Closure of Pattaya set to begin on Thursday 9 April

[johng]

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

 

That big guy with the bald head and white mask on his mouth ( not nose)  was still there at about 5.30 pm

there where still Russians waiting at 6.30PM when I left !!!!!

PS also recognise the guy on phone with blue folder and woman with white jeans both also still there till late

total mayhem.

Edited April 7, 2020 by johng

[kevinsan]

Can we still buy food at Big C, Macro etc?

[Chazar]

6 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

and trips to immigration to be permitted.

Such  good  news, Thanks  , thanks and THANKS again

[fforest1]

2 hours ago, Chazar said:

Such  good  news, Thanks  , thanks and THANKS again

lol......No restrictions on immigration lines...

[gamesgplayemail]

can someone explain please ?

the railway road will be closed ?

when living at Pattaya we can only drive along Sukhumvit from motorway to NA JOMTIEN (ambassador hotel) ?

people from Pattaya center cannot go to dark side / Maprachan lake ?

 

[timendres]

11 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Kindly explain your rather stupid comment 

Any why would I bother?

[samsensam]

 

stay inside, stay safe. good advice wherever you are.

[Ron jeremy]

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought it was to keep out those dirty foreigners

 

They are already there and have been for years. Perhaps to keep the lowlifes away?

forget it, too late!

But the government has things under control????

few deaths, few cases, why the lockdown, surely everything is u dear control???

it sure looks under control at the immigration! 

Edited April 7, 2020 by Ron jeremy

[oneorenone]

13 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

 

How ironic, Thais call us dirty Farlang while they force us to stand in immigration lines for hours putting us and their own people at high risk.. 

[Kerryd]

If you LOOK at the map you can see that there are still a number of routes from the "darkside" into Pattaya. Nern Plurb Wan, Boonsamphan and Khao Talo are all within the checkpoints, not to mention a number of the smaller "shortcut" sois that wind through those areas.

Sukhumvit (north and south) will be closed on the outskirts of Pattaya (*1 - at the Highway 36 intersection in the north and *5 - around Central Jomtien where the railway bypass road starts). Google maps says it is Tesabal Road 1. On the East side of Sukhumvit it's called Rural Road 1096 and on the West side it is Na Jomtien 6.
As well, they will be controlling access from *2- Highway 7, *3- Soi Siam Country Club and *4- Soi Chaiyapruek.

That leaves a lot of ways to get to "Pattaya". Take Nern Plurb Wan to Sukhumvit, cross over quickly and turn into Central Pattaya Road.
Take Boonsamphan to Sukhumvit, take a U-Turn to go back to Central Road or keep going to South Pattaya Road.
Take Khao Talo to Sukhumvit, go left and take the U-Turn just past Makro, or cross over quickly and go right to Tesco, or make the right turn and go to Big C - South Pattaya (or wherever).

To me, it appears that they deliberately left those openings along the bypass road just so the people on the darkside could still get into Pattaya. Otherwise they could have simply blocked all the routes along the bypass (there aren't that many of them) and stopped anyone from crossing the railway at all.
Note that Makro opens at 6:00
Tesco and Big C are open at 10:00
Not sure if Foodland and Friendship have changed their hours.

On the Darkside, aside from the Chill (Tops supermarket) on soi Khao Noi, there is a Tesco market (not big but larger that the average "mini mart" type shops) just up Soi Chaiyapruek from the railway bypass intersection.
Siamburi (just off soi Khao Talo) also has some foreign foods and a fair bit of frozen stuff. Not sure if they are still open (or what the hours are). I suspect they'll run out faster than the big shops though.
 

Edited April 8, 2020 by Kerryd
location clarification

[thailand49]

16 hours ago, doctormann said:

Looks as though us folks on the east side of the railway may be going hungry!  The only supermarket of any size on the Darkside is 'The Chill' on Khao Noi.  We have quite a few convenience stores but all the large supermarkets are to the west of Sukhumvit.

 

You can't be buying so much that you really need to go into town. There are a number of stores in between 7/11 and the big chains more than necessary to get by.  There is the larger lotus on Sukhumvit behind Num Chai, number of Mini big C's and Lotus on Nernpludwan and Soi Siam, then you got the new Thai supermarket called CJ, then the often forgotten new market Friendship? on the left side when you come off Hwy 7, just before you get to Soi Siam the old Index location go all the way to the back is the market unless you know how to get to it from the back.

 

From the map, and the checkpoints outline there are a number of holes in between if you know Pattaya you can get to Makro and Lotus from the Darkside.

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by thailand49

[mikebell]

17 hours ago, doctormann said:

Looks as though us folks on the east side of the railway may be going hungry! 

We are still residents of Pattaya so should be allowed thro'?

[atyclb]

18 hours ago, luckyluke said:

I suppose/hope supply from outside Pattaya will still be allowed.

 

consultants from thaifriendly have waivers

[jacko45k]

25 minutes ago, mikebell said:

We are still residents of Pattaya so should be allowed thro'?

