29 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

😂😂😂😂😂😂

 

entertainment - sex tourism

 

Beats jerking yourself off in the village

I wonder how many Rai that land being cleared between Pratumnak hill and Jomtien is? It would be a traffic nightmare, but a great location. 

Thai elites with their grandiose ideas. Never think about the necessities of the public such as pollution, traffic accidents etc. 

I will never support Disney. Don’t waste the people’s money. It would be a disaster. 
go woke, go broke. 

What comes to mind is the issue that Thailand consistently has when it comes to the completion of big projects like this.

The Rama II Highway comes to mind, which is how far behind schedule? 15 years? And this is a project that's supposed to stretch to Petchaburi, and they are only on kilometer 37?

The delays in the high-speed rail networks come to mind, and the amount of time it took to lay down the two rail system on just a couple of routes also come to mind. 

 

The secondary aspect of this is can they afford it, with the budget as constrained as it is, and how profitable will this project be, if it ever turns a profit? 

On 12/10/2025 at 3:40 AM, Georgealbert said:

The first project under review is a world-class amusement park, with Disneyland cited as a potential operator.

Thailand cannot do anything for itself ??

 

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand cannot do anything for itself ??

 

       It's not about doing 'anything for itself'.   Getting a Disney brand amusement park would be getting the most prestigious, best known amusement park brand in the world.  I'm sure Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and Shanghai could have built some sort of amusement park themselves, but they wanted Disney.  And, Disney wanted them.   I doubt Disney would want Chonburi; if they ever built in Thailand I think it would be Bangkok Disney. 

     But, at least the Thai government is thinking big.  And, it will need something really big to help add enough riders to justifying building the high-speed train.  

The main problem with any costly project intended to generate income at some future date is to estimate the major development costs (and the lesser future maintenance costs) and then relate these to the estimated future income, and hence profits generated.

 

The bigger the project, the longer it takes to completion, and the more one is living in a period of extreme economic flux and uncertainty, the more difficult it is to carry out these highly speculative computations.

 

Politicians seem by nature to be ambitious creatures, ever ready to gamble their reputations with taxpayers' money.

 

With a development of this amplitude government should perhaps act more as enablers of major business interests with existing involvement in similar schemes, rather than the government being the primary financier by taking on massive debt to invest in what might prove to be a mirage.

 

If you wish to create a Disneyland, why not try to interest Disney or other major theme-park businesses?  Disney built Euro-Disney Land in France which opened in April 1992 [I was peripherally involved]. If such companies show initial interest but then drop out, this could be an indication of uncertain viability.