Skip to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Thailand News and Discussion Forum | ASEANNOW

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Pattaya Urges Red-Light Zoning, Cannabis Rules After BBC Doc

Featured Replies

  • Popular Post

2 seperate issues. 
 

Some sort of designated areas is likely inevitable and isn’t a terrible idea. 
 

The BBC documentary was an agenda driven piece of exaggeration and nonsense presented by a complete clown who doesn’t know her arse from her elbow. 

  • Replies 110
  • Views 8.3k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Most Popular Posts

  • henryford1958
    henryford1958

    No decent tourists will come to Pattaya while it is seen as ganja city with weed shops on every street corner. Thanks Anutin.

  • This will never stop.Doesnt matter how many tv-series like this it will continue.That said its good the whole world can see what's going on in the socalled family friendly place.

  • The whole place is a red light district, and the only familys you see there are a couple of Russians or Chinese with their kids who probably didnt know what they were letting themselves in for, why wo

Posted Images

  • Popular Post

If it's not newspapers, magazines it's TV shows coming here to make "sensational" news about nightlife in Thailand to make the Kingdom look bad. Thailand are so much more which they would discover if they travel outside the urban areas and visits pristine beaches, beautiful nature, ancient temples and real people. But in this world you want sensations, viewers and clickbaits. Sadly.

By the way it's illegal to film people without their consent. They had a permit to film, but no consent from the people they filmed. That's why the police came. Just follow the rules and everything is more easy. 

1 hour ago, riverhigh said:

Can't stand this self-righteous Zara McDermott

 

(S)He 1000 percent MK ultra'd to screw up ya damn brain!

2 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

 

As I recall, there are two main updates for Pattaya Soi 6.

 

1. The girls have gotten plumper and lazier with fewer catcalls of "hansum man" as they're glued to their phones, scrolling for their next date.

 

2. Back then there were just a few ladyboys and they were polite. Now, there are LB bars and they've become mean-spirited and aggressive. I stopped going there because of them.

#2

That's because they are Thai guys.

 

The idea of cannabis zones has merit.

14 minutes ago, hanbla said:

If it's not newspapers, magazines it's TV shows coming here to make "sensational" news about nightlife in Thailand to make the Kingdom look bad. Thailand are so much more which they would discover if they travel outside the urban areas and visits pristine beaches, beautiful nature, ancient temples and real people. But in this world you want sensations, viewers and clickbaits. Sadly.

By the way it's illegal to film people without their consent. They had a permit to film, but no consent from the people they filmed. That's why the police came. Just follow the rules and everything is more easy. 

Do you have a link for that?

I did not know you need consent from people to film them if they are in a public place?

  • Popular Post
4 minutes ago, jvs said:

Do you have a link for that?

I did not know you need consent from people to film them if they are in a public place?

 

No issue for personal purposes, where it gets irky is when published/distributed with the intention of commercial gain or causing damage. 

Of course it is family friendly, we like the daughters from Isan and other farming provinces...😜

A guy once told me he’s never paid for sex from a prostitute in Pattaya, but he said they complain and put up a fight

1 minute ago, Jack Hammer said:

A guy once told me he’s never paid for sex from a prostitute in Pattaya, but he said they complain and put up a fight

I also have never paid for sex, I only pay them to leave my room....😜

  • Popular Post
4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

THere is a continuing pressure on this aspect of town, but what was presented here is not reality, but had an agenda before they even started filming. I always felt when they got rid of soi 6, it was the end, but it is still there and lively as ever. 

As to the UK, hardly a place to shine a negative light on anywhere else, see a few YT posts from Billie Moore to see how low it has become.

 

 

 

I suggest that this miss does a documentary on London and different tourist areas of England.  Then go to the U.S. where NYC is one of the biggest tourism spots in the world and see how they do

 

Also, do a documentary on Tenneriffe and the Nigerian track team that operates at night.

 

Let's be honest, if she had done the documentary and come back and said Thailand is safer and has a lot to offer, no one would have paid her for the documentary, let alone put it on air.  A

 

We know what it is like and people who want 

 

I will agree though, that Pattaya and probably Phuket have to do something about the Ladyboy gangs. 

 

I think that instead of fines they need to start locking them up for 10-15 days

 

Also it might be an idea to look at bar hours as most of the issues are happening in the 3-5 time frame in the morning 

Are they not checking all the staff that were working on the documentary had the correct visas to do so and their purpose of filming etc was the correct one on the applications for visas . 

Because I'm sure they wouldn't have stated on the applications that they were going to film in bars etc and interview sex workers 🤔

Isn't Pattaya red light district already, what is there to zone?? Not much different with legalization, and even if officially legalized, police would find some new ways to extort their fees. 

