Pattaya mayor announces set prices and legal selling hours for beach services

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PHOTO: TMN Cable TV Pattaya

 

By Tanakorn Panyadee

 

Pattaya — Pattaya Mayor Poramase Ngampiches announced set prices and legal selling hours for beach services.

The mayor has ordered all beach vendors in Pattaya City limits to strictly obey to these prices for the following services:

 

Normal beach chairs – no more than 50 baht per day
Laydown beach chairs – no more than 100 baht per day
Small swim ring – no more than 50 baht per day
Big swim ring – no more than 100 baht per day

Additionally, the mayor determined the official opening times for beach chair vendors, which are 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday and on special holidays. During upcoming events like the Pattaya Fireworks Festival or Loy Krathong, the vendors will be allowed to operate from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/09/24/pattaya-mayor-announces-set-prices-and-legal-selling-hours-for-beach-services/

 

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[petermik]

Well done sir....whether the Beach mafia take any notice is an entirely different matter......

[brommers]

Quite how many visitors does he think can read Thai!

[HarrySeaman]

The cost of renting an umbrella wasn't stated in the article but Google Translate says it is 100 Bt/day.

[micmichd]

45 minutes ago, brommers said:

Quite how many visitors does he think can read Thai!

In Pattaya Beach everything is usually also written in English. 

[apetryxx]

Just what one needs in a free market economy, the government telling people what to pay for goods and services. Anybody out there ever heard of supply and demand?

[SGD]

5 minutes ago, apetryxx said:

Just what one needs in a free market economy, the government telling people what to pay for goods and services. Anybody out there ever heard of supply and demand?

It is the aggressive "demand" from the vendors that is the (occasional) problem but in reality, shouldn't they be off public beaches altogether ?

[rbkk]

26 minutes ago, micmichd said:

In Pattaya Beach everything is usually also written in English. 

So there is a potential here for dual pricing with an English version; "Farang Prices"!

Natural parks and hospitals have dual prices but the beaches don't?

Edited September 26, 2022 by rbkk

[IAMHERE]

I'm guessing during Covid the closed vendors on Wednesday went away?

[Aussieroaming]

Toothless Tiger type speech me thinks.

[moogradod]

51 minutes ago, apetryxx said:

Just what one needs in a free market economy, the government telling people what to pay for goods and services. Anybody out there ever heard of supply and demand?

Prices listed are the "allowed" maximum. As a vendor you may theoretically go below that if you want to compete with the others. If you dont mind getting beaten up maybe ????

[NE1]

Shouldn't it also state , that it is not a requirement for a beachgoer to pay for something they do not want.

[rbkk]

Wherever there's gai yang (bbq chicken) there will also be the soi/beach dog annoyance. Be it fleas, sh*t, barking, fighting for control.... Will the fixing of that bigger problem be a tax soon? I would be more than willing to pay to fix that problem than to pay for a chair.

[terryofcrete]

1 hour ago, apetryxx said:

Just what one needs in a free market economy, the government telling people what to pay for goods and services. Anybody out there ever heard of supply and demand?

Yes... the whole world ... that's why we are paying exorbitant prices for energy supplies and eejits are paying up to €50:a day for a sunbed in Mykonos in Greece in high season.
Still better for everyone to regulate the price , especially in Thailand where tourists are screwed so much already... as regards energy supply , someone needs to eliminate the source of the problem, lovely man ! 

[Bangkok Barry]

2 hours ago, brommers said:

Quite how many visitors does he think can read Thai!

The English version will have prices doubled.

[cjinchiangrai]

And what about the rates at the coconut bar?

 

[dddave]

2 hours ago, SGD said:

It is the aggressive "demand" from the vendors that is the (occasional) problem but in reality, shouldn't they be off public beaches altogether ?

I think they provide a useful service. 

Not everybody, especially older people, can just sit  directly on the beach which can get rather uncomfortable and hot pretty quickly. 

Most visitors also don't have the means to carry beach chairs and lounges to the beach.   

