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thaibeachlovers

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Cars at a standstill all the way from Central Rd to Soi Yamoto, my usual hotel full, hard to find a room ( at a reasonable price ) for long time rent.

Pavements full of pedestrians, bars with the usual number of suspects, the beach promenade packed.

Whatever may or may not be going on elsewhere, Pattaya seems to be "business as usual".

Long may it continue.

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You probably realise that Thais are able to create a traffic jam with just 3 cars on a 4 stroke highway.

On the junction of soi khao talo with bypass road they had motorbike taxi directing the traffic flow.Result a traffic jam of 2 km in all 4 directions.I made the Uturn and passed through soi Koaw noi and there was not a single car waiting at the junction in any direction.

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Indeed, a helluva lot of vehicles and people about town just now! :)

It's a bank holiday weekend, most places closed until Thursday so all Bangkokians have come to sit in their cars in Pattaya traffic jams as a break from sitting in their cars in Bangkok traffic jams.

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Lots and lots of Bangkok license plates. Funny, here in Bangkok, the streets are relatively empty! Everyone went to the beach for the weekend.

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Monday 3rd May and Wednesday 5th May are public holidays, a lot of folks take the Tuesday (4th) off and get 5 days holiday, so it may well be busy until Thursday.

Don't the Thais ever work? How do they produce a GDP when every other day is a holiday!

Traffic in town today at a complete standstill...I'm staying on in East Pattaya for the duration!

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Every weekend its on the beach road bumper to bumper, thats now and that whas 15 years ago also the case.

Besides, 99% of those cars are Thai tourists, and they just come for the weekend.

The main reason for the standing still is because all those (way to many)songteaw's who stop for every tourist they see.

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