Why there is no 13 floor?

[Conan The Barbarian]

Almost every condo in bangkok i have seen they don't have 13 floor any idea why not?

[champers]

I presume it is because 13 is deemed an unlucky number in some places.

My condo in Pattaya has floor 12a instead of 13 but off Beach Road there are sois 13, 13/1, 13/2, 13/3 and 13/4. Work that one out.

[scubascuba3]

Think mine in Pattaya has a 13th floor, i used to stay at a hotel that had no 3rd floor, it's the number 3 they don't like

[Conan The Barbarian]

19 minutes ago, champers said:

I presume it is because 13 is deemed an unlucky number in some places.

My condo in Pattaya has floor 12a instead of 13 but off Beach Road there are sois 13, 13/1, 13/2, 13/3 and 13/4. Work that one out.

Agreed, that's what I have noticed it's just the elevators mostly.

 

[Celsius]

My condo in Canada has no 13th floor and also no 4 and 14th floor.

[gamb00ler]

9 minutes ago, Celsius said:

My condo in Canada has no 13th floor and also no 4 and 14th floor.

Is there a service elevator?  Maybe those floors are not for public access but only for infrastructure, utilities, etc.

[novacova]

Every building I’ve ever been in and seen 13 stories and taller has 13 floors, otherwise the building would collapse if the 13th floor was missing.

[Stocky]

Any floor with a 4 in it is usually missing/misnumbered in SE Asia, the number 4 in Chinese sounds similar to the word for death. 

 

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Edited July 3 by Stocky

[richard_smith237]

The number 13 is or was considered unlucky in the West, as Judas, who betrayed Christ was the 13th to be seated at 'The Last Supper'...

In Norse Mythology - Loki was the 13th to arrive at a feast in Valhalla, where he tricked another attendee into killing the god Baldur.

 

Thus: I suspect the missing number 13 in some buildings is to accommodate these 'Western Myths' which IMO is quite odd as other numbers such as 9 is considered unlucky in Japan, 17 is considered unlucky in Italy and 4 is considered unlucky in China.

 

Given Thailands connection with China, I would have expected the number 4 to be missing from most buildings.

 

Thus: I can only assume that the number 13 missing from floor 'naming' in Thailand is simply 'copy-catting' from other areas - perhaps even a subconscious attempt to 'show quality' and doing things the 'Western way'... 

 

 

[impulse]

24 minutes ago, Stocky said:

Any floor with a 4 in it is usually missing/misnumbered in SE Asia, the number 4 in Chinese sounds similar to the word for death. .

 

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

 

[Tom89]

17 hours ago, Celsius said:

My condo in Canada has no 13th floor and also no 4 and 14th floor.

4 is unlucky in Japan. It's pronounced the same as the Japanese word for death. 

[sikishrory]

It's a superstition thing.

 

[Luuk Chaai]

Ha..   you would think the smart money would be to get a unit on the 13th floor

 helps to keep the superstitious riff raff away

 

[IvorBiggun2]

19 hours ago, Conan The Barbarian said:

Almost every condo in bangkok i have seen they don't have 13 floor any idea why not?

Cuz that would be another storey/story

[Skeptic7]

"Stupid-stition" 

[G_Money]

Not sure if View Talay 6 has a 13th floor despite staying there numerous times.  
 

Judging by the unusually high number of members in their skydiving club they probably do.

 

The Hilton next door?  A recent skydiving member landed his chute on the Central Festival mezzanine deck.

[Homburg]

No 13th floor here either.  It's a bungalow.

[Bangkok Barry]

 

Why no 13th floor? But there is, there is. It's so famous they made a movie about it 😀

[Peterphuket]

The building in Phuket where I used to live did not have a thirteenth floor either.
When I asked my then-girlfriend why not, she replied 'that the thirteenth was left out because of the falang, who are superstitious in that.'
So apparently it was done to protect the foreigner.

[ignore it]

Ah, the missing 13th floor in Bangkok condos! They skipped it because even ghosts are superstitious! Plus, it's much easier to sell a "14th floor" with a view of the never-ending construction!

[Grusa]

So it seems 7,9,13, and all with a four in it, should be missing. Makes for a very stable, earthquake proof building. Is that why there is a hole in the Bali Hai project?

[Celsius]

3 hours ago, Tom89 said:

4 is unlucky in Japan. It's pronounced the same as the Japanese word for death. 

 

Actually China also.

 

My wife is Chinese and she wants nothing to do with anything that has 4 in it. 

 

Also that Feng Shui thing. It really ruing my porno experience with no mirrors above the bed. Accross the bed is fine, but there is TV and the door.

 

 

[fondue zoo]

Muggles can't see it.

[Lorry]

1 hour ago, Peterphuket said:

The building in Phuket where I used to live did not have a thirteenth floor either.
When I asked my then-girlfriend why not, she replied 'that the thirteenth was left out because of the falang, who are superstitious in that.'
So apparently it was done to protect the foreigner.

Correct. 

Reasonable if they want to sell to farang. 

21 hours ago, Stocky said:

Any floor with a 4 in it is usually missing/misnumbered in SE Asia, the number 4 in Chinese sounds similar to the word for death. 

 

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I would expect this.

Surprisingly,  I  have never noticed a building in Thailand without a 4th floor, but many without a 13th floor. 

 

Protect the falang, but let the Chinese die?

 

21 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

9 is considered unlucky in Japan

9 is a lucky number for Thais. 

(8 for Thai Chinese and Chinese generally)

[Gsxrnz]

If the elevator has a British style G button (no pun intended), it's up for debate as to which floor is actually the 13th floor, whether the 13 button is missing or not. 

Edited July 4 by Gsxrnz

[Stocky]

45 minutes ago, Lorry said:

Correct. 

Reasonable if they want to sell to farang. 

I would expect this.

Surprisingly,  I  have never noticed a building in Thailand without a 4th floor, but many without a 13th floor. 

 

Protect the falang, but let the Chinese die?

 

9 is a lucky number for Thais. 

(8 for Thai Chinese and Chinese generally)

In Jakarta I found myself staying in a condo block with no 14th floor but with two 8th floors an 8a and 8b.

[Adventurer1]

Normally, there is no 4th  floor in Asia. 

[Muhendis]

The number 13 is considered to be unlucky because of religious superstition.

The christian story of the disciples of Jesus has it that there were originally 13 of them.

Now the Romans had a price on Jesus head. For them he was a troublemaker to be got rid of.

So up popped Judas the thirteenth disciple, who told the Romans where the disciples and their leader Jesus were having a bit of a bash.

So the Romans turned up and captured Jesus and we all know what happened after that.

The 13^th disciple therefore rendered the number 13 to be incredibly unlucky from that day on. 

Edited July 4 by Muhendis

[Keeps]

I seem to recall Bangkok airways domestic flights having no row 13.

 

Could be imagining that though?

[steven100]

My Condominium has a 13th floor ,  but tenants are rigorously screened before leases are signed on that floor,   also the windows and doors are locked until the management deem the occupants acceptable.  Not anyone can move to our 13th fl.