Pattaya: City reveals plans for Walking Street - major "mall" style makeover for Thailand's "world class resort"

[jacko45k]

2 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

There is no way you can take go go bars and discos and make them family friendly.

Aren't they all going to move to The Avenue first?

[Susco]

6 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Aren't they all going to move to The Avenue first?

You beat me to it. What's the latest on that mega project

[Kerryd]

I think they'd openly approve and promote Thai A-Go-Go bars long before they'd even consider allowing a casino to open in the country. 

Enough poor people already gamble what little they have on the lotteries (legal or otherwise). Casinos would kill them.

And enough foreigners already come here with thick wallets and leave flat broke as it is. Some even cash in their return tickets and sell their passports to try and stretch out their holiday a bit longer.
Imagine if there were casinos available as well ? 

They'd have to build a new, quite large IDC with a dedicated high-speed rail link between it and the airport to handle all the deadbeat, broke foreigners that would be crowded in the cells.

[ehs818]

Leave it to the city officials to modify something that was working, into something that is overpriced, un interesting, and not in the flavor of this city. Hub of hubs and 'good' ideas? This town in on it's last legs. Adding another overpriced area for 'families' will do nothing to bring back tourism. It will however, line pockets of the well connected.

[Bender Rodriguez]

family ? pattaya ? seriously ?

 

hub ?

[ginjag]

Shouldn't the right hand side be re claimed, as it is on/above the beach.....legal for some eh ???    fabulous to have the sea on one side and the life on the other right down to Bali Hi pier

[spiekerjozef]

Area 51 ?

[Oldie]

12 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

I think they'd openly approve and promote Thai A-Go-Go bars long before they'd even consider allowing a casino to open in the country. 

Enough poor people already gamble what little they have on the lotteries (legal or otherwise). Casinos would kill them.

And enough foreigners already come here with thick wallets and leave flat broke as it is. Some even cash in their return tickets and sell their passports to try and stretch out their holiday a bit longer.
Imagine if there were casinos available as well ? 

They'd have to build a new, quite large IDC with a dedicated high-speed rail link between it and the airport to handle all the deadbeat, broke foreigners that would be crowded in the cells.

Today I had a longer walk through Central Pattaya at around noon. The much awaited beach opening - the beach was pretty empty. Almost no chairs and people on the beach. Opposite to the Hookers was a tent with I guess city hall employees looking for people without masks? If they had a mirror and looked into it they would have found them. But very disturbing were 2 Farangs looking in the garbage. One even opened a closed garbage bag in front of a 7-Eleven. Some shops and restaurants closed and for rent/sale. Many people without masks or not using them orderly. South Pattaya road was amazingly empty. Tukcom no registration of your personal data. But at Friendship they still enforced it. All in all a very mixed picture. 

[wombat]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

He sent the engineers away

and there you have it.

[Greg O]

There goes the neighborhood! Leave it alone , the Chinamen and Indians don't play there anyway and we need to step off the Hua Hin ferry and start the party post haste...

[from the home of CC]

time to take out the trash once and for all..

[geisha]

No one can deny that Pattaya is a dirty ugly traffic over-run  city. All it needs is redoing the roads, nice wide pavements , good lighting, hide those monstrous wires and a total ban on car parking . Total. No buses, motorbikes nothing. Tree lined avenues. A police presence for ambulances  and emergency.
 This would  be cheap to carry out , would change the sleazy  look immediately without changing the businesses run there. Whole cities like this have been changed all over the world. Simple, and looks nice.

[johng]

1 hour ago, Susco said:

You beat me to it. What's the latest on that mega project

T'was a non starter from the start.

[Oldie]

2 minutes ago, geisha said:

No one can deny that Pattaya is a dirty ugly traffic over-run  city. All it needs is redoing the roads, nice wide pavements , good lighting, hide those monstrous wires and a total ban on car parking . Total. No buses, motorbikes nothing. Tree lined avenues. A police presence for ambulances  and emergency.
 This would  be cheap to carry out , would change the sleazy  look immediately without changing the businesses run there. Whole cities like this have been changed all over the world. Simple, and looks nice.

