlks.....

 

Edited October 27, 2011 by MM

[Hami123456 7]

That sux

[jaxxon55 252]

That sux

 

I'll bet they are cretins and LDOPS that will spend money. Oh my God! The girls might make a profit and get to spend some time with Thai guys their own age (or their boyfriends).

Jack

[voracious 31]

Actually expect a lot of Thai families wandering around, shopping central festival and hanging out on the chairs at the beach

There's room for everyone, no worries!

Edited October 28, 2011 by voracious

[darkmancomes 75]

AT the last count I heard there was 35000 beds in Pattaya that was a couple of years ago!

[Hami123456 7]

maybe also the quality of beach road girls will get better, who can afford going to pattaya.

[farangkwaiyai 46]

People are saying hotels are full, best to book early, plenty of hotels on agoda http://www.agoda.com/asia/thailand/pattaya.html

[JONPAT 222]

I'll bet they are cretins and LDOPS that will spend money. Oh my God! The girls might make a profit and get to spend some time with Thai guys their own age (or their boyfriends).

Jack

No doubt many cretins and LDOPS are among them, however most are Thai's with families. Quite a few have the 2nd home/weekend get away here in Pattaya already.

[jacko 8,813]

Actually expect a lot of Thai families wandering around, shopping central festival and hanging out on the chairs at the beach

There's room for everyone, no worries!

You wouldn't say that had you seen the traffic. You do realise Bangkok is a little bit bigger than Pattaya don't you.

[jacko 8,813]

No doubt many cretins and LDOPS are among them, however most are Thai's with families. Quite a few have the 2nd home/weekend get away here in Pattaya already.

Quite right, parking at the condo will be tough this weekend.

[Gabor 296]

I'll bet they are cretins and LDOPS that will spend money. Oh my God! The girls might make a profit and get to spend some time with Thai guys their own age (or their boyfriends).

Jack

 

What else to await from a well known secretologists suffering from the Stoclholm syndrome ?

 

However.....

 

 

Pattaya hotels nearly full

• Published: 27/10/2011 at 04:38 PM
• Online news:

People rushing out of Bangkok taking refuge from the flood are finding it difficult to find a room for rent in the resort town of Pattaya, as nearly all of the rooms available are occupied.

 

About 80 per cent of hotel rooms in Pattaya are already occupied by tourists from Russia and Europe, leaving oinly a few for those who fleeing the flood in Bangkok.

 

Patcharin Sawetrat, assistant director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand's Pattaya office, said most hotels were reporting 85 per cent occupancy or more.

 

For the 1,000 or so rooms still unoccupied, the hotels agreed to TAT's request that they reduce the room rate by 50-70 per cent to enable the people from Bangkok to stay from two weeks to one month.

 

Mrs Patcharin said there were still rooms available at condominiums, houses for rent, serviced apartments and guesthouses. However, most of them prefer to lease their rooms with monthly or yearly contracts.

 

Most of the flood refugees wanted to stay for only two weeks to one month, she said.

 

 

 

 

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/263479/pattaya-hotel-rooms-nearly-full

 

 

 

[Idefix 2,275]

Hi,

I don't know if they come from Bangkok or if they are part of the many ladies expected for November,

but there is many new ladies in agogos arrived these last 2 nights !

 

Stayed in Baccara last night about 1 hour. I saw 2, then 2, then 3 ladies coming see the mamassan clearly to find a job there.

Upstairs there were 5 new ladies already (1st or 2nd work day here).

 

When I left, at about 10:30pm, there were still 38 ladies upstairs.

(I didn't count the dancers - too difficult - but easier to count their numbers on the board )

There use to be 2 times to 2.5 times more dancers ground floor, and you had about 20 hostess present too;

A total of about 150 ladies ! . A really big agogo/business.

Edited October 29, 2011 by Idefix

[voracious 31]

@Jacko: Had (and have I suppose) the option to go back to Pattaya vs. hanging out here in Bangkok, but I wouldn't want to deal with the traffic!

 

Hang in there guys, you have it better than Thon Buri. What's to worry. A bad day in the Pat's is better than most days most other places :)

[voracious 31]

Hi,

I don't know if they come from Bangkok or if they are part of the many ladies expected for November,

but there is many new ladies in agogos arrived these last 2 nights !

 

Stayed in Baccara last night about 1 hour. I saw 2, then 2, then 3 ladies coming see the mamassan clearly to find a job there.

Upstairs there were 5 new ladies already (1st or 2nd work day here).

