No change to alcohol ban at restaurants, bar closures for now in Pattaya-Chonburi Provincial Police hold meeting with Pattaya business owners

[antony77]

5 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Brilliant! I've alluded to this term in so many ways, for so many months, with so many words...and here it is summed up in ONE. My new favorite word! 

So what would be your favourite word for the way the Conservatives have handled covid in the UK. with far worse results than Thailand

[Harveyboy]

just knocking the nail deeper into Pattaya's coffin..idiots

[In Full Agreement]

16 hours ago, bbko said:

Had lunch with an expat friend today at a small Thai place, we ordered our food (in Thai) and asked if a beer was possible, without hesitation two chilled bottles on our table....oh yeah.

 

How old was the beer served?

 

[kinyara]

1 hour ago, Mike k said:

What would happen if these provincial goveners did like some of the states and told the pm to shove it and allowed bars, clubs and restaurants in their provinces to serve alcohol 

I think you'll find the same names crop up at a Ministerial level as they do at a Provincial level, unlikely they are going to rock the boat and bite the hand that feeds. They are in the game of controlling big budgets handed down from above, it's how the patronage system operates and ensures the status quo is maintained. In the case of Pattaya, I'm sure centrally and locally their positions were appointed not elected, their relative silence in not unexpected.

[BritManToo]

With the amount of organised crime in Pattaya, I'm surprised the governor and his associates forcing the bans are still alive.

[champers]

1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

My misses claims the general is a Muslim ......... which would explain his anti-alcohol and anti-bikini views. He wouldn't be the first PM to hide his religious beliefs (Tony Blair).

Oh no! If he bans pork pies and  bacon butties I'm out of here.

[kinyara]

13 minutes ago, champers said:

Oh no! If he bans pork pies and  bacon butties I'm out of here.

There's a thought, we might be only one roast pork sunday lunch away from Leaver pulling the plug and heading to Vietnam !!  Every cloud has a silver lining :))

Edited November 5, 2021 by kinyara
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[kinyara]

17 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

With the amount of organised crime in Pattaya, I'm surprised the governor and his associates forcing the bans are still alive.

" The Guvnor " surely.

[bbbbooboo]

Hmm… this is an easy one I suspect: No alcohol=  few tourists.  They will go elsewhere?

Pity the Thai govt can’t work that out

[Millcx]

20 hours ago, johng said:

The Covidiocy continues  whilst declaring Thailand "open" for tourists ????

TAT says that Thailand are now ready to receive 500 million tourists who don’t drink who are waiting to visit Temples … they must bring the 60k Thb to spend at the over priced places that are open “;0)

[Leaver]

5 hours ago, Almer said:

No it’s the same as my  restaurant and 100’s like it if not 1000’s

 

So it's the same as the ones getting raided then.  ????  

[Leaver]

4 hours ago, sungod said:

Common sense most likely, most of the restaurants I have been to like their repeat customers to come back and spend more money as opposed to getting grassed up.

 

And if the restaurant planned on closing soon, so repeat customers is no longer a consideration?  Why not make a quick baht before closing down?  

 

20k baht makes for an expensive beer over a lunch. 

 

Covid aside, why paint a target on yourself for the BiB?    

[1duckyboy]

Read a post on another Thailand forum by a bar owner who came away from that meeting realizing the closure of Pattaya's adult alcohol-serving establishments was no longer covid-19 driven but politically driven under the guise of of being a health issue.

[allyoops]

I made hotel booking months ago for Nov and Dec, more in hope than expectation, obviously there was some really good deals around. Just cancelled them. There is too much confusion and too many hoops to jump through. Waste of time and effort. Might as well wait and save the money for another time. Why waste your cash for a holiday that may well end up ruined for no fault of your own.

While I was cncelling the booking I has a quick look at prices and one of the hotels on Koh Chang has already started hiking it's prices. I mean really, tourism hasn't even got started yet and they are hiking their prices. Lots more hotel booking cencellations on the way.

