Samet Island's Phrao Bay resorts fully booked
By English News

RAYONG, Nov 6 - Thailand's Eastern seaboard tourists have regained confidence in the safety of Samet Island's Phrao Bay as the three resorts there are fully booked, according to a senior foresty official.

Sumet Saithong, chief of Khao Laem Ya-Mu Ko Samet National Park, said Prao Bay officially reopened on November 1 after being forced to close July 28 when a substantial oil slick hit the beach.

He said the agencies concerned have implemented the rehabilitation plan and have given every effort to bring back clean water and sand to the bay as soon as possible.

He said Phrao Bay is fully safe to visit, with no more oil slick, and the tourists have returned to enjoy the sea, sand and sun at the Bay.

Mr Sumet said the three resorts at the Bay are now fully booked while rooms at other resorts at the other beaches on the island were almost fully booked.

He said the committee and experts carefully inspected the Bay's environment and found no irregularity as the beach and sea water are clean.

An oil leakage from a PTT Global Chemical pipeline in the sea off the eastern province of Rayong has impacted the aquatic environment in the province, particularly at Phrao Bay of Samet Island. (MCOT online news)

-- TNA 2013-11-06

is that a picture of somewhere in bali by any chance?

I do wonder where and when that photo was taken. Fully booked.... okay, not "walk in" customers. One advantage of staying there may be don't need to buy suntan oil, just take a dip in the now pristine waters. Right.

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November 1, which was 5 days ago, the news story said, "Occupancy rate at local resorts now stands at 20 per cent, compared to this period last year when all the rooms were booked," Pisanu Kemapan said yesterday in his capacity as chair of the Samet Restaurant and Resort Operator Association.

LINK: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/678851-samet-oil-spill-questions-raised-over-rush-to-reopen-ao-phrao/

How do they go from 20% occupnacy to 100% occupancy in less than a week?

Maybe they dropped their prices to get people in. Or maybe they are telling porkies.

Just been and the beach is cleaner than ever before, cleanest beach on Samet. The reef also looks better than before with live coral and fish, no trace of the oil spill. The water is the cleanest on the island without all the crap being flushed out from all the resorts on the other side of the island.

Not sure how they did it but you could never tell that there was a huge oil spill there just a few months ago.