Pattaya as Miami? You're 'aving a laugh suggests Thai media.

[rooster59]

Pattaya as Miami? You're 'aving a laugh suggests Thai media.

 

Images: Sophon Cable TV

 

Sophon Cable TV, that has been highly critical of the mess in Pattaya in the last month, poured scorn on suggestions this week that Pattaya ranks alongside such holiday luminaries as Miami.

After photo-shopped pictures of pristine beaches, clutter free sidewalks and no hanging wires went viral online, Sophon came up with their own collection of images snapped in one corner of the resort.

And these, they said, presented the reality of what tourists will find in Pattaya.

The pictures showed:

* Trash including bottles and drinks containers strewn about
 

* Loads of what looked like sandbags or cement piled high spoiling any view
 

* Great lumps of concrete ready to catch any unwary pedestrians on the sidewalk
 

* Decrepit corrugated iron huts cluttering the beach
 

* Trash and flotsam and jetsam littering the sand

and finally....

* Workers who might have been landscaping to make the place more beautiful having an extended siesta.

Sophon said that this was how Pattaya looked today.

They also mentioned on their Facebook site that since 2004 on a 3 kilometer stretch from the dolphin roundabout to Walking Street, the authorities were said to have spent 250 million baht on burying unsightly wires.

 

Source: Sophon Cable TV

 

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2017-09-30

[Get Real]

Maybe, not so perfect after all. 

[Lingba]

If Florida officials catch wind of that suggestive article..they could very well consider holding computer crimes act charges against the writers

[tracker1]

It appears people can't comment for the tears in their eyes caused by laughter !

[morrobay]

So the Thais have finally learned how to complain about some of the mess around here. Thanks to the foreigners who set the examples.

[DD13]

More sand in those "sandbags"  than there is on the beach

 

Do they have Chinese kids "pooing"on the walkway in Miami ??

&

Aggresive jet ski/ motor boat morons roaming around trying to intimidate people and make them feel threatened and uncomfortable. ??

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2017 by DD13
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[johng]

Its a bit like the TV show

"Miami vice"  fast boats,fast women and drugs,except Pattaya is nowhere near as glitzy...and no Crockett and Tubbs

[over it]

They're gonna need better coke.

[Boon Mee]

All Pattaya is missing is Tony Montana. 

[mikebell]

With all the money flowing into Pattaya you'd think the authorities could afford working sidewalks; proper parking; a police force; sand; litter bins; drains.  Please feel free to add.

[mark01]

Miami after being hit by a hurricane maybe!

 

And here's naklua last week

[DoctorG]

Most tourist agencies would be guilty of embellishment. Misrepresentation is an entirely different matter.

[johng]

 

@mikebell

Sewage treatment plants,roads that dont resemble moto x tracks,intelligent traffic lights,

benches along the promenade,

public parks with those horrid things called trees and grass....a round up of soi dogs

Edited September 30, 2017 by johng

[Thian]

1 hour ago, DD13 said:

More sand in those "sandbags"  than there is on the beach

 

Do they have Chinese kids "pooing"on the walkway in Miami ??

&

Aggresive jet ski/ motor boat morons roaming around trying to intimidate people and make them feel threatened and uncomfortable. ??

 

 

 

And soidogs everywhere, ladyboys who annoy bypassers, taxi's that horn to pedestrians, motobikes with open exhaustpipes, cyclists/rollerskaters inbetween pedestrians, stinking bins every 10 meter...

[leggo]

More like resembling Miami's sewage works!

[Destiny1990]

1 hour ago, mikebell said:

With all the money flowing into Pattaya you'd think the authorities could afford working sidewalks; proper parking; a police force; sand; litter bins; drains.  Please feel free to add.

Plus maintenance and improvements

[peperobi]

Why are the people talking about Miami? Pattaya and only Pattaya is the 1st class destination in the world! Wow, wow, wow....

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, johng said:

Its a bit like the TV show

"Miami vice"  fast boats,fast women and drugs,except Pattaya is nowhere near as glitzy...and no Crockett and Tubbs

c

Actually they would feel quite at home here. tubs and crocked 

[Lupatria]

From Miami to Messami...

[sn1per]

anyone got a link for the photoshopped photo's 

[Just1Voice]

If I'm a Florida State Official, I would be filing a defamation and slander suit against the writer. 

 

[gamini]

 Pattaya atrracts the worst dregs of society. Pimps, criminals and very lowlife residents (sexpats) and a pretty sordid sex scene. Its biggest tourist attraction is its shear decadance. So how can it possibly be any thing else unless all these kind of people leave.

[Anagami]

Oh come on. We got way more cheaper pussy than Miami. 

[Anagami]

7 minutes ago, gamini said:

 Pattaya atrracts the worst dregs of society. Pimps, criminals and very lowlife residents (sexpats) and a pretty sordid sex scene. Its biggest tourist attraction is its shear decadance. So how can it possibly be any thing else unless all these kind of people leave.

 

Personally, I find that fascinating. Something you don't see back home.

[PAIBKK]

4 hours ago, over it said:

They're gonna need better coke.

Coke in Thailand is way sweeter and contains more sugar than elsewhere. I changed to Pepsi as it contains less sugar than Coke in Thailand..

Posted picture: Nutrician Facts USA.

Edited September 30, 2017 by PAIBKK

[Nong Khai Man]

17 minutes ago, PAIBKK said:

Coke in Thailand is way sweeter and contains more sugar than elsewhere. I changed to Pepsi as it contains less sugar than Coke in Thailand..

Posted picture: Nutrician Facts USA.

But Pepsi Max & Coke Light are better for you're Health....

[PAIBKK]

3 minutes ago, Nong Khai Man said:

But Pepsi Max & Coke Light are better for you're Health....

I already have changed to beer or wine...
The taste of Max or Light sucks.

Edited September 30, 2017 by PAIBKK

[zaZa9]

It doesnt matter who the tourists are.

Pattaya gets the revenue from tourism  , and its government is tasked with making it as attractive as possible with that income.

Instead those charged with keeping the environs clean and improving things  are lazy and worthless individuals that are simply  not doing their jobs.

[champers]

No hurricanes or mass evacuation of the population in Pattaya.

[newnative]

      I've been to Miami enough times to know it's not a place where I'd want to live.  Too big, too expensive, too congested, and too dangerous.  I love an ocean view; it will cost you an arm and a leg in Miami--in high condo fees and expensive hurricane insurance, not to mention higher condo prices.  My ocean view here in Pattaya only costs me about $78 USA dollars a month in condo maintenance fees.  Same year-round warm weather as Miami but much cheaper--and a city that is more the size of what I like.   But, that's just my preference.   Different strokes for different folks.