5 hours ago, bang saen guy said:

"All this was to "restore Pattaya's image", "

Think about this one

Pattaya - the place where foreign tourists travel to, to visit the temples...

3 hours ago, sambum said:

"........families, children and normal people"

 

Pattaya has always been a destination renowned for one thing, and it is not the temples!

 

As far as your comment is concerned, I don't think "normal people" is a very good choice of words!

 

And if I were taking my family to Thailand on holiday, I can think of a few better "family orientated"  destinations than Pattaya - no matter what the Pattaya "bureaucracy" says! 

We visit Pattaya twice a year or so, we live in the North. We usually stay in Naklua or at the Holiday Grim in North Beach. We go to the beach in Sattahip and do our shopping and dining in Pattaya where there is plenty of variety and the standards  are good. We're normal, we don't do the bar scene so maybe we're not that normal but we do like to stroll down the beach in the evening and would prefer not to run the gauntlet in doing so. There are loads and loads of people like us except newbie and forum based farangs can't tell the difference between me as a resident of 20 years and my Thai wife of the same, and, a monger with his Issan love interest, they are all the same to that group, foreign male and a Thai female, it's pathetic. If they would but understand it, the percentage of normal folks far outweighs the mongers and whores in Pattaya, far outweighs.

6 hours ago, brianthainess said:

I can only blame these stupid youtubers showing the girls all over social media. Leave 'em alone.

 

What a fuss they  make  to preserve Thailand's image.Leave the ladyboys and ladies alone. If tourists want to have fun with them let them. I would hazard a guess that 80% of the  tourists come to Thailand for sex. 

1 hour ago, shackleton said:

Why do the police bother it will never change  its what Pattaya is about 

Known all over world 

That's why people come for the night life in the sex sin city of Thailand 

The holidays are coming and cash is a little tight. The gogos will be offering bonuses to disrupt the competition.

 

My wife and I often taken a stroll down Beach Road of an evening. My experience is that the ladies cause no problems - they don't hustle or cause trouble. If any do then the police should take targeted action and leave the rest alone.

They should crack down on foreign male tourists who are under the impression that Pattaya is the sex capital of the world. Once all those guys are in prison and tourism drops by 90% the government and police can boast of their success.

 

Of course they don't come for the temples. Either industrialize or set up official brothels. 

Sad, because only by itself, Beach Road is boring and sterile.

 

The remodeling didn't help either, I wish they had used all that money to fill up all the potholes and dangerous "jump gutters" on roads.

When will it all end prostitution in pattaya. I'm not going again well not until  January ????????

2 hours ago, Archie Baker said:

No.6 in the best countries to live for expats.  This was not in the poll categories but sure should have been. 

I'm pretty sure there are ladyboys and sex workers in other countries too!  ????  But I agree it deserves its own category

Is this an effort to eliminate freelancers so as to increase customer demand at girlie bars, which the authorities have interest in?

They need start carrying larger handbags ???? for the brown envelopes or is it that the police can’t see the brown envelopes in the dark and they need to start using white envelopes ✉️.

9 minutes ago, mjakob007 said:

Is this an effort to eliminate freelancers so as to increase customer demand at girlie bars, which the authorities have interest in?

And there is also the increasing online business as competition. I don't use "entertainers". But I would avoid to pay bar fines. And I guess I am not the only one.

"restore Pattaya's image"?

 

That IS Pattaya's image, lol

 

And doesn't the word "crackdown" make the police sound tough? They use it all the time for their occasional sweeps.

 

Cracks me up!

Hassle the freelancers, as they do not contribute to the RTP villa fund. 

 

Let's face it. This is and was never about prostitution. This is about "we are not getting our fair share"! 

2 hours ago, shackleton said:

Why do the police bother it will never change  its what Pattaya is about 

Known all over world 

That's why people come for the night life in the sex sin city of Thailand 

If people get ripped off by LB and ladies then that will be what people hear about and will stay away

Going through this exercise is not only good pr but they can add faces to their scrapbook so it will be easier to catch the theives

 

It also will gain the assistance of the girls on the street if someone is doing things wrong then they or bf will be interested in looking after it on their own just to keep the cops away.

The RTP have stated many times that sex workers don't exist in Pattaya, therefore these girls and transgenders should sue the RTP for defamation if they are arrested.

Not again xmas is coming the police need some help to cover cost.They are doing a lecture to them come next week it will be all ok ladies

4 hours ago, shackleton said:

Why do the police bother it will never change  its what Pattaya is about 

Known all over world 

That's why people come for the night life in the sex sin city of Thailand 

I ask what would Pattaya be if it wasn't for the sex trade ... it's a Kip. 

Which one of you guys here are the ones caught in the picture. C'mon, own up!

Personally I think if you take the sex out of Pattaya it will die a death - especially currently.

 

The chinese spend no money, the city is NOT tourists friendly - especially to disabled and any kids in a buggy. The paths are straight out of the 3rd world. Pattaya thinks its world class, but in reality its behind every other beach destination I've ever visited. I cannot think of anywhere in Spain that Pattaya beats in beach and family tourist tick boxes

bout time but they will always be back as its rich pickings area

Again, It must be high season.

What happened to Tim Sharkey was he permanently ejected for trying to muscle in on the action of the BiB?

I expect they were helped by some of the low life farang police lickers, the very same people who originally came to Thailand to visit temples 

Why the hell not just letting them do their business and always try to mess up and pretend to be in power ? Muppets in unform follow orders of imbecile and corrupt clowns with more stripes. Waste of money and gasoline for their Scoopies.

I hear people come to Pattaya because it has the best Thai food in Thailand and to play golf. /

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6 hours ago, nigelforbes said:

Can the girls not go do their soliciting in places where they are a little less conspicuous, instead of Pattaya's main thoroughfare, a place where families, children and normal people walk to enjoy their holiday? Better still, are there not enough establishments with roofs and four walls where those working girls could go and still easily be found by tourists. I don't think the police are trying to clean up Pattaya at all, I think they are just trying to get the sleaze out from underneath everybody's gaze and force the industry to be a little more discreet. Is that too much to ask.

come on, who in their right mind would take a family to pattaya for a holiday? what does pattaya offer for families; dirty beaches and polluted seas? even without the sex industry there are far better places, for anyone with even the smallest amount of imagination, to holiday in thailand.

26 minutes ago, it is what it is said:

come on, who in their right mind would take a family to pattaya for a holiday? what does pattaya offer for families; dirty beaches and polluted seas? even without the sex industry there are far better places, for anyone with even the smallest amount of imagination, to holiday in thailand.

Gives an opportunity for the man to slip out at night for some quick sex and make an excuse about going out to watch football or something 

13 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

Impossible as the news was that was no prosititution in Pattaya, written several weeks ago...

Several years ago also