Quiet in Patong?

[Abby Berlin]

Exactly my thoughts when I read the article a few days ago. There was also a letter from some snobby Thai girl in New York wailing about news crews showing Thailand in a bad light because they showed bgs

 

[Mr.Klaus]

I AGREE WITH STEVE HERE.........IM BORED AS WELL.........THE PLACE IS SO QUIET ITS FRIGHTENING..........EVREY ONE SEEMED TO GO BACK TO BKK ,SAMUI AND PATTAYA AFTER NEW YEAR.........
THE SOIS AT NITE ARE EVEN QUIETER THAN THEY ARE IN JULY AND AUGUST.........
BUT THE SAD THING ABOUT THIS IS THE BGs ARE NOT SEEING THE LIGHT.....WITH SO FEW PUNTERS THEY STILL INSIST ON ASKING FOR 2000 ST......ME AND BAZ HAVE BEEN DOING A LOT OF CRUISING AND THE ANSWER IS MOSTLY THE SAME...........MOST GIRLS LOOK FOR 2000,..........WE JUST MOVE ON.....THESE GIRLS HAVE BEEN SPOILED BY BIG SPONSOPRS AND GUYS THAT PAY WAY OVER THE ODDS........LAST NITE I ASKED A BG HOW MUCH...SHE SAID 2000.IT WAS 1 AM ........I SAW THE SAME BG GOING HOME BY HER SELF AT 330.........ALONE AND OUT OF POCKET....SHE SHOUD HAVE ACCEPTED 1000......SHE WOULD HAVE HAD DRINKS AND FOOD FOR THE NITE PLUS A 1000 IN HER BACK POCKET ALL SHE HAD WAS A SAD FACE WHEN SHE SAW ME WITH SOME ONE ELSE.........
BUT SERIUOSLY GUYS......ITS REAL QUIET..........PROBABLY YHE BUSIEST STREET IS SOI KATOY..............
JONNY

 

[Sonnny.L]

Here is how sick the press are!

One reporter came to my bar looked at the drinks menu and asked do I have a Tsunami cocktail.

He got a fcuking fright when he heard my Glaswegian reply, needless to say he scurpered big time

G

 

[Pompal 09.]

Earlier today r3aps reported he was "bored" in Patong and its gone really quiet.It must be bad if Steve is bored. For any BMs in Patong at the moment,can you confirm this.If its true then the reports of tourists cancelling Phuket holidays by the dozens is correct.This is a peak month and it is dead,will tourists start to go back soon or have people lost the love of Thailand.Im sure the general press coverage has a lot to do with this.Its all gloom and doom,with the beaches destroyed ,hotels in ruins and mass epidemics about to break out.Reporters never follow up with the good news.Admittedly,the terrible and sad loss of lives is a factor,but that doesnt stop people carrying on their holidays in the hurricane regions of Florida and the W Indies. I hope things pick up again soon.The Thais need us.

 

[rona]

You should have given him the Glasgow kiss.What a fcukin moron he was :mad2:

 

[Inc.2wks ago]

Hi Johnny
When I was in Hua Hin it was really very quiet and I was almost the only customer. Finally, I booked a table at the Disco and bar fined a few girls and invited a lot of people. Sanuk does not come close, we had the best evening ever.

I wonder if the time has come for an old fashioned party in Patong to give it a bit of a kick.

In the meantime it was really great to see you and respect for getting there on that Tuesday!

Mac

 

[Pompal 09.]

See on swiss TV. tonite
Phuket island lost 10 milion $ every day since 26 december.
Hotel are only 20 % full , with journalist ,organisation, etc..
They are only a small number of tourist right now there.. :sad:
And we don't talk about girls gone in BKK, Pattaya or back home.
Hope it will change quickly !
I still don't know yet if i will stay in pattaya or coming in Patong the 28 january. :bangin:

Please all BM there, thx for posting feedback about the situation at this moment in Patong.
should i come or not ?

 

[Cornflakes]

Quick observations on last night re: the places I visited

Tiger Bars - Busy - more than low season
Tiger Disco - busy
Baya Beach - very busy
Di Di's late night bar restaurant - busy

Banana disco reopened on 15th Jan

Lots of new faces in Tiger Bars last night

G

 

[Bryce]

Swissair and AustrianAirlines are flying daily. Austrian Airlines and Lauda Air are member of star alliance. But I prefer ThaiAir because of service and legsize. I don´t know if you have to pay for your drinks now with Swissair.

But charter flights have stopped completely now.

 

[Pompal 09.]

What is Baya Beach? maybe stupid question but have not been in Patong since May 2003.

 

[Balmy Pete]

PATONG BEACH: -- The go-go girls hang listlessly on their poles, the bar stools stand empty and club owners are thinking of closing their doors.

