PingRoundTheWorld

Despite the silly responses you've been getting, depending on your lifestyle and party style 186k a month may not be enough if you spend 70k on rent. Booze and girls add up fast if you do it daily. I'd recommend deciding what's more important to you- girls and party or renting a 70k house, because you'll have to compromise on one of them. 70k rent plus utilities, food, and other expenses would leave you with just over 100k free spending money, or in other words about 3000 baht a night - enough for booze OR girls but not really both. There are ways to budget and save, but if your starting point is already low (100k/mo spending money is low IMHO) then you'll always be looking at your wallet worried if you're not overdoing it.

Complete nonsense. While the US shouldn't provoke a war with Iran, it's actually Iran that's been testing the waters with more provocations from Iran-backed militias, exactly because Iran fears an all-out war with the US. I don't think the US should directly attack Iran at this point, but more actions need to be taken against those militia and the Houthis in particular need to go. Either way comparing US military might to Iran's is ridiculous because they are orders of magnitude apart. It's kind of like comparing Hamas and their RPGs and inaccurate rockets to Israel's coordinated land, air, and sea forces - it's not a question of if they lose, it's just a question of how long it takes. Hopefully it won't come to that (a war with Iran), but if it does the US needs to promptly and decidely crush the Islamists and install a new government. The will of the people is already there - it's just a matter of helping them make it happen.

Completely irrelevant. This happened in a Thai nightlife area that will not be part of the 4am extended closing times, not to mention this happened long before 4am. Young Thais brawling has nothing to do with extending closing times in tourist areas.

What a terrible idea. Will have to consider Phlippines or somewhere else for the month of April if this happens. Not willing to tolerate dodging brainless zombies with water guns for a whole month.

Weed aside, I'll never understand why online ordering of booze is illegal here. It's not like people are going to drink any less just because they have to physically go get the bottle - it's just less convenient and achieves nothing. But the Thai alcohol Karens can pretend they've done something...

Stop there. That's all we needed to know.

I know a few club managers and owners in Bangkok. They're absolutely thrilled and can't wait for this. For some no name pub you may be right - keeping it open for 3 people another 2 hours is not great, but for a club with hundreds of people there's absolutely a lot more business coming their way.

Sounds like you're the one who needs to get a life. Why do you care what other people do with theirs? None of your business if we want to party late. Let the market (patrons and venue owners) decide how late they want to go. As long as they're not hurting or disturbing anyone - there is no problem. Nonsense about more drunks or more drunk drivers is just that - people who drink and drive will do it anyway, and tourists don't drink and drive anyway, at least not the ones with a brain.

Assuming you believe the maid that he said he would commit suicide at some point - she could've been persuaded to say that for money or by threats. I don't know the guy, but it sounds odd to me that someone would confide in anyone - let along a maid - that they're about to off themselves. There are some missing details like what language the suicide letter was in, whether the room was locked from the inside, and what was the nature of his alleged financial trouble - or to be specific if someone would have a motive to kill him. Simply shutting the valve off does not in itself rule out suicide, although it does raise questions - if he was conscious and shut it off because he changed his mind, why not take the bag off his head? Also- was he found close enough to the valve that it would make sense that he was the one who shut it off? etc...

That'a not the issue here. The guy financed her investment in a grocery store, afterwards she disappeared as she didn't need him anymore. Just another case of a fool and his money parting ways. To begin with expecting to find actual love in Pattaya is naive. (possible maybe in a minority of cases - but not most)

Gambling and drugs usually come packaged in with violent tendencies too here, but yes, depending on the level of addiction it can be a problem.

My first gf in Thailand taught me an improtant lesson: at the first sign of violence - ditch her. If she's talking about "boxing you" then she will eventually, and if she's already hitting you when angry then eventually she'll move on to objects (sharp or not). You can't fix crazy, but you can toss it out of your life.

Two unknown people who both aren't Chinese, both stand to gain (baht) from more Chinese tourists - but don't necessarily have any idea how actual Chinese tourists would view this. My guess is not favorably - part of the reason they come here is to let go and be free from Big Brother at home - shoving Chinese cops up their throats will probably lead to LESS tourists, not more.

And will officially go into effect only next month. Absolutely zero correlation between that and family vacation. As far as noise levels at night - anyone who's in Pattaya around Beach road or Walking Street and expects peace and quiet is insane. If you want quiet go somewhere else.

What the actual ****??? this does NOT make me feel safe. Doubt it'll make Chinese tourists feel safe either, probably on the contrary...

There is a massive amount of Filipinos who work as caretakers for seniors outside of the Philippines and gain many years experience working in the field - probably more than any other country's citizens. Many of them go back home eventually so I'd expect elderly care personnel in the Philippines to be top notch.

Another likely possibility is that there was miscommunication and he thought the 4200 bar fine included the "tip" for the girl, but she thought she found a clueless sucker and was expecting an additional 15,000 tip. In any case the lessons here are: 1. Never pay upfront. 2. It's better to give a girl something (not 15k!!) than nothing, because they will get nasty otherwise. 3. If you already paid - don't stand on the street talking (or arguing) with her! 4. Beer bars aren't exactly the best place to meet your tilak.

Yeah, all those mean dangerous expats in luxury(?) condos are a real threat to society. Sure, there's ladyboys and African drug dealers on the corner of soi 13 and Sukhumvit in front of Hyatt, but the soi itself is quite quiet.

Exactly. All the comments about prostitutes/mongers/drug dealers are completely irrelevant as this is obviously about the Middle East thing.

If you bought a house in an area that later became city center then congratulations! You're rich. Just sell it and move on instead of clinging to how you want the neighborhood to be vs what it developed to be. My logic is driven by me liking to party - LATE - and the wet blanket rules ruining Bangkok nightlife for me. I'm a patron, not an operator, have no financial stake in this beyond spending way too much on booze.

In Bangkok the current plan is Silom, RCA and Ratchadapisek. Which is quite funny/sad considering Silom caters to expats, RCA and Ratchadapisek cater mostly to Thais. If the goal is to promote tourism then they have completely failed to include actual areas where tourists go: Lower Sukhumvit, Khaosan, Thong Lor... Gotta wonder if the zones weren't chosen by the size of the envel...err...venues. It's either that, or whoever made the decision has no clue about tourist nightlife.

Currently most venues operating in Bangkok afterhours are the definition of fire hazards - small rooms packed with drunk people, some with flamable soundproofing covering the walls, and only one way out usually through a narrow corridor. Extending legal closing time will allow larger, established venues that do not present a fire hazard to remain open later, thus mostly eliminating the need for fire hazard illegal venues. Currently the situation is absurd - the legal venues that are much safer for patrons close early, while smaller illegal venues are the only ones allowed to (pay to) remain open. At least that's the situation in Bangkok where nightlife has been dying a slow agonizing death due to the enforcement of the 2am curfew. People are literally leaving Bangkok as it's not fun as it used to be.

Step 1: Choose to live in an entertainment area, instead of a myriad of other quieter options. Step 2: Complain about the noise. Step 3: ???

Did you miss the part where it was the Malaysians that confirmed that the hostages are "safe" (whatever that means)? Hardly sounds like a hostile nation to Thailand...

Is there really such a rumor?? Israel has literally millions of citizens who served in the army, hundreds of thousands of reservists already called to duty. Some of the most highly trained soldiers in the world, and the most advanced military technology available today (much of it was developed in Israel). Why on earth would they need a handful of Thai agriculture workers as mercenaries?!