hi folks i just been reading about police harassment in bkk so i decided to cancel a 4 day shopping trip there, just wondered if the same thing is happening in pattaya, i live in the middle of nowhere and need a break so i thought about pattaya instead.

4 day shopping trip

4 day shopping trip

and holiday

shopping trip for what?

shopping trip for what?

Blag gear of course.

shopping trip for what?

christmas presents christmas is comming

Pattaya is fine, the police here seem to know which side of the bread is buttered....

Pattaya is fine, the police here seem to know which side of the bread is buttered....

thank you for your input and an intellegent anwer

Pattaya is fine, the police here seem to know which side of the bread is buttered....

Yeh. Both sides.

I agree. Knocking shop on wood. No such problems here!

Unless you are planning to do your shopping on a jetski, you should be fine in Pattaya.

As long as you can provide an uncontaminated urine specimen, Pattaya should suit your needs, both for holiday and shopping.

( If you cannot provide an uncontaminated urine specimen, just stay away from Walking Street at night. )

At Pattaya the problem is KATOEY harrasment !!!

No such issues in Pattaya.

4 day shopping trip

What about a 4 day shopping trip to Bangkok makes you fall down, and laugh hysterically, please?

Come to Bangkok. Don't get within 1Km of Asoke. You'll miss out on Terminal 21 and Emporium- no big loss. (And you can even hit either of those if you stay off the street and on the BTS skywalk)

That gives you about 98% of the city, hassle free. For shopping, that beats Pattaya even on its best day...

no problem unless you are riding motor bike without helmet, no license or riding on the right hand side in a one way street. this happened to me on foreshore road. then l had to go to pattaya police station to pay fine. easy money and also there was about 20 farangs wating and more streaming in. good day for the men in green

I love seeing the <deleted> farangs being pinched for riding down the wrong side of roads. Then some come on here and complain about it. Plenty of Thais get pinched for same offence too.

Unbelievable to think people are scared of shopping in Bangkok!!

I love seeing the <deleted> farangs being pinched for riding down the wrong side of roads. Then some come on here and complain about it. Plenty of Thais get pinched for same offence too.

hey snapper head l was passing a bus

Unbelievable to think people are scared of shopping in Bangkok!!

I was in Bangkok last week and I did a bit of shopping down Siam Paragon.

The biggest threat there is too your wallet.

Very exxy.

Unbelievable to think people are scared of shopping in Bangkok!!

I was in Bangkok last week and I did a bit of shopping down Siam Paragon.

The biggest threat there is too your wallet.

Very exxy.

Exxy. You fly?

I don't set foot on Asok anymore. Over the last couple of years I've looked down on cops frisking tourists at the corner in front of the Interchange Building. What I'm saying is the stop and search is not new, but it has accelerated and spread to various tourist venues. I take the overhead walk to any of the afore-mentioned shopping places. You also have to be aware of the smoking police between 19 and 15 Sukhumvit, 29 and 33 and Benjasiri Park. And probably many more tourist hunting zones.

I love seeing the <deleted> farangs being pinched for riding down the wrong side of roads. Then some come on here and complain about it. Plenty of Thais get pinched for same offence too.

hey snapper head l was passing a bus

So that makes it legal?

no problem unless you are riding motor bike without helmet, no license or riding on the right hand side in a one way street. this happened to me on foreshore road. then l had to go to pattaya police station to pay fine. easy money and also there was about 20 farangs wating and more streaming in. good day for the men in green

Men in green? Have the BIB been given new Christmas uniforms???

Given the widespread publicity lately of the going on's in Bangkok a few cops are going to get their wrists slapped and told to stop and you wont hear much more about it, just what I think.

Pattaya police wrote the book on police harassment. Go to BKK, avoid the Asoke area.

Lots of people now coming to Pattaya for their shopping at Central Festival. Plenty of weekenders from BKK.

Given the widespread publicity lately of the going on's in Bangkok a few cops are going to get their wrists slapped and told to stop and you wont hear much more about it, just what I think.

I think so too - reports of tourist shakedowns are starting to appear in the overseas press, and (according to the report below) the British Ambassador has taken the matter up with the Thai authorities:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/bangkok-tourists-caught-up-in-shakedown-20141212-125voa.html

hi folks i just been reading about police harassment in bkk so i decided to cancel a 4 day shopping trip there,

just wondered if the same thing is happening in pattaya, i live in the middle of nowhere and need a break so i thought about pattaya instead.

No problem with that in Pattaya. A few police controls

- and yes more frequently in December and January because a lot of more people during high season -

but nothing I would call harassment.

Happened to me a few times to be controlled:

they look at your documents and "thank you sir", and you can go. Takes probably less than 1 minute.

A good way IMHO to reduced the number of stupid drivers who drive without a valid license and/or insurance,

with all the consequences it brings when they cause an accident...