On 10/25/2025 at 7:04 PM, blaze master said:

Ill buy everyone a round if we can get this comment to over 50 boo hoos

It’s starting to look like we may not hit our target goal of 50 red thumbs. What a pity. But we are close. So I remain hopeful though.

On 10/25/2025 at 10:08 AM, kiwikeith said:

Will gunga shopping be allowed until 4am as well 

24/7 I heard. 

9 hours ago, Hummin said:

Congratulations with 47 negative emotions. New record on the forum!

 

I have to give you a Thank you and a pluss one for your post! 

 

It proves the stupidity of people, who is not willing to see where this leading and the consequences far beyond the nightclub arena

Alcohol is the number two leading cause of premature death in Thailand, averaging over 20,000 alcohol related deaths per year. 

1 hour ago, short-Timer said:

24/7 I heard. 

 

Id love to know what gunga is. Sounds like some amazonian mating call

 

Gunga hahaha 

1 hour ago, blaze master said:

 

Id love to know what gunga is. Sounds like some amazonian mating call

 

Gunga hahaha 

"Gunga Din" is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much known for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din".

20 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

They are already doing that.

Must remove ear plugs as well 

I liked it when Mixx in the Intercontinental was open till 4am, I grabbed multiple Russians out of there, or at least Uzbeks pretending to be Russian

2 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Must remove ear plugs as well 

Why do die hard alcoholics and dope smokers wear ear plugs ?

On 10/25/2025 at 10:42 PM, kiwikeith said:

And all the die hard alcoholics and dope smokers will be driving safely home after spending their last Bhat 

They would do that whether it was midnight, 1,2,3 am the bars closed. 

On 10/23/2025 at 4:42 AM, short-Timer said:

Great, more drunk-driving road deaths and alcohol induced crime, and violence to come. And don't forget the increases in liver disease, heart attacks, and strokes. 

 

Seems my post above that got nearly 50 thumbs down is shrouded in truth:

Bangkok Post: Eased alcohol rules 'could strain healthcare'
 

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/3127465/eased-alcohol-rules-could-strain-healthcare 

 

Net effect of this is more drunk driving accidents and more road deaths. 

On 10/23/2025 at 6:59 AM, ChipButty said:

I have traveled the world and loved to party but if you need to be drinking till 4 in the morning, you 've got a problem, Drop the 2 till 5 nonsense, and will someone tell 7/11 that Heineken Zero is not alcohol so can be sold anytime. In fact put it on the shelf with coke and pepsi, 

I don't know why people drink Heineken, but who want to drink Heineken Zero?

On 10/23/2025 at 12:09 PM, Petemcc64 said:

Stories like this really bring out the anti-alcohol+/- pro-cannabis people.

Here's a thing, it's called 'up to you'! Just because restrictions are eased doesn't mean people go mad. Currently, everywhere I've been in Thailand you can drink in a bar between 2-5 and I haven't seen a fight yet. The 7/11 won't sell you alcohol, but the multiple 'mom and pop' shops will so it's business as usual, in fact I don't care if the 7 doesn't sell it because I'd rather give my money to the small establishments. 

You can already drink in most of Pattaya until 4am, and considering it probably has the most alcohol outlets, clubs, pubs, bars, etc per square metre, crime, especially drunk crime is negligible. Compare this to the average main drinking venues anywhere in the UK, and to a lesser extent Australia. 

Drunk driving will happen no matter what, if the person intends to go out for a skinful of booze, they'll do it whenever. If places close at 12, they'll go out at 6 and have a skinful and drive home because that is the mindset. In places like Pattaya there is absolutely no need for drunk driving with the number of transport options, it is those who choose to break the law who will do it whatever. The only way you will stop that is enforcement, but that is very, very poor in Thailand.

There are many places in Pattaya where staff who have been working until the early hours go to eat, drink and make merry, even at 9 in the morning, so anyone who doesn't think that Thais certainly can't drink 24/7 is kidding themselves.

The bottom line is choice, retail and personal. You don't have to buy booze and you don't have to get pissed, but because most of us wear big boy trousers, we have the choice to do so. 

This 2pm to 5pm alcohol sale ban is the most strange rule I ever heard. How often have I been in Makro, BigC, Lotus, 7Eleven  and wanted to buy some beer together with my normal shopping in the last 20 years? In between in Singapore and Malaysia for working where this afternoon sales ban not exist and then back in Thailand on my monthly home trip I stayed again in front of the locked Shelfs.

One time in Makro at 1:50pm at the cashier. One guy in front of me. During payment then he fished out a lot of coupons until 2:02pm. So I could bring back my beer. I was very amused

It's telling when a country with one tongue targets drunk tourists while the other tongue only wants the rich and wealthy.🙃

Felt

On 10/29/2025 at 3:34 PM, Beerfinisher said:

This 2pm to 5pm alcohol sale ban is the most strange rule I ever heard. How often have I been in Makro, BigC, Lotus, 7Eleven  and wanted to buy some beer together with my normal shopping in the last 20 years? In between in Singapore and Malaysia for working where this afternoon sales ban not exist and then back in Thailand on my monthly home trip I stayed again in front of the locked Shelfs.

One time in Makro at 1:50pm at the cashier. One guy in front of me. During payment then he fished out a lot of coupons until 2:02pm. So I could bring back my beer. I was very amused

Yep, I'm sure it's happened to us all. We know why the restriction came about, but like most things Thai when you drill down it makes no sense whatsoever. In the 18 years coming to Thailand I have always been able to get a drink in a pub/restaurant between 2 and 5, so how was the law meant to stop the government workers getting pissed? Couldn't they just go to a mom and pop shop at lunch time and buy a bottle of Hong Thong to have in their coffee mugs at work? 

I find it really strange that a government that doesn't seem to care about its appalling road toll, which let's face it is down to virtually zero enforcement, can suddenly make the sale and consumption of cannabis legal, whereas previously you could have ended up in the clink, can think that a stupid restriction of alcohol between 2 and 5 can achieve anything other than piss off tourists, lose revenue, and perhaps as planned, drive custom to small shops!