The month-long festival will include fireworks and fire shows at Patong Beach. Image: Phuket Info Center

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Government and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will together hold a month-long festival in Patong and Phuket Town under the banner “Colourful Phuket” to welcome tourists to Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox scheme. 

 

The grand opening of the festival will be held on Patong Beach tomorrow (July 3), with another major event being held in the Phuket Old Town area on Sunday.

 

At the popular Patong Beach tomorrow, there will be local food trucks starting from 3pm, as well as fireworks and fire shows, from 7:30pm to 8pm, the Phuket Provincial Government announced through a notice this afternoon.

 

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12 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

The Phuket Provincial Government and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will together hold a month-long festival in Patong and Phuket Town under the banner “Colourful Phuket” to welcome tourists to Phuket under the Phuket Sandbox scheme. 

This sounds absolutely horrible.

With masks, proper social distancing, and clean hands, well unless you're in the Prayut entourage and then you get a pass on all of the above. Special table, special view, special rules.

one way to spreading a virus quick.. 

 

 

I didn't really know what "projection mapping" was.  Now I do.  Have they got a beer tent?

Is attendance mandatory for all these holidaying tourists? Most everything else in the sandbox is.

What days are they holding the Tar Ball rolling contest?

Dig that psychedelic album sleeve homage poster thing with hints of Hotel California in the palm tree inclusion .. 

You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave .. 

many cynics out in force here again.

glass empty or half empty types......

stay then in your miserable lonely pits.......

try to appreciate the govt. efforts being made, however late / misguided / ineffective

they are making a start, working hard in their own way with a national crises never experienced here before

I shall be at both events having fun with my family

8 minutes ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

many cynics out in force here again.

glass empty or half empty types......

stay then in your miserable lonely pits.......

try to appreciate the govt. efforts being made, however late / misguided / ineffective

they are making a start, working hard in their own way with a national crises never experienced here before

I shall be at both events having fun with my family

They will not be happy no matter where they are so they want everyone else to be miserable as well and cheerlead for failure.

2 minutes ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

many cynics out in force here again.

glass empty or half empty types......

stay then in your miserable lonely pits.......

try to appreciate the govt. efforts being made, however late / misguided / ineffective

they are making a start, working hard in their own way with a national crises never experienced here before

I shall be at both events having fun with my family

They shouldn't be working hard at all with this nonsense. They should be working flat out super fast & super hard at getting vaccines and locking down containing the virus spread. 6000 new cases around the nation today. Sorry but it's not the right time for tourists to be flying in to have fun with their families.

for certain depressive types,  it will never be “the right time” to open up and have fun again.........

we must all cower before the great malevolent covid god.....good times forbidden.....embrace the misery

........until Zero Covid....... so forever........

1 hour ago, WhiteBuffaloATM said:

I shall be at both events having fun with my family

 

Hanging out with a bunch of vaccinated, tested, and tested again tourists is probably the safest place in Thailand to enjoy.  There may be safer places to exist, but most Thai homes don't have a basement.

 

Thai: ยี่สิบ baht

Foreigner: 200 baht

 

Transport options from patong beach to your SHA+ hotel: Red tin can mafia endorsed SafeThailand tuktuks - first 1km 500baht, each extra km 200baht.

 

Checkin with SHA+ hotel probation officer manager by 11pm

 

Sign me up!

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the banner “Colourful Phuket” to welcome tourists

 

I bet not like this!

20 hours ago, WineOh said:

This sounds absolutely horrible.

 

Nope... "Absolutely Horrible" was few months ago when those fancy clubs held parties with thousands of sweaty drunk partygoers rubbing against each other whole night lol.

 

This thingy along Patong beach is quiet and safe affair, went there few times before, food stalls along the beach, families walking around, wearing masks and distanced. We'll come by tonight to see the fireworks and some new happy faces, cheer up guys ????