Pictures from around Pattaya

[forcebwithu 4,853]

A bit of color at Tree Town

Food market across from Nirun now advertising space for rent.

Amazing Thailand. Want to throw a party, just close off the public street in front of your house, pitch a tent and party on.

[jacko 8,814]

What's this new place about, at the top of soi 15...Buakhao end? Anybody know more......?

I do hope they don't resume the digging up on that corner, or it will be stuffed before it can get going..... some other new places are struggling.....

 

 

Is it me or is the baht weakening? The reality is the Thai economy is heading in a positive direction with exports (particularly to China)  on the up, ..and tourism projected to get close to 2019 numbers next year. The gray cloud on the horizon... when will a new majority government be created? 

Edited June 18, 2023 by jacko

[forcebwithu 4,853]

49 minutes ago, jacko said:

What's this new place about, at the top of soi 15...Buakhao end? Anybody know more......?

I do hope they don't resume the digging up on that corner, or it will be stuffed before it can get going..... some other new places are struggling.....

 

 

Is it me or is the baht weakening? The reality is the Thai economy is heading in a positive direction with exports (particularly to China)  on the up, ..and tourism projected to get close to 2019 numbers next year. The gray cloud on the horizon... when will a new majority government be created? 

That "new" place is now closed.

https://www.facebook.com/DynamiteEntPattaya/

[jacko 8,814]

2 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

That "new" place is now closed.

Haha... don't recall hearing anything of it!

[yselmike 390]

2 hours ago, jacko said:

What's this new place about, at the top of soi 15...Buakhao end? Anybody know more......?

I do hope they don't resume the digging up on that corner, or it will be stuffed before it can get going..... some other new places are struggling.....

 

 

Is it me or is the baht weakening? The reality is the Thai economy is heading in a positive direction with exports (particularly to China)  on the up, ..and tourism projected to get close to 2019 numbers next year. The gray cloud on the horizon... when will a new majority government be created? 

It happens every year,it coincides with the low season for tourists.We all then get exited and book flights for next winter.Come the high season or when I arrive on my annual trip, it does a switcheroo and my Euro turns to dust.Every effing year it's the same.I have just spent €2400 on flights and hotels for january.youll all see.

[Broughton 497]

Real pity about Dynamite it was just getting going as well. Just another example though of how tough the business is in Pattaya to survive. All about location location and foot traffic of the masses .

Any ideas why I cannot upload anything above 1MB always say file is too big ? 

[Bazle 1,485]

2 minutes ago, Broughton said:

Real pity about Dynamite it was just getting going as well. Just another example though of how tough the business is in Pattaya to survive. All about location location and foot traffic of the masses .

...... and pricing, and attitude! 

[forcebwithu 4,853]

2 hours ago, Broughton said:

...
Any ideas why I cannot upload anything above 1MB always say file is too big ? 

You may be at your attachment limit. To check, under your BM name select My Attachments to view how much of your Attachment Quota you've used. If you're bumping up against the limit, send a PM to @frostfire to request more drive space.

[Odense 492]

It happens every year,it coincides with the low season for tourists.We all then get exited and book flights for next winter.Come the high season or when I arrive on my annual trip, it does a switcheroo and my Euro turns to dust.Every effing year it's the same.I have just spent €2400 on flights and hotels for january.youll all see.

Then buy your baht now if you think you know this is the best time.

 

Sendt fra min ANE-LX1 med Tapatalk

 

 

 

[jacko 8,814]

11 hours ago, Broughton said:

Real pity about Dynamite it was just getting going as well. Just another example though of how tough the business is in Pattaya to survive. All about location location and foot traffic of the masses .

Any ideas why I cannot upload anything above 1MB always say file is too big ? 

That location has been through a few iterations.. ..I  recall it being remodeled to quite a nice looking Italian  restaurant .... I think Covid killed that off. Quite a number of folks come here with money in their pocket and ideas, ambition and motivation.... and can't get it to work. 

@frostfire needs to move you out of the 'upgrade' group to 'Participant' I suspect.

Edited June 18, 2023 by jacko

[tallguy 1,475]

1 hour ago, jacko said:

That location has been through a few iterations.. ..I  recall it being remodeled to quite a nice looking Italian  restaurant .... I think Covid killed that off. Quite a number of folks come here with money in their pocket and ideas, ambition and motivation.... and can't get it to work. 

@frostfire needs to move you out of the 'upgrade' group to 'Participant' I suspect.

I thought the Italian place, (Volare?), was there for a good few years. I recall eating in there when I stayed around that area for a few days in 2014. It may have had 1 or 2 refurbishments but I always thought it was a long standing business.

[jacko 8,814]

21 hours ago, tallguy said:

I thought the Italian place, (Volare?), was there for a good few years. I recall eating in there when I stayed around that area for a few days in 2014. It may have had 1 or 2 refurbishments but I always thought it was a long standing business.

Well a few years is a good run here I suppose....but perhaps they were refurbs....or they got new blinds. I usually trust to your memory better than mine. 

[forcebwithu 4,853]

3 hours ago, jacko said:

Well a few years is a good run here I suppose....but perhaps they were refurbs....or they got new blinds. I usually trust to your memory better than mine. 

