I have yet to get my head what a swimming pool has to do with covid...Our condo swimming pool is //CLOSED// yet again.......Shopping no problem, restaurants no problem.....Beach crowds no problem......But the swimming pool absolutely must be //CLOSED//.......

Which condo?

Power trip. See the committee

Mine is closed, as is the gym and the games room and the library. The on site 7/11; where more people congregate than anywhere else; is open.

     My Bangkok condo pool closed last Friday--even though there was no mandate from the government to close condo pools.  Even though the pool is huge and never had more than 3 or 4 swimmers at a time pre-covid.  Even though the pool had already been marked off into 3 separate swim lanes at least 1.5 meters wide.   Ok for 4 or more people to cram into a small elevator but not ok for 3 swimmers with large separation in a huge pool.  Ditto for the large sky lounge, library, and gym--also closed.   Madness.  So far the pool and gym at my Pattaya condo have stayed open--at least they were open yesterday.  

Perhaps someone from the condo tested positive for Covid?

It would seem everythingin a condo building that might cost money or effort will get closed, but businesses, ie places that make money, are allowed to be open.

 

2 hours ago, newnative said:

     My Bangkok condo pool closed last Friday...

Now newnative, you should know better than to apply facts and logic on here to address administrative issues in Thailand

Pool at my condo is closed too but Bangkok hotels pools and fitness are open, I just called 2 of them to confirm.

Strange indeed...

6 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Perhaps someone from the condo tested positive for Covid?

 

I doubt it very much......

 

The Condo is in Pattaya.....I am not going to name it......But I will say they love to shut down the pool at every opportunity.......I am just a renter here so my opinion is not worth a wooden nickel ......

 

But if I owned I would be in the committee meetings speaking LOUD and OFTEN and be a real pain in the Azz about this pool thing.....

 

The Thais here never seem to complain about the pool situation....

Our condo had a positive Covid case where the person(s) were transported yesterday morning by ambulance from the location here in Bangkok.  Shortly thereafter, notices went up in the common places as well as the lifts announcing the issue.  The pool was closed as well as the gym and all common areas, and a sanitization was undertaken of all common areas/hallways/corridors/outside door(s) to units, as well as the bathrooms, and sauna.  The Pool/Gym/Sauna have been closed and no one is allowed to congregate inside the common Area's/Lobby until further notice by order of the Juristic company.  It is real and will happen.  The issue can not be fought as the juristic memo indicates they are following BMA rues and CCSA regulations in order to stop the spread of the virus.

As far as I know no problems in Phuket, I have a condo and the pools are open well they where the other day

That’s good enough reason not to live in a condo  thankfully I have my own pool and it’s open 365 days a year 

Our management very strictly follows the government guidelines, so the pool and gym are open. Not even by appointment anymore, since few people use it and they don't want to scare anyone.

Thailand and its insular. Irrational thinking.   Nothing changes

my own house pool is open to me and my family all the time.  Yet one more reason to avoid condo living, the list is impressively long, of reasons to do that. 

17 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

my own house pool is open to me and my family all the time.  Yet one more reason to avoid condo living, the list is impressively long, of reasons to do that. 

Game wardens will be around with all the splashing occurring. They will either think an alligator or crocodile gotcha or a full fledged water party is happening...lol

1 minute ago, ThailandRyan said:

Game wardens will be around with all the splashing occurring. They will either think an alligator or crocodile gotcha or a full fledged water party is happening...lol

I just lock the gate.  It's nothing to do with them, in my own little family  bubble. 

24 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

my own house pool is open to me and my family all the time.  Yet one more reason to avoid condo living, the list is impressively long, of reasons to do that. 

Some of us don’t enjoy mosquitoes, Rats , Snakes we live above those problems, I would never own a house and theses Villas are stacked up next to one another , No privacy,  20 th floor Sea Views Pattaya Views , No Way a Homeowner 

35 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

my own house pool is open to me and my family all the time.  Yet one more reason to avoid condo living, the list is impressively long, of reasons to do that. 

except it's not your house or pool

6 minutes ago, Aomelia said:

Some of us don’t enjoy mosquitoes, Rats , Snakes we live above those problems, I would never own a house and theses Villas are stacked up next to one another , No privacy,  20 th floor Sea Views Pattaya Views , No Way a Homeowner 

Haha, they are not all like that, for example, my house does not suffer any of those things that you list, bar the odd mosquito and is located in a quiet rural area with no immediate neighbours to bother me.  Its where you pick to live as far as a house is concerned, whereas, all condos suffer from the same privacy, noise and control issues, even high end ones. Not for me. 

6 minutes ago, Henryford said:

except it's not your house or pool

yes it is 

 

Ed: if in you're wisdom you are going to start an 'ownership' debate, please don't bother, we have all heard it many times before and its boring.   

As long as they make people stay apart in the water and don't allow them to gather for a post-swim beer and a chat around the pool, it's safe. This has just been published:

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9465679/Health-Swimming-pool-water-inactivate-COVID-19-virus-just-30-SECONDS-study-finds.html

 

Maybe print it out and distribute it to your condo manager and committee chairperson, or ask an owner to do so on your behalf.

My Condo pool is still open, but probably should be closed.

The pool, the poolside restaurant and the poolside seating has become a popup bar for all the expats who cant go 2 hours without a drink.

 

40 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Haha, they are not all like that, for example, my house does not suffer any of those things that you list, bar the odd mosquito and is located in a quiet rural area with no immediate neighbours to bother me.  Its where you pick to live as far as a house is concerned, whereas, all condos suffer from the same privacy, noise and control issues, even high end ones. Not for me. 

It is why I chose a Penthouse, no noisy neighbors next door or above me...lol, maybe I and my family are the noisemakers.  I bought a blow up rubber pool I am putting on my large balcony so the GF's daughter can swim...lol

Mine is closed, the Juristic Nazi Person just does these things.  No meetings in Covid times, so no committee to nay-say her, she's loving that.  ????

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

privacy, noise and control issues, even high end ones.

None of those issues here, but it is extremely high, and high-end.

2 hours ago, Pilotman said:

yes it is 

??? 

13 minutes ago, PGSan said:

None of those issues here, but it is extremely high, and high-end.

So there is no management committee to make the rules?  No rules that others impose on you? pets?, no others that you can hear at all, so no next door room,  or one above and below? There is no 5/6/7 star hotel in the world that doesn't have adjacent living arrangements, so I very much doubt that any condo, high end or not, doesn't have that as well. How about security, you have to have a sticker to enter?  Do your friends have to report to security before they can see you? Not for me. 

3 minutes ago, Pilotman said:

Not for me. 

Good, we would not want you anyway, far too high-end! ????