Chinese tour buses at Wat Boonsamphan upset locals

 

PATTAYA:--Nongprue residents who worship at Wat Boonsamphan have complained to authorities that they are no longer able to park at the temple, as temple employees are aggressively kicking them out in order to collect fees from the Chinese tour buses bringing in loads of donating and trinket buying Chinese tourists.

 

Worshippers are also complaining that the money being taken in has no oversight and some believe the money being collected isn’t being handled properly, leading to doubts of non-transparency.

 

After receiving the complaints, Nongprue Mayor Mai Chaiyanit brought in a team in to inspect the situation. Residents from 6 communities, including Kao Noi 1-4 and Khao Talo 1-2, attended the meeting with Pha Kru Baideeka Chawalit Jatamaro, the temple’s abbot.

 

The mayor recommended appointing a temple commission made up of local residents from the communities the temple serves. This commission would be kept informed of the temple’s income and how it’s being used, the information to come from the abbot with “transparency and orderliness”.

 

Read more: https://www.pattayamail.com/news/chinese-tour-buses-at-wat-boonsamphan-upset-locals-267462

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-10-22--

9 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Chinese tour buses at Wat Boonsamphan upset locals

Crikey even the buses are winding up the locals now .. 

These Temples are part of the community, the community feeds the monks, it is only right that the books should be inspected by the community.

 

Probably they are in good order, but if not do not be surprised to the Abbot getting in a Limo with blacked out windows heading for the airport.

13 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

Chinese tour buses at Wat Boonsamphan upset locals

Good. They deserve each other. This is what they traded western tourism for. Enjoy 

2 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

2 hours ago, Rimmer said:

Chinese tour buses at Wat Boonsamphan upset locals

Crikey even the buses are winding up the locals now ..

Just like clockwork...

Do not say anything bad about chinese people. They are quality tourists.

What happened to rickshaws ?

I totally agree ,these smoke belching wrecks have destroyed Pattaya north....period

Does the Abbot still have room to land the helicopter ?

If you give the parking guards 20 baht they'll push other cars away, drag motocycles out of the motoparking all to have a happy customer and 20 baht.

They've even hired a traffic attendant to enable easy access by stopping oncoming traffic on Kao Noi.  The coaches are using wats for overnight parking after dropping off their passengers.

Jesus would scourge the whole lot of them.

Loads of coaches arrive at the Wat in my village, it's a pain in the nether regions, these things choke up the roads in and out, although the road works does a good job of that too. The 7-11 across from the temple probably likes it! It stinks of greed in a supposedly religious and pious location. 

There's an idea that's what is needed on  Soi khao noi to slow down the hooligans, underage, riders, helmetless riders and bikes with any lights whatsoever, let's start digging up Khao Noi for drainage or something then the S##t load of buses and associated idiots will have to find another route 555555. Or maybe just some good old fashioned police work, you know the bit where a copper patrols the Soi and tickets everyone who is disobeying the law 55555

17 hours ago, Fex Bluse said:

Good. They deserve each other. This is what they traded western tourism for. Enjoy 

Well said.  China, Thailand’s new master and overlord.

13 hours ago, Jack100 said:

What happened to rickshaws ?

brakes kept failing and drivers fell asleep and steering wheel kept coming loose......!!!

19 hours ago, Basil B said:

These Temples are part of the community, the community feeds the monks, it is only right that the books should be inspected by the community.

 

Probably they are in good order, but if not do not be surprised to the Abbot getting in a Limo with blacked out windows heading for the airport.

The books will be in perfect good order !!! For sure .

20 hours ago, Rimmer said:

the information to come from the abbot with “transparency and orderliness”.

Don't make me laugh please ...????

17 hours ago, Jack100 said:

What happened to rickshaws ?

I think they stopped using them out of some perculiar reason. I will let you think about that for a while.

On 10/22/2019 at 2:44 PM, Justgrazing said:

Crikey even the buses are winding up the locals now .. 

Its not the Bus,es that are the problem. 

People who worship at the Temple are being forced out early, ( by " helpers " ) before they have finished their Prayers Etc so the Chinese can be accommodated.

I wonder if its the same " Business Person " that was involved in the recent KMK scams.

 

We rarely have the outcome of thes stories

but for once the truth seems to have been discovered

it was the treasurer (And some others involved)

 

https://www.pattayamail.com/news/mayor-mai-caught-on-cctv-slapping-wat-boon-treasurers-face-267699 

 

...''

When Chinese tourists arrived, Wanchai and his people “looking like gods” allegedly told the tourists that they would have bad luck, but could be helped by performing a ceremony after donating 10,000-100,000 baht and buying fake holy objects.

Wanchai countered that he was helping the temple grow, but allegedly he took a 70-75 percent commission. He and his relatives owned the food and souvenir shops, and in the end the temple received very little of the income.''

 

Damn a 75% commission, it's huge.

On 10/22/2019 at 9:43 PM, Don Mega said:

Does the Abbot still have room to land the helicopter ?

yes

 

 

On 10/22/2019 at 9:36 PM, Jack100 said:

What happened to rickshaws ?

They are motorized now

18 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Its not the Bus,es that are the problem.

Well actually they certainly can be. Not just in Pattaya do they choke up roads far too small for them. Get behind 2 or 3 of these and you are held up in the villages. 

This kind of action by the authorities is laudable. Such consultation would be rare in the UK. In cozy beach rd hundreds of chinese tour buses have now been provided with a car park for visitors to Big Buddha. Well done to the authorities.

22 hours ago, White Christmas13 said:

They are motorized now

No they are not motorized  in many parts of Thailand and they are not called Rickshaw which is a chinese term made international by the British. I have been on bicycle 'rickshaws' in many Thai cities including Yasothon, Surin, and Lopburi to name a few.

Also the temple at the top end of Soi Siam on the RHS, just before the 7/11, that is jammed with buses these days, we went to the funeral of a friend recently and the place was over run with Chinese tourists who seemed to have little respect for the ongoing ceremony, shameful really.