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Sat on well populated beach at South Pattaya last night with many people participating in fun,music and alcohol no problem Police had a stroll along footpath on Beach Road none ventured onto the beach, vendors went down to those nearest footpath and they put alcohol out of view. 

Great time was had by all, time to open up I'm thinking, acting responsibly seems to be the

"New Normal" .????????

On 10/25/2021 at 12:07 PM, BritManToo said:

15Kg gas has reduced from 400bht to 365bht this month.

I've not really noticed anything going up in price.

 

75" LG TV is down from 40kbht to 35kbht.

Not noticed anything going up in price?? I take it you are not a car owner, fuel prices have almost doubled in last 15 months, so as every commodity in Thailand is transported by road all prices will rise, basic economics. ????????

4 hours ago, superal said:

As a tech dinosaur I find that most transactions are worrying because they either involve the downloading of apps , declaring your card details or showing/ passing over some form of personnel details , such as your passport  . The days of cash transactions are getting fewer and fewer but security does not seem to be keeping pace .  Pre-booking hotels does not stop the hotel from taking your passport for a day and you hope it does not fall into criminal hands as it is a valuable document .   

The law in Thailand no longer requires you to carry passport, I have a credit card size plastic photocopy of info page of passport this is all the information they require, but I always give them DL first which is usually enough. Passport like credit card should never be out of your sight, if they don't like it take business elsewhere. 

4 hours ago, Almer said:

Never liked the word “spastic”

I agree also it's totally misused in this context as it refers to a physical disability usually in mobility, nothing at all to do with this persons mental difficulty. 

On 10/22/2021 at 6:24 PM, island coconut said:

Fools. Covid will explode here soon...

 

Correct welcome to the real world of living with Covid, not to your liking, self-isolate while the rest of us get on with life, listening to doomsayers you would think nobody had ever died before this epidemic. ????????????

17 hours ago, Ohyesuare said:

They'll make it up by buying more faulty ATK test kits instead.

And place order for more submarines ????????????

11 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

even if they open all now to everybody, with no requirements at all, nobody will come.

might be surprising to them, but regular tourists do not think now "oh gosh, when will i be able to return to thailand at last ???"

I have many friends in the UK who holiday here regularly and cannot wait to get back already to get flights as soon as all the measures for getting back are announced, they want to be here for Xmas. ????????

9 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

I live in Pattaya. Alcohol is NOT easily available. The cops are ruthless and arresting customers and owners...30K.

Don't know which part of Pattaya your using but that isn't my experience. Beach side restaurants cocktails and drinks freely available. 

With the historical "success " of government apps here I guess we have a few more years before we have to worry about this ???? 

17 hours ago, internationalism said:

I did write: "activate it using this number and your mobile phone number."

 

this 14 digit number starting with 6000 is your id, and your pass is your phone number

In fact it is a 13 digit number starting 600000 it is shown on the paper cert as your ID number just download mor prom app put in the number and your phone number the app does the rest once your registered is easily the simplist Thai app I have ever used. 

16 hours ago, Mavideol said:

will believe when I see it, tired of their constant "fake news" it does drain me

Don't forget that the amazingly optimistic amongst us started buying this about August ????????????

2 hours ago, Nicholas Paul KNIGHT said:

21 months is not a record they should be proud of, the shilly shallying for the first 6-9 months the Govt should be hanging its head in shame . .

SHAME is not in the Thai vocabulary. ????????????

2 hours ago, Nicholas Paul KNIGHT said:

21 months is not a record they should be proud of, the shilly shallying for the first 6-9 months the Govt should be hanging its head in shame . .

15 hours ago, crazykopite said:

The mind boggles no investment in flood relief in a major Asian city as they much prefer the money to be spent on Chinese rust buckets that they call submarines I wonder if they will paint them Yellow !!!!!

Yeah but if they didn't have the floods where would they go in their submarines, the Gulf is too shallow for them ⚓⚓????

On 9/19/2021 at 12:30 AM, Scott said:

Fully vaccinated with Pfizer.  Vaccinated overseas.

Fully vaccinated with Pfizer Festival mall Pattaya ???? 

Once again the total disregard by the government towards what is happening in the country. 

Now is paperwork before lives ????????????

15 hours ago, HaoleBoy said:

Is this just Thailand doing what China wants and says?

 

Or is that too sophisticated a theory and the Thai Ministers just can't get their sh*t together and know what the left hand is doing. 

Can't believe that this administration would turn down anything that was offered freely ????????????

3 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Yeah while for a bit of drugs they remain jailed decades. I notice a lot of murderers get out early in TH to only do it again.

It does seem that taking a life doesn't appear to be treated as seriously here as in other parts of the world, if you want to do away with somebody get drunk and drive into them, then it seems to be treated as unfortunate circumstances. ????????????

8 hours ago, Metapod said:

noone is going to come to thailand just for some cbd.

 

if they actually legalize weed though, that would be a massive game changer.

There seems to be absolutely nothing in this country that isn't about to spark a tourism boom, from sandboxes to coffee with pictures of ganja leaves on the cup,  the main thing lacking in all of these booms.....TOURISTS.