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12 hours ago, dunroaming said:

Pattaya isn't a family resort.  It reminds me more of Shanghai in the twenties when the sailors were in town (I remember it well ) and should come with an adults only warning!

 

Thailand has some wonderful beaches and great restaurants and a lot of warm and welcoming people.  And then there is Pattaya....       

All of the above exist in and around Pattaya, there is more to the place than soi 6/8/10 and Walking Street. Go take a look sometime.

the sooner the coppers get up off their fat a##s and actually walk the beat and stop sitting around counting their tea money the sooner this place will become family friendly and  this <deleted> will go away

This was hardly a "Violent brawl" couple of bitch slaps and a sneaky attempt at a blindsider by a young Thai and everybody on their way again.......more of a scuffle!!

On 13.2.2018 at 1:56 AM, simoh1490 said:

You wanna bet! They don't happen in the islands, they don't happen in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, they don't happen in Nakon Nowhere but they do happen almost daily in Pattaya.

Have you been in the ilands? Have you been in Chiang Mai? Have you been ion Chiang Rai? Give me a break....you choking

12 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I think that is why cgi was separating Pattaya from the rest of Thailand.  There are plenty of family friendly places still around and anyone going to Pattaya for a family holiday needs their heads examining.  The same with Phuket.  We used to go there from Chiang Mai for a family holiday but never to Patong.  

Plenty of fun family oriented things to do in Pattaya and easy to avoid the potential bad spots if one has common sense.

2 hours ago, LennyW said:

This was hardly a "Violent brawl" couple of bitch slaps and a sneaky attempt at a blindsider by a young Thai and everybody on their way again.......more of a scuffle!!

Agreed.....looked more like a Handbags at Dawn convention!

This one made the Daily Star in the UK

 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/681663/Thailand-fight-Pattaya-Brits-abroad-brawl-party-island-video

15 hours ago, dunroaming said:

I think that is why cgi was separating Pattaya from the rest of Thailand.  There are plenty of family friendly places still around and anyone going to Pattaya for a family holiday needs their heads examining.  The same with Phuket.  We used to go there from Chiang Mai for a family holiday but never to Patong.  

More family orientated things to see and do in Pattaya than Chiang Mai and Phuket put together.

20 hours ago, impulse said:

 

You mean the Las Vegas that saw a huge boom in tourism when they cleaned up and catered to families?  That Las Vegas?

 

That experiment failed long ago. Now it's "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" as their ad campaign. Topless pools, more strip clubs, more high-end pickup nightclubs, more escorts.  It's for adults. Disney World is for families. Each to their own. I've done both. 

High season of drunk and stupid hooligans 

But it is not happening in every country as someone say

21 minutes ago, Mac98 said:

That experiment failed long ago. Now it's "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" as their ad campaign. Topless pools, more strip clubs, more high-end pickup nightclubs, more escorts.  It's for adults. Disney World is for families. Each to their own. I've done both. 

 

It didn't fail.  For a while, it was quite successful.  But then the Native Americans opened up gambling casinos all over the country, several other states legalized gambling, and cheap flights to exotic foreign lands with gambling drew away a lot more of their business.   So maybe they had to turn to the mongers again...  They're getting over 40 million visitors a year now...

 

http://www.lvcva.com/includes/content/images/media/docs/Historical-1970-to-2017.pdf

 

Still, I doubt they have the dodgy guys on the sidewalks in front of the main casinos flashing photos of naked hookers like they did when I first went there in the '80s.  And like the guys today on Lower Sukhumvit.

 

On 2/12/2018 at 4:37 PM, DoctorG said:

Haven't been there for a while but that looks too narrow to be Walking Street.

Yes that is WS...between 3-4am.

I wouldn't call that violent.  Lot of sloppy punch throwing.  Now if somebody had gone down to the ground I suspect there would have been some kicking in the head stuff

On Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 7:56 AM, simoh1490 said:

You wanna bet! They don't happen in the islands, they don't happen in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, they don't happen in Nakon Nowhere but they do happen almost daily in Pattaya.

In a place with an estimated minimum 2,000 bars there is always the possibility of a problem in one of them.

 

And minimum possibility of it affecting 99.99% of people there.

On 2/13/2018 at 7:54 PM, LennyW said:

This was hardly a "Violent brawl" couple of bitch slaps and a sneaky attempt at a blindsider by a young Thai and everybody on their way again.......more of a scuffle!!

I have seen more violence between women bridal gown clearance sales

1 hour ago, gk10002000 said:

I have seen more violence between women bridal gown clearance sales

LOL...the Black Friday sales at Walmart are absolutely lethal compared to this group of brawling halfwits!

22 hours ago, impulse said:

 

It didn't fail.  For a while, it was quite successful.  But then the Native Americans opened up gambling casinos all over the country, several other states legalized gambling, and cheap flights to exotic foreign lands with gambling drew away a lot more of their business.   So maybe they had to turn to the mongers again...  They're getting over 40 million visitors a year now...

 

http://www.lvcva.com/includes/content/images/media/docs/Historical-1970-to-2017.pdf

 

Still, I doubt they have the dodgy guys on the sidewalks in front of the main casinos flashing photos of naked hookers like they did when I first went there in the '80s.  And like the guys today on Lower Sukhumvit.

 

True, no dodgy guys handing out hooker ads. Those ads are on top of taxis. And the Indian casinos didn't draw away families as most of those feature nothing but gambling.