Bangkok’s closest beach prepares to reopen on Monday

[snoop1130]

Bangkok’s closest beach prepares to reopen on Monday

By The Nation

 

 

Bang Saen beach will unveil the “new normal” for visits to the seaside when it reopens on Monday (June 1).  The closest beach to Bangkok is expected to be flooded by visitors from Monday as people seek an escape from three months of lockdown. 

 

However, Saensuk municipality mayor Narongchai Khunpluem said visitors should prepare for a “new normal” at the beach, where social distancing rules would be in place. Visitors are also advised to take along their own food this week, since food stalls will be banned from the beach area until June 5 (Friday). 

 

Local officials have been ordered to prepare the beach and sea for the return of tourists, after Chonburi governor Phakthon Thianchai gave the green light for it to reopen, Narongchai said today (May 29). 

 

“However, we will not allow retailers to sell foods as we have to arrange beach chairs in line with the ‘new normal’ to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” he added.

 

The plan for phased easing of restrictions at at Bang Saen beach is as follows:

 

June 1: Tourist are allowed to play or swim in the sea, but retailers are prohibited from selling food.

 

June 2-4: Retailers are allowed to set up beach chairs in line with new normal, but prohibited from selling food.

 

June 5: Retailers are allowed to sell food to tourists.

 

He added that stallholders will be banned from selling food every Monday. If Monday is a holiday, the ban will move to Tuesday.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30388735

 

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[Phuketshrew]

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

He added that stallholders will be banned from selling food every Monday. If Monday is a holiday, the ban will move to Tuesday.

Yep, that makes perfect sense ???? Food is bound to be risky on Monday's, unless of course it's a holiday, then the risk will move to a Tuesday!

[Yaumthai]

I am sorry to see this happen, been running here the past week and it is so beautiful and clean now. Unfortunately that will end Monday.

[Damrongsak]

5 hours ago, Yaumthai said:

I am sorry to see this happen, been running here the past week and it is so beautiful and clean now. Unfortunately that will end Monday.

It was pretty nice back in 1977/78 during the week.

[essox essox]

12 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

Yep, that makes perfect sense ???? Food is bound to be risky on Monday's, unless of course it's a holiday, then the risk will move to a Tuesday!

THEY DO talk <deleted> do they not??

[Chassa]

14 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He added that stallholders will be banned from selling food every Monday. If Monday is a holiday, the ban will move to Tuesday.

Guess that will be obeyed by the stall holders and enforced by the police. 

[jacko45k]

50 minutes ago, essox essox said:

THEY DO talk <deleted> do they not??

Just grasp the fact that there is a holiday Monday coming up early July and they do not want to deprive the traders of that lucrative day, nor the customers the service. Why they have a day off per week escapes me, unless they are going to make the traders go out and clean up the mess they are responsible for. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

Sun of a beach....

[smiggley]

What about Pattaya and Jomtien beaches or are they more at risk than Bang Saen. Remember Pattaya has not had a case of the virus in over 45 days.

[Krataiboy]

5 hours ago, smiggley said:

What about Pattaya and Jomtien beaches or are they more at risk than Bang Saen. Remember Pattaya has not had a case of the virus in over 45 days.

Pity poor Cha-Am, too, inexplicably still closed while just down the road in Hua Hin beaches are open. 

 

So much for "following the science"!

[jacko45k]

17 hours ago, smiggley said:

What about Pattaya and Jomtien beaches or are they more at risk than Bang Saen. Remember Pattaya has not had a case of the virus in over 45 days.

And remember they have been keeping people from elsewhere out.....