Living in Phuket I personally know a few people that have a small bar that really are up the Khyber so to speak.

As I have only visited Pattaya half a dozen times or so Not sure if it reallyis a major issue to many of the bar owners or not.

In reality are many of you affected,? and what will you do about taking care of the buisiness in the short term untill this mess is cleared up. And with all the visa runners leaving for 90 days will this actually harm your takings to a great extent?

Dunno most farangs I know have long term visas, so won't affect them at all. The other bars that I frequent are owned by Thai(s).

The only reason that I can see to have a small bar in Pattaya is if you are a drunken whoremonger who wants to hang around your own place in a drunken stupor, swill cheap booze and coerce the staff into doing freebies for good ole' you. However, who cares if the free ride is over for these types?

On my soi out of say 30 bars only 4 of us were fully legal paid taxes b visas work permit ect. I know of lots guys living and working on 30 day visas who this is going to hit. Most of them have small time bars and are struggling as it is and can not aford to go legal pay taxes social fund accounting. I must say though most of the small time thai business that i talk to hardly ever pay taxes or do things legal to. Every where you look in pattaya you can see lots of new small bars when will pepole learn that they dont make money there are to many. Maybe now the new laws will force pepole to do things properly they will look at owning a bar as not such a good investment after all. I wounder if the thais will be made to do things by the book.

We used to complain about Thais being silly as they ruin every business by just copying someone else until no one can make any money (crap restaraunts, crap bars, coffee shops, internet cafes, crap used book stores, massage joints), instead of thinking up something that is needed, but farangs seem to be just as silly these days as they do exactly the same thing: Copy other people, ruin existing businesses and contribute nothing new.

Living in Phuket I personally know a few people that have a small bar that really are up the Khyber so to speak.

As I have only visited Pattaya half a dozen times or so Not sure if it reallyis a major issue to many of the bar owners or not.

In reality are many of you affected,? and what will you do about taking care of the buisiness in the short term untill this mess is cleared up. And with all the visa runners leaving for 90 days will this actually harm your takings to a great extent?

Do you really expect any bar 'owner' who has a need to worry about recent developments to actually respond to your naïve questions?

One has to wonder why you feel the need to ask...

One of my past GF’s worked in a bar in a small Pattaya Soi, it was in shop-house unit, the owner was German and always hid in the back to afraid to come out because his visa had run out according to my then GF.

It’s not only Brit’s who give up a good job, sell there house and everything to come to Thailand for the good life of running a bar thinking it will be an easy life of boozing & whoring, I would give them 2 years before they are kicked out of the kingdom, penniless.

BB

Many bars have a number of partners involved and I am sure that it is easy to work out that they can arrange their own rotas so that the premises will be covered throughout the year.

Mr Fox,

I love this.

Have you ever considered a career in Law?.

Or politics?.

Excellent.

Cheers,

Couthy.

Many bars have a number of partners involved and I am sure that it is easy to work out that they can arrange their own rotas so that the premises will be covered throughout the year.