Safe Places To Go During Songkran In Bkk

[Songbkk2]

I planned to celebrate songkran on monday and tuesday with my girlfriend in Bangkok, but i don't know if that's a wise thing

to do anymore because the situation seems to worsen every day. Especially after the deadly clashes yesterday.

I was looking forward to this "water fight" thing at khao san road. Can anyone give me an update about the situation at khao san

now? The reds are still occupying phan fa bridge which is close to khao san road if i'm correct. I really don't want those loonies

to march into khao san road while i'm partying there.

We thought about going to silom if khao san is too risky, but i just read silom MRT is closed. What's going on there?

Is there a rally site or something in the silom area?

Where can we go otherwise in Bangkok if silom and khao san road are better to be avoided?

And what about the better clubs in the main districts? Are they opened?

[PhilHarries]

I have no info for you but if I were you I'd avoid Bangkok for a while at least.

[tigerboy]

I'd say go to Pattaya and enjoy the fun. I heard in another thread that the Khao San celebration was cancelled.

[mizzi39]

If you are already in Bangkok and checked into a hotel, hopefully with a pool stay there and have a water fight. Water and blood are not a good mix. Play it safe. Songkran is a yearly event, so there is always next year.

[Songbkk2]

We live in Bangkok

But yeah, maybe it's better we head up to Pattaya or hua hin or something to celebrate songkran. I bet hotel prices are very low.

[Songbkk2]

THE NATION: Translating @Cake_NBC: Reds planning to parade the dead bodies on Bkk streets tomorrow.

THE NATION: Rajprasong reds say the wires are meant to electrocute troops who push their way in.

BTS down, MRT stations closed, that's it. We are going to celebrate Songkran out of Bangkok.

Thanks brainless reds for again messing up my plans.

[junkofdavid2]

With or without red shirts...

I went to khao san one songkran and it was extremely dangerous.

Extremely packed like sardines that you literally could lift your feet and the crowd would carry you coz you were tightly squeezed within it.

All it would take is for your or another person ahead to stumble or trip, and you would be trampled on in a stampede.

[garyh]

What fun is there in getting a face full of rotten canal water?

[kopite]

What fun is there in getting a face full of rotten canal water?

in pattaya we use bottled water, we keep the caps on though

[needforspeed]

Home sweet home

[fredob43]

Acording to the new's Songkran has been stopped in BKK full stop.

[Songbkk2]

I don't know, i still have to experience it. It just seems like a fun thing to do, we are young and like to enjoy ourselves.

I understand the old bitter men on TV don't like it but please keep it to yourself.

Buy yourself a 12-pack of beer, shut up and stay inside for 5 days. Live and let live

What fun is there in getting a face full of rotten canal water?

[garyh]

I don't know, i still have to experience it. It just seems like a fun thing to do, we are young and like to enjoy ourselves.

I understand the old bitter men on TV don't like it but please keep it to yourself.

Buy yourself a 12-pack of beer, shut up and stay inside for 5 days. Live and let live

What fun is there in getting a face full of rotten canal water?

Thank you for your flame.

I was stating a fact, if you don't like it go to khao san road, but it may not be live and let live.

SongKhran should be enjoyable but there is good reason those a bit older and wiser stay out of it.

[Songbkk2]

I just want to say we had two very fun days. First day we celebrated in Pattaya and the second day in Bangkok, also in khao san road. Khao san road and area were fully packed with thai and tourists partying like nothing happened.

I enjoyed the waterfights and my eyes and ears clogged with clay. I'm already looking forward to next year's songkran

The only thing that disturbed me a bit was the anti-gov, abhisit is a tyrant sign incl. some gruesome pictures of dead people at the end of khao san road. Not really a nice way of showing respect to those who died. I also heared they paraded their bodies at khao san road during the day.

[ThaiEye]

There are no longer any red-shirts in the Khao Sarn vicinity - they all gone to party together at Rajaprasong.

In regards to the last post, no red-shirt bodeis were paraded along Khao Sarn Rd!! 2 were draped and carried on to the stage at Phan Fah, nothing to do with Khao Sarn. Anyway no more red-shirts at Phan Fah...

[chadintheusa]

Isn't Songkran the most obnoxious holiday you've ever seen. Imagine if you were in your home country and some idiot threw water on you because you were simply walking down the street, or some drunk came up and smeared power on your face. In either case you'd be tempted to punch them in the face. But in Thailand we have to suffer through 3 or 4 days of lunacy. Already 115 or so people are dead from traffic accidents and we're just getting warmed up. (just 23 from rioting and people are ready to lynch the PM) Right now more stupid drunk people on the streets is the last thing we need. I just don't get it. Thais stand on the street and throw water at buses for 8 hours and seem to be having the time of their lives. Then they do it again the next day. 20 minutes of that and I'd be looking for something better to do with my day off. The major complaint about Bangkok is the traffic, yet on Songkran when half the population is away Thais all drive down the same sois to throw water from moving vehicles and cause traffic jams that are worse than usual. It's a chance for otherwise nice folks to get drunk, act crazy, and fondle the young ladies that wander around in wet t-shirts. Anywhere else this kind of holiday would end in major brawls and major crackdowns on drunk driving, but this is Thailand.