Where do you hide to avoid the songkran madness?

I just stay at home.

You Don't-"ENJOY!"

Just now, BritManToo said:

I just stay at home.

 

With a week's supply of water and food?

Just now, Dan747 said:

You Don't-"ENJOY!"

 

Thanks but no thanks

If you don't want to play, do your daily chores in the morning, before 11am, then stay home. It's only a couple of days.

14 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

If you don't want to play, do your daily chores in the morning, before 11am, then stay home. It's only a couple of days.

 

In Pattaya it's 8 days !!

30 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

With a week's supply of water and food?

Lineman works very well, Pizza Company delivers within 30 mins, 7-11 deliver free.

Unlimited water comes from my tap.

don't drink the water!

 

 

Songkran 'can be' fun.
If you have kids, it's a delight to watch them play.

With a group of friends, it can be a blast, especially for tourists.

Get drunk enough, and it's an mobile party! At least until the fighting starts.

But after 25 years of it, I'm done. Take away the blocks of ice and I'd consider an hour or two of it again. That's enough.
I hope those who want to play enjoy the holiday.

5 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

If you don't want to play, do your daily chores in the morning, before 11am, then stay home. It's only a couple of days.

 

5 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

 

In Pattaya it's 8 days !!

 

Yet another excellent reason to avoid Pattaya!

 

I shall walk down the road to the locals celebrating and tip a small saucer of water on their shoulders, like the good old days.

 

And probably get chased home by the kids with huge water guns. Lol

Don't go near areas where they throw water 

Personally I stay away 

Pattaya must be the worst area I hear quite a few expats go away for the week

On the highest mountain or leave the country🤗

On 3/20/2025 at 7:49 AM, JoseThailand said:

 

With a week's supply of water and food?

That is what I do.  Stock up with bottled water (I wouldn't dare drink tap water and neither do my Thai friends) and food.  I manage to stay occupied with book reading and  watching movies and shows on the TV.  My Thai companions, of course, go out usually each day to Enjoy!  Delivery services are generally available except on the 18th & 19th in Pattaya - especially the 19th - bumper to bumper traffic on all the main roads - and lots of splashing.

19 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Songkran 'can be' fun.
If you have kids, it's a delight to watch them play.

With a group of friends, it can be a blast, especially for tourists.

Get drunk enough, and it's an mobile party! At least until the fighting starts.

But after 25 years of it, I'm done. Take away the blocks of ice and I'd consider an hour or two of it again. That's enough.
I hope those who want to play enjoy the holiday.

Oh yes.

Teaching them to throw water at people.

Later on, to use fireworks on a fun celebration day.

And then wonder how come they have no physical activity to keep them healthy later on...

 

Even cycling, reserved activity for the few...

Bicycle parking at the new Robinson store. Always empty. Always. Only motorbikes. These people learn to use the motorbike to go the the store 100 meters away...

 

In Malmo, as an example..

 

 

I don't hide at all, up here in rural Isaan it's very authentic and a enjoyable experience with family and the locals.

 

3 days and it's all done and dusted for another year.

Feck that for a game of soldiers!

Stay at home 

G and Ts at the ready 

Bbq on standby 

Mrs on the somtam pot 

Truck safely parked 

Not into watersports 

Happy new year 

Typically, I just stay at home.

If friends are in country I may meet up for a few hours water fight one afternoon but thats bout it.

Off to Penang as usual. They do 1 day of Songkran inside the temple grounds. 

On 3/20/2025 at 7:48 AM, BritManToo said:

I just stay at home.

I did Bangkok twice and Pattaya once. Thats enough.

 

Last year, the day after, for some dumb reason I walked down Sivutha Road in Siem Reap and when I neared Pub Street in the heat of the noonday sun, the waves of urine stench just washed over me. They were using high pressure hoses to clean up. Gross.

 

They are having events at Angkor Wat, it should be more sedate and I might go

I go to my farm.

 

Stock up in advance. Close the gate on 11th and reopen it on the 18th. 

 

Nothing but the birds tweeting, the jinjoks jinjoking and the faint thud of bass from the village in the distance. 

On 3/20/2025 at 7:56 AM, FolkGuitar said:

If you don't want to play, do your daily chores in the morning, before 11am, then stay home. It's only a couple of days.

I agree.

Luckily, here on Samui, it is only one day.

Tourists have been trying to extend that into day two but the locals have soon sorted them out.

Under your bed, be careful others may be there. 

On 3/20/2025 at 7:47 AM, JoseThailand said:

Where do you hide to avoid the songkran madness?

I don't. Where I live in Bangkok Songkran is a quiet affair. It is the tourist areas that are the problem.

2 minutes ago, alex8912 said:

Under your bed, be careful others may be there. 

 

There is room only for bob

On 3/20/2025 at 7:48 AM, BritManToo said:

I just stay at home.

Ditto.

 

I stock up on groceries in advance and stay home till it's over.  Not just because of the annoying water throwing (actually not a big  issue in my immediate surroundings) but on account of the drunk drivers/unsafe roads. 

1 hour ago, Tropicalevo said:

I agree.

Luckily, here on Samui, it is only one day.

Tourists have been trying to extend that into day two but the locals have soon sorted them out.

Agree, also the eight days in pattaya is only in bar areas except the last day , Wan Lai when everything goes crazy.

Three years working in Pattaya, never got wet during my 20min MC ride to work except Wan Lai.

6 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

There is room only for bob

Boobs?

Southern Thailand. They celebrate it for only one day.