The Year 2020

[TotallyOz]

What do you think Thailand will be like in 2020? What about Pattaya? What do you think a typical gogo bar will look like?

[Guest lvdkeyes]

Pattaya will even more overcrowded, with View Talay 15 just being completed, than it is now. Thrappaya Road will still be under construction. The go go bars will look the same; they haven't changed since I first came here in 1995.

[Guest]

Anything could happen, dependant primarily on what kind of lunatics run the country.

Competent & stable management should result in modest expansion from where it is now, probably catering to more Chinese tourists.

 

There might be one other change too. If the UK continues to be run by innumerate socialists, the it will probably be about 1 baht to the pound & we will no longer be any wealthier than the bar boys.

Luckily there is an election next year.

[Gaybutton]

By 2020 the road work on Tappraya will be a little closer to completion. Boys who are currently celebrating their 7th birthday will be heading for the bars trying to find farang. Some of the beach umbrellas will be replaced with new ones. Construction will have begun on View Talay 116. ATMs will be charging 2000 baht per foreign card transaction. GB will weigh 527 kilos. GT will be on his bicycle tour from the Aleutian Islands to Jakarta. GB will have banned his 864th board user and deleted his 12943rd message. The police will be drug testing boys for ya-babaloo. The powers-that-be will have imposed 9:15pm to 10:30pm as legal bar operating hours.

 

But the bars will be, with the exception of more name changes, just as they have always been. That's my 2020 vision . . .

[Guest Astrrro]

Boyztown will be condos.

 

Every boy working Sunee Bars today will be legal.

[Guest fountainhall]

What do you think a typical gogo bar will look like?

 

Interesting! I was going to say that there has been quite a difference over the last 11 years. But I'm really thinking of the last 20 years, when there were still several bars in Bangkok where boys danced naked for much of the evening. It does seem that the trend has become much more conservative since then, and my gut feel is it will continue, unfortunately, partly a result of the internet. I'm not sure about Pattaya, but I can see the day in Bangkok when boy go-go bars are few and far between.

[Guest HeyGay]

^{They say there will be a cure for Cancer by 2016 so that should be good.}

 

^{So Many men need it, as so many are getting HPV Oral Cancer, now from sucking and Oral sex.}

 

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[KhorTose]

They will find the gene that causes homosexuality and devise a pre-natal cure. All children from that day on will be born straight, and the whole world will become a very boring place.

[Guest HeyGay]

Considering the gene is there to keep the balance of man and women stable, I dont think they will play with something nature put in the Natural World.

[fedssocr]

you guys are really bringing me down.

 

Will Bangkok be under water by then due to global warming? I guess the prediction for that is a bit farther out.

 

Will the world economy still be limping along eleven years from now with the global tourism and airline industries in the tank?

[Bob]

Dateline 2020, Pattaya, Thailand:

 

With strobe lights attached to his zimmer frame and perky flames erupting from his sequined Depends, Jim Lumsden rock and rolled out onto the Ambience stage to announce that this was his last show on the Pattaya scene. Of course, he had forgotten that he said that the prior twelve weeks.

[10tazione]

Just came across this thread of 2009. Now 2020 has reached already and we could see what was predicted right and wrong ... and open a new thread "The Year 2030".

[vinapu]

On 8/25/2009 at 1:35 PM, Gaybutton said:

ATMs will be charging 2000 baht per foreign card transaction. GB will weigh 527 kilos.

I'm sure you missed first point by 89 % and almost sure you missed second one by at least 82 % But you still alive and kicking , congratulations.

[anddy]

Interesting thread to resurrect. @z909 was pretty accurate with his predictions, though not so much with the causes of the predictions LOL

On 8/26/2009 at 12:00 AM, z909 said:

Anything could happen, dependant primarily on what kind of lunatics run the country.

Competent & stable management should result in modest expansion from where it is now, probably catering to more Chinese tourists.

 

There might be one other change too. If the UK continues to be run by innumerate socialists, the it will probably be about 1 baht to the pound & we will no longer be any wealthier than the bar boys.

Luckily there is an election next year.

1. correct about the "anything", of which happened a lot, and the lunatics....

2. correct about more Chinese, though not necessarily through "competent & stable management" - more like political brownnosing in China to get investments and submarines and stuff like that...

