Hopefully all the doom and gloom we’ve had to endure over the last couple of years is at an end. I’m hearing good vibes from South East Asia. Is it gonna be a good season? Let’s talk.
Hello Eddy from Tucson. Sorry I missed the live chat. I’m booked for Thailand in mid-December. I’m really excited about it. I’ll be in Thailand about five weeks. I hope we can meet up.
Just back from 3 weeks in Ireland. Flew from Dublin through Munich and Bangkok to Phnom Penh. All good, no tests for Covid or the Pox. Just asked for a vaccine cert. Looks good for travel back to normal. The only problem is probably getting bags on arrival! Due to staff shortage at airports.
WARNING: Do not reside at any hotel which is not sha/sha plus. WHY? A/C units may be full of covid / flu viruses and airborne bacterium.I cannot stress it enough. A/C units are not sterilized in non sha hotels!
I cannot say thais are not trying very hard to achieve a new normal. Street and building construction everywhere,but still more than half venues closed and dusty. Soi 6 30% normal Walking st a distant memory 30-40% norm other than same noise , LK is just a tease. Plenty of new bars businesses too but no customers inside due to prices and selection of hostesses most all well over 40. Beach road has quite a few stunners between 11 and 4 am all of who leave town once they make bus/train money. I have seen few there and fewer cuties a second night unless a ladyboy or an over 40 potato type.
Most guys sadly sit small bars together for drinks with no female company other than a single waitress. Hostesses are siting alone asking you to smile come in and spend but no takers. Thailand may have more hotel and condo rooms available than anywhere in the world many in 500 bhat range rt now. Indian males outnumber any group 4 to 1 easily on streets and in bars/clubs. Business is so bad 2 soapy's on 2nd road near Siam Siam boutique hotel are being demolished.
People: This is where big changes are evident. Thais are asking a lot more for less output. Walking St, LK and other areas are obviously of an opinion they can charge you based on the same service in your own country. I tell them I am from India and state services there low as 50 cents. One massage girl asks 1k another 3k and she average to homely. It is Kaddywhompus krazy what $$$ they ask for and expect from you.
Amazingly they seem satisfied by cell phone meditation all day, or the favorite group eating sitting on the ground.
Thailand will be ready for the next high season but will your wallet be full enough? Marijuana is available so plentifully I have seen few people swilling beer on the street but plenty pot selllers on the sidewalk and basically everywhere else. Prices are ridiculously high for what smells like cigar smoke too. GoGo bars in new unlikely places and prices ridiculously high. GoGo's just have wigglers rather than dancers and are quite very boring IMHO.
Visit Thailand?…………… Not a good choice compared to pre covid but probably better than where you are now!
I’m in Pattaya now business is down easily 75% if not more all bars and restaurants are ghost towns. Oh and by the way the Bhat is getting stronger again lol 😂
1:31:26 I got my Burma visa in the Kao San road for $50 10 years ago but I gather its online evisa now for £75. I would thoroughly recommend going. Flights from Dong Wang old airport are around $150. I got invited in to a house for dinner in Rangoon. Most friendly people I have ever met.
Comparing the middle of summer low season to winter and high season is ridiculous. The real test begins in November thought to March. Nut case field reports of stone empty bars and clubs in the summer need to be totally discounted. Got a paid ticket for travel in November.
1) The birth rate in Thailand plummeted from around 6 Kids per woman in 1970 to 2 Kid in 1990 which means there is only a 1/3rd of the 30 yo around today that there was 20 years ago.
2) Some of driving forces that send Isaan girls to Pattaya etc are Isaan was & it still is the poorest region of Thailand but it’s not as poor as it was & like the rest of Thailand living standards are increasing. Poor education & unplanned teen pregnancies but they are better educated & there is a lot less teen pregnancies these days.
3) Most of the sex service industry in Thailand services Thai’s & Thailand has a growing middle class.
4) There are a lot more Expats up in Isaan & where you get Expats you get bars etc to cater to them.
5) We live in an electronic & digital age & there are online hook up apps etc.
When you add up all the above I would estimate the pool of 25 yo to 35 yo Isaan girls available to work as BG’s in Pattaya etc is 25% of what it was 20 years ago.
Now let’s look at the Bar Owners.
1) They had to close up shop or had all the restrictions for a couple of years.
2) Money has been spent on a lot of Bars renovating them.
