Is Pattaya dying?

[sev7en]

(orgasmaddict @ Apr. 04 2008,22:47) Like the Polish they drink in their houses or on the street never in the bars. You can see them strolling down walking street with mullets, tashes and decked out in the hippest 80s attire drinking pint bottles of singha.. ..1 words sums them up 'manky'


one of the worst things i saw on my trip (beside the dreadlock falang chicks learning the fire throwing) was a fat English bird dancing on a bar in the tiger complex. She was there 3 nights in a row, getting down with the poor bar girls...living on the edge

another thing which i found quite nauseating was in the disco's all the russian's and scando's dressed and acting like black rappers    fucking idiots...but the thai birds love em
these guys stand up on the stage were the birds should be and just flex and look at their muscles..

   

These observations are so correct!! Thank you, OA.

I just love the russkies trying to be black rappers  
They make Vanilla Ice look the real deal..

And when a drunk fat german, in his thongs, decides to poledance with the girls in Naklua, it´s checkout bin time...

[Guest]

(rossco @ Apr. 05 2008,15:42) As the majority of Thais have a lower income compared to Western society the demand for "luxury" goods and high value consumables is lower.

That in itself helps the Thai economy maintain a healthy balance of payments. Their primary domestic spend is food in which they are self sufficient.

The lack of Thai car ownership, compared to the West, sees a lower demand for fossil fuels.

The majority of Thais have a much more basic lifestyle which depends on Thai Domestic productivity and not imports. Many luxury imports attract a high importation tax which discourages all but the richer consumer - a minority in Thailand.

New shopping Malls are aimed at the "Resort" tourist not the bar crawler/sex monger of old.

It is all a transition - the P4P industry will survive - just a different style and probably a different location - 3rd Road and Eastwards with Walking Street maintained as a Tourist attraction ala Amsterdam red light district.

Demand will always exist (as it has been human nature since man found woman) and, while the Thai Government "tolerates" the industry, people will visit primarily for that purpose.

This transition will impact the "Mom and Pop" bars that SB highlights. Cash flow kills off more businesses than anything else - so bars living on a very tight cash flow will close as Low season bites. Last year some bars took staff off "salary" to reduce overheads in the low season.

The Thais do have a strange reaction to reduced business - they put up prices! Saying that wholesale beer has risen slightly - about 5% but bars have not increased their price.

Hello Rossco

Good story and well based facts . Only the amsterdam red light district is being killed slowly at this moment ( a little bit like the thai policy). Maybe in 5 years a very small part survives but it is not clear. The amsterdam city council wants to close this part down. Last year they started and succeed in closing some clubs etc by law suits or outbuying some owners. This disctrict has a bad name anyway (robbery, drugs, overpriced etc) for many years and even tourists see it as kind of freak show.Not many tourists are customers any more. Tourists who come for that are seeking their pleasure elsewhere. I don't know if the same will happen in Pattaya but my impression was that walking street started to look like the red light district in Amsterdam. Much window shopping but no real action.