ssmurry

While it wouldn't surprise me if some did jack up the prices to 'make up' for lost income, the majority of hotels are struggling so I think they'd just be happy with any income.
There's some crazy deals going on Agoda at the moment. I've booked decent hotels around Soi 20 for cheaper than the price of a ST room. Previous hotels for 2k+/night going for 600-700.

Funnily I actually started there first- my account on there is from 2010 (shit that's 10 years ago).
Much busier than here but the bitching that goes on between a few long-timers that derails every other thread is annoying, plus the general "old man yells at cloud" feel of the place- like ThaiVisa forums if you've ever had the misfortune of visiting. Not that there's anything wrong with the experienced crowd but a few seem to miss the irony of the whole "young people are ruining everything, anyway I wanna fuck this young person"

Fair enough, I probably rag on the place too much. There's def good intel to be had on there and if I were in Patts more often I'd be on there more. The TS models tube thread is really useful for finding local LBs who have done porn.
Maybe liberal use of the 'ignore user/thread' function would solve my issues with the place.

Funnily I actually started there first- my account on there is from 2010 (shit that's 10 years ago).
Much busier than here but the bitching that goes on between a few long-timers that derails every other thread is annoying, plus the general "old man yells at cloud" feel of the place- like ThaiVisa forums if you've ever had the misfortune of visiting. Not that there's anything wrong with the experienced crowd but a few seem to miss the irony of the whole "young people are ruining everything, anyway I wanna fuck this young person"

Funnily I actually started there first- my account on there is from 2010 (shit that's 10 years ago).
Much busier than here but the bitching that goes on between a few long-timers that derails every other thread is annoying, plus the general "old man yells at cloud" feel of the place- like ThaiVisa forums if you've ever had the misfortune of visiting. Not that there's anything wrong with the experienced crowd but a few seem to miss the irony of the whole "young people are ruining everything, anyway I wanna fuck this young person"

There's a lot of bigoted bullshit and as you say 'old man yelling at cloud' stuff but some solid info to be had outside of that - I found the ignore button to be invaluable. You can soon spot which  thread will degenerate.

Funnily I actually started there first- my account on there is from 2010 (shit that's 10 years ago).
Much busier than here but the bitching that goes on between a few long-timers that derails every other thread is annoying, plus the general "old man yells at cloud" feel of the place- like ThaiVisa forums if you've ever had the misfortune of visiting. Not that there's anything wrong with the experienced crowd but a few seem to miss the irony of the whole "young people are ruining everything, anyway I wanna fuck this young person"

Funnily I actually started there first- my account on there is from 2010 (shit that's 10 years ago).
Much busier than here but the bitching that goes on between a few long-timers that derails every other thread is annoying, plus the general "old man yells at cloud" feel of the place- like ThaiVisa forums if you've ever had the misfortune of visiting. Not that there's anything wrong with the experienced crowd but a few seem to miss the irony of the whole "young people are ruining everything, anyway I wanna fuck this young person"

Fair enough, I probably rag on the place too much. There's def good intel to be had on there and if I were in Patts more often I'd be on there more. The TS models tube thread is really useful for finding local LBs who have done porn.
Maybe liberal use of the 'ignore user/thread' function would solve my issues with the place.

Taaseesanuk and ssmurry : all true. The Bangkok public forum is everything you need as a newbie, it helped me a lot 2 or 3 years ago.
Advanced section in the Pattaya forum is fantastic - not now obviously - , you should try to advance there ssmurry.
 
By the way, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY ! Wish you many lbs and the best.

Lol the advanced section isn't some nirvana with contact details of LBs willing to give out free fucks or private hi-res photos of LB ass-cracks.
Trust me when I say that you can have a perfectly good time in Thailand with the large amount of information available in the public forum. Half the stuff in advanced is discussion on how the forum is run with barely over a dozen new topics in the last year. I'm honestly surprised whenever I see a new post in advanced- and normally it's a "has anyone heard from X user?"
Maybe the advanced section in the Pattaya sister forum has more activity (I'm not advanced there and rarely visit) but it certainly hasn't been busy here even before the covid situation. Most, if not all, of us make an effort to post publicly so don't worry you're not missing out on anything worthwhile. At this point it's more a (meaningless) label than any particular improvement on the forum experience. I certainly haven't noticed a change if that matters.

They've got big walls up around it and I'm assuming plenty of construction going on behind. The Mall Group owns the land and plans to build yet another mall, Emsphere, to go with the ones they already have in the area- Emporium and Emquartier. Apparently supposed to open this year but I'd say unlikely at this rate.
https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/dinosaur-planet-closes-makes-way-yet-another-mall-phrom-phong-station/
The good thing is that they plan to build an arena at the Emsphere, not the biggest at 6,000 capacity but at least there'll be a live event venue that's actually downtown.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1548074/the-mall-flits-into-new-arena

Don't forget the bloody $3000 you gotta fork out to do quarantine on return. Plus they're denying three out of four requests to leave anyway.

Don't forget the bloody $3000 you gotta fork out to do quarantine on return. Plus they're denying three out of four requests to leave anyway.

