A cop just came round the bars on Lake Mabprachan and told them that they all had to shut until 25th May (Sunday)

Has anyone else heard about this?

Not sure , but maybe have to close Sunday as well....

I think it's only you because you were showing sky news yesterday after the curfew time.

Mulligan on Beach Road - just one example - is open right now, will close 8pm to allow the employees to reach home before curfew - so the answer to your question is obiviously no, the Pattaya bars are NOT closed today

Well we've only just been told but it is rather peculiar, as there is nothing in the news or on twitter about bar closures...

The reality is that the specified Pattaya zones for licenced bars or entertainment venues do not include parts of Nongprue or Pong districts and they are subject to the whims of local police or municipal authorities. That's why the term "bar" is frowned upon in some of those areas.

Edited May 23, 201412 yr by petercool

Don't know for this area,

but on Walking Street some agogos are already opened !

and many will open along the afternoon

knowing they will have to close early...

Mulligan on Beach Road - just one example - is open right now, will close 8pm to allow the employees to reach home before curfew - so the answer to your question is obiviously no, the Pattaya bars are NOT closed today

Which means that most gogo bars will probably be closed as most start at around 8pm.

Edited May 23, 201412 yr by tropo

Well cop No. 1 said close now. Cop No. 2 said to close at 7 p.m!!!

As Peter said, it may be a local thing and not affect Pattaya proper.

We will try to obtain a definitive ruling from Nong Prue council officials..... but don't hold your breath....

Now in cc bar and they have been told to close at 8 pm. Choose a bar, choose a cop, and choose a time. ...

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Early to bed, early to rise. Easier time doing the ladies for all the old guys.

Early to bed, early to rise. Easier time doing the ladies for all the old guys.

Yep, long time now means longer.

You short-time boys are screwed (or not screwed as the case may be)

MIsleading thread topic*; darkside isn't Pattaya.

On Thursday night, most places of revelry in Pattaya self-policed and closed around 10pm with the police making rounds to ensure it happened.

Last night, the Pattaya gogo bar I was in had been told by the police that it was 'probably OK' to close at midnight. It was still rocking and rolling when I left at 11.30pm but the waitstaff had started getting customers to check bin.

* george must be loving the hit count though.

Edited May 24, 201412 yr by NanLaew

I feel certain that the military did not factor in...the consternation of ex-pats when announcing the curfew...

Mobi, you may have misunderstood or possibly the reason for a visit was a hope of donation.

Tomorrow all is back to normal, unless something radical happens in Pattaya

since the coup, no reports of stealings at night from ladyboys

looooooooooooool

its working, its working

Early to bed, early to rise. Easier time doing the ladies for all the old guys.

Yep, long time now means longer.

You short-time boys are screwed (or not screwed as the case may be)

Get a girl at 9 45 PM she can't go home till morning!!!!

Many Pattaya Walking Street go-go bars opened/closed early from 5-10PM last night and did a booming business. Everything closed promptly at 10.

Watched cam from LK Metro and Soi Buakauw and saw vacant business/streets at 11p.m. A lot of people mulling around Nongprue next to the police station so gatherings not enforced?.

In the end we turned the lights down at around 8.30 and shut up shop around 9.30. No sign of any cops.

I don't know where anyone gets the idea it will be back to normal today. I haven't heard anything.

I think the curfew will be in force for a few days yet - this lot mean business.

Who cares!!!!

Geez.

You could start a panic with a thread title like that.

There's not enough blood pressure medicine in all of Asia...

Oh no, bars are closed for 3 nights! What will we all do???

Is life so dull that some are worried about not hearing 'Hello, welcum' for 3 days?

Well cop No. 1 said close now. Cop No. 2 said to close at 7 p.m!!!

As Peter said, it may be a local thing and not affect Pattaya proper.

We will try to obtain a definitive ruling from Nong Prue council officials..... but don't hold your breath....

Classic case of left hand right hand syndrome and Thailand 101. No matter how much might pay for it, ten different answers for same same simple question to the whodunnits', wheresitsats' and the heckaweys' , until after awhile it becomes clear. The truth is kept so secret that none really know wherein it lies, or how to tell it if they do.

The bars will be allowed to open as normal when the military lift or change the curfew, I doubt any local cop would be in the know. It will come as broadcast statement as everything else so far, maybe at short notice

The bars will be allowed to open as normal when the military lift or change the curfew, I doubt any local cop would be in the know. It will come as broadcast statement as everything else so far, maybe at short notice

No. I doesn't work like that. There are no military in Pattaya, so bar owners do what the local police tell them they can do. Last night police came in WS say that agogos could stay open until midnight, as long as they switch their signs off. Problem is they said that at about 10pm when most agogos were already closing. A few of them though stayed open until midnight, and I bet most (all?) of them will stay open until midnight tonight

Edited May 24, 201412 yr by Pattaya46

Did you miss the news about the Thai Navy taking over soi9 police station?

Come to bangkok soi4 Heidelberg open 24 hours a day!

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Did you miss the news about the Thai Navy taking over soi9 police station?

No, I saw it, but it was yesterday morning, "long time" ago...

I may be wrong, but the few navy guys who came there must still be in the station.

I didn't see any military of navy guy in town, neither yesterday nor today.

The only "true" police on WS yesterday were these 2 officers at about 10pm.