3. UK shed socialists, as z909 hoped, but got conservatives in the form of David Cameron instead who went on to ruin everything, including the pound (albeit not all the way down to 1 Baht) through his idiotic Brexit saga.... 

[Guest]

3 hours ago, anddy said:

 David Cameron instead who went on to ruin everything, including the pound (albeit not all the way down to 1 Baht) through his idiotic Brexit saga.... 

Mr Cameron was of the better prime ministers.  He stabilized the economy after Gordon Brown's irresponsible borrowing.   The Brexit referendum was called in response to public opinion and political pressure.  That's how democracy is supposed to work.     Seems the British public had enough of paying twice as much into the EU ad the French (net contribution).

Anyhow, thankfully my finances have long been arranged to reduce the exhange rate risk.

[Gaybutton]

On 1/25/2020 at 2:28 AM, vinapu said:

I'm sure you missed first point by 89 % and almost sure you missed second one by at least 82 % But you still alive and kicking , congratulations.

Don't be so sure about the second one . . .

[reader]

If you're a contrarian investor with your time and money, the first quarter of 2020 may indeed prove to be a good opportunity to visit the LOS.

Consider what's happened in the past week in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak:

1. Tourism authorities predict hotels and other travel-related businesses will take a big hit

2. The baht has lost ground to the dollar, pound and Euro

3.  China has canceled packaged tours and many outbound flights

All this will likely be reversed as quickly as it has come about when the threat is contained. In meantime, however, you stand to become a more hansum man.

[10tazione]

7 hours ago, reader said:

If you're a contrarian investor with your time and money, the first quarter of 2020 may indeed prove to be a good opportunity to visit the LOS.

Consider what's happened in the past week in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak:

1. Tourism authorities predict hotels and other travel-related businesses will take a big hit

2. The baht has lost ground to the dollar, pound and Euro

3.  China has canceled packaged tours and many outbound flights

All this will likely be reversed as quickly as it has come about when the threat is contained. In meantime, however, you stand to become a more hansum man.

Rechecked the BKK hotel prices for my arrival in february and couldnt find any bargain.

[reader]

1 hour ago, 10tazione said:

Rechecked the BKK hotel prices for my arrival in february and couldnt find any bargain.

"Bargain," albeit, is a subjective term.

Not knowing what dates you're looking at, I spot checked Agoda and Hotels.com for Silom area on Feb. 24-25.  The following prices appeared attractive:

Mid-rage options: Raya, $58; Bandera Suites, $52; Ban Silom, $36; Fumara, $49; Silom Serene, $46; Trinity Silom, $42.

Coming in above the $60 range were Tarntawan Surawong and Holiday Inn Express, both at $61.

Economy options: Red Planet, $29; Glitz, $33; Nantra, $19.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[10tazione]

50 minutes ago, reader said:

"Bargain," albeit, is a subjective term.

I meant that I was checking if the hotel prices for feburary are cheaper now than when I booked a month ago. So what I wanted to say is that the hotel prices didnt drop (yet).

[ggobkk]

Macao reported this evening that Chinese visitors were down by 80%.  This may be temporary; but, it took many months for SARS to run its course.  I postponed my planned spring trip to Beijing at the suggestion of my Chinese hosts (and a stern warning from the US State Department).  

I guess Chinese tourism will pause both in going to and from China as China has limited and/or suspended group tours. 
 

 

[anddy]

16 hours ago, 10tazione said:

I meant that I was checking if the hotel prices for feburary are cheaper now than when I booked a month ago. So what I wanted to say is that the hotel prices didnt drop (yet).

They may not drop at all and to the contrary, go UP. A decline in visitors means that prices MUST go up so that the remaining visitors make up the monetary shortfall - according to Thai logic. Normal supply & demand logic often does not apply here.

[Guest]

I just made a booking in Bangkok at short notice.   Prices are certainly reasonable.

[ggobkk]

Sky News UK is reporting Bangkok had 22,000 visitors from Wuhan in January. Also reported that a Thailand had more cases of Coronavirus than any country other than China. 

[vinapu]

regular ' common" flu is killing few hundred people a day worldwide and we barely blink over it