Nearly two weeks after the tsunami smashed ashore, one of Thailand's raunchiest resorts is feeling the pinch as tourists are scared away by television images of death and devastation.

"It's going to be a disaster for us if the tourists don't come back. The girls are worried about their jobs and things are looking really bad," said 27-year-old Sukjai Suppajuk, selling coffee and flowers outside one deserted bar.

This is peak tourist season in Thailand and normally the neon-lit streets of Patong Beach, lined with "Boom Boom" bars, transvestite cabarets and pounding discos, are alive and buzzing.

The Dec. 26 wave has changed all that, killing 5,288 people in Thailand, injuring 8,457 and leaving 3,674 missing -- many of them Europeans on a winter break.

Most of Thailand, however, was untouched, including tropical resorts, a message tourism officials are desperate to get across.

Along Patong's sandy beach, where dozens died, many survivors carried on with their holidays regardless but as they head home, new tourists aren't taking their place and cancellations have soared.

The "lady boys" still dance on their curb-side podiums, giggling in their skimpy bikinis, but their "Moulin Rose Cabarat" (sic) is empty and they might soon have to pack away their lipstick and blue boa feathers and look for work elsewhere.

"We are suffering a lot. We are doing 10 percent of the business we were doing this time last year and not making any profits," said Alfred Keller, a Swiss businessman who owns two bars and has a 50 percent stake in the Crocodile Disco.

"Some bars will have to shut and my disco will almost certainly have to close. Fifty people work there and it's going to be very bad for them," he said, flanked by a bevy of bored-looking bar girls.

"GAINING STRENGTH"

While the tsunami obliterated some resorts around the island of Phuket, other centres were barely touched and frequent visitors are urging tourists not to turn their backs on the tropical coastline in its hour of need.

"It's very strange because 100 metres from here, life looks devastated. There's no life, it's dark, it's empty, it's almost scary," said Severin de Wit, a lawyer from the Hague in the Netherlands, holidaying with his wife and children.

"But the Thais want us to be here and want us to have fun. Our Thai friends are saying please spread the word that Phuket is gaining strength again and coming back to life."

Down at the shattered seafront, builders are working into the night to patch up the damage and the first beachside restaurant has already reopened for business.

But locals fear that however fast the rebuilding goes, the horrific images of destroyed hotels and bloated bodies will keep tourists away for months to come.

"Some people say they will be back in two or three weeks, but I don't think so. I think it's going to take a long time, two or three years," said Wohrawuth Pongpaow, a 23-year-old doorman at the Playschool A-Go-Go joint.

"I'll have to move north and find another job."

--Reuters 2005-01-07

 

[Scgf Cnhds]

Unbelievable loss of money I guess once punters start coming back in droves so will the BG's. Just a matter off time.

 

[salima_guriya]

In Sweden the newspapers yesterday had reports from Patong telling everyone that life is back to normal as much as it can, and that it is no problem in Patong.And Swedish television did a similar report. Showing pictures of people on the beach and on the streets.They also said that people starts to ask the travel agencys i Sweden when they start their flights to Thailand again.Lots of people change destination and go to Samui, Bangkok or up north instead. But many goes to Brazil or countrys around the midterrainan sea also. But it was positive to see the newspapers and television not only report from a "badly damaged" Patong...

 

[Pompal 09.]

its a flashy bar come club next door to taipan.went in once,very hi quality talent but also hi prices.
steve

 

[tomboy]

Jonny, I noticed that too in Patong when I was there in November! Even ST some girls try to have 2.000!

But if you want the girl for several days if you like her, or it is a "stunner", price drops to 1000 very fast!

 

[Vigilante M]

I´ll go to patong again as soon as i have the money again

 

[Pompal 09.]

You should have recommended the "Glasgow Kiss" !!

Some people are such idiots and the worse thing about it, is that he probably thinks he's funny !!

Diz

 

[NO6664ME]

I think he was trying to find someone who was profiting off the disaster so he could write a story. Which would have made out that people in los dont care about the loss of life caused by the disaster, And only care about making money, Which is just not true no: You should have smacked him one :angry:

 

[smmay2]

for some odd reason ,if a Thai business is doing badly. they increase the prices! whereas in the west we would discount the prices, as in Johnny's post, the b/girls double their price, and end up going home alone with a sad face,i will never understand that way of thinking!maybe someone can enlighten me?

 

[Al C]

Tarzan - thats very good to hear, after all its your country (Sweden) that has suffered the most. From international TV (ABC/DW-tv/BBC World/TV5 Asie) that get here via satellite still not seen the rennovated beach.

Mlay - certainly should come here - yes the Thai's need visitors as of course do the expat business that employ many many of them.

It has gone (very) quiet as those here over the holidays go home and few are comming here now. Hope this changes soon, or will just add a financial burdon to the suffering many have gone through.