YES - remove everything that can be annoying for sex and booze tourists! Or how and what? 

[BobbyL]

Apart from the brass, there really isn't anything world class about P Town. 

[Colabamumbai]

Never happen to much corruption. 

[tribalfusion001]

Sanitized and clean, no go go bars, but lots of seafood restaurants and buffets for the esteemed guests from the PRC...

[Leaver]

I don't see the monorail station in the pictures.  ????  ????

[chang1]

Another mall = another reason not to come to Thailand. When will these people realise tourists have malls at home, so have no need to fly thousands of miles for a shop. Walking street is/was something worth coming to see and experience. People don't go to Amsterdam to buy handbags and cameras. Street food and bars are what many travel to Thailand for as Thailand does (or more accuratly, used to do) it so well. Every city in every country has malls already - even Pattaya. The day I choose my holiday destination by the quality of its malls will be a very sad day - but I doubt that will ever happen.

[phantomfiddler]

6 hours ago, Boomer6969 said:

Was  about time. But in my opinion this should go with a full redeployment of Soi 6. And probably a few others areas as well. Sex workers should move up market, a couple of thousand of them should be enough for a family resort. Some affluent happy husbands and dads might get the need.

Move up market ? Which market ? Where, WHERE ? ????

[balo]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

He stressed that any makeover must ensure that the "special smell and flavor" of Walking Street must be maintained.

That shouldn't be too difficult, the smell from the sewer and soi dogs will take care of that.- 

Edited June 3, 2020 by balo

[tribalfusion001]

1 hour ago, Kerryd said:

I think they'd openly approve and promote Thai A-Go-Go bars long before they'd even consider allowing a casino to open in the country.
 

The military hate sleazy bars, remember they cleaned the lower sukhumvit of street bars in 2015 and it has never been the same since.

[adammike]

6 hours ago, ChipButty said:

Should make a proper tourist attraction just like Amsterdam with the windows 

That may be over soon if the Mayor and the residents get their way.

[phantomfiddler]

There are so many old sayings to describe this situation, the most pertinent to my mind would be "If it ain,t broke don,t fix it". Others somewhat applicable are "You can,t polish a t**d" and the similar "You can,t make a silk purse out of a pig,s ear". Think, folks, there must be lots more ????

[phantomfiddler]

6 hours ago, ianezy0 said:

Part 2 - Soi Buakhao - Plans afoot to transform the street into high end shopping malls very similar to Orchard Road.

Haha, good one, Ian !! 

[overherebc]

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Probably..... 

All you would have to do is hold up a small flag, shout something that sounds a little bit chinese and 200 of them will folow you down walking street.

[mlmcleod]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

He stressed that any makeover must ensure that the "special smell and flavor" of Walking Street must be maintained.

The smell of urine and vomit will always be there.  I think there is no way in hell that any of this will happen.  Walking Street is not a "mall".

[Kerryd]

12 minutes ago, tribalfusion001 said:

The military hate sleazy bars, remember they cleaned the lower sukhumvit of street bars in 2015 and it has never been the same since.

That's what I meant. They would sooner approve "sleazy bars" than they would Casinos and it's not likely they'll ever approve of "sleazy bars" so the chances of them ever approving casinos is even more remote.

[jacko45k]

Just now, overherebc said:

All you would have to do is hold up a small flag, shout something that sounds a little bit chinese and 200 of them will folow you down walking street.

And since I swim quite well, perhaps onward off the end of Bali Hai pier!

[tribalfusion001]

11 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

That's what I meant. They would sooner approve "sleazy bars" than they would Casinos and it's not likely they'll ever approve of "sleazy bars" so the chances of them ever approving casinos is even more remote.

They just want non sleazy tourists who stay in approved hotels and go to approved attractions.