Phuket: Ten million foreign tourists to ZERO - pictures tell a sad Bangla Road story

[androokery]

Great photos given the lighting conditions - but scary and depressing content. I don't like Bangla Road much, but I really don't want it to suffer like this.

[xylophone]

52 minutes ago, Saltire said:

I was also put off by a girl I met there who had 3 pints of Heineken (no food) for breakfast

Sure it was a "girl"!!!!

[Matzzon]

1 hour ago, Ludo55 said:

No, they said no evidence of prostitution ????????

Exactly! ????????

[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Even the short time rooms have closed, so Im told

That will be hard on those now having to rely on just sex with their wife.

[PETERTHEEATER]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Song thaew drivers who used to earn 1000 baht a day trying to scrape by with 100.

Luckily, they will benefit indirectly, by paying less income tax. ????

[ThailandRyan]

1 hour ago, Saltire said:

Only been to Phuket once but never to return. Even a bar owner asked me why I would come to the most expensive resort in Thailand.

 

I was also put off by a girl I met there who had 3 pints of Heineken (no food) for breakfast while I ate my Full English and a pot of tea.

 

 

They drink to numb the brain so that what they do and who they did it with are not even a memory, but instead seem to be just some vision of a past adult rated movie they watched....

[DPKANKAN]

5 hours ago, PatOngo said:

I would expect there would be some hard to refuse bargains up for grabs!

The one with the legs and heels in the top picture right would make a nice bargain!!! 5555 ????????????????

[PatOngo]

48 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

They drink to numb the brain so that what they do and who they did it with are not even a memory, but instead seem to be just some vision of a past adult rated movie they watched....

Calories wise, I heard there was a steak in every can?

[ChipButty]

2 hours ago, SmileyCat said:

Looks like good time to visit for me. I never liked Phuket when it was loaded with tourists????

Good time now low season, around Rawai the beaches are good the last couple of days a lot of rain

[ChipButty]

9 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Calories wise, I heard there was a steak in every can?

Thats a tin of Baked Beans

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

A report from The Standard about tourism in the Bangla Walking Street district of Patong only needed pictures to tell the story of the devastating impact of the pandemic.

Bangla road is a "one trick pony" bar saturation... going to be tough for a lot of owners.

[Nicknoodle]

6 hours ago, twocatsmac said:

“Song thaew drivers who used to earn 1000 baht a day trying to scrape by with 100.”

 

 

The problem there was that many Song thaew drivers tried to earn nearer 1000 baht per fare. 

 

I understand many of those song thaew and van drivers had their vehicles repossessed. 

[bodga]

5 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Unfortunately I do not understand what you refer to. Was that an answer to any of my questions?
 

Your truth, which is not very credible. Below you can see a collection of your posts, that you have no proof dor at all, and still you call it truth, I assume? Right, your truth. ???? 
 

 

 

god u  must be really  bored  or  lonely

[Matzzon]

1 minute ago, bodga said:

god u  must be really  bored  or  lonely

Nah, wrong on both assumptions. I have great variation in my life, with lots of different work and meeting a lot of people. Actually very social and accepted in most circles. After that I live with family of wife and two children.

Just because you said another thing out of relevance, I take that as you admitting that the thing you called truth was not very credible. ???? Thanks!

 

Have a nice day.

[Deli]

Someone should make Xi and his commie gang paying for the misery they caused.

Suckers.

[bodga]

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Nah, wrong on both assumptions. I have great variation in my life, with lots of different work and meeting a lot of people. Actually very social and accepted in most circles. After that I live with family of wife and two children.

Just because you said another thing out of relevance, I take that as you admitting that the thing you called truth was not very credible. ???? Thanks!

 

Have a nice day.

u mean like a round peg in a square  hole , figures

[Matzzon]

10 minutes ago, bodga said:

u mean like a round peg in a square  hole , figures

Playing golf with the wrong hole, perhaps?

[ChipButty]

1 hour ago, Deli said:

Someone should make Xi and his commie gang paying for the misery they caused.

Suckers.

You can dont buy anything made in China, where my daughter lives in England all the Chinese takaways have been trashed

[bodga]

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Playing golf with the wrong hole, perhaps?

u  know  i  only  play  golf with my cousins

[Stargeezr]

This present picture of Bangla, is likely the same for the Pattaya walking street scene.

