Tourist Brawl in Phuket Sparks Debate on Visitor Behavior - video

[Dan747]

Another reason to stay away from traveling to Phuket!!

[wwest5829]

On 2/14/2025 at 4:45 PM, save the frogs said:

last call for alcohol.

i'm in bed before 9 most nights to avoid alcohol-induced suppressed anger. 

 

At 78 my running days are over and I am quite content to watch movies at home while sipping wine. I always told the girls: 1 glass I am relaxed. 2 glasses and I want to get “cuddly”. 3 glasses and they are safe again as I am sleepy. Guess I am more a lover than a fighter. Hope this brings a smile … as intended.

[wwest5829]

On 2/14/2025 at 5:20 PM, Tropicalevo said:

I have a glass or two every night, but I do not need to suppress anything.

I just do not get angry.

Only ever been involved in one fight - 65 years ago.

School bully would not let me walk away. (I lost!  )

Concur. I did get to avoid that bully. I told him he was bigger and would, no doubt beat me but … Since I knew I was outmatched and he was insisting on a fight … the first thing I was going to do was go for his balls. End of the threat …

[Gottfrid]

19 hours ago, hotsun said:

Jealous of you old folks who got to experience thai beaches when they were paradise. Now they are mostly cesspits

Totally wrong. There are numerous of Thai beaches that are very good.

[BangkokReady]

10 hours ago, AGLV0121 said:

Brave women tried to stop the fight.

 

Not really brave.  They know that the likelihood of them being attacked is very low, and they might be able to use their influence to calm men down.

[geisha]

Spoke to friends on Phuket just this  morning . They’ve had enough, life has become unbearable, traffic jams everywhere, nowhere to park, beach chairs the whole length and width of the beaches, filth , rubbish bags lining the roads as the garbage trucks can’t manage. Rats.  The Hoi polloi of the western world and the dregs of Russia , China and India joining in. Plus all the con artists, scammers and bitcoiners, drunks and stoned tourists, it’s hard to believe I once loved it there and planned on retiring. So glad I didn’t.

Pattaya is the same , a concrete jungle and non stop jams. Tourism gone crazy. Greed.

[DonniePeverley]

2 hours ago, geisha said:

Spoke to friends on Phuket just this  morning . They’ve had enough, life has become unbearable, traffic jams everywhere, nowhere to park, beach chairs the whole length and width of the beaches, filth , rubbish bags lining the roads as the garbage trucks can’t manage. Rats.  The Hoi polloi of the western world and the dregs of Russia , China and India joining in. Plus all the con artists, scammers and bitcoiners, drunks and stoned tourists, it’s hard to believe I once loved it there and planned on retiring. So glad I didn’t.

Pattaya is the same , a concrete jungle and non stop jams. Tourism gone crazy. Greed.

 

 

Feel for those who bought condos and moved here. 

 

Now unable to sell those condos. Most just getting offers to rent out only. 

 

This place is ghastly now. Thanks Sretta

[DonniePeverley]

9 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

I agree it's probably the lack of women. I was in Chaweng in January and all the bars / clubs were full of groups of men in their 20s. A sea of man bags, beards and tatts.

I thought I was having a bad dream. 

 

 

 

Looks like the Benidorm British crowd. Influenced by social media to come to Thailand instead of fighting in Benidorm or Magaluf. 

[songhklasid]

Yes, lived there in the 80’s met my wife there , I got photos of Patong beach near deserted, Kamala was home to water buffalo, went back about 10 years ago, never again , seen & enjoyed the best of it , Patong beach bungalows 300 baht a nite ! Early eighties. 
cheers SS 

[Qld4000]

On 2/15/2025 at 4:59 AM, hotsun said:

Jealous of you old folks who got to experience thai beaches when they were paradise. Now they are mostly cesspits

Yes it was once a nice place to visit & had a good reputation.

Now like Bali , it’s sadly sinking into the bog .   Mass tourism agenda, cheap booze & lodgings and let nature take its course. 

[Fancyzancy]

Automatically deport all in brawl. Take direct to detention at airport.  And send back home next flight.  That should teach others. 

[Woke to Sounds]

They're animals.

 

Let them lose their souls.

 

In the meantime more quality tourists like these lads in the pipeline!

