Joo Chiat Hotels To Be Banned From Hourly Rate from 1 Jan 09

[TaurusGuy]

FROM Jan 1 next year, all hotels in the Joo Chiat Road area will be banned from offering hourly rates in a bid to crack down on sleaze in the heritage area.

The ruling requires hotel operators to let rooms at full-day rates. It will apply to the nine hotels there now and any new hotels opened in the area.

The Joo Chiat area boasts several Peranakan restaurants, many conserved shophouses and a notorious 50m stretch of Joo Chiat Road noted for prostitution.

Source: Joo Chiat hotels to be banned from offering hourly rates

This is bad news for us samsters and the hoteliers there. Any comments ?

[DTCEPL]

Big losses for the Hotel Operators

I guess the JC Hotels occupiency rate may dropped to all time super low.

[Heart Break Kid]

Die lah like that .. JC budget hotels is popular place for young Singaporean couples to check in for their ECA sessions.
Furthermore JC is a good & quiet place nobody will know what you are doing there

[TaurusGuy]

Overnight room rates there might drop in that area... the whole area will definitely be more quiet.

[wanker10]

I reckon the Hotel Operator will increase the price for short time elsewhere to cover teh loss over at Joo Chiat. The rest will also increase simply because supply & demand.

[DTCEPL]

I guess what the Hotel Operators can consider is either lowering their Overnite rates tremendously, or maybe introduced a new check-in rates/policy - to repay the 'Kindness' of supportive Customers, you pay the full overnite rate upon check-in, and get a 'Rebate' for checking out just after 2 hours .....and in the end....sums up to be the same as a 2 hours transit.....

Well the Garment can always come out with their Regulations, Hotel Operators can gave their Rebates to reward Loyal Customers mah.....

[paganwinter]

i am sure the hotel operators will have to find a way to work around this regulation. maybe the regulations will lifted when business drop too much, lik when they imposed this on gl. hotel businees drop, staff told to go worst right

i woudlnt be interested in jc if not for the tn. it has nothing worth mentioning there....i think residents gave heritage reasons...did something great happen there?...i studied history in sec school but dont remember jc being mentioned.

[edmundhello]

The hotel operators can probably do the following in my own opinion since sex business has never failed in the history of man kind. It's how creative and flexible u can be in surviving in harsh situations.

- membership (U pay for example $100 upfront for 1st check-in but let you use 2hrs for 4 times valid for a month or so)
- offer discounts to OKT discreetly to book a couple of rooms to be shared among the gals. The rms can be utilised in a round robin way.

Anyway, hotel consumers in that area will have the bargaining power. Could be good news in any case. Let's wait and see.

[murali]

fark e gahmen!

thought they never like to listen to small fries?

anyway this will be temporary only as soon as the casinos, erm, sorry IRs come up they will ease this as this is also near marina bay mah

jc near prata man's house so he have to step in to make sure his property will not drop to worthless mah

gahmen never listens to anyone unless one of their own is affected then they will take some action

well our mr chua (hotel 81) will be most affected as he has opened 3 hotels there as compared to fragrance which i believe only has 1 hotel there

[murali]

Originally Posted by edmundhello

The hotel operators can probably do the following

- membership (U pay for example $100 upfront for 1st check-in but let you use 2hrs for 4 times valid for a month or so)

think this is feasible

Originally Posted by edmundhello

- offer discounts to OKT discreetly to book a couple of rooms to be shared among the gals. The rms can be utilised in a round robin way.

Anyway, hotel consumers in that area will have the bargaining power. Could be good news in any case. Let's wait and see.

as for the 2nd suggestion, i dun think the operators will need to stoop to that stage of tying up wif OKTs as they are running a clean business

[cb_lover]

Maybe the some bros can get together and do "time-share"...

When there's a will (or willy), there's a way !

[cantona66]

Bro Murali

You are absolutely right on this. The government backed down because of the "pressure group" which wanted Joo Chiat to be "cleaned up" because the residents there need to raise families. So, it would appear that Joo Chiat is the only place in Singapore where people want to raise families. In that pressure group, there is a guy by the name of Colin Chee. As far as I know, he used to worked in the media industry so he is very good at using the press to push this point. He wrote an article in the TODAY newspaper about 2 weeks ago and he (and his friends) like to stay up late to take photographs of the "night life" and they would send them to the government. They basically send out e-mails to a lot of government departments on frequent basis. Faced with that, the government had to do something and the transit rate abolishment (from what I know) was proposed by the grassroots leaders of Joo Chiat who were tasked to look into it. The idea was to move the "sleaze" down to Geylang where it belongs.

[conjurer]

Originally Posted by murali

well our mr chua (hotel 81) will be most affected as he has opened 3 hotels there as compared to fragrance which i believe only has 1 hotel there

I think there is more than 3. We have 81 classic, sakura, joo chiat, tri-star and Opera. They are going to be affected the most in that area.

[DarthRevan]

oh no! this is bad news for budget customers

[louis2002]

So this means transit hotel at GL will be bustling with business after 1st Jan 09 liao loh..........

Operators in GL will benefit from another unpopular policy from the Sillipore gahment......................