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Patong hotels, beach chair operators move to change Phuket’s reputation as expensive


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13 minutes ago, madmitch said:

I wonder if this includes gem shops, latex shops and other commission earning stops.

 

Guides and shop owners are also suffering right now.

"hotel packages for B1,990, including a local tour" 

 

I guess (I am afraid) this is meant by including a local tour... 

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23 minutes ago, baansgr said:

They can go.....themselves...sorry 200 per person for a chair plus table...500 baht to go a few hundred yards in a tuk tuk ..hope all these cockroaches starve..deserve every thing they get...thieves and nasty horrible..c...ts

You are right. But on the other hand there must be tourists paying such prices. Otherwise they could not ask for so much. 

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15 minutes ago, Oldie said:

You are right. But on the other hand there must be tourists paying such prices. Otherwise they could not ask for so much. 

 

If they all decide to charge the same exorbitant price, the hapless tourist has no choice.

Articles suggest that Mr Keesin is influential in such matters.

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

PHUKET: Hotels in Patong and local beach chair operators have banded together to create deals to offer free inclusive tours and heavily discounted rates to tourists in the hope of creating a new image of Phuket as an inexpensive holiday destination.

If it was priced fairly there would be no need for any discounts, and people would naturally come.

It's the prices that keep domestic tourism away... foreigners had no choice before.

Change with the times or bye bye.

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Obviously, with no falang two-week millionaires arriving in the foreseeable future, Phuket is grasping at straws and trying to attract a few Thai tourists. Apparently, the few entertainment workers remaining there have already taken the initiative and (temporarily) reduced their fees by 75%!

 

Don't get too excited - once foreigners are eventually let back in (2021/2022 high season?) pricing will return to pre-pandemic levels, if not higher.

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3 hours ago, stuarty said:

Prab Keesin IS the tuk tuk mafia....

Obviously looking to entice more potential customers for his vastly overpriced transport monopoly that ensures no competition by the use of the usual 'gentle' persuasion methods.:biggrin:

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2 hours ago, Oldie said:

You are right. But on the other hand there must be tourists paying such prices. Otherwise they could not ask for so much. 

You need to use the past tense rather than present tense....you are partially correct....some did pay but thousands more didn't and never returned.

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8 hours ago, webfact said:

Preechawut ‘Prab’ Keesin explained the joint move by local hotels and beach chair operators

First the wealthy, now the locals, they end up again with the homeless.

 

He saved the day. Light at the end of the tunnel.....dim witted ????

 

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Thai people still think of Phuket as an expensive place to visit,

 

Surely they change their mind soon...... Tirac, looks like graveyard..bah, kaban.

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