Everyone knows this is the slow tourist season in Thailand, but how slow is it in Pattaya? You'd expect tourism to be down perhaps 50 percent, but a local resident who goes by the name of "Pattaya Ghost" recently took a stroll down Walking Street and snapped a few photos of the deserted bars, restaurants, and nightclubs. The photos are shocking, and obviously proof that this is a slow season beyond belief.
As a follow-on to Banglamung’s recent diatribe, I obtained a 24-hour pass from the missus and ventured out to Walking Street Tuesday. It wasn’t my intention to be a documentarian of the woes and lows and Pattaya in the Age of Piggy Flu, but the sights were pretty shocking. So, as I stumbled my way from north to south, I snapped a few photos between 10 p.m. and midnight with my trusty N82 so definitively answer the question, “Just how slow is Pattaya.” The answer lies below.
f one wants to gauge the impact of the influenza A (H1N1) outbreak in Pattaya and Thailand, simply visit the muay thai boxing exhibition ring downstairs from Peppermint and outside Dollhouse. At 10 p.m., these seats would normally be full of Chinese and Korean package tourists. But after three Taiwanese returned home last week with swine flu after touring Pattaya, other tours canceled. The boxer simply stood there for a few minutes, figuring he’s not going to fight if no one’s going to watch.
The Pattaya Ghost Photos on The Farang Speaks 2 Much
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