Not Nongprue rather than Pattaya City? I don't like the idea of being cut off from the supermarkets I normally use, the banks nor the pharmacy. And my Mrs says she still wants to go to the Naklua market. I am betting this won't be that strict.

[Central Pattaya]

This is going to be bliss.

 

No more Darksiders who I never really considered as being one of us, mostly an odd reclusive bunch, there's plenty of food outlets over there we don't need unnecessary traffic and contagious outsiders in our city, please stay in bandit country.

 

No more Bangkokians I sick of seeing Bangkok license plates clogging up our roads with extremely poor road etiquette.

 

And what with the Chinese flag waving sheep now at an all time low along with the Indians that used to walk down the middle of the sois like they was in Mumbai at last we can have our great city back.

 

Feed the poor, help the sick this is our city please stay away until further notice.

 

 

[Pilotman]

Has anyone got a map that is in English and based on a Google maps projection rather than the rather useless cartoon  map posted earlier, that unless you read Thai  and know Pattaya well,  is not a whole lot of use.

[digbeth]

apparently they are checking Thai workers for ID and letter from businesses within Pattaya for reason for them to be there, like manning the shops...

 

residents should have ID showing Banglamung address... but the problem even for Thais is that not many Thais even with those with houses in the area actually move their address 'here' and how many of us actually have the Pink ID, I doubt they'll accept passport as prove that you're a 'local' 

[HashBrownHarry]

1 minute ago, digbeth said:

apparently they are checking Thai workers for ID and letter from businesses within Pattaya for reason for them to be there, like manning the shops...

 

residents should have ID showing Banglamung address... but the problem even for Thais is that not many Thais even with those with houses in the area actually move their address 'here' and how many of us actually have the Pink ID, I doubt they'll accept passport as prove that you're a 'local' 

A driving license will have you address.

 

Also your TM30 receipt will have your address.

[Tony M]

I think this might only be in place to stop any exodus from Bangkok, and elsewhere, for the coming long (Songkran, cancelled) weekend. Possibly many Bangkokians and others were still looking forward to a few days at the beach. The timing of the closures seems about right.

[AlQaholic]

And still, in March, 2020, there were well over 30,000 tourist arrivals to Thailand, most from China....

 

http://www.atta.or.th/statistics-international-tourists-arriving-in-thailand-as-of-as-of-20-march-2020/

Edited April 8, 2020 by AlQaholic

[Nanaplaza666]

Since the anouncement on the news yesterday that there were only 39 infections recorded traffic in bkk has gone back to normal it seems . Traffic jams everywhere again , better keep the nr's up for a while because common sence is not a word in the thai dictionary . As soon as the nr's go down they will pick up life as if nothing happened and the nr's will go up faster then prayuts bankaccount , and that goes up fast believe me .

[jack7106]

Best pop over to Siamburys ( darkside ) tomorrow morning to stock up on my farang food before we get locked in????????‍♂️????????????

[kingdong]

19 hours ago, luckyluke said:

I suppose/hope supply from outside Pattaya will still be allowed.

Probably haven't thought that far ahead,besides another post said cases of corona are going down,sounds like someone is speaking with forked tongue.

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, William Osborne said:

Definitely a lock in.....100s and 100s of foreigners crammed into queues down at immigration over last 3 weeks....and then traveling back to their to their homes/ hotels scattered all over Pattaya.......absolute lunacy on at an unprecedented level.

 

 

 

Which immigration are good at!

[Darkside Gray]

where do the people living on the dark side shop. visit hospitals, banks, totally knee jerk reaction, not o iota of common sense!

[jossthaifarang]

49 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

A driving license will have you address.

 

Also your TM30 receipt will have your address.

Surely deeds to a property that you own with your name on it would suffice? Or the blue book with your name in it, then they just need to verify your name with passport/drivers license.

[bert bloggs]

24 minutes ago, jack7106 said:

Best pop over to Siamburys ( darkside ) tomorrow morning to stock up on my farang food before we get locked in????????‍♂️????????????

Glad i got a lot of their Romano strong cheese before they stopped selling it . 

[bert bloggs]

2 minutes ago, jossthaifarang said:

Surely deeds to a property that you own with your name on it would suffice? Or the blue book with your name in it, then they just need to verify your name with passport/drivers license.

Thats what the wife will carry ,as her Thai id ,was never changed to Pattaya,she never bothered ,but suppose our drivers licence and my pink id should work , no good for much else .

Edited April 8, 2020 by bert bloggs

[Guderian]

32 minutes ago, jack7106 said:

Best pop over to Siamburys ( darkside ) tomorrow morning to stock up on my farang food before we get locked in????????‍♂️????????????

Yeah, all these selfish Darksiders moaning about not being able to get to Big C Extra or Makro, but what about us poor Brightsiders cut off from our supplies of bargain cheese and home-made Yorkshire puddings in Siamburi's? It's all me, me, me with some people, lol!

[DJ54]

I live in NE why do they call the Darkside the Darkside...?