stuarty
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40 officials to take down one banner. Well done lads!
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So who are the occupants that need moved from there? A couple of beer stalls?
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Where is the one hectare site at Laypang beach? Anyone know what's on it now?
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Yeah thanks but I'm not looking for a pub meal (even a gastro one), as its a big celebration for a table of 12 and am happy to splash out as it's Christmas day. When you consider the scope and scale of the top hotel brunches in Phuket (lobster, various seafood, yes foie gras, steaks, turkey etc etc., and the free flowing good quality wine and cocktails) then the cost of around 2500B is in my view a bargain, in fact a steal.
We are currently looking at Cape Yamu (Como) or Banyan Tree. Both menus look fantastic.
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205 views and no suggestions? Oh dear.....
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I am looking for suggestions for a top class Xmas lunch buffet in the northern part of the island (say north of Kamala) preferably around Laguna area.
I know the Slate (former Indigo Pearl) has a very good one, and looking for something similar to that level of quality
Any of you brunchers out there got any suggestions?
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11 minutes ago, pattayadgw said:
Lets see what transpires on the 3rd....LOL
What will happen is what always happens. They will vacate the spaces for a week or so then return to "normal"....There is no longer term enforcement.
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At the risk of repeating myself, MaAnn the cause of and not the solution to all of the beach problems. How the army or navy are incapable of sorting the beach management, and buffoons this this guy remain in place are cause for despair. This really is mealy mouthed nonsense from Col Santi, and leaves me with a leaden feeling in my gut. I despair.
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Yes there is a dedicated dermatology clinic at the Bangkok Phuket Hospital (Beside BIG C on bypass rd). Ground floor beside the main reception. 2 Doctors both excellent, and prices not too deadly.
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MaAnn Samran - The cause of, and not the solution to, the beach management issues.
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This Samran guy really is a piece of work. Playing both ends off against the middle again. The cause of and not the solution to most of the problems under his purview.
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6 minutes ago, Psimbo said:
Who do you think was getting a cut? Do you need a hint? Someone has pst in someone's pocket hence the barriers.
Succinctly put and I get it, but then shouldn't the vendors be sweetalking to the OBT and not complaining? I still say the vendors by all accounts can go fxx themselves, surely.
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I am not trying to be funny, and I know it's probably a stupid question, but how come there are any vendors at all on that beach, for all this time - I mean before the recent relaxation. They should not be there and the Or Bor Tor would be presumably be within their rights to tell them to go take a flying fxxx to themselves, no??
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1 hour ago, modafinil said:
Well spotted, stuarty. I particularly like your first link, where there two signs at each side of the road. One sign is correctly pointing towards Nai Thon, but the sign at the other side of the road claims that Nai Thon is located in the opposite direction!
What could the people who installed these signs have been thinking? "Yes, travel East to go to Nai Thon Beach. Or West. Up to you".
I know, and its been the situation for years, and nobody's done anything, e.g. any of the hoteliers, or any restauranteur etc., at either end.
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On the coastal road from Layan to Naithon (the Trisara road) there are similar large blue signs which on the way going north (after leaving Layan) say "Layan Beach", and on the way south, after Nai Thon, say "Nai Thon Beach". They have simply put up the wrong signs at the time of installing about 3 years ago, and no official has done anything about it since then. If you are a tourist, you will be hopelessly lost and confused.
This is after leaving Naithon heading south to Layan
And this is at Trisara heading north just before Nai Thon Beach
There are several more
This is as you come towards Laguna near Layan gardens/ Phuket Pavilions
It's pathetic that (a) someone presumably signed off on the work after installation - the signs are also in Thai - , and (b) nobody's bothered to fix it.
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1. Boat avenue
2. Er.....that's it.
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Chief of the Cherng Talay Tambon Administration Organisation (OrBorTor) MaAnn Samran added, “Surin Pubilc Park will be built using a budget of B12mn.
“I can confirm that once complete no vendors will be allowed in the park. There will be no shops for people to buy anything,”
He forgot to add "However, the car park will continue to be fully occupied by hawkers as normal..."
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The answer is as follows:
There has been virtually no follow up enforcement following initial clearance, hence the creeping back of encroachment and commercial facilities on the sand of Bangtao and Layan beaches etc. They will never go away.
However the situation is different at Surin. Clearance was 100% and it has been widely touted as the "King's park beach" and is high profile. The big clubs (Catch etc) and even small vendors know there is no future in encroachment there and will not risk spending a bean. They just occupy the car park instead.
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6 hours ago, JetsetBkk said:
Ah! Isn't corruption wonderful when it works in your favour.
Normally of course no, but in this case yes. 4 hours extra of my and my son's time together for 100 baht.
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Just now, NamKangMan said:
Not all tourists have Thai baht before they land, still, a nice earner for Immigration Officers.
He is 18 and never came through like that before. He changed HK Dollars to Baht, as someone in the Q told him the procedure, at a booth just beside the small queue. Can be done by anyone if they know about it.
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9 hours ago, RuamRudy said:
Currently stuck in the queue - been here almost an hour and about half way through the zigzag lanes. I have seen about 5 immigration booths in operation by I cannot confirm - hard to see across the sea of heads.
I was there last night at that time waiting for my son arriving from HK. He texted me at 11.40pm to say 400+ people in front of him in the snaky line, and what the flippin heck?. I told him to look for a shorter line, if any. He went to the "Visa on Arrival" line at one end and was asked for and paid 100B and through in 5 minutes. Result.
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Any remaining, or chanced to come back?
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It's that old joke: What kind of animal has a penis half way up its back?
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I see fat Tony's (substantial) restaurant has reappeared at Layan Beach , and the Reggae bar guy is selling drinks to beachgoers out of his car and a shack near the road side, and so on. Will these guys never go away?
Phuket officials inch towards regaining Supreme Court reclaimed land
in Phuket News
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It'll be a start when they remove Paul's and Tony's giant restaurants....