Originally Posted by Return of Santan (Post 10880233)

:goodpost: :confused: I don't know who has posted the best reply to the usual "blame someone else gov" crap that comes out of Goa, J5, afd or prestonjohn, yes things haven't changed that much since 1996 - except for the worse and when are the much vaunted 5* tourists going to turn up ? :rofl:

RofS

Originally Posted by prestonjohn (Post 10880158)

I have just read the article in today The Observer.Most of it was the usual rubbish re-hashed from previous articles and with some comments from the Goan Shack owners motor mouth John Lobo about how British pensioners sharing a tea bag...pathetic....Have just arrived back from Tenerife and its pretty obvious where quite a number of the missing Brits have gone and why they have gone too.Britsh tourists were originally attracted to Goa because of its charm and never mind the dust and occasional rubbish heap.The beaches in Goa were never up to the standards of say The Caribbean. But at least you could sun bathe without too much hassle.Now with the advent of cheep domestic tourism via car ownership and coaches the place has suffered what can only be described as tectonic shift in direction for which Goa was completely unprepared for courtesy of stupid idiotic politicians of all parties. One example comes to mind Mikky Pacheco. 21st century tourists from Europe want clean streets, clean beaches and clean water and unadulterated food and Goa cannot deliver any of them because of inbred corruption at every level of life from reporting a crime to catching a taxi. The Goan Tourist Department have adopted a policy of there is an idiot born somewhere every minute of every day on this planet.They are actively flogging Goa all over the old Soviet Union Republics and these are certainly not high rollers that Parikar keeps twaddling on about.They are extremely low budget package holiday tourists who will travel to Goa maybe twice and then its off to Spain because there its now even cheaper and better value too. Who wants to have to negotiate there way to the beach through piles of rubbish and heaps of human waste.Drunken Indian youths making sexual and racist slurs....no one with any brains that is.High Rollers coming to Goa ! Its the biggest joke i have read in years.Clean up Goa..wow..you need to start at grass roots with Goans taking responsibility for their own spaces and keeping their compounds clean first but knowing the Goan character so well i know this is just another of Parikers pipe dreams...next time i see him in Panjim i must remember to ask what he smokes because i would love to try some of the stuff.......

Originally Posted by Bipat (Post 10880301)

.....What puzzles me is that, if it is so awful? why, why are so many on the 'Forum' still making a fuss about visas and wanting to go back to Goa???

Originally Posted by a_f_d (Post 10880393)

Well we go (that's the married we not the royal we <g>) because the climate is pleasant at those times when the English weather is at its worst, the cost of living is a little lower, the food is cosmopolitan and the Goans (particularly but not exclusively those living away from the tourist areas) are easy-going, friendly, helpful people who nearly all speak English and are prepared to accept that we speak nothing else.

AndyD 8-)₹

Originally Posted by Return of Santan (Post 10880464)

"What puzzles me is that, if it is so awful? why, why are so many on the 'Forum' still making a fuss about visas and wanting to go back to Goa???"

Unfortunately many on this forum made a "gross error of judgement" in "buying" property there and consequently return out of necessity

RofS

Originally Posted by chrisjolly (Post 10880491)

Absolutely agree Andy..Goa has changed like everywhere does but we still love it and every year we make more friends and have more fun..going back just in time for the Lusofonia Games and IFFI..where can you go and watch basketball and an offbeat South Korean film on the same day?? well apart from a film about basketball in Seoul!

Originally Posted by Chameleons (Post 10884633)

I thought this was always the case anyway:

http://www.deccanchronicle.com/13083...ach-shack-jobs



Chameleons.