redwood1

I hope you guys like Palm trees........ Because that is the ONLY tree that is going to be on the promenade from one end to the other......( except for a few coconut trees here and there) Even though I bet most of the coconut trees will also end up getting chopped........

This is meant to be a 2 year project.... Has anyone noticed what they put their FULL UNDIVIDED attention on, on the very FIRST day of this project? Drum-roll please.................................. Yes you guessed it........Cutting down ALL (as in every last one) of the shade trees...... So why the supper BIG rush? On a 2 year project?..... My guess is because they know what they do is wrong.... And chopping the trees is going the make many people unhappy..... But it does not matter, because they hate the shade trees and want them all gone.....100% gone....forever................ So they all must be chopped immediately.....

Just wear the mask on your chin.....That seems to mostly satisfy the self appointed mask police.....It seems to work for loads of Thais....

So are these farang dead yet from this non-mask wearing?

Here are some drawing of what the promenade makeover will most likely look like...I have added a few old promenade pictures for comparison....... The things I notice from these drawings is I don't see any shade trees and hardly any seating......Also no plants, shrubs or anything of that nature....Just lots and lots of Palm trees......

The new beach promenade will be great If....... #1....You hate shade and shade trees...... #2... You like having nowhere to sit..... #3.... You especially hate sitting on a park bench under a shade tree...... #4.. You Love love love shadeless Palm Trees, (expect no other tree on the beach)..... #5 You love hanging on the beach all day under the hot sun with zero shade and zero places to sit........

You should care a lot if you like nightlife.....Walking street was the hub of the wheel that all the less expensive spokes of the nightlife wheel radiated out from....It would be a HUGE blow to nightlife in general if it was gone....

Cruises go to Phuket.....They never have and never will come to Pattaya...

Think...... How will there be future Hi-so seaside dining if they chop all the ends of the buildings off? And whos going to pay for the chopping? Walking street is the most famous and successful landmark in Pattaya....And they will throw that away for shops selling luggage. T-shirts, and wooden elephants? Will Chinese tour groups get a thrill at gawking at shops selling selling luggage. T-shirts, and wooden elephants on their flag following tours? Do you think it is a wise move to turn about the most famous street in Asia into a street selling luggage. T-shirts, and wooden elephants?

1 Trillion Baht is only billion 3,300,000,000 dollars..... Take just 1 city in America......Seattle Washington......Their 2020 budget was 6 billion dollars... Your telling me business in Thailand have only lost 1 Trillion baht in the last 18 months? I bet the real numbers are more like somewhere between 10-20 Trillion baht, maybe more....

Sir let me make this simple, we just need to get rid of the Chinese,Russians,Indians, Japanese, and Koreans, get the girls to beg to go LT for 500 baht like the old days..... Train the girls to wipe our faces again with a cold wipe when we sit down in a bar like they use to do, and worship farang like they use to do.........And Pattaya will be great again.........

Sir you do know hard questions make people uncomfortable..... Also Where will a driver charge his Tuk Tuk? How will a all but currently broke Tuk Tuk driver buy one? Will a Tuk Tuk driver want to buy one? I sure would not if I was a driver...

Yea......Like they have not read countless comments over the years of people very very unhappy with no sitting or shade trees....They know very well what people want, but they want a sterilized, lifeless beach......And that's exactly what the new beach makeover will be.......Even more sterilized and lifeless than now.....

I agree the Trees were wonderful....I feel thankful to have spent many happy days on the old promenade... Here are some drawings of the new promenade.....It looks like ALL as in every last shade tree will be chopped.......What little vib that remains will be finished....

I agree 100%........The promenade was like the heart of Pattaya...Hardly anyone recognizes or gives much importance to the promenade..... They killed the beach vib in 2013 ( hey same year they passed federal reserve act in 1913 in America....) The dead beach vib, spread more and more through Pattaya after 2013.... Now it looks like they will finish the job killing off the beach with the new promenade makeover...

Well if going from 100,000,000 million to 1,000,000 million was just fine then going from 1,000,000 million to 100,000 Thousand should also not be a problem... With a pit stop at 500,000 on the way down....

5 packs a day?........It seems almost impossible that there is enough time in a day to smoke 5 packs....

That it was planned back in 2011 does not answer the "Why" question.....

I see this comment has been ignored by just about everyone....Not even so much as a like...... The most important question here...... Why? Why are they lowering the customers protection to a measly pathetic 1 million? Why? Very very good question.... No doubt they got their eye on 500,000 and then 250,000.......Don't laugh.....It was 25,000,000 million not so long ago.....

The ferry was just to expensive....... Lets see, it would cost a family of 4 about 9600 baht round trip... Or A family of 4 could go to Koh Larn for 240 baht round trip..... The ferry ran with no more than 30-40-50% occupancy most of the time.. With loads of overhead costs....

Nonsense Pattaya always needs more malls, just look at Bangkok....Bangkok is absolutely saturated with malls, yet they keep building more......Pattaya only has about 10 malls...It's just shameful how deprived the people of Pattaya are mall wise...

People just don't realize how VAST VAST HUGE China's manufacturing is......Most things on Lazada come from China.....Until manufacturing moves the world needs China...

Why not take the family and the kids to Walking Street? The Russians dont seem to have a problem taking their families...

Who said me...I was talking about others...