Street View has a good historical record of the location dating from Oct 2012 when the building was being built, and then yearly updates beginning in 2016.

https://www.google.co.th/maps/@12.9274521,100.8835818,3a,75y,337.94h,92.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s71Hc0S7yzw8WETByzF_-_A!2e0!5s20121001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu

[forcebwithu 4,853]

For the new light poles on Pattaya Tai they must have used a random number generator to decide how far from the curb they were going to plant each pole.

[forcebwithu 4,853]

Photos of the new median they're putting in on Thepprasit. What's odd is there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason where they're putting in the cut throughs.

Standing at a cut through where there are no soi's intersecting Thepprasit, looking towards Sukhumvit.

Same cut through looking west.

Not sure if this will eventually be a cut through for Soi 11.

Across from the Forum, which is closed, they have a cut through, but for west bound traffic wanting to go to the market another 25m distance, they'll have to do a U-Turn and then quickly make their way across two lanes of busy traffic. A recipe for traffic accidents.

There's another cut through near, but not directly opposite Soi 15. Bizarre placement of that cut through.

There's a cut through for those going to and coming from Soi 17, but if you live in the T.W. Palm/Jomtien Beach Condos and you're east bound, it's going to be another 1km of travel past the entrance and a couple of U-Turns to get to your condo. Or if you're on two wheels you can do what most are doing, and what I did this morning visiting a friend who lives there and use this cut through to travel about 20m against traffic to get to the entrance. Amazing Thailand.

[forcebwithu 4,853]

Wonder if the spelling mistake was on purpose.

[Regyai 415]

1 hour ago, forcebwithu said:

Photos of the new median they're putting in on Thepprasit. What's odd is there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason where they're putting in the cut throughs.

Standing at a cut through where there are no soi's intersecting Thepprasit, looking towards Sukhumvit.

Same cut through looking west.

Not sure if this will eventually be a cut through for Soi 11.

Across from the Forum, which is closed, they have a cut through, but for west bound traffic wanting to go to the market another 25m distance, they'll have to do a U-Turn and then quickly make their way across two lanes of busy traffic. A recipe for traffic accidents.

There's another cut through near, but not directly opposite Soi 15. Bizarre placement of that cut through.

There's a cut through for those going to and coming from Soi 17, but if you live in the T.W. Palm/Jomtien Beach Condos and you're east bound, it's going to be another 1km of travel past the entrance and a couple of U-Turns to get to your condo. Or if you're on two wheels you can do what most are doing, and what I did this morning visiting a friend who lives there and use this cut through to travel about 20m against traffic to get to the entrance. Amazing Thailand.

Yes a calamitous fookup of magnificent proportions

[Broughton 497]

On 6/18/2023 at 9:06 PM, forcebwithu said:

You may be at your attachment limit. To check, under your BM name select My Attachments to view how much of your Attachment Quota you've used. If you're bumping up against the limit, send a PM to @frostfire to request more drive space.

Correct it’s at 99% so sent a PM. Thanks 

[tallguy 1,475]

23 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

Street View has a good historical record of the location dating from Oct 2012 when the building was being built, and then yearly updates beginning in 2016.

https://www.google.co.th/maps/@12.9274521,100.8835818,3a,75y,337.94h,92.92t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s71Hc0S7yzw8WETByzF_-_A!2e0!5s20121001T000000!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu

The view down a fairly desolate Soi 15 in 2012, before the development of Grande Avenue etc was a reminder of just how recent a lot of development in the Buakhau area has been.

Edited June 21, 2023 by tallguy

[jacko 8,814]

Another lazy day Sunday....

 

Buakhao surprisingly clear for a weekend morning.

 

 

Still watch your step on Klang... this, I expect is as good as it will get!

 

 

Hurry up, you were certainly faster last night!

 

 

That nice clear safe pavement, the only one in town!

 

 

Spot the tourists, anxious to lose skin to sunburn or to the tarmac!

 

 

The improving rates.

 

 

Will it ever open, what will it be like?

 

 

Looks different in the daytime.....

 

Is it the only place to go now....Walking St no longer suits the Expat. Except maybe the 3 Windmills.....

 

 

Attractive frontage, even in daytime.

 

 

Another new boy on the dogleg.

 

 

And soon, there will be another.

 

 

Going rainbow in Treetown, I do hope not.

 

 

A robot in Tops, bumping into the morning zombies!

Edited June 25, 2023 by jacko

[forcebwithu 4,853]

4 hours ago, jacko said:

Will it ever open, what will it be like?

Julu has been open a couple of weeks. My take is it's a late night nightclub.

https://www.facebook.com/Jujunightclub

[Bazle 1,485]

@jacko

"Is it the only place to go now....Walking St no longer suits the Expat. Except maybe the 3 Windmills....." 

3 Windmills? 

There are 2 Windmills, and each has 2 floors. 

[maik 444]

2 hours ago, Bazle said:

 

There are 2 Windmills, and each has 2 floors. 

A few weeks ago Windmill also bought Dollhouse in Soi 15

[Bazle 1,485]

1 hour ago, maik said:

A few weeks ago Windmill also bought Dollhouse in Soi 15

Yes, but it isn't open. 

[jacko 8,814]

10 hours ago, Bazle said:

@jacko

"Is it the only place to go now....Walking St no longer suits the Expat. Except maybe the 3 Windmills....." 

3 Windmills? 

There are 2 Windmills, and each has 2 floors. 

I believe the Dollhouse has been acquired and will reopen as Windmill 3.