Thread: Phuket - High-season tourism outlook bleak: PTA

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

What I don't understand is when tourism is low and there are so few punters why do the girls raise their prices or the landlords raise their rents?

They've figured it out...punters down 50%, double rates = par

Sounds ugly over there! I remember prices rising almost every two weeks before I left, even at the wet market. Our weekly groceries here cost about C$50 (about $1,500 at Bt28.5/C$; lousy rate). That's cheap for Vancouver, but I'm a good shopper.
What's Thailand doing? The baht printer on the blink? Worried about inflation? Dependent on imports? Govt better start worrying and take action.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Govt better start worrying and take action.

have to check with the military and PAD first

Govt better start worrying and take action.

slight problem with missing ingredient .

snap

Originally Posted by killerbees

A night out on Patong cost me more than a night out back home, I shit you not. To my relatives on vacation, it wasn't that big a deal to go out and spend a hundred baht on a beer. To me, it was crazy. On a given night out in Patong, I can go through 4,000 baht easily, and this includes a semi-decent room and just food and booze. It ain't cheap.

What a beautiful quote. My wallet has spoken to me in such terms on many bleary mornings.

Originally Posted by richie22

A friend's daughter and husband arrived in Patong a few day's ago on their first trip to Thailand.I met up with them yesterday and their exact words were "what a fkin sh-thole can not wait to get out of here and tell all our friends never to come here.
First night out stung on bangla road for 500 bht a drink,3 times the price of the UK then nearly attacked by their tuk tuk driver(scum of the earth)because he doubled the negotiated price.I have bought them down to Nai harn to jai yen yen.
I hope tourist numbers drop by 100% and give these money grabbing wankers a kick up the arse.

To give a newbie an experience by subjecting them to Phuket, Pattaya or foking Patpong is surely exposing them to the worst of Thailand. Its a friggin shame that so many people kick of there trip in these places as Thailand has so much more to offer the genuine traveller.

Its ok if your a monger but as a family unit coming for the first time these places are absolute shite and give such a negative take on things.

Phuket is ok i suppose if one wants to lay on the foking beach all day and get a tan on his ball bag i suppose.

On second thoughts, NA, its a foking shit hole as well.

I guess you're just talking of different things.. If you want to 'copy' your western life in Thailand it's roughly the same as in the West.

As long as you don't leave home.

^ money-wise I meant, not the experience ;-)