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Originally Posted by wazza
Been out a few nights in patong lately and seem to be plenty of couples walking on soi bangla but the bars are very quiet, and once you get up the bar sois and into the bar areas off bangla its dead.
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But why? the few years I have been in Patong during this period it has been mobbed, yet 3 or 4 different people have told me that they were surprised how quiet it all is.
Supposed record numbers of arrivals for this high season...they can't all be here for just a couple of weeks of that period!
Also got me thinking of another conversation I was having recently about how Patong was changing...their argument was that Patong was becoming ever more sleazy...yet I was claiming the complete opposite, truck loads of Japs/Koreans/Chinese doing their early evening gawping before bussing off to their hotels, most soi's seeming tamer than 3/4 years ago too. Last year there seemed to be a sudden influx of european couples with young kids which I don't remember seeing much of before either. Can't imagine it will be the same place in 2 or 3 years from now. I think Jungceylon will put paid to that, not that I am saying it is a bad thing, but all that place does is encourage more and more people into town that the local infrastructure can not handle - with or without the middle road.