Fancy a swim on Sunday?

[Guderian]

The Pattaya News website reported this afternoon that swimming pools will be allowed to open as of Sunday, though for exercise only and with strict controls. The Post has an article confirming that pools can open, so it seems kosher. I'm not sure how the village where I live will manage to have a staff member at the pool all day, though, we simply don't have anybody spare. Has anyone else been thinking about this? 

Edited May 15, 2020 by Guderian

[Mops59]

But some red/white tape. Devide the pool in squares of 7x7 feet. The minimum distance of a lane. And enjoy. Don't forget to leave the pool after 1 hour.

[Guderian]

11 hours ago, Mops59 said:

But some red/white tape. Devide the pool in squares of 7x7 feet. The minimum distance of a lane. And enjoy. Don't forget to leave the pool after 1 hour.

However they arrange it, it's better than the pool being closed. I'm just not sure that our village will be able to satisfy the requirements on supervision. I've suggested making people book a slot the day before and charging them a small fee, like 50 Baht, which can then be used to pay for somebody to sit by the pool all day and keep the perfidious sunbathers away, lol.

[19DL86]

In all fairness and no disrespect mate, but I think you're thinking too much.  Just go ahead and open the pool and see what it brings.  For the life of me I can't honestly see this being rigidly policed.

After 2 months of being denied my daily swim I feel like shhht and I'm desperate to get back in there. My annual village fees include the pool and fitness so it's up to the village management committee to allocate one of their 2-3 security guards to make some kind of gesture to look like they're meeting the requirements.

Well that's my honest opinion

[AtlasAus]

Our pool has a bar/eatery and the Thai/Russian(woman) run it and take care of the grounds, hopefully it will open, the kids need something to do ????

[Guderian]

1 hour ago, 19DL86 said:

In all fairness and no disrespect mate, but I think you're thinking too much.  Just go ahead and open the pool and see what it brings.  For the life of me I can't honestly see this being rigidly policed.

After 2 months of being denied my daily swim I feel like shhht and I'm desperate to get back in there. My annual village fees include the pool and fitness so it's up to the village management committee to allocate one of their 2-3 security guards to make some kind of gesture to look like they're meeting the requirements.

Well that's my honest opinion

Well I thought that about the beach closure, after they closed the swimming pools I swam at Jomtien beach every day. The swimming pool was cleaner, but beggars can't be choosers. I figured that it was around five miles from Pattaya Park down to the end of Jomtien Beach Road at the seafood restaurants, and no way would they be able to close that length of beach off, but they did. Nothing will surprise me now.

 

 

[jacko45k]

19 hours ago, AtlasAus said:

Our pool has a bar/eatery and the Thai/Russian(woman) run it and take care of the grounds, hopefully it will open, the kids need something to do ????

I think the kids using the pool is an important factor, they are great potential spreaders and a reason schools are closed. 

[Matzzon]

8 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I think the kids using the pool is an important factor, they are great potential spreaders and a reason schools are closed. 

How did you come to that conclusion? The virus almost not affect children and people under 15-20 years of age. Why they chose to close the schools are simple. They just don´t want to stand as a government body that did not protect the children.

[Guderian]

I'd be interested to hear what measures different condos and villages have out in place to allow their pools to open, or if they have simply not bothered reopening.

 

Here the pool reopened this morning, with a Thai lady I'd never seen before camped out there, presumably the new staff member supposed to make sure people obey the rules. She wasn't interested in doing that, anyway, and the residents using the pool didn't seem very interested either. Nothing much seems to have changed other than the Thai lady attendant, I just hope the cops don't come to check and close us down again for not obeying the rules strictly, the swim was lovely. 

[Guderian]

After yesterday's free-for-all, some order was reimposed this morning. We now have to sign in at the office before we can use the pool, presumably so they can limit the numbers using the pool at any given time. I'd already suggested this to the manager on Saturday, along with charging people a nominal sum to pay for an extra employee to supervise the pool as required by the new rules. No sign of that happening yet, though, the head gardener seemed to be doing the supervising, at least during his lunch break.

[salsajapan]

hotels pools also open now ? thank you.

[salsajapan]

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

along with charging people a nominal sum to pay for an extra employee to supervise the pool

 

 

so ridiculous !

 

most condo staff are paid all year long to do nothing, so even if they had to work more (Which i don't believe anyway) i would never pay them anything !

 

 

 

[1FinickyOne]

On 5/15/2020 at 10:07 PM, Guderian said:

confirming that pools can open, so it seems kosher.

so, no milk and meat at the same time? 

[Guderian]

11 minutes ago, salsajapan said:

 

 

so ridiculous !

 

most condo staff are paid all year long to do nothing, so even if they had to work more (Which i don't believe anyway) i would never pay them anything !

 

 

 

It's a village, not a condo, so not many staff.

[Oldie]

Our pools here in Pattaya have been open since Sunday. Business as usual. No special procedures. Even the always talking people are back looking for victims that have to listen to them... It is as if Corona never existed.