Unfortunately doesn't always go this way. A few years ago, hopped in a Taxi heading towards Asoke and was head in my phone, scrolling through work emails on the way. Not so deep mind that I didn't notice the driver come off well before Rama IX and avoid both toll-gates. Anyway, arrived at the hotel and he's sticking an extra B125 on the meter for the Airport Fee and both tolls. Told him no way, we didn't go through any tolls. He then gets out of the taxi screaming and hollering , trying to shame me into paying him. I jumped out, told the hotel staff to take my bags to the exec lounge (was checking in upstairs), stood there while he kept shouting and screaming, he even offered to drive me "to a police station to talk with them!". Not a fcking chance my son. At this point the bell-boys are getting embarrassed saying I should just pay him, but I stood my ground and the driver shouted again, "we drive through both gates, you pay me now!". So I politely asked one of the bell-boys to loudly ask him in Thai, so everyone there could hear, "If we came through both gates, we would drive to this hotel along Sukhumvit road. So why did you exit the highway near Rama IX and drive down Asoke?". Quietness followed, I paid the man what he was owed and not a cent more. 

Yeah I don't disagree, their mask use is about as good as their helmets- if they're worn at all they're loose or completely unstrapped so they'd fly off in a crash, or using bicycle helmets.
For whatever reasons (heat, prior mask usage, less touchy-feely social interactions, pure luck) Thailand has escaped the huge death tolls faced by other countries so I'm not overly concerned. The face shields and gloves worn by a lot of customer service now is way overkill but whatever keeps them in the illusion of safety.
I'm just glad they haven't put up plastic barriers inside PT like they've done in restaurants. Some of them are literally cling wrap on a couple of makeshift pipe frames, what's the point?

What's equally as amusing is that they still enforce/follow the social distancing for seating- so you can't sit next to each other but standing in crammed as shown is fine.
Unfortunately I can't see a feasible solution to this during peak time- there'd be lines onto the street if they enforced passenger limits and they barely have enough trains running as it is so they won't be increasing the number of services.
Thankfully the number of (detected) cases has been single digits/zero for the past 1-2 weeks, and with wearing a mask necessary to ride the BTS/MRT and well over 90% of people wearing masks everywhere else, I would say it's not as big a concern compared to other countries with similar crowding issues.

What's equally as amusing is that they still enforce/follow the social distancing for seating- so you can't sit next to each other but standing in crammed as shown is fine.
Unfortunately I can't see a feasible solution to this during peak time- there'd be lines onto the street if they enforced passenger limits and they barely have enough trains running as it is so they won't be increasing the number of services.
Thankfully the number of (detected) cases has been single digits/zero for the past 1-2 weeks, and with wearing a mask necessary to ride the BTS/MRT and well over 90% of people wearing masks everywhere else, I would say it's not as big a concern compared to other countries with similar crowding issues.

Yep. And Chatuchak has also opened it's doors today:

and my beloved Srinakarin Rod Fai Night Market will follow suit and will reopen next week:

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There are plenty of areas of Bangkok that are dead to me if there’s no MRT/BTS link but the map has really grown in the last 18 months. 
The MRT Blue line is now a full loop, a la the London Circle Line and since they pushed the BTS Green line on past Mo Chit, they've been opening stations every few months. The last stop, Ku Khot, is right near Don Muang....but behind it. I’m sure enterprising taxi drivers and Songtaews will hang out there once it’s open.
I don’t think there will be any kind of direct rail from DM to Swampy until the Chinese bullet train from Laos to Pattaya is running...one of those I’ll believe it when I see it projects.
I think the ARL to Don Muang is due next year but it well terminate from the new all singing and dancing Rail hub at Bang Sue. Although most of the line and stations look ready, the big hub at Bang Due still looks some way off and CV19 probably hasn’t exactly sped up construction.

Was reading that they'll be opening the remaining stations by the end of this year, and that from one end to the other on the light-green Sukhumvit line will be about 1.5 hours. They will also be adding around a dozen new trains to make up for the extra stations IIRC.
Would be good to get the airport 'link' finally linking the two airports at some point, or at least having some metro line going to DMK. The original ambitious metro-plan with 13 different lines still looks a long ways away..

Four more stations will be opening in June 2020 as the existing Sukhumvit green line will be extended from Kasetsart University (North 13 / N13) to Wat Phra Si Mahathat (N17).


 
https://www.bts.co.th/eng/
Do's and don'ts on the BTS:

https://twitter.com/i/videos/1244975740979793920

Will this be how economy class will look like after Corona?

https://instagram.com/briankelly

Flights back to normal by Oct 2021, says AOT, note that's October next year
“If the Covid-19 situation is brought under control in countries worldwide, the economy in Thailand and other major countries will recover, while traffic volume will return to normal in October 2021,” he said.

I'm wondering how Covid-19 will change the way we travel to Bangkok?
Will we all be wearing face masks for the duration of the flight on board in the future?
How will the flight attendants' uniforms look like?
Scoot

Eva Air

Philippines Airlines

Emirates

Sri Lankan I think

Will pax also have to wear in-flight protective gear?
Will there be one aisle for going to the lavatory and another one for returning to the seat?
Instead of a welcome Champagne, will we get some sanitizer bottles?
MAS

Will the cleaning of the aircraft take much longer than before Corona and will therefore the aircraft turnaround time be a lot higher?
Will we be greeted with an infrared thermometer gun when we board the plane?
Will the middle seats be blocked or even removed in all cabin classes?
Will airline food still be available? Only if it's prepackaged? 
How much will a ticket cost in the future? More than before Corona? Or less because of the low oil / fuel prices?