When is the actual first day of street water throwing in Pattaya? (Bar streets)

[JimTripper]

2 hours ago, Trippy said:

Whatever the dates are, it's way way way too long.

Yep. They always want to extend holidays here.

[JoseThailand]

It's funny how they don't understand that a week-long water-throwing madness is actually bad for business.

 

[kaneko86]

While driving pass by Esan villages I saw the kids there were already playing Songkran yesterday the 7th!!!!

[Jumbo1968]

40 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

It's funny how they don't understand that a week-long water-throwing madness is actually bad for business.

 

When the customers are stood outside throwing water the bar is not selling beer and wracking up a huge water bill.

[Ratel Snake]

Songkran in Pattaya is April 18th and 19th.

Don't know why ?

[Jumbo1968]

26 minutes ago, Ratel Snake said:

Songkran in Pattaya is April 18th and 19th.

Don't know why ?

Officially but water throwing will be going on prior to those dates whereas in most places it only lasts for 2/3 days.

[Ratel Snake]

6 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Officially but water throwing will be going on prior to those dates whereas in most places it only lasts for 2/3 days.

 

Didn't know that.

[Jingthing]

12th to the 19th with the 19th being the grande orgasme, as usual.

[JoseThailand]

4 hours ago, kaneko86 said:

While driving pass by Esan villages I saw the kids there were already playing Songkran yesterday the 7th!!!!

 

Kids were just playing water. They don't need Songkran for that

[scubascuba3]

11 hours ago, AverageAussie said:

 

Are you ever unreliably informed? 

When i talk to an aussie

[KhunBENQ]

10 hours ago, Ratel Snake said:

Songkran in Pattaya is April 18th and 19th.

Don't know why ?

A theory behind:

many of the staff going home to visit the family.

Come back and fully staffed party starts.

True or not?

[UbonEagle]

For most of Thailand it’ll be the 4 days 13-16th tho in tourist areas they will undoubtedly milk it for a few days either side 

[Ratel Snake]

3 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

A theory behind:

many of the staff going home to visit the family.

Come back and fully staffed party starts.

True or not?

 

Makes sense

[BigStar]

17 hours ago, Ratel Snake said:

Songkran in Pattaya is April 18th and 19th.

Don't know why ?

 

Actually Naklua's is on the 18th.

 

The gov't rotates the grand finale day around to different locations for different audiences. Or if you like one, you can also go to the other one. Many enjoy in both Bangkok AND Pattaya.

[jimn]

Started on soi 7 yesterday 

 

[Jumbo1968]

27 minutes ago, jimn said:

Started on soi 7 yesterday 

 

Thanks for the info, I will avoid Soi 7 then.

[georgegeorgia]

1 hour ago, jimn said:

Started on soi 7 yesterday 

 

Oh don't troll...it hasn't started yet ...please !

[JoseThailand]

Guys, it has started! I'm drying my underwear now

[JoseThailand]

Soi 7 and Soi 8 have started already, no kidding!

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2024/04/11/pattaya-city-embraces-early-songkran-2024-festivities-amidst-soaring-temperatures/

 

 

 

[Jumbo1968]

1 minute ago, JoseThailand said:

Soi 7 and Soi 8 have started already, no kidding!

 

https://thepattayanews.com/2024/04/11/pattaya-city-embraces-early-songkran-2024-festivities-amidst-soaring-temperatures/

 

 

 

On my walk abouts on afternoon in the last few weeks down Soi 7 & 8 the bars are empty some closed, is this their way of trying attract customers  ?

[sandyf]

On 4/7/2024 at 9:31 PM, JoseThailand said:

 

I'm not talking about official celebrations. In bar streets they start throwing water at passersby according to their own schedule and it lasts the whole week! It's always been like this, not just this year. I just don't know the actual date when they start this week-long madness.

Twenty odd years ago when I used to knock about Pattaya it always started on the afternoon of the 12th. However with the increase in foreigners it is almost certain there will be some starting on the 11th.

The activities in Pattaya pale into insignificance compared to the last day in Bang Saen. It is well worth a vist afterwards to see the sand sculptures on the beach.

 

During the Songkran festival every year, Chonburi Province will hold a Lai Bangsaen Day event, which every year falls on 16-17 April. It is a tradition that the people of Tambon San Suk have practiced since ancient times, formerly known as the Wan Lai merit-making ceremony, which means that villages have come to make merit together. On the occasion of Songkran Festival, or Thai New Year's Day, monks are invited from every temple in Saen Suk Subdistrict. People come to perform a ceremony, make merit, offer food to monks, and pour water. Then, there are activities to build sand pagodas, splash water, play games and local sports, and more activities.

https://www.thailand.go.th/issue-focus-detail/011_048

[BigStar]

5 hours ago, sandyf said:

Twenty odd years ago when I used to knock about Pattaya it always started on the afternoon of the 12th.

 

But for more than a decade now it has started on the 11th. This year stayed true to tradition.

[scubascuba3]

A couple of my favourite street food places have closed a couple days ago, probably gone home for Songkran, even they don't like it, massage shops getting less and less business.

 

I haven't seen anything on Buakhao yet but the atmosphere is building 

[proton]

Surprisingly the mrs got the van from Bkk this morning took 3 hours, I refuse to go to there or anywhere during songkran. Went to the Bangsaeng event a few years ago, misery trying to get out of there in a songtaow, nobody else seemed to enjoy getting drenched either. She says not started yet.

[Jumbo1968]

22 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

A couple of my favourite street food places have closed a couple days ago, probably gone home for Songkran, even they don't like it, massage shops getting less and less business.

 

I haven't seen anything on Buakhao yet but the atmosphere is building 

People going home but also eating places and carts get no business for a week as customers don’t want to be drenched and the people with carts don’t want their food ruined with water.

 

[scubascuba3]

10 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

People going home but also eating places and carts get no business for a week as customers don’t want to be drenched and the people with carts don’t want their food ruined with water.

 

I reckon they should all go home, best time, low income. Maybe thaifriendly will be busy

[roo860]

On 4/9/2024 at 3:34 PM, Jumbo1968 said:

Thanks for the info, I will avoid Soi 7 then.

I believe Sharples Fish and Chips in Pattaya had to close yesterday because no water? Anyone confirm this?

[Jumbo1968]

Water throwing allowed only from Second Road Sois to Beach Road, keep Soi Bukhao water free then again who is going to Police it ?

[JoseThailand]

3 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:

Water throwing allowed only from Second Road Sois to Beach Road, keep Soi Bukhao water free then again who is going to Police it ?

 

Soi Buakhao is one of the water-throwing hotspots (wetspots?), with all the bar girls and ladyboys throwing water indiscriminately at passersby

 

[Banana7]

Ladies on Pattaya Klang, 50M East of beach Road watering everyone, today 11 April. I heard Soi 7 & 8 are also squirting everyone.