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It's not as straight forward and easy as say Brasil..... but some people like the chase/danger lol

Unless you’ve already slept with them and they’re watching you bring someone else back. Or they want to sleep with you. Or they messaged you on Grindr. Or they know someone you’ve been with. Pattaya runs on sex, gay and straight. That doesn’t eliminate jealousy, whether real or feigned. It just makes it more passive-aggressive. 🤷‍♂️

There are so many variables at play. First, hotel philosophy. Some hotels would rather let rooms sit empty than dilute their pricing and brand positioning. Others, like me when I was running hotels, were very much “heads in beds.” Not to be confused with getting head in bed. That often meant a lower ADR (average daily rate) but a higher RevPAR (revenue per available room). Different strategies, different risk tolerance. Asia, and Thailand in particular, can feel especially erratic. That probably surprises no one here. Then you have distribution strategy. Some hotels have exclusivity agreements or best-rate guarantees with specific OTAs. Others negotiate lower commissions with certain platforms. Agoda and Trip.com are generally much stronger in Asia than Expedia or Hotels.com, so inventory and pricing often skew in their favor. On top of that, hotels allocate room blocks to OTAs and wholesalers. For example, Agoda may get an allotment of 10 rooms. Once those 10 are sold, Agoda will show the hotel as sold out even if the hotel still has rooms available elsewhere. That alone explains a lot of “disappears and reappears” behavior. Hotels.com is notorious for continuing to sell beyond allotment and letting the hotel sort it out at check-in. They are essentially betting on cancellations or no-shows. If it goes wrong, they relocate the guest or refund them. It’s very similar to airline overbooking logic. They lose occasionally, but overall they stay ahead. As for pricing a 4-star above nearby 5-stars, it is not always about “hoping for stupid people.” Sometimes it’s about maintaining price integrity, pushing demand to direct bookings, rate-parity games between OTAs, or simply a revenue manager testing elasticity. Sometimes it’s also just bad revenue management. Peter is right about dynamic pricing being most sophisticated in airlines. Hotel pricing is dynamic, but far less algorithm-driven, especially once you factor in ownership structure. Using Hilton as an example, Hilton only owns or leases about 50 hotels worldwide. Roughly 800 are managed, and over 6,600 are franchised. That means thousands of independent owners making their own pricing decisions, sometimes rational, sometimes not. So yes, dynamic pricing exists. But inconsistency, allotments, OTA politics, owner psychology, and uneven revenue talent explain most of what people actually see. In your case, what you experienced with The Quarter is completely normal. You just happened to catch the pricing pendulum swinging back in your favor at the right time.

But not where it mattered 🍆 😆

and they don't cancel.... ?

I was going to say the same thing... most Hotels with revenue managers will usually will throw a rate on the room that is high enough not to sell it too cheap this far out, not only NYE but other known high occupancy nights. Then you'd need to monitor the rate to watch for its sweet spot, just like airfares..... if there's not much booking activity, they'll drop the rate for a bit to get some bookings and then raise it to where they think it needs to be, more realistically. Hotels without revenue managers, sometimes forget this and you could find a great deal with their standard rack rate because no one thought about next year yet, rates are usually loaded a year ahead by default by the system. Make sense?

Nah, you had some downvotes there from people that don't usually do that.... 🤷‍♂️

A lovely quote. Even Saki understood sequence, Timing remains undefeated, First blood still counts. 😆

Funny how suddenly clutching pearls about age and not about who drew first blood...... not directed at just you jimmie Olddaddy gave back exactly what he got, with irony and a kiss. Olddaddy responded in his usual passive-aggressive, ironic way. No one should be confused. Olddaddy thinks he’s got another 25 years. Hope springs eternal 🙄 We’re all aging. If that offends you, time is not going to be kind. Have a good 2026. Do as much and as many as you can. 😉

I see why, the new king money, the denomination isn't bold and is tough to see at dark places, restaurants, bars, etc...I'm always flipping the bills around like a blind man whereas it was much easier to see with the old bills.... or maybe I'm just older now and becoming a blind man 🤓

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I saw a pic of him recently posted on a mutual friends Facebook, he was in Brasil, he's doing ok apparently, not sure he spends much if any time online anymore.

Which massage shop did you work in, you're full of surprises 😳

I was going to mention something about that and you being at the opening of the Library of Alexandria, but don't want another broken neck....yet. As someone pointed out recently, I've said over and over, I'm like a vampire- Rejuvenation comes from deep connection, I don't drain youth, I take it in.....💦 *Disclosure: my filters on Grindr are 20-28 yrs old, Top, 5'7" (170cm) or shorter. Btw, you have more money. Not Fair!

I liked the bills with his father on them, they had the denomination in decimal format on both sides, the new kings bills are only n one side.

Keep in mind , I am older than you..... The Atari 800 came first, launching in late 1979, with the Atari 800 Wikipedia page noting its release in November 1979. The Commodore VIC-20 followed, arriving in 1981, making the Atari 800 a technical predecessor that was available a year earlier.

Couldn't load that page, trying a vpn from different countries either?

which places?

Was my first computer...

I’m not producing anything except great memories… and maybe a few videos.

Host sets the rules...lol

Brown noise or some sort of white noise while sleeping, blocks out background sounds.....

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10 times over 3 days with 2 on the bonus day..... that's some exploration and stamp collecting 😆

Be the host, he seems to set the rules and Vibe.....