Just received this email from a recent download march 6,
search "backpackers in Pattaya"
http://www.pattayaunlimited.com/back...de-to-pattaya/
From observations that many farang are doing it cheap in Pattaya, will backpackers be much below some of the visitors.
Friend was abused for paying 300 baht for massage on the gay beach.
In 26 years price has gone up from 200 baht to in some cases 250 baht.
He thought it reasonable.
Wombat : an Australian marsupial that eats,roots and leaves
Does Pattaya need more cheap Charlies? The boys certainly don't.
As for the tourist being abused for paying 300 baht for a beach massage, that's just ridiculous. The minimum daily wage is apparently 300 per day so charging that for an hour massage seems over the top.
A447 obviously you work on a salary. The minimum of 300 bpd is for a full day
If a massage boy gets one massage a day or one every 2 or 3 days, do you recommend he gets
a either a daily rate paid by whom? The beach franchise?
b a daily paid by the client
or do you have another plan
Wombat : an Australian marsupial that eats,roots and leaves
Yeah, I know it's for a full day. I wrote per day
It's not my job to come up with an income plan for the guys working at the beach (or in gogo bars, for that matter);that's their problem. They are free agents.
When I used to frequent the gay beach I saw the "massage" guys doing a very brisk business indeed. If they can earn the daily wage in just one hour, they've got no reason to complain. And it's certainly no excuse to abuse customers.
It's capitalism at work. They are free to charge what the market is willing to bear. Good luck to them.
Get real !
6 years ago it was already 300 bahts for a massage on the beach.
In town you will pay at least 200 + tip = 300
And the business is not "brisk" for many.
And nobody forces you to take a massage. If you cannot afford it, you can live without.
And if the masseur can make a good living, that's capitalism.
"And if the masseur can make a good living, that's capitalism."
That's what I said.
Yet, given the number of first-time-to-Thailand tourists and others who visit Pattaya every year, it's always struck me as commercially odd that no-one produces a mainstream high-profile guide to the city and the attractions of the wider Eastern Seaboard region - even though that's done for, say, Phuket or "Thailand's islands and beaches".Originally Posted by colmx
Aren't such publishers missing a trick here?
"The fruits of peace and tranquility... are the greatest goods... while those of its opposite, strife, are unbearable evils. Hence we ought to wish for peace, to seek it if we do not already have it, to conserve it once it is attained, and to repel with all our strength the strife which is opposed to it. To this end individual[s]... and in even greater degree groups and communities are obliged to help one another... from the bond or law of human society." [Marsilio dei Mainardini (c.1275-1342), Defensor Pacis]
Going by the looks on the faces of non-gay tourists especially those coming from Asian countries, I'm quite certain that the TAT and the tourism industry in general have been successful in drawing tourists to Pattaya. One never fails to observe happy & contented faces whether in Nong Nooch, Koh Lan or elsewhere.
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