9 hours ago, colinneil said:

The owner is obviously totally brain dead to have built the pool in the first place.

How did he think he could get away with building the pool?

he did for 20 odd years

7 hours ago, bark said:

Please be nice.

It is the 5th sentence in the OP.  It is even  in a paragraph all on it's own, for heavens sake!  

I promise to try and be nicer, if people will promise to try and read an OP properly before they rush to type a reply.   I have been known to do the same thing once or twice but it embarrassed me so  much that I now TRY to make a point of not creating howlers like that. 

(After saying this, I hope I don't do it again for a few weeks at least.)

11 hours ago, colinneil said:

The owner is obviously totally brain dead to have built the pool in the first place.

How did he think he could get away with building the pool?

 

Well according to the authorities they got away with it for about 20 years.  Would have got their money back in that time so do you really think if they have to spend a million and shut the joint down, that they'd be worried, I think not.  And the new manager playing dumb to.  I didn't know, but then he did know about the hotel, yet continued trading.  But if he returned all funds and paid off the staff, then at least he has honoured his commitments so one has to take their hat off to him in that regard, providing it occurred. 

7 minutes ago, Si Thea01 said:

 

Well according to the authorities they got away with it for about 20 years.  Would have got their money back in that time so do you really think if they have to spend a million and shut the joint down, that they'd be worried, I think not.  And the new manager playing dumb to.  I didn't know, but then he did know about the hotel, yet continued trading.  But if he returned all funds and paid off the staff, then at least he has honoured his commitments so one has to take their hat off to him in that regard, providing it occurred. 

Exactly.  Let us hope that part is all true.

5 hours ago, onemorechang said:

 

Most likely left like a building site, with  trip hazards all over the place in

and around the waters edge.

 

 

With exposed and broken re-barb, and broken tiles with razor sharp edges... 

11 hours ago, Lamkyong said:

A contractor with heavy equipment will move in to start the job in earnest on Thursday.

Another 20 Burmese with sledgehammers??

I hope the Brits - Russians and Germans who have built along Wongamat and other parts of Naklua to say nothing of Thai developers get taken to task.  The shear crass selfishness of some of those coast and beach encroachments is mind boggling. 

34 minutes ago, bangon04 said:

Another 20 Burmese with sledgehammers??

maybe/possibly   why dont you go there and post back with some pics???

20 hours ago, colinneil said:

The owner is obviously totally brain dead to have built the pool in the first place.

How did he think he could get away with building the pool?

Well he got away with it for twenty one years....!

18 hours ago, The Deerhunter said:

It is the 5th sentence in the OP.  It is even  in a paragraph all on it's own, for heavens sake!  

I promise to try and be nicer, if people will promise to try and read an OP properly before they rush to type a reply.   I have been known to do the same thing once or twice but it embarrassed me so  much that I now TRY to make a point of not creating howlers like that. 

(After saying this, I hope I don't do it again for a few weeks at least.)

FYI, I have been suspended twice for doing the same thing. One time for 3 days, and one time for 2 weeks.

I agree with you.

Cheers.

With all of these demolition squads moving in on hotels and illegal land encroachment I do wonder if the land will be returned to its former state and not left looking like a big pile of rubble. Otherwise what is the point???? Surely a swimming pool will look better than a pile of rubble!! Of course we will never hear about any of this again so we will never know...

3 hours ago, claffey said:

With all of these demolition squads moving in on hotels and illegal land encroachment I do wonder if the land will be returned to its former state and not left looking like a big pile of rubble. Otherwise what is the point???? Surely a swimming pool will look better than a pile of rubble!! Of course we will never hear about any of this again so we will never know...

Apparently some tidy and some messy depends on the provincial or local govt in charge 

On 23/11/2016 at 6:38 AM, colinneil said:

The owner is obviously totally brain dead to have built the pool in the first place.

How did he think he could get away with building the pool?

by making a lot of money as the hotel attracted a lot of tourist with it's exclusive. The pool would maybe pay back itself 100 times by now...

I wonder if anyone has a picture of how it looked before? it would be interesting to see if they leave it anywhere near the same condition.

I guess we will never know.

On 23/11/2016 at 1:07 PM, elgordo38 said:

I agree building the pool only drew attention to his other illegal activities such as operating a illegal hotel. Do they ever do a legality check on hotels? I think a lot of them here must be operating on quicksand.

 

I think that most condo buildings here have owners and agencies operating as illegal hotels. Many of them even advertise the fact quite blatantly in print and online media. Hopefully one day the checks will start and heads will roll.

On 23/11/2016 at 10:37 AM, losername said:

Wouldn't it be a good idea to empty the pool first?

 

Why?  or are you being ironic!