Phuket: 'Service Establishment' in well known Patong hotel ordered shut for 15 days after complaints

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: 'Service Establishment' ordered shut

 

Daily News reported that a service establishment - a euphemism for a place of prostitution - was ordered shut in the Patong area of Phuket.

 

The restaurant will be shut for 15 days following complaints from locals about noise and alcohol being sold after hours.

 

The place was raided by Patong police and DOPA officials at 2 am last Saturday.

 

Keep up to date with all things Thailand - Join our daily ASEAN NOW Thailand Newsletter - Click to subscribe

 

The manager admitted charges related to opening after hours and breaking health rules. 

 

Local official Somprach Prapsongkhram said that the authority had acted promptly for the good of the people and would continue to regulate activities in hotels. 

 

The hotel and restaurant were not named in the Daily News story. 

 

-- © Copyright  ASEAN NOW 2022-04-23

 

- Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here.

 

- Follow ASEAN NOW on LINE for breaking COVID-19 updates

 

Get your business in front of millions of customers who read ASEAN NOW with an interest in Thailand every month - email [email protected] for more information

[harada]

A brown envelope flow problem?

[jcmj]

Tell me it isn’t so. I thought Thailand didn’t have any prostitution. ????????

[jippytum]

You notice the police only act when they receive a complaint from locals rarely if ever from their own

diligence.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Local official Somprach Prapsongkhram said that the authority had acted promptly for the good of the people and would continue to regulate activities in hotels

Acted promptly AFTER COMPLAINTS rather than knowing what was going on, on their watch.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, harada said:

A brown envelope flow problem?

Only for the next 15 days.

[swm59nj]

If they keep doing things like that,  tourism will never get back to normal 

[ronster]

15 days ? ????????????

[DefaultName]

Must cater to fallangs, Thai establishments are usually discrete.

[MrJ2U]

Place sounds fun.

[Sticky Rice Balls]

complaints on NOISE and ALCOHOL--but doing the deed is just fine albeit illegal???

[beechbum]

It's nothing to do with brown envelopes, the BIB from the big smoke are still in town and muscles are being flexed!