Pattaya: Lukewarm response to renewed opening

 

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported from Pattaya saying that customers were returning to restaurants after they were allowed to open to 11.30 pm.

 

But the picture that accompanied their brief story was an all too familiar scene - a deserted bar area with a lady looking out forlornly.

 

Music Camp was open with different zones for customers so that strict social distancing could be accomplised. It was felt that anything was better than nothing.

 

Sukhawee Wattanasirikun the owner of a BBQ Pork store echoed this view saying he preferred to open and get some income rather than stay closed.

 

He was thinking of changing his opening hours as customers coming from work were just popping in and leaving quickly.

 

Anybody out was a local reported the media who said that many shops had decided to wait for 2 or three days before opening at all.

 

Sukhawee sounded a final note of optimism, however, saying that soon things would be back to normal.

 

The question is what normal. Before the latest lockdown Pattaya was a shadow of its former self after the first wave of the pandemic. 

 

The resort still faces a very uncertain year. 

 

Source: Sanook

 

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9 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sukhawee sounded a final note of optimism, however, saying that soon things would be back to normal.

He must be applying for a job with TAT.

12 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

He must be applying for a job with TAT.

Probably already is the TAT rep for Pattaya.

I thought 11:00 pm 

There are no Freaking Tourists!!! Jesus!! Open up for what!!  For 2 Cheap Charlie Expats!!! 

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Lukewarm response to renewed opening

 

Lukewarm .! He was in Porridge wasn't he .. 

47 minutes ago, tonysilly said:

Open up for what!!  For 2 Cheap Charlie Expats!!! 

as one who resembles that remark i have to say, unreservedly, yes.

Maybe Thais are a little more sensible than the powers that be/profit realise. Let's hope so.

The "journalist" obviously didn't visit LK Metro!

i see all social distancing rules in place, not just waiting for those 5 (or 10) mln tourists to come

Lady country looking out forlornly ????

My guess is that people are being cautious. I think as the week progresses people will start returning if there are no new outbreaks and numbers remain low.

Just in time for CNW.

2 hours ago, Ireland32 said:

I thought 11:00 pm 

Close when you want with right connections/envelopes

20 minutes ago, Sametboy2019 said:

My guess is that people are being cautious. I think as the week progresses people will start returning if there are no new outbreaks and numbers remain low.

Just in time for CNW.

Who’s celebrating CNW , I personally am NOT 

22 minutes ago, Sametboy2019 said:

My guess is that people are being cautious. I think as the week progresses people will start returning if there are no new outbreaks and numbers remain low.

Just in time for CNW.

CNW?

Chinese New Wave?

That doesn't sound too good.......

3 minutes ago, Ireland32 said:

Who’s celebrating CNW , I personally am NOT 

Is it the year of the Bat?

Even with the closures there are way too many bars, restaurants and hotels here to be supported by domestic travelers, let alone locals.

The cheapest restaurants and bottom priced bars seem to have customers.  The rest not so much.

Get away from Soi Buakhao and surrounding areas and it is deadsville.

LK metro was very busy Monday evening..  like a normal night circa 2019 

I ate out with the GF last night in the Punch & Judy and it was busy, by the time we left there was just one table free. It's not, of course, in the tourist zone, so I guess it's the same old story; places near the beach dependent on tourists will stay in the doldrums, while those depending more (or entirely, in the case of many places on the Dark Side) on expats will continue to do OK.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The question is what normal. Before the latest lockdown Pattaya was a shadow of its former self after the first wave of the pandemic. 

There is NOTHING normal with people dying by the thousands a day. people all over the world are falling ill, losing their jobs, losing loved ones,spending their life savings and going broke, getting petrified to be outside, scared to travel, airlines now requiring PCR test before boarding, virus keeps getting mutated, vaccines  may not be able to fight these mutations, there's uncertainty in the air..

THIS is the "normal" now!

So who the hell is going to travel half way around the world to sit in a red-light street bar with a drunk, loud, needy  middle aged  sex worker if there is a deadly virus and death in the air???

The main area around Soi Buakhao was very busy I felt as I drove around it was as people who are left here got tired of all the social distancing?  In the LK Metro those outside bars were very busy zero social distance and plenty of girls.

 

I noticed Destiny, Paradise, Pandora, Crystal GoGo were opened. Restriction was to be music but no dancing but what I saw wasn't happening one girl I ask " what time closed " answer late!

 

Golden Time at 8:15 had like 20 girls sitting outside,  Black Snake closed Sugar Sugar, Seredipity continue to be close. Many massage shops opened.

 

W.S. entrance was closed due to underground wire work came went in from 2nd Road Soi 15, only places I saw open was Windmill, Tantra, I-Bar, 808, Russian place next door rest all closed even Pin Up.

2 hours ago, tonysilly said:

There are no Freaking Tourists!!! Jesus!! Open up for what!!  For 2 Cheap Charlie Expats!!! 

Or local Thais that won't pay the prices?

3 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Or local Thais that won't pay the prices?

LK Metro and soi Bukhao bars are not really for locals!

3 hours ago, tonysilly said:

There are no Freaking Tourists!!! Jesus!! Open up for what!!  For 2 Cheap Charlie Expats!!! 

 

blimey - that hurts (I'll be in Jomtien in 3 days time)

1 hour ago, adammike said:

Is it the year of the Bat?

The year of the baht ????

3 hours ago, tonysilly said:

There are no Freaking Tourists!!! Jesus!! Open up for what!!  For 2 Cheap Charlie Expats!!! 

I resemble that remark....

1 hour ago, pattayadude said:

 

So who the hell is going to travel half way around the world to sit in a red-light street bar with a drunk, loud, needy  middle aged  sex worker if there is a deadly virus and death in the air???

Me.....lol????

1 hour ago, pattayadude said:

So who the hell is going to travel half way around the world to sit in a red-light street bar with a drunk, loud, needy  middle aged  sex worker if there is a deadly virus and death in the air???

oh probably some foreign drunk, needy, slobbering senior citizen who couldn't have a normal relationship with a woman if they're life depended on it..

5 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

oh probably some foreign drunk, needy, slobbering senior citizen who couldn't have a normal relationship with a woman if they're life depended on it..

Whats that ! 

2 hours ago, thailand49 said:

I noticed Destiny, Paradise, Pandora, Crystal GoGo were opened. Restriction was to be music but no dancing but what I saw wasn't happening one girl I ask " what time closed " answer late!

 

"What I saw wasn't happening." Right. How drunk were you, anyway? 

 

Here's the question: Was there dancing or not?