4 hours ago, norsurin said:

I understand what u mean.But why they calling it a family friendly city?

Apparently its NOT.I haven't visit Pattaya for 13 years so maybe i not fully updated.

I prefer other places to stay in Thailand.NOT Phuket also.When they open the borders for Russians and other countries they imported a big problem but the greedy thai dont care as long as they think trillions of baht will save the economy.

    If you haven't visited Pattaya in 13 years then you are quite out of date.  I doubt you'd recognize the Pattaya of today.  There are, indeed, many family-friendly attractions in greater Pattaya now.  Several recent additions are another water park on the Darkside and a new go-cart track, as well as new family-friendly resorts such as Centre Point Space, with a third huge new Centre Point resort now being built. 

    If you look at where all the new construction is being built, you'll see that private industry is already isolating the red light areas by choosing to mostly build elsewhere.  I think it is a great idea to face reality and have actual designated red light zones.  

  • Popular Post

BBC "documentary" 😄😄

Who cares what this failed miserable channel airs? 

1 hour ago, brian69 said:

Of course it is family friendly, we like the daughters from Isan and other farming provinces...😜

These are my favorite type of daughters 🥰🥰

  • Popular Post

Thailands always been a soft target for documentary’s about sex tourism, particularly the BBC who’ve made at least 4 over the past years. The previous one made by Stacey Dooley “ exposed” the same theme as this new one, made by Zara McDermott, a so called reality tv star because she appeared in love island, X factor and made in Chelsea who now wants to be taken seriously as an adult.

Thailand, and Thai’s, are well aware of the issues shown and inevitably there’ll be the usual discussions and then it’ll be forgotten about, or even seen as a positive for future tourism. In the meantime maybe next time a documentary crew come knocking to make a film about Thailand they, and especially the BBC, are politely told to phuck off!

1 hour ago, jvs said:

Do you have a link for that?

I did not know you need consent from people to film them if they are in a public place?

 

1.

https://legal.co.th/resources/thailand-criminal-law/criminal-litigation/reminder-filming-people-without-consent-crime-thailand/#:~:text=They don't want to,penalties associated with doing so

 

 

2.

 

 

 

 

Without all the vice, cheap drugs, loose morals and booze, might as well go and tour the Vatican, not of the above will be apparent there.

I predict such programs will attract more perverts from the UK leading to an increase in visitor numbers. No shortage of such characters there. 

  • Popular Post

These prurient "exposes" of the Thailand nightlife happen every now and then and Thailand goes into shock-horror-defensive mode. People who visit Pattaya know what they will see. The bachelors come for the cheap booze and girls. The families come for more than just Pattaya. 

The hurt will disappear soon, and it will be business as usual. The government doesn't create an educated population, so they won't be crying crocodile tears for long.

4 minutes ago, AustinRacing said:

I predict such programs will attract more perverts from the UK leading to an increase in visitor numbers. No shortage of such characters there. 

 

Only the UK?

4 hours ago, cookie1974 said:

Im afraid i do know what im talking about because i spent a lot of time there until recently, going back over 20 years, and its never been as bad as it is now

Utter nonsense.

The BBC documentary is a woke propaganda full of lies, even the brit youtuber in there pointed it out: 

 

 

I knew that in no moment they were forced to leave Soi 6, of course bar owners didn't like their presence, but no one did anything to get them out of there. 

5 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

 

As I recall, there are two main updates for Pattaya Soi 6.

 

1. The girls have gotten plumper and lazier with fewer catcalls of "hansum man" as they're glued to their phones, scrolling for their next date.

 

2. Back then there were just a few ladyboys and they were polite. Now, there are LB bars and they've become mean-spirited and aggressive. I stopped going there because of them.

Never been there, looks like how Bangla used to be, but what is the hype ? Or what was the hype? BJ bars ? Young  girls ? 

5 hours ago, henryford1958 said:

No decent tourists will come to Pattaya while it is seen as ganja city with weed shops on every street corner. Thanks Anutin.

    Nonsense.  Pattaya had 26 million visitors in 2024, foreign and domestic.  Raimon Land will soon be announcing it's return to Pattaya with a new, upscale, mixed-use development in central Pattaya called Tait Pattaya, costing 3.3 billion baht.  This project joins a number of others already in the works by other developers.   Pattaya's renaissance continues.  

5 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Do you know what BBC stands for? And that question has  a couple of answers. 

BBC stands for Big, Bad and Corrupt

Recently Browsing 0

  • No registered users viewing this page.

Account

Navigation

Search

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.