Showtime Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 So when exactly are they going to clean the water and clean up the beach? This plan is probably not going anywhere anyway, but if it does a clean beach and clean water will make or break it. Not to mention high end tourists won't deal with scumbag taxis, dirty hotels, or poor restaurants.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingofthemountain Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Showtime said: Not to mention high end tourists won't deal with scumbag taxis, dirty hotels, or poor restaurants.. And don't forget the packs of street stray dogs, the air pollution, the risks you take everytime you need to cross a road, even to go from your hotel to the beach, the pavements\side walks destroyed (When they exists or when they aren't used by some business, like mototaxi, food or clothes stalls...) the list is endless Edited January 24, 2021 by kingofthemountain 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VBF Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 1 hour ago, nomadinuk said: You only have to look at what they did to sinoukville in cambodia. Search for youtube video sinoukville 2016-2020. Having SEEN the differences in "Snooky" over the last decade I can only agree. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alidiver Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 In preparation for casinos and Chinese invasion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D M G Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 OK. - Completion date? - Lot's of money, lot's of corruption - Pre-Walking Street moves to another area - Nothing wrong with dreaming, but you will need experienced managers to make this happen - Putting up a new sign........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiiGiam Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Maybe I am among the wrong group, but why all the haste even on this page to slam Pattaya's reputation? The place is a bit much for me, but it is my personal decision whether I go there or not. What -makes- Pattaya Pattaya -is- the sex. Why shy away from this? All I see in these kinds of plans are an effort by carpetbaggers from China to swoop in and buy up Koh Samui, Pattaya and Patong and turn everything into the same type of boring cities found in the rest of the world. This is my prediction... if the takeover of walking street is successful, people will vote with their feet and their dollars and they will follow the fun wherever it can gain a foothold and Walking Street will become no more than the boring part of town where girls go with their customers for some shopping or an expensive meal. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post aussienam Posted January 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2021 I truly hope that any casino ideas do not materialize. Look at Cambodia and other developing nations who have succumbed to them. Chinese will move in, cartels and increased crime, regular people are pushed away and only wealthy, money launderers and gambling addicts need apply. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumply Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Embrace change. I for one is looking forward to it 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfill Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 4 hours ago, sweatalot said: So they should fix just that and not touch what gave the city its special athmosphere Is that from the piles of durian at the roadsides? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simons3 Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 the monorail could be good, the one in Las Vegas works very nicely and drops you inside the Casino's, never have to go out into the heat! going to be interesting what they plan to charge for a ticket, bet it won't be 10 baht ????. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggo Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 12 hours ago, Spellforce said: It is quite possible that Chinese investors will buy a lot of bankrupt businesses on WS. Everything could then go very quickly. Let's not forget that covid has had almost no economic impact on China. Not yet don't think the world will forget. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiggo Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 2 hours ago, lumply said: Embrace change. I for one is looking forward to it To what, be careful what you wish for.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrfill Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 7 hours ago, Skallywag said: Neo. A dystopian future in which we are all trapped inside a simulated reality know as Pattaya. We are living in the Matrix of Pattaya, the future's so bright we gotta wear shades. If it feels good, just do it. Enjoy it all while you can. ???? Hardly. Its just the Greek word for new. Should have used some French to make it Pattaya Nouveau or Latin perhaps to become Novus Pattaya. Oooh they sound so exotic... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pro1Expat Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 14 hours ago, spiekerjozef said: Ready in the year 2138. Sewer system 5 years later. You are optimistic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Soikhaonoiken Posted January 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2021 What a crazy idea, Another idea to put off tourist from visiting Pattaya / Thailand, thousands upon thousands of tourists visit Pattaya for its entertainment in what ever form that may be... Sometimes things like this don't work, I remember a bar owner on Soi 7 modernising his bar to a high standard, as he wanted his bar to be the best on the Soi, when finished it looked really smart, but a big mistake as very few customers went in, he admitted his big mistake, as customers thought it must be expensive, ( can't remember the name of bar) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soikhaonoiken Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 Certainly the wrong time to be spending 80bn Baht to spruce Walking St, at this present time money would be better spent on the people whom have lost there business due to covid, and the unemployed, instead they have to rely on food hand outs. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post daveAustin Posted January 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2021 Vain attempt to make Pattaya all prissy goodie two shoes to entice the 'nice' people and forget the shadowy past that made the place rich 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacko45k Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 15 hours ago, abrahamzvi said: can you please make the pavements everywhere more easily and safely walkable And put some pavements in where pedestrians can actually be pedestrians. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kiwikeith Posted January 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 24, 2021 18 hours ago, crobe said: "Walking Street is set to become a “modern entertainment area” with walking areas, recreation, shops and restaurants." So none of the existing entertainment businesses then? Possibly a future for the Avenue after all Walking street will simply relocate as did the famous red light district in Singapore, as did Pratunam become Sukhumvit, Pratunam used to be the red light area during the Vietnam war and slowly moved a few blocks to Nana ect. If walking street is transformed it will be full of Chinese guest houses and restaurants, gold shops and money exchanges. Parking provision will be made for tour busses which will arrive by the dozen full of Chinese tourists ready to feed money into Chinese Thai coffers. All the street vendors and bars and the girls and boys will easily relocate a few blocks away and eventually no one will no the difference except for a few old boys reminiscing of the good old days over a bottle of Leo or other brand. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davidcraig Posted January 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2021 With 5,000 to 10,000 stray dogs invading many of Pattaya's streets, it's going to be rather difficult to attract families of tourists. Just wait till a few more children get attacked by packs of stray dogs and the media reports this then families will avoid the place and the stray dogs can take over the city. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jacko45k Posted January 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, davidcraig said: With 5,000 to 10,000 stray dogs invading many of Pattaya's streets, it's going to be rather difficult to attract families of tourists. Just wait till a few more children get attacked by packs of stray dogs and the media reports this then families will avoid the place and the stray dogs can take over the city. Where are all these stray dogs.... ? Didn't see any packs of 5000 or so snarling their way down Pattaya Klang, when I was in town yesterday shopping. Edited January 25, 2021 by jacko45k 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gandtee Posted January 25, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted January 25, 2021 So, the old Pattaya that millions of tourists came to see will finally be destroyed. Much the same as other things unique to Thailand. How many tourists will come to experience something much the same as they have in their own country? Thailand seems to enjoy shooting itself in the foot. I'm glad I arrived and saw it thirty odd years ago. And no. I didn't come to partake in the delights of the flesh that Pattaya is famous for. It was because it was so different, vibrant and exciting. R.I.P. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kcpattaya Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Wishful thinking. His brother K Tik announced similar plans more than a decade ago. And here we are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyril sneer Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 12 hours ago, Mike Teavee said: Do you have a link to support that statement only AFAIK everybody (including returning Thais) have to quarantine it was a little joke x 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonypandy Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 16 hours ago, jingjai9 said: It is time for a change in Pattaya. If the old entertainment places still have a demand, they will find a place. Hopefully in an area where young children do not have to walk in the middle of adult nightlife. The worst thing they can do is ban the nightlife and make it go underground. It is interesting here in Thailand how things reinvent themselves. They like things going underdround, corruption is popular here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnarth Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 for years the Chinese government used companies to buy overseas wealth for them, it used to be common knowledge in Aussie years ago when they were buying Aust. out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesea Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 At this present time you have no money to give to the Poor & Homeless so where is all the money comming from?? Pattaya is currently under a big Infrastruction project as well as the super highway on Sukhuvit road , More money spent on a dream for more tourisim please understand it is over!! for about 5 years.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoker58 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 If they could put all the electric cables underground and provide a public bus service it would be a great start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 20 hours ago, ginjag said: Will they choose this moment to bulldoze down ALL the illegal businesses built over the beach in Walking Street ??? What illegal businesses would that be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newnative Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 13 hours ago, Showtime said: So when exactly are they going to clean the water and clean up the beach? This plan is probably not going anywhere anyway, but if it does a clean beach and clean water will make or break it. Not to mention high end tourists won't deal with scumbag taxis, dirty hotels, or poor restaurants.. Can't vouch for the water but Pattaya Beach, even pre-covid with tourists, has been kept clean and has been since it was widened. I walk the north Pattaya Beach area about every day--did again this morning--and it is clean. This area also has some very nice big hotels--Mytt, Holiday Inn, Dusit, Amari, Ozo, Palazzo, Brighton, Siam@Siam, Centara, D Beach, Hard Rock, Mercure, A-01, and lots of smaller nice boutique hotels. Two big new ones are under construction. I wouldn't describe any of these as 'dirty'. Can you find a fleabag hotel in Pattaya? Sure--and probably in any other city in Thailand, as well. Doesn't mean you have to stay there. If you're finding the restaurants are 'poor' you're not eating at the right places. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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