3) Bars are open now but most are empty of customers but they still got to pay rent, bills, wages etc.
4) To get BG’s they had to pay more & it seems this is tied into the BG getting at least say 5 LD’s a day & after that she gets a cut & higher BG wages means higher BF’s & according to people like Everything Pattaya the younger better looking BG’s aren’t interested in being BF’d unless your a young good looking guy who is splashing cash around.
So when you add all the above up I see the coming high season in Pattaya & Phuket etc being a sausage feast. A lot of hustling to buy LD’s & ring bells going on. BF, ST & LT rates going up.
I might be wrong & time will tell but these are hard times for a lot of us & it might be the needle that bursts the Pattaya bubble for some. That said Pattaya & JT still got a lot to offer an Expat & at very affordable prices just as long as they don’t do their Mongering in the Tourist Bars & there are plenty of places that cater to the Expats & as Expats are returning regular customers they treat them accordingly. The average age of women in these places might be around 40 yo but if your 60+ yo that might do you just fine.
Oi Eddy – what do you mean 'Good Evening Gentlemen' are the ladies banned lol. Oh and is was Thursday at 10 o'clock NOT Wednesday !!!!! Keep up the good work, look forward to the next adventure.
I'll be back in Bangkok in 8 weeks time only for a couple of days. Then at the end of my trip I have 5 days, although I am unsure as to whether I will venture to Pattaya for the duration or stay in Bangkok. I hear so many mixed reports on what is happening in Pattaya still. Some say it's still very quiet, whilst other videos suggest it is almost at pre-pandemic levels.
I lived i Pattaya from 1996 – 2000 and Nong Khai in 2005 and I can't explain to my friends the blissful feeling of being sat in a hammock with a girlfrend who appreciated me and not watching tv or bothering with social media for a year
I landed in Vietnam on Monday and Hoi An and Danang are very busy. I had a one way ticket, no vaccine certificate needed. E visa was $20 for a month. Hue is buzzing too.
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Eddy, I think you’re getting more and more prison inmates in your chat these days
Hello Eddy from Tucson. Sorry I missed the live chat. I’m booked for Thailand in mid-December. I’m really excited about it. I’ll be in Thailand about five weeks. I hope we can meet up.
Just back from 3 weeks in Ireland. Flew from Dublin through Munich and Bangkok to Phnom Penh. All good, no tests for Covid or the Pox. Just asked for a vaccine cert. Looks good for travel back to normal. The only problem is probably getting bags on arrival! Due to staff shortage at airports.
Greetings from Ireland Eddie.
WARNING: Do not reside at any hotel which is not sha/sha plus. WHY? A/C units may be full of covid / flu viruses and airborne bacterium.I cannot stress it enough. A/C units are not sterilized in non sha hotels!
I cannot say thais are not trying very hard to achieve a new normal. Street and building construction everywhere,but still more than half venues closed and dusty. Soi 6 30% normal Walking st a distant memory 30-40% norm other than same noise , LK is just a tease. Plenty of new bars businesses too but no customers inside due to prices and selection of hostesses most all well over 40. Beach road has quite a few stunners between 11 and 4 am all of who leave town once they make bus/train money. I have seen few there and fewer cuties a second night unless a ladyboy or an over 40 potato type.
Most guys sadly sit small bars together for drinks with no female company other than a single waitress. Hostesses are siting alone asking you to smile come in and spend but no takers. Thailand may have more hotel and condo rooms available than anywhere in the world many in 500 bhat range rt now.
Indian males outnumber any group 4 to 1 easily on streets and in bars/clubs. Business is so bad 2 soapy's on 2nd road near Siam Siam boutique hotel are being demolished.
People: This is where big changes are evident. Thais are asking a lot more for less output. Walking St, LK and other areas are obviously of an opinion they can charge you based on the same service in your own country. I tell them I am from India and state services there low as 50 cents. One massage girl asks 1k another 3k and she average to homely.
It is Kaddywhompus krazy what $$$ they ask for and expect from you.
Amazingly they seem satisfied by cell phone meditation all day, or the favorite group eating sitting on the ground.
Thailand will be ready for the next high season but will your wallet be full enough?
Marijuana is available so plentifully I have seen few people swilling beer on the street but plenty pot selllers on the sidewalk and basically everywhere else. Prices are ridiculously high for what smells like cigar smoke too.
GoGo bars in new unlikely places and prices ridiculously high. GoGo's just have wigglers rather than dancers and are quite very boring IMHO.