 

When I left, at about 10:30pm, there were still 38 ladies upstairs.

(I didn't count the dancers - too difficult - but easier to count their numbers on the board )

There use to be 2 times to 2.5 times more dancers ground floor, and you had about 20 hostess present too;

A total of about 150 ladies ! . A really big agogo/business.

 

Just a thought. What an upside!

Girls bailing out of Bangkok and no work, need to make ends meet...doing a little "part-time work"

Look for the silver lining, you lucky bastards!

[satyr 15]

Just a thought. What an upside!

Girls bailing out of Bangkok and no work, need to make ends meet...doing a little "part-time work"

Look for the silver lining, you lucky bastards!

 

 

Have you noticed a decrease of girls in the go-go's and Soapy's due to the floods? Does it appear they are leaving Bangkok? Thanks.

Edited October 29, 2011 by satyr

[joekicker 53]

Have you noticed a decrease of girls in the go-go's and Soapy's due to the floods? Does it appear they are leaving Bangkok? Thanks.

 

What floods? There are no floods in Pattaya.

 

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[satyr 15]

What floods? There are no floods in Pattaya.

 

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I think Voracious is reporting from Bangkok; so I am asking him if BG's/go-go girls are leaving Bangkok to go elsewhere. Thanks.

[joekicker 53]

I think Voracious is reporting from Bangkok; so I am asking him if BG's/go-go girls are leaving Bangkok to go elsewhere. Thanks.

 

Good question. The main tourist areas aren't affected by the floods. They might be affected by lack of business BECAUSE of the floods. I don't think so, but that's my impression, which is definitely non-scientific.

 

Of course there are huge numbers of businesses that ARE affected, to the point that a good percentage are actually closed. I doubt if Bangkok-employed girls would head for Pattaya, but if they're unemployed for a month or so, who knows? Almost all of them would be catering to non-tourist, though -- or non-farang at least, a second reason you're unlikely to see them in Pattaya. In the "anything is possible" category, that's my guess.

 

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[rightsaid 44]

You wouldn't say that had you seen the traffic. You do realise Bangkok is a little bit bigger than Pattaya don't you.

 

 

You do realise they are going to other areas besides Pattaya don't you?

[jacko 8,813]

You do realise they are going to other areas besides Pattaya don't you?

Look mate, I just tried to get through the Pattaya traffic on a Sunday afternoon.

Not normally a big deal.

I also rode into town Friday.

 

Bangkok style traffic jams have come to Pattaya.

 

Nearly as bad as trying to get a Qantas flight.

[Gabor 296]

Look mate, I just tried to get through the Pattaya traffic on a Sunday afternoon.

Not normally a big deal.

I also rode into town Friday.

 

Bangkok style traffic jams have come to Pattaya.

 

Nearly as bad as trying to get a Qantas flight.

 

Today from the Dolphin turnaround to the Central festival it took 40 minutes on the songthaew.... The guilty was the parking system of the Central festival.... After that point the rtaffic became OK....

[jacko 8,813]

Today from the Dolphin turnaround to the Central festival it took 40 minutes on the songthaew.... The guilty was the parking system of the Central festival.... After that point the rtaffic became OK....

The road was being seriously dug up recently, on 2nd behind the Central Festival Beach Rd place, but was also tailed back from the Klang junction. I diverted towards Bua Khao and got stuck in a long wait at the 3rd/Klang Junction. Extra traffic from Bangkok, and I think tourists numbers is picking up (requiring those bloody great coaches the size of battleships that actually try to do U-Turns and go up little side sois), these days I just avoid taking the truck west of Suk. Can't wait for the new Tuk Com to open. Edited October 30, 2011 by jacko

[satyr 15]

Now that the special holiday period is over, any indication that people have returned to Bangkok or is Pattaya still full to the rafters?

 

Is traffic on Beach/2nd Roads worse in the day time or evening?

Edited November 4, 2011 by satyr

[joekicker 53]

Now that the special holiday period is over, any indication that people have returned to Bangkok or is Pattaya still full to the rafters?

 

The only change for Bangkok is that it is slowly getting worse. The west city of the city is simply abandoned for all intents and purposes. The north side, the water is slowly seeping in. There's another week of it for sure.

 

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[jacko 8,813]

Now that the special holiday period is over, any indication that people have returned to Bangkok or is Pattaya still full to the rafters?

 

Is traffic on Beach/2nd Roads worse in the day time or evening?

It is still busy. The roads into town weren't packed like they were for last weeks extended Bangkok holiday, but police are still having to man many junctions.