Pattaya: Beaches are packed for the long weekend - media posts picture of it deserted!

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

Thai media Siam Chon News published an upbeat assessment of the long weekend holidays in Pattaya.

 

They said that Thai tourists were flooding to the beaches at the resort. 

 

However, their sole picture of the main beach did little to confirm this theory - it featured a deserted beach with one FOREIGNER walking and just one other person in the far distance. 

 

Other pictures of the port area seemed busier with tourists perhaps heading to Koh Larn. 

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

The media quoted a Pattaya beach lifeguard called Wichit Manmee as saying that Thais from nearby provinces had been streaming in since the day before.

 

"Come and visit Pattaya," he gushed. "It's 100% safe!"

 

Tourist Golf said that he and his girlfriend were visiting from Bangkok without any particular plan in mind. He referred to the LACK of tourists and the resort's value for money making Pattaya attractive right now. 

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

Siam Chon added that Pattaya is a wonderful and beautiful tourist destination and the lack of foreigners at the moment means there is a lot of extra space for the Thais. 

 

Source: Siam Chon News

 

 

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16 minutes ago, webfact said:

Siam Chon added that Pattaya is a wonderful and beautiful tourist destination

I've heard Patt's called many things but beautiful is not one of them .. 

Did it have beer goggles on when taking a look .. 

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by Justgrazing
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Jomtien is packed with zero-baht-thairists. Looks like a vintage pickup truck meeting.

Thai weekenders go to Jomtien Beach.

Great news now no more whinging and whining from the tourism sector until next year your pockets are full ????

Thais are smart enough to avoid the beach in Pattaya.

Road down Beach Road at 2pm yesterday.  Looked just like in the photo posted by Siam Chon News.

 

With crowding like that I even thought about stopping and going for a walk on the beach, then I thought about all the runoff from the recent rains and simply kept going.

Sukhumvit Rd heading south past Pattaya was jammed. But turning into the city there wasn't much traffic at all when I entered Saturday 

Here's a photo I took yesterday (28 July) in the evening looked busy on Pattaya beach outside of Central Festival, most people and especially Thai's won't go onto the beach in the mid-day sun, so it's easy to take a photo of an empty beach if you want to portray this. Yes blurry photo as zoomed it.

we were down at Jomtien beach yesterday after checking out of our 5 star beach resort hotel and it was quite busy with Thai's.

Then I bought some lobsters to bring back ....

Why would anybody go to the beach there? Last time I swam in the filthy water in Jomtien I caught a skin disease! 

7 minutes ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Why would anybody go to the beach there? Last time I swam in the filthy water in Jomtien I caught a skin disease! 

no  no .... it wasn't so dirty when we were there.  No skin diseases only maybe the odd covid19 lurking around.  Maybe you had some disease prior to going. just what I saw. 

15 minutes ago, ppppjjjj said:

Here's a photo I took yesterday (28 July) in the evening looked busy on Pattaya beach outside of Central Festival, most people and especially Thai's won't go onto the beach in the mid-day sun, so it's easy to take a photo of an empty beach if you want to portray this. Yes blurry photo as zoomed it.

Fake  news those  all  look  like tree stumps to me, probably a petrified  forest

4 minutes ago, bodga said:

Fake  news those  all  look  like tree stumps to me, probably a petrified  forest

yes ... they all look black to me like a fire had been through recently

4 minutes ago, steven100 said:

no  no .... it wasn't so dirty when we were there.  No skin diseases only maybe the odd covid19 lurking around.  Maybe you had some disease prior to going. just what I saw. 

There has long been a weekend exodus from Bangkok to enjoy the cleaner air and conditions in Pattaya, I used to be one of those seeking nirvana!

Those with families always stayed at resorts with swimming pools as the sea was too dirty and contaminated to allow children to enter!

That was in 1989, it's only got worse!

1 minute ago, CGW said:

There has long been a weekend exodus from Bangkok to enjoy the cleaner air and conditions in Pattaya, I used to be one of those seeking nirvana!