  Better get used to it as covid is world wide, and especially in the USA where their

present President is trying to get the death numbers up to a half a million with his

rallys.  Good luck Thailand, I hope the Winter of 2021 to 2022 is a better Winter, as this

coming Winter will be one where only the long stay retired tourists will willing take

their 2 weeks quarantine, at the beginning and end of their long stays, where ever they travel.

  I will do my quarantine here in Canada, as I do not plan to chance the long flight to

anywhere else in the world until at least late next Fall like November 2021.

  Good Luck Phuket, I bet there will be many places shut down permanently by

the time I get back there on my next vacation.

Geezers

 

[Meat Pie 47]

6 hours ago, Deli said:

Someone should make Xi and his commie gang paying for the misery they caused.

Suckers.

Read this

 

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/chinese-defector-virologist-dr-limeng-yan-publishes-report-claiming-covid19-was-made-in-a-lab/news-story/36decb0c2bca253b696dec0cb665c970

[ChomDo]

So is the Phuket model with the resort quarantine (I mean the option that you don't have to be locked in the room but you can go out within the resort) still happening in October now that they released the news about the 270 day TR visa? Even though I need to get back home to Bangkok, I would much rather choose that quarantine option. 

[Matzzon]

8 hours ago, bodga said:

u  know  i  only  play  golf with my cousins

Do they also see square holes? Maybe it runs in the family. ????

[spidermike007]

I am on Samui this week. Used to live here, and moved away when it got too congested and over developed. It is a virtual ghost town. Chaweng is decimated. Especially at night. 80% of the shops are closed. On the island more than half the shops, and restaurants are closed. Probably 75% of the hotels. My hotel has about 100 rooms. 2 rooms booked for two nites and 6 rooms booked now. At 600 baht for a room that is normally 2500 baht.

 

Absolute madness and extreme cowardice in the part of the army. They are sure showing the people just how little they care. 

 

ANY and ALL tourists and expats should be welcomed tomorrow. No restrictions other than a covid letter and 14 day quarantine. And if you toxic weakling army guys are serious, pay for half the quarantine. Show us something. Anything. 

Edited September 16, 2020 by spidermike007

[Jomtien Holiday Guy]

Nice to know that tuk-tuk drivers are hit hard. Thise scumbags charge 240B for a very short of a few hundreds meter back in 2016. That was my last visit to Patong Beach. Now i usually travel to Jomtien, but the Beach isn't that good. Everything is cheaper and the fair for ride in a song thearw is 10B for 4 km to Pattaya, which has far more restaurants and nightlife then Phuket...Huahin can be a nice brake for a few days. Just 2 1/2 hours with Ferry from Pattaya....

[hello55060]

The only positive is that the tuk tuk mafia can't rip off anyone anymore

 

Edit: Didn't see the post above, couldn't agree more. Had the unfortunate experience of having to use them when I went to Phuket in January with my wife and son.

Edited September 16, 2020 by hello55060
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[ChipButty]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I am on Samui this week. Used to live here, and moved away when it got too congested and over developed. It is a virtual ghost town. Chaweng is decimated. Especially at night. 80% of the shops are closed. On the island more than half the shops, and restaurants are closed. Probably 75% of the hotels. My hotel has about 100 rooms. 2 rooms booked for two nites and 6 rooms booked now. At 600 baht for a room that is normally 2500 baht.

 

Absolute madness and extreme cowardice in the part of the army. They are sure showing the people just how little they care. 

 

ANY and ALL tourists and expats should be welcomed tomorrow. No restrictions other than a covid letter and 14 day quarantine. And if you toxic weakling army guys are serious, pay for half the quarantine. Show us something. Anything. 

Depressing  

[jinners]

On 9/15/2020 at 9:14 AM, bodga said:

my  poor  bleeding heart cant bear it

Mine neither. Having experienced the money grubbing antics of such drivers, but not limited to those, I swore my last visit to Phuket would be just that. My last!

[CheelBeel]

ohhh where are the dirty farangs ???

 

[CheelBeel]

6 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Do they also see square holes? Maybe it runs in the family. ????

my heart bleeds for the jet ski rental operators 

who do they rip off this days?