54 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

You seem a bit paranoid. Have you ever heard about people being sick during/after Songkran because of "dirty" water? 

Yes! on more than one occasion, though "paranoid" I'm not!

I've only spent a couple of days in Pattaya during Songkran and had a great time.

 

I can understand how someone who lives there year round could find the long

celebration annoying, that's fair enough.

 

As for the dangers of getting sploshed with cold dirty water, or that white pasty stuff you

get smeared with, I have survived so far, although most Songkran periods I've experienced

have been up in rural Ubon where the water must be a lot cleaner.

 

I do have a fairly good constitution as in all my time in Thailand I've only had one bout

of illness and that was down to foolishly eating raw oysters and regretting it almost

immediately and for the next couple of days.