Those with families always stayed at resorts with swimming pools as the sea was too dirty and contaminated to allow children to enter!

That was in 1989, it's only got worse!

no  no  .... my friends went for a swim and they didn't catch anything.  Is it possible that some folks may have caught something from the bar the night before

1 minute ago, steven100 said:

no  no  .... my friends went for a swim and they didn't catch anything.  Is it possible that some folks may have caught something from the bar the night before

I don't believe that! you have friends? 

1 hour ago, Justgrazing said:

I've heard Patt's called many things but beautiful is not one of them .. 

Did it have beer goggles on when taking a look .. 

I find Soi 6 beautiful. 

1 hour ago, webfact said:

the lack of foreigners at the moment means there is a lot of extra space for the Thais. 

not xenophobic at all

 

imagine in your home country:  now all arabs & blacks are gone, we can have a nice whatever...

50 minutes ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Why would anybody go to the beach there? Last time I swam in the filthy water in Jomtien I caught a skin disease! 

I've lived in Jomtien more than 15 years and have never gone in the water, ever. I may be crazy but I'm not foolish.

Just been overnight last night, lots of Thai tourists about and judging by their cars tags are from all over Thailand, many bars are open lots of lasses about but few takers though even when prices for pay for play are very low around 1 k, beers are at 55 baht everywhere, hardly anyone wearing a mask there though, you walk the the streets and you wouldn't think that the a a killer pandemic lurking around and all around us...

15 minutes ago, Emdog said:

1 hour ago, boonrawdcnx said:

Why would anybody go to the beach there? Last time I swam in the filthy water in Jomtien I caught a skin disease! 

I've lived in Jomtien more than 15 years and have never gone in the water, ever. I may be crazy but I'm not foolish.

Swim on Wongamat a couple of times a week, never had a problem.

1 hour ago, Shuya said:

Jomtien is packed with zero-baht-thairists. Looks like a vintage pickup truck meeting.

That's spot on.
Jomtien beach was jam packed at the weekend.

In the early afternoon took more than 30 minutes to get to Sukhumvit road.
Going back to the beach from Sukhumvit on Chaiyapreuk at 6pm took much longer, nearly an hour.

In comparison the roads in Pattaya were not busy. 

When they said they would look into the 2 price system I never expected a 3 price system to replace it.

The price of those Lobsters is intriguing.

Top price = Falang price

Mid price = Bar girl with Falang price

Bottom price = Thai from BKK who still have a job.

 

???? ???? ????

Edited July 28, 20205 yr by Anna Rak

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

we were down at Jomtien beach yesterday after checking out of our 5 star beach resort hotel and it was quite busy with Thai's.

Then I bought some lobsters to bring back ....

3 Tier pricing ???

Good little snip of Pattaya beach showing a single farang , (no ones mentioned how clean it appears?????) must show about 1% of the total surface area...Could not have been taken yesterday unless the photographer had been waiting for a convenient time. by late lunch time the photo could not have been possible as the beach was the busiest i have witnessed this year

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Great news now no more whinging and whining from the tourism sector until next year your pockets are full ????

@sammieuk1 thats the problem the tourism sector havent been whinging or whining as far as i can make out. so the PM has carried having thailand shut. i know if it was my country the tourism industry would have kicked up a right fuss and been up in arms but the thais dont really seemed bothered about it.  

3 hours ago, Shuya said:

Jomtien is packed with zero-baht-thairists. Looks like a vintage pickup truck meeting.

All leaving their trail of empty Whisky bottles, and the remains of a Somtam, thrown all around.

High Quality, high spending Touroids from the sticks

Great to see Jomtien beach full of Thai tourists, and busy. 

1 hour ago, Cake Monster said:

All leaving their trail of empty Whisky bottles, and the remains of a Somtam, thrown all around.

High Quality, high spending Touroids from the sticks

...and you have some documentary evidence?????? keyboard warrior never been to the beach. Beach is full of respectful people as the sun goes down.