Patong Beach sunbed operators push for more space on the sand

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Patong Beach sunbed operators push for more space on the sand

By Tanyaluk Sakoot

 

Sunbed operators are looking to expand their space on the sand at Patong Beach. Photo’ The Phuket News /file

 

PHUKET: Less than 48 hours after the polls closed in the national election on Sunday, Patong sunbed operators have filed a formal request to extend their areas at Patong Beach, including setting up an entirely new section of sun beds along one of the busiest sections of Phuket’s most popular stretches of sand.

 

The formal request was made at Patong Municipality at 10am yesterday (Mar 26) by Ampien Tientin, Head of the Patong Sunbed Club, along with several other Patong sunbed operators.

 

Present to receive the formal request was Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup and Lt Col Surasak Peungyeam, of the Royal Thai Army’s 25th Military Circle, which are based in Phuket, and other military personnel.

 

Full story: https://www.thephuketnews.com/patong-sunbed-operators-push-for-more-space-on-the-sand-70865.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2019-03-27

[madmen]

Push the tourists of their free sand and onto sun beds . Always about the baht

[Lingba]

This place is stupid

[Vacuum]

6 minutes ago, Lingba said:

This place is stupid

Easy to avoid.

[Deli]

Ask tourists want they want, deck chair & parasol or baking on the sand ?

Not rocket science.

[KarlS]

Mmm  And so it begins - Allow them to expand and once again the beach will be covered with chairs and umbrellas from one end to the other. 

[Bluespunk]

“October 2016, Phuket received a new Governor, Chockchai Dejamornthan, who vowed to clear all vendors from Phuket beaches as he pointed out that no government office in the country had any authority to allow any commercial operations on any beaches in Thailand, never mind creating a law to specifically to allow them to operate on 10% of the sand area.
 

Also, it appears that we still have issues with the umbrella and beach chair mafias. There will be no more mafias. It is my duty to work out who will manage Phuket’s beaches, but I can assure you it will not be mafias and they will be run in accordance with the law,” he said. (See story here.)

Yet the beach operators remained, and Governor Chockchai was soon posted out of Phuket."

 

So much for governor assurances...

[nasa123]

There have been many many available sun beds through this high season every day and all day in Patong, Karon and Kata beach. Russian don't rent sunbed.

 

Edited March 27, 2019 by nasa123

[Pinot]

Just a play from the sunbed mob to expand. There has never been a day when all the sunbeds have been full. Most beaches have less than 50% of the beds occupied. 

 

The original rules were no empty sunbeds. They were to be put out as they were rented. That rule is long out the window. 

 

[Richard Kuklinski]

4 hours ago, Deli said:

Ask tourists want they want, deck chair & parasol or baking on the sand ?

Not rocket science.

One is free, they other you have to pay for.

 

They don't want anything free here. 

[DrDave]

7 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

“October 2016, Phuket received a new Governor, Chockchai Dejamornthan, who vowed to clear all vendors from Phuket beaches as he pointed out that no government office in the country had any authority to allow any commercial operations on any beaches in Thailand, never mind creating a law to specifically to allow them to operate on 10% of the sand area.
 

Also, it appears that we still have issues with the umbrella and beach chair mafias. There will be no more mafias. It is my duty to work out who will manage Phuket’s beaches, but I can assure you it will not be mafias and they will be run in accordance with the law,” he said. (See story here.)

Yet the beach operators remained, and Governor Chockchai was soon posted out of Phuket."

 

So much for governor assurances...

It's a recurring theme in Phuket.  Any new governor that goes up against the established mafia is swiftly transferred to another province, and the cycle begins anew.

[Lingba]

Time for another tsunami

[impulse]

How's this for win-win...

 

You can have more space, but for every rental bed, you have to keep 100 square meters of the public beach clean.

 

[steelepulse]

I'm all for sunbeds, if they pay a huge transparent licensing fee that goes to infrastructure upgrades on the beaches.  Is having clean functioning shower and toilet facilities too much to ask for a "world class destination".

 

Why not hit the current operators up for 500K baht now for a renewal of their concessions for next year?  They should be flush after 5 months of renting sunbeds.