Pattaya: Video shows Songkran water wars start at resort

 

Image: The Pattaya News

 

A video on the site of The Pattaya News showed tourists and Thais starting water wars at the beginning of the Songkran festival yesterday evening.

 

The media said there were "quite a few" people out on the streets especially in areas set aside by the beer bars to hurl water at each other and passing cars, baht buses and motorbikes. 

 

The daytime temperature had been 35-37 degrees so it was welcome to cool down. 

 

Vendors with both small and big water guns were doing a good trade.

 

Today there are expected to be many more water tossers out on the streets.

 

 

Source: The Pattaya News

 

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Tossers, yes, that's right.

3 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

water tossers

Perfect!

5 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Tossers, yes, that's right.

beat me to it, lol

If you live here, you are pretty much aware its that strip on beach road and soi 6 etc were the die hards always start early. Otherwise most of Pattaya and jomtiem are business as usual until the 18th, 19th.

17 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

The daytime temperature had been 35-37 degrees so it was welcome to cool down. 

My condo and my car both have buttons for that.

 

Cant say I've ever felt the urge to throw water over myself instead.

45 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

A video on the site of The Pattaya News showed tourists and Thais starting water wars at the beginning of the Songkran festival yesterday evening

Is that serious - it 'started' in Pattaya yesterday?

No one has been throwing water until now. Shurely shome mishtake?

28 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

My condo and my car both have buttons for that.

 

Cant say I've ever felt the urge to throw water over myself instead.

its called taking a shower!!! by yourself or with ....??

38 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

If you live here, you are pretty much aware its that strip on beach road and soi 6 etc were the die hards always start early. Otherwise most of Pattaya and jomtiem are business as usual until the 18th, 19th.

Add Soi 7, 8 and buakhao to the list , also started yesterday 

40 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

If you live here, you are pretty much aware its that strip on beach road and soi 6 etc were the die hards always start early. Otherwise most of Pattaya and jomtiem are business as usual until the 18th, 19th.

You go to Beach road and Soi 6?  Brave man. 

1 minute ago, BestB said:

Add Soi 7, 8 and buakhao to the list , also started yesterday 

Yes the usual offenders but fortunately, easily avoided.

the Red Cat Bar.

 

"Welcome our resort sir."

"Thank you. I'll have Absolut vodka martini, shaken not stirred. Three olives."

"No have. Have Leo."

 

Actually I met a very beautiful and sexy woman in the Red Cat bar while I was trying to watch the sun go down in between tour buses driving by.   

 

Edited April 13, 20197 yr by NCC1701A

So it’s not 18-19 in Pattaya! Morons


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So it’s not 18-19 in Pattaya! Morons


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Nope its 10th to 19th in Pattaya Morons.

And this is at night time....just want you want after getting ready to go out for dinner.

Just like Christmas has lost its original purpose, so too has Songkran.

It looks like there are lots of Chinese and Korean young men roaming around fully armed. They are more polite than some of the Brits?

I wonder what their gorgeous women are up to while their husbands and boyfriends are playing out.

45 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

the Red Cat Bar.

 

"Welcome our resort sir."

"Thank you. I'll have Absolut vodka martini, shaken not stirred. Three olives."

"No have. Have Leo."

 

Actually I met a very beautiful and sexy woman in the Red Cat bar while I was trying to watch the sun go down in between tour buses driving by.   

 

You sure it was a real woman not surgically produced one?????????

Tossers....

 

Well spotted - i slipped that into my translation just to make sure the Brits in particular were reading to the end!

 

Merry Songkran,

 

Rooster. 

Hi Folks ... I note that there are very many of the usual 55 gallon blue plastic barrels around Pattaya. (Yesterday's garbage containers morphing into today's Songkran water containers). Just as long as all of the sticky fetid noxious 12 months old build up of garbage from last year's Songkran has been emptied out and the barrels have been given a steam cleaning – cannot see a problem. 

7 hours ago, KittenKong said:

My condo and my car both have buttons for that.

 

Cant say I've ever felt the urge to throw water over myself instead.

Good for you.

 

Is there any joy in your life?

Like Christmas and New Year the whole meaning of Songkran has been lost. 

As we know the wafer was originally just a cleansing for cleaning your hands now it’s developed into a commercial thing.

I don’t honestly believe droves of tourists arrive to ‘celebrate’ it, I would say the opposite.

7 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

If you live here, you are pretty much aware its that strip on beach road and soi 6 etc were the die hards always start early. Otherwise most of Pattaya and jomtiem are business as usual until the 18th, 19th.

Soi Buakhao is fast catching up. Tossers there in force since before 3 pm yesterday (12th)

25 minutes ago, shy coconut said:

Is there any joy in your life?

Masses, but none involves behaving like a 5-year-old.

Before was playing from sun up to sun down 

what time is it this year??? 

10 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Tossers, yes, that's right.

Copy,,,,

Pattaya water WAR increasing from 11 to 19 April.

End when they're too drunk 8 - 9 - 10 pm!

19 April until midnight.

 

Tossers!

Edited April 13, 20197 yr by ExpatPH

Hardly surprising that trade is down in Pattaya why would anyone want to go to the place!

6 minutes ago, nong38 said:

Hardly surprising that trade is down in Pattaya why would anyone want to go to the place!

Not sure that anyone besides yourself mentioned that trade is down.

 

The OP actually says the opposite

 

"Vendors with both small and big water guns were doing a good trade".

They may well be selling water guns but hotels are down on trade, water guns are seasonal hotels are all the time and they down, don't know what the Chinese make of it.