On 3/5/2025 at 4:39 PM, snoop1130 said:

but some visitors are calling for more relaxed alcohol rules.

 

In my experience, many tourists have been calling for alcohol sales sanity for at least the 20-odd years I've been living in Pattaya. Why are they only now paying any attention. is their non-tourism economy really that dire?

On 3/7/2025 at 2:14 PM, paul1804 said:

I think you are referring to a very small group of people, the laws make little or no sense and are outdated like many other laws in Thailand. 90 day reporting to name just 1

Oh yeah, I'm certainly not saying I agree with them—I just don't think it's an issue, and I don't understand why people get so freaked out by it. I guess I just feel indifferent about them when you consider the much bigger problems at hand.

Drinking zone - rarely read a more arrogant statement by a country which depends soooooo much on tourism. Next is "dirty farang" zone, shopping zone, bon23453ing zone and jump-out-of-the-condominium-zone? 

Grown ups do not need zones - me thinks. You either allow it ..... or not. In Thailand's case the oligarch elite keeps on herding the underlings into all sorts of funny ideas which, in 99.9% of the cases, do not work. So forget the drinking zones and realize, that alcohol sales ban hours don't work like there is no corruption nor prostitution in the land - so I have been told 😉

On 3/6/2025 at 8:53 AM, Kaopad999 said:

Do people really struggle to go withoput alcohol just for a few days of the year? 

indeed they do , they even struggle not to whinge about it on here regularly, the same people every time

It is embarrassing that the entire farang community (tourists and expats) is perceived as a group of people suffering from drug addiction and needing spaces all to themselves, like certain places in Europe where drug addicts can take drugs freely and safely.

Alcohol is truly a plague for humanity.

It is embarrassing that the entire farang community (tourists and expats) is perceived as a group of people suffering from drug addiction and needing spaces all to themselves, like certain places in Europe where drug addicts can take drugs freely and safely.

Alcohol is truly a plague for humanity.

It is embarrassing that the entire farang community (tourists and expats) is perceived as a group of people suffering from drug addiction and needing spaces all to themselves, like certain places in Europe where drug addicts can take drugs freely and safely.

Alcohol is truly a plague for humanity.

1 hour ago, Gio75 said:

It is embarrassing that the entire farang community (tourists and expats) is perceived as a group of people suffering from drug addiction and needing spaces all to themselves, like certain places in Europe where drug addicts can take drugs freely and safely.

Alcohol is truly a plague for humanity.

 

OMG.    Reading this sermon Once is enough....

17 minutes ago, G Rex said:

 

OMG.    Reading this sermon Once is enough....

 

Give him a break, he just doubled his post count

21 hours ago, Bday Prang said:

indeed they do , they even struggle not to whinge about it on here regularly, the same people every time

Exactly. They pretend to care so much about local businesses losing money, but that's just a smokescreen to hide their inability to control their alcohol dependency—or simply an excuse to take a dig at the Thais.