Picture: INN

 

INN reported that Pattaya was very busy yesterday on the last day of the Songkran holidays.

 

They said there were large, slow moving traffic jams leading to the beach down North Pattaya road.

 

There were many families on the beach enjoying the sea.

 

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But the resort looked very different from normal Songkran years when foreign tourists and Thais would engage in huge water fights.

 

This year it was all quiet on that front as the vast majority obeyed the no splashing rules on main roads and even down sois.  

 

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That's what I would call busy......

I trust there was no splashing of seawater!

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya was very busy yesterday

Oh really? Looks deserted to me for a Pattaya beach during Songkran!!

5 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Oh really? Looks deserted to me for a Pattaya beach during Songkran!!

Look at the shadows, photo taken about mid-day.  Thais don't like to go brown and most don't hit the beach until late afternoon.

18 hours ago, Will B Good said:

That's what I would call busy......

Costa-del-Soi?

13 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Oh really? Looks deserted to me for a Pattaya beach during Songkran!!

There was certainly no shortage of traffic on the main roads yesterday... but too hot for the beach during the daytime when I was there. Big-CX also busy, people restocking after the holidays, and getting out of the heat. 

Roads were jammed going into town ,but no water fights ,great.