wileycoyote Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 What are the dates of Songkran in Pattaya? Is the a Parade/Starting Day of Celebration ? What is it like in soi Buakhow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonseeker Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Officially 13.4. - 19.4. 2016 Plenty of morons starting early with support of the classy ladies that line Bouakao & Sois. Living there for almost 20 years & trying to avoid. Might have been funny in the beginning until it started escalating. Don't travel on 18. & 19. You won't get in or out of Pattaya. Complete chaos. For last few few years "the action" slowed down considerably after 7pm, but still plenty of funny people who love to high-pressure shoot bike drivers & old people or people going to work in the face. It is what it is and few of us residents like it, I guess. 19th. is the day you should not miss, but better location is along beach. Enjoy! MS> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onemorechang Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Very Wet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiandrew Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Wet and wild! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 In a couple weeks I'll put up a new Songkran FAQ. It's in the works. In the meantime, you can read last year's: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/707843-2014-songkran-faq-long/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denim Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Wet hell ! If you are a teenager or have the brain of one you can have a great time. Otherwise avoid like the plague. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 In a couple weeks I'll put up a new Songkran FAQ. It's in the works. In the meantime, you can read last year's: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/707843-2014-songkran-faq-long/ Whoops! Here: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/807030-the-2015-pattaya-songkran-faq-long/ The basic facts don't change much. Last year's Songkran was milder than in previous years; we can hope for more of the same this year Save your comments for the FAQ thread . . . you'll have a whole month to let 'em rip. For now, book your tickets out (I did!) unless you wanna stay here and deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 It gets worse every year. It runs for several days. This means that during daylight you can't go outside without getting soaked. You won't be able to walk to a restaurant, take a baht bus to the mall to see a movie, or do anything else. You will have wet clothes to wear and after a day or two the water you are being hit with can be pretty stale and dirty. Then every year more and more people continue to wet people at night so that is bad. You go out to walk to a gogo or anyplace else and get soaked. If you want to experience it, fine. Go for a couple of days. Beach road and soi 7 and soi 8 are better than soi bukhao in my opinion. I was there for two Songkrans and it is not worth it to me to go again. I plan my trips around it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donnybay Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Look on youtube for your answer OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LennyW Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Just as bad as any other part of Pattaya during that week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shirtless Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Just dont wear a suit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ireland32 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I'm a Hater, I leave that Shitestorm in Patts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rimmer Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 This topic will be closed as soon as JSixpack puts his comprehensive topic up, So save your best comments until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houlicha Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Some old timers use this as the excuse for the annual tour of Angeles City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesimps Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 To be avoided like the plague unless you can stand there from morning to night chucking water without getting bored. I'd rather listen to a cracked George Formby 78. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterpan2501 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Songkran is the time where most of older expats escapes from Pattaya... Y will then relax in northern province... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulic Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Same a everywhere, wet and horrible. The time to hunker down indoors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcfish Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 If only it was reduced to 1 day. I could accept that, maybe even walk around in budgie smugglers and a singa vest and participate Sent from my SC-01D using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Mega Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Considering the current water crisis in Thailand with a bit of luck Songkran will be banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petermik Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Considering the current water crisis in Thailand with a bit of luck Songkran will be banned. More chance of Man Utd winning the league than that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirtycash Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 in one word..................HELL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I would avoid that area at all costs. It can be wet and dangeros. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHolmesJr Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 The bingo chips get a bit soggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vickersvc10 Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Songkran anywhere in Pattaya is my idea of Hell, which is why I will be in Australia for its duration. If you are here during the prolonged "festivities" for God's sake don't ride a motorbike. I once saw a mentally subnormal reveller chuck a full bucket of water over a motorcyclist on Beach Road. The result, fortunately, was not death but I wish it had been for the water thrower. Thailand's shortage of water will not have the slightest effect on reducing the chaos and waste of that precious and vital fluid. Rant over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitemouse Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 Soi Bukao is probably particularly nasty area during Songkran, no sidewalks and walking in traffic makes it bad enough even during sane times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSixpack Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 The bingo chips get a bit soggy. The Q&A section of the FAQ already answers our water hooligans' and trolls' three favorite taunts (I quote): But saying anything against Songkran is a whinge. f u dnt lk sngkrn ur a grumpy old git. Grumpy old gi-it! Grumpy old gi-it! f u dnt go out n fIt, ur a pussy scArd o my BIG BAD supR soaker. Yah, yah, pussy. And you can get those out of the way now by reading the answers in last year's FAQ. Besides that, the FAQ even offers advice for those who wish to participate or otherwise be a target. One is the standard admonition to keep one's phone (etc.) in a Ziploc baggie. However, I'll note this year, from a news report, that the baggie is subject to theft during the "fun." You might consider that the theft or destruction of one's phone means, among other things, the bother of having to re-download one's Justin Bieber collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roomuck Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Best time of the year in pattaya, which is saying something for the best party city in the world. Something to be seen. It is the day the Thais take over Pattaya. It is the same all over. From the dark side, on sukhuvit and thru all the sois. But Pattaya city really puts it on on the beach road. If you are starting in soi bukeow, it is an easy walk down from there. You get a lot of farangs complaining about it, they have a bit of a sook getting wet, but most people love it. I assume by your post you are not one of those crybabies. It is awesome, it is on the 19th usually in pattaya which is last. Last year I did hua hin first which was pretty good, naklua was a day or two before pattaya which also rocks. This year I am heading to Issan, but will make it back for pattaya, and hopefully naklua. Basically happy party people love it, and whingers also secretly love it, because it gives them something to whinge about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Been lame for a few years in general, but haven't tried Buakhao. Does the mayhem there have at least medium intensity? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 If you have experienced it one time , why do it again ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzi850m2 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 On that time of the year my pick-up truck get used a lot, driving in to Central parking lot, walk into the mall, eat, have a smoke on 3rd floor balcony looking down at the madness, walking exercise inside the mall, I sometimes do all the floors. Take my ride back home to the house with doors locked and windows firmly closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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