Visit Thailand?…………… Not a good choice compared to pre covid but probably better than where you are now!
I’m in Pattaya now business is down easily 75% if not more all bars and restaurants are ghost towns. Oh and by the way the Bhat is getting stronger again lol 😂
Cheers Eddie nice one 🏴👍🆗️👍
cheers Eddie 🍻 another good chat
What dose that date mean on a vaccine certificate, not the one when you had it the other one ! Is it valid until that date or something ?
1:31:26 I got my Burma visa in the Kao San road for $50 10 years ago but I gather its online evisa now for £75. I would thoroughly recommend going. Flights from Dong Wang old airport are around $150. I got invited in to a house for dinner in Rangoon. Most friendly people I have ever met.
Comparing the middle of summer low season to winter and high season is ridiculous. The real test begins in November thought to March. Nut case field reports of stone empty bars and clubs in the summer need to be totally discounted. Got a paid ticket for travel in November.
Facts are Facts.
1) The birth rate in Thailand plummeted from around 6 Kids per woman in 1970 to 2 Kid in 1990 which means there is only a 1/3rd of the 30 yo around today that there was 20 years ago.
2) Some of driving forces that send Isaan girls to Pattaya etc are Isaan was & it still is the poorest region of Thailand but it’s not as poor as it was & like the rest of Thailand living standards are increasing. Poor education & unplanned teen pregnancies but they are better educated & there is a lot less teen pregnancies these days.
3) Most of the sex service industry in Thailand services Thai’s & Thailand has a growing middle class.
4) There are a lot more Expats up in Isaan & where you get Expats you get bars etc to cater to them.
5) We live in an electronic & digital age & there are online hook up apps etc.
When you add up all the above I would estimate the pool of 25 yo to 35 yo Isaan girls available to work as BG’s in Pattaya etc is 25% of what it was 20 years ago.
Now let’s look at the Bar Owners.
1) They had to close up shop or had all the restrictions for a couple of years.
2) Money has been spent on a lot of Bars renovating them.
3) Bars are open now but most are empty of customers but they still got to pay rent, bills, wages etc.
4) To get BG’s they had to pay more & it seems this is tied into the BG getting at least say 5 LD’s a day & after that she gets a cut & higher BG wages means higher BF’s & according to people like Everything Pattaya the younger better looking BG’s aren’t interested in being BF’d unless your a young good looking guy who is splashing cash around.
So when you add all the above up I see the coming high season in Pattaya & Phuket etc being a sausage feast. A lot of hustling to buy LD’s & ring bells going on. BF, ST & LT rates going up.
I might be wrong & time will tell but these are hard times for a lot of us & it might be the needle that bursts the Pattaya bubble for some. That said Pattaya & JT still got a lot to offer an Expat & at very affordable prices just as long as they don’t do their Mongering in the Tourist Bars & there are plenty of places that cater to the Expats & as Expats are returning regular customers they treat them accordingly. The average age of women in these places might be around 40 yo but if your 60+ yo that might do you just fine.
missed the live chat again ffs, watching it now though, cheers eddie
Are u going back to the black sea next summer or you don’t like that place
Just had sex with a homeless dug addict. Pmsl 🤣
Oi Eddy – what do you mean 'Good Evening Gentlemen' are the ladies banned lol. Oh and is was Thursday at 10 o'clock NOT Wednesday !!!!! Keep up the good work, look forward to the next adventure.
I'll be back in Bangkok in 8 weeks time only for a couple of days. Then at the end of my trip I have 5 days, although I am unsure as to whether I will venture to Pattaya for the duration or stay in Bangkok. I hear so many mixed reports on what is happening in Pattaya still. Some say it's still very quiet, whilst other videos suggest it is almost at pre-pandemic levels.
Great show mr steady I rekon high season will be mega 🍺🍺
Question..what happened to Bangkok 112? Does anyone know
I lived i Pattaya from 1996 – 2000 and Nong Khai in 2005 and I can't explain to my friends the blissful feeling of being sat in a hammock with a girlfrend who appreciated me and not watching tv or bothering with social media for a year
Luv that intro, brings me back to mick hammer days, what a man he was
I landed in Vietnam on Monday and Hoi An and Danang are very busy. I had a one way ticket, no vaccine certificate needed. E visa was $20 for a month. Hue is buzzing too.
Is there a stream planned for this evening?