[Harrisfan]

12 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

At 78 my running days are over and I am quite content to watch movies at home while sipping wine. I always told the girls: 1 glass I am relaxed. 2 glasses and I want to get “cuddly”. 3 glasses and they are safe again as I am sleepy. Guess I am more a lover than a fighter. Hope this brings a smile … as intended.

Sounds a bit...

[Harrisfan]

17 minutes ago, Fancyzancy said:

Automatically deport all in brawl. Take direct to detention at airport.  And send back home next flight.  That should teach others. 

1 week in jail first.

[Harrisfan]

7 hours ago, songhklasid said:

Yes, lived there in the 80’s met my wife there , I got photos of Patong beach near deserted, Kamala was home to water buffalo, went back about 10 years ago, never again , seen & enjoyed the best of it , Patong beach bungalows 300 baht a nite ! Early eighties. 
cheers SS 

Paid 380 for a one bedroom suite in Korat last week.

[Woke to Sounds]

17 hours ago, CG1 Blue said:

A sea of man bags, beards and tatts.

In case anyone missed it, man bags, beards and tatts are DONE.

 

See

 

[Nairbem]

On 2/14/2025 at 4:45 PM, save the frogs said:

last call for alcohol.

i'm in bed before 9 most nights to avoid alcohol-induced suppressed anger. 

 

You me and my twin brother!

[LarryLEB]

With all the negative news items coming from Phuket nearly every day, here is my solution:  Just shut it down:  Close Phuket to all tourists ... simple!  (LOL)

[Harrisfan]

Just now, Woke to Sounds said:

In case anyone missed it, man bags, beards and tatts are DONE.

 

See

 

Im jealous of a good beard. If i grow one i look like a retarded santa

[Woke to Sounds]

10 hours ago, geisha said:

The Hoi polloi of the western world and the dregs of Russia , China and India joining in

Don't forget - the riff raff from the West is mainly the addicted pot smokers.

 

Say, you can't get stoned legally in Vietnam or Cambodia can you?

[stevenl]

8 hours ago, DonniePeverley said:

 

 

Feel for those who bought condos and moved here. 

 

Now unable to sell those condos. Most just getting offers to rent out only. 

 

This place is ghastly now. Thanks Sretta

I still love it here.

[Purdey]

So which nationality? Or can I guess?

[DonniePeverley]

3 hours ago, Fancyzancy said:

Automatically deport all in brawl. Take direct to detention at airport.  And send back home next flight.  That should teach others. 

 

 

That's one of the issues. The soft policing approach, terrified to upset tourists. 

 

It's ruining life for those who don't get drunk and look for violence, or break the law. 

[eastlight]

On 2/15/2025 at 1:06 PM, Don Kaeo said:

Steadily dragging Phuket down to the degrading levels of Pattaya.. Let anyone in and see what happens.. 

Nothing like this in Pattaya.

[eastlight]

On 2/15/2025 at 2:01 PM, Merrill said:

Been all over Thailand on me bike and when ever down south I have for some reason always avoided Phuket Krabi no doubt a beautiful place but just the types it attracts put me off. Now Thailand  is a funny place and I have been out at all times of the night in many towns but one thing that should be remembered. Respect, Thailand is dangerous at night after sun set. Certainly to a Westener brought up in a nanny state. One has to be vigilant at all times same as driving in Thailand you have to drive defensively they are all potential accidents wanting to hit you. 🙏

I've never considered Thailand to be a dangerous place no matter what time of day or night.

[eastlight]

On 2/15/2025 at 2:41 PM, PETERTHEEATER said:

To Pattaya?

No such problems in Pattaya.

[eastlight]

21 hours ago, suspectdevice said:

I think Phuket is now much more violent than Pattaya! 🤔

Very little violence in Pattaya.

[black tabby12345]

Fugitive from Turkey.

PKK(terrorist organization) member?

[superal]

On 2/14/2025 at 10:18 AM, angsta said:

They should be locked up for wearing those ridiculous man-bags. 

 

They should be deported for the violence.

 

Thailand - The Benidorm of Asia.  

What have you got against man-bags ? I like my man-bag for carrying my 2 telephones , my wallet ,passport , bank book ,cigarettes , tissues , condoms , spectacles in protective case , etc etc . I am a 100% heterosexual man , maybe you are fighting against your feminine traits ?

[Ironmike]

Probably French aribs v Russians can't fight worth a crap animals throw them all out and change the rules back to way before this scum arrived when good people came here.