[Skeptic7]

2 hours ago, antony77 said:

So what would be your favourite word for the way the Conservatives have handled covid in the UK. with far worse results than Thailand

Covidiocy most everywhere, but not about UK, about LOS...Land of Stoo-pid.

 

Thailand whacked off and self-fellated themselves for a year instead of preparing. Ejaculating LOOK AT US LOOK AT US how great we are and did, instead of timely securing of plentiful, quality vaccines and a serious vax rollout plan. While effectively destroying the economy by assassinating most small business + bars and restaurants, airlines and hotels. Covidiots! 

[Barefootknobby]

About time people started to wake up, they want ALL businesses to collapse before they move in and take over the lot

[overherebc]

18 hours ago, Leaver said:

 

I'm sure your restaurant "is different."  ????

And they pay less than the locals in the markets.

[Marley01]

Oh, <deleted>. We all know why bars get busted during these times.

bar owner 

does  not give policeman brown envelope with 15000 Thai baht in it.

policeman’s boss asks where his monthly wage supplement is.

policeman says bar did not give this month “fee”.

police boss with 25 million subordinates and 30 million Thai press go and close said bar down. 
mans tgai media, including this site toe the line and report what the police want.

time fir media including this site to grow a set

Edited November 5, 2021 by Marley01

[Leaver]

1 hour ago, overherebc said:

And they pay less than the locals in the markets.

 

And their neighbour is "big boss police."  ????  

[dirtybirty]

Aint exactly the temple viewing tourists who go to the brothel by the sea is it. 

[matador007]

11 hours ago, Millcx said:

TAT says that Thailand are now ready to receive 500 million tourists who don’t drink who are waiting to visit Temples … they must bring the 60k Thb to spend at the over priced places that are open “;0)

 

For sure.

[daejung]

On 11/4/2021 at 12:23 PM, snoop1130 said:

The Chonburi Provincial Police held a meeting this afternoon, November 4th, 2021, with Pattaya business owners in the hotel, restaurant, bar, service, and entertainment industry to address concerns about a continued ban on alcohol sales at restaurants and the closure of bars and entertainment venues.

They don't need tourists. Their choice !

[bristolgeoff]

They want the tourist,you got to do the test before u fly and on arrival and wait a day.high season coming they come for the sea and sand and thats means bars open serving punters.No one will come if bars are closed and no alcohol is served.Maybe the penny will drop soon

[jacko45k]

16 hours ago, kinyara said:

their relative silence in not unexpected.

Relative or relative's?

[ttrd]

On 11/5/2021 at 1:13 AM, Skeptic7 said:

And no reason given, other than it comes from CCSA. "It not us...it them". 

With few tourists the police make more money from fining those who break the ban rather than lifting the ban - simple mathematics ... 

[Yewbzee]

On 11/5/2021 at 12:19 PM, Mike k said:

If this "government" was actually worried about covid they would have gotten off their a**at the beginning procured effective vaccines instead of the Chinese <deleted>. It is no more dangerous drinking alcohol in a restaurant then drinking any non alcoholic drink 

Apologies, I obviously didn't relay the sarcasm enough in my post!

[johng]

On 11/5/2021 at 5:00 PM, Barefootknobby said:

About time people started to wake up, they want ALL businesses to collapse before they move in and take over the lot

I said the same last year and it earned me a weeks holiday ????

[BritManToo]

14 minutes ago, johng said:

I said the same last year and it earned me a weeks holiday ????

Me too!

But for 2 weeks ...... they must like you more than me.

[Will B Good]

Haven't read the thread, but what has this got to do with the police (apart from their income from tea money being severely restricted)?

 

I can see Pattaya being the last place in Thailand getting permission for alcohol sales.......the government don't want the place to exist.......it is putting off all the Indian millionaires from coming here.

[Kevin Taylor]

Pathetic, the rules come from the covid health bureaucrats. They dont care a bit about mental health, poverty, the economy, or any other health issues. True leaders would listen to experts on all fields and navigate the best way forward. Instead we have incompetant leaders happy to hide behind health bureaucrats since closures and lockdowns orders come from the disease control morons. To be fair not just here but many other countries following the same folly.