Another (death) blow to Patong's embattled tourism industry

[Adumbration]

Massive landslide on top of "Mount Mayhem" has just destroyed the road from Kathu to Patong.  Looking at the photos it will take them months to repair it properly and billions of baht.  

 

Sorry I have some photos here of the damage but I am getting servor error messages when I try to upload.

 

[Adumbration]

[Sparktrader]

Take another road

[Hummin]

Billions and tourist killer? 
 

Tourists really do not care, only foreigners who live here seems to roar up every time something happens, but most continue to stay. Just another day in paradise

[Sparktrader]

28 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Billions and tourist killer? 
 

Tourists really do not care, only foreigners who live here seems to roar up every time something happens, but most continue to stay. Just another day in paradise

Tourists dont care

Covid has killed it

I suppose they have to write a scary headline

[Adumbration]

1 hour ago, Hummin said:

Billions and tourist killer? 
 

Tourists really do not care, only foreigners who live here seems to roar up every time something happens, but most continue to stay. Just another day in paradise

Yes billions of baht to repair is correctly.

 

[Adumbration]

1 hour ago, Sparktrader said:

Take another road

Have a look at the travel times on google maps.

 

Compare kathu to patong (destroyed route) with 

 

Phuket town to patong via kamala

 or 

Phuket town to patong via Karon

[Iamfalang]

OMG, I think you are right.

 

OK TVFM, I just built a 300,000,000 house in Patong, but this place is done!!!!!

 

I'll sell for 20 baht and a few bowls of noodle soup.

 

 

[simon43]

What's the big deal?  A bit of sand and cement will soon fix it....

[Hummin]

2 hours ago, Sparktrader said:

Tourists dont care

Covid has killed it

I suppose they have to write a scary headline

Covid was a temporary pause, and a necessary pause out of many reasons, even how painful it was for many. The tourist machinery had grown out of proportion. 
 

 

[Hummin]

1 hour ago, Adumbration said:

Yes billions of baht to repair is correctly.

 

I guess the money calculated for quality road safety ended up in pockets instead. 

[zzzzz]

Hey, used to be kamala was the most remote to phuket town, now with the road between Patong an Kathu closed, its Patong  LOL

no big deal, Phuket has come back from much worse,  i'd say by mid dec it will be all fixed  an now they will push the tunnel to be made quicker
From the airport many taxi's use the road down the west coast  anyway
 

[Pattaya Spotter]

41 minutes ago, zzzzz said:

From the airport many taxi's use the road down the west coast  anyway

I may have read the road from Kamala to Patong has collapsed too. May just have to take the southern route through Chalong around the Buddha mountain to Kata and then up to Patong.

[Adumbration]

10 hours ago, simon43 said:

What's the big deal?  A bit of sand and cement will soon fix it....

You did not read my op carefully....I wrote "repair it properly"....

[Adumbration]

1 hour ago, Pattaya Spotter said:

I may have read the road from Kamala to Patong has collapsed too. May just have to take the southern route through Chalong around the Buddha mountain to Kata and then up to Patong.

This is interesting news...any links????

[simon43]

56 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

You did not read my op carefully....I wrote "repair it properly"....

"repair it properly" is a phrase that doesn't exist in Thai language...

[Adumbration]

8 minutes ago, simon43 said:

"repair it properly" is a phrase that doesn't exist in Thai language...

Oh the original blue prints and pick list of materials required will be drafted properly prior to submitting to Bangkok for funding.  Once the billions have been granted the repair will commence using sand, low grade cement, and burmese laborers so that billions of baht can be skimmed off the project.

 

Goverment officials in Phuket would not view this as a disaster.  For them it is a significant windfall.

[ThailandRyan]

13 hours ago, Adumbration said:

Yes billions of baht to repair is correctly.

 

They need to span that curve in the road, always have many accident there and then down the hill into the straight away.  But by spanning that downhill section they will avoid it ever slipping out again.

[Adumbration]

Some more photos here showing extent of damage:

 

 

 

 

 

[ThailandRyan]

I thought there was some kind of a house or structure down at the bottom of that hillside that had beach access, maybe my memory is poor.  I used to drive that road, ride it as well many times a week when I lived in Rawai and Chalong over a 5 year period.