I live close to Jomtien Beach and regularly rent one of the larger lounge chairs to just sit and read for a few hours with a nice, cold coconut next to me. 

I am always quoted the regular B100 price for the larger chair and have never had a vendor quote more.

 

Prior to Covid, in response to several negative incidents involving beach chair vendors, Pattaya officials banned the chairs on certain weekdays.  It made going to the beach on those days rather unpleasant as there was no place to sit unless you could carry your own chair or were willing to lay on a beach towel or mat.

No apparent advantage to the rule at all.

 

Edited September 26, 2022 by dddave

[OneMoreFarang]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Pattaya — Pattaya Mayor Poramase Ngampiches announced set prices and legal selling hours for beach services.

Maybe the mayor should publish how much those beach vendors have to pay the authorities to be able to do their business on the beach.

Maybe those vendors are overcharging. But maybe they only do that because they have to pay huge amounts to the authorities, especially under the table. 

[unblocktheplanet]

I had one of those services! It was nighttime...

[Gottfrid]

6 hours ago, brommers said:

Quite how many visitors does he think can read Thai!

Not many, but you could read the English version here in the news. Also, you might be surprised to see translated signs on the beach later.

[Caldera]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Normal beach chairs – no more than 50 baht per day
Laydown beach chairs – no more than 100 baht per day

That's exactly what I paid last year, without anyone forcing the vendors. So I've got to ask, why? And why now?

[Upnotover]

Means nothing if there is no standard rate for using a chair whilst enjoying a coconut drink.

[Bday Prang]

8 hours ago, rbkk said:

So there is a potential here for dual pricing with an English version; "Farang Prices"!

Natural parks and hospitals have dual prices but the beaches don't?

ssssshhhhhhhhhhh  !!

[geisha]

12 hours ago, NE1 said:

Shouldn't it also state , that it is not a requirement for a beachgoer to pay for something they do not want.

No one is obliged to rent a chair or whatever. Just sit in the sand if you wish. I find the prices very reasonable .

[geisha]

13 hours ago, SGD said:

It is the aggressive "demand" from the vendors that is the (occasional) problem but in reality, shouldn't they be off public beaches altogether ?

If it’s anything like other beach towns, they have concessions from the local authorities. When those concessions were taken away, as on Phuket a good few years back, they had to fold up their chairs and leave the beach to the utter dismay of the tourists with families and children who could  not sit in the sun all day. This put a lot of people out of work and put off tourists from using the beach. 
Now they are back again of course after a long absence, and everyone is happy again. 

 

[hotchilli]

15 hours ago, brommers said:

Quite how many visitors does he think can read Thai!

I'm sure signs written in Ingrish will be posted up and down the beach.. before blowing mysteriously away in the wind.

[NE1]

3 hours ago, geisha said:

No one is obliged to rent a chair or whatever. Just sit in the sand if you wish. I find the prices very reasonable .

That was the whole point of my post , not to long ago , there were altercations on the beach between tourists who wanted to just sit / lie on the beach and traders trying to force them to rent chairs.

[morrobay]

17 hours ago, rbkk said:

Wherever there's gai yang (bbq chicken) there will also be the soi/beach dog annoyance. Be it fleas, sh*t, barking, fighting for control.... Will the fixing of that bigger problem be a tax soon? I would be more than willing to pay to fix that problem than to pay for a chair.

Indeed. Visiting tourists are not going to pay much mind to set prices for services. They just want to relax and enjoy. But the Thais just don't understand that dogs arriving at same time the food does, cigarette smoke from venders, low life locals on motorbikes on the "promenade" is not good for business. That is outside of "these" cigarette smoking foreigners who most likely are happy as pigs in s### in that sorry environment.

 

 

 

 

 

[kcpattaya]

Pattaya's mayor is Thai, right?

How come he doesn't know that NOBODY will respond to these dumb guidelines?!

[sammieuk1]

There will also be a beach finders fee if Thursdays storm arrives on time ????