[xylophone]

13 minutes ago, Adumbration said:

Some more photos here showing extent of damage:

 

 

 

 

 

That reminds me of a joke: – "a large hole has appeared in the road on Patong Hill and workmen are said to be looking into it" (look closely at the pic). 

[xylophone]

4 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought there was some kind of a house or structure down at the bottom of that hillside that had beach access,

I don't think that's the case TR, as the bottom of that hill is many kilometres away from any beach! And as I was searching frantically for a way around the melee yesterday, I tried every which way but loose, with little back roads and dirt roads, to try and find a way back into Patong, but to no avail and I've posted about it elsewhere.

[Patong2]

8 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I don't think that's the case TR, as the bottom of that hill is many kilometres away from any beach! And as I was searching frantically for a way around the melee yesterday, I tried every which way but loose, with little back roads and dirt roads, to try and find a way back into Patong, but to no avail and I've posted about it elsewhere.

I'm taking a friend from Patong to Bangkok Int Hospital Friday so any suugestions for what's the best route and how long should I allow for travel?

[pagallim]

16 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought there was some kind of a house or structure down at the bottom of that hillside that had beach access, maybe my memory is poor.  I used to drive that road, ride it as well many times a week when I lived in Rawai and Chalong over a 5 year period.

From your description, are you confusing the road from Karon (hence Rawai/Chalong) to Patong, rather than the road from Kathu to Patong (over Patong Hill) which is the one that has collapsed?   On the Karon side, there are a couple of small track type roads that lead to beaches.

[JonnyF]

18 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought there was some kind of a house or structure down at the bottom of that hillside that had beach access, maybe my memory is poor.  I used to drive that road, ride it as well many times a week when I lived in Rawai and Chalong over a 5 year period.

Nowhere near the beach, are you thinking of the road to Karon?

[pagallim]

2 minutes ago, Patong2 said:

I'm taking a friend from Patong to Bangkok Int Hospital Friday so any suugestions for what's the best route and how long should I allow for travel?

Best (my opinion) would be north through Kamala to Cherng Talay, then to Heroines, then right towards Phuket Town, right at the Bypass, left at Sam Kong.

[KhunLA]

2 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Nowhere near the beach, are you thinking of the road to Karon?

Death blow ... ????

Most tourist will never be on that stretch of road.  A simple inconvenience to those living there, if they use it.

[blackshadow]

12 hours ago, simon43 said:

What's the big deal?  A bit of sand and cement will soon fix it....

YES but it is THE MEN who are going to fix it that is the problem......they cant build a sand castle on a beach !!!!!

[ThailandRyan]

19 minutes ago, xylophone said:

I don't think that's the case TR, as the bottom of that hill is many kilometres away from any beach! And as I was searching frantically for a way around the melee yesterday, I tried every which way but loose, with little back roads and dirt roads, to try and find a way back into Patong, but to no avail and I've posted about it elsewhere.

 

9 minutes ago, pagallim said:

From your description, are you confusing the road from Karon (hence Rawai/Chalong) to Patong, rather than the road from Kathu to Patong (over Patong Hill) which is the one that has collapsed?   On the Karon side, there are a couple of small track type roads that lead to beaches.

I think I am thinking of the roadway you are describing that runs along the beach.

[xylophone]

15 minutes ago, Patong2 said:

I'm taking a friend from Patong to Bangkok Int Hospital Friday so any suugestions for what's the best route and how long should I allow for travel?

A couple of choices I can think of and @pagallim has mentioned one, going north through Kamala and hooking up with the dual carriageway which then heads into Phuket town, and provided the large slips and flooding which were evident yesterday at Kamala have been cleared, then that will probably be the "safest" route, although a little longer.

 

Otherwise go south to Chalong circle and take the road which heads back into Phuket town and takes you directly past Bangkok International Hospital, as there was only one large flood which was holding traffic up from Chalong north.

 

Allow 45 to 60 mins to be on the safe side.