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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Rumors that they want to ban alcohol after 12 midnight in Pattaya?
Dear readers,
I hear that the Thai government wants to tackle drinking in Thailand. Now I hear plenty of rumors here that they want to ban alcohol in Pattaya after 12 midnight?
Is that right?
Kind regards,
Freddy
The order of the calendar is apparently not right for everyone. Just waited 7 months!
If this is a commitment by the Thai government to reduce alcohol consumption AFTER midnight
Banning it will have no effect.
Because before midnight, the partying public has already filled the farang.
So those few forbidding drops after midnight.
Is a joke.
Reports, or rather rumors, about a very strict approach to alcohol consumption, alcohol sales and alcohol advertising were spread by Chiang Mai News, and then taken over by Phuket News. The message has not been reproduced in any serious newspaper, TV channel or radio. Of course it is THE talk of the day on social media.
However, the 'announced' measures are so ridiculous (e.g. a ban on having and selling glasses with a logo of an alcohol manufacturer, ban on beer mats, alcohol shirt advertising of football teams) that anyone who thinks a little knows that this is a is a hoax. And perhaps launched in Chiang Mai to put the not so popular junta there in a bad light.
Alcohol shirt advertising has been banned for a long time and beer advertising on TV. That is why Singha and Chang also started selling water, so that they can advertise with their brand name.
At 7/11, Big C, Tesco and Makro you can no longer buy alcohol at certain hours. The sale of liquor at gas stations is also prohibited.
The announced messages are therefore not very strange. They are crazy enough for it 🙂
In line with this, one should no longer be allowed to wear a sleeveless shirt with a print of beer brands such as Singha and Chang, because that is actually a form of advertising.
That will be disappointing for many! 😉
Hello.
@Lou.
Alcohol advertising on t-shirts is prohibited??? Last night in Pattaya, while we were sitting at the bar, I bought 3 different t-shirts from Singha for my Thai girlfriend, you can also buy them from Chang, from Leo, and you name it, they just throw them here for 100 bath. piece to your head, everywhere!!! And I don't see that many people drinking water here in the evening… yes, to shower… and most who do want to drink water, in every soi, including ours, there is a water dispenser where you can get 4 liters of water for 3 baths. can get... and if you want to buy 5 cans of beer here in the supermarket, I thought somewhere from 11.00 a.m. to 16 or 17.00 p.m., then you will indeed not get them, but if you buy two or more cartons, you will get them without any problems... TIT .
Mvg… Rudy…
@rudy
With the alcohol shirt commercial I meant football shirts, not T-shirts. The beer/water brands such as Chang do advertise shirts in England, because the English competition is very popular in Thailand and is well viewed. They also sell water, but the brand name is important.
When the advertising of cigarettes (not only in Thailand) was banned, the manufacturers also started supplying other products, such as lighters, jackets and caps. They supposedly no longer advertised cigarettes, but continued to stamp the brand name into them.
Joel Voordewind of the ChristenUnie certainly paid a working visit.
I have read the whole story about the recommendations on Thaivisa. If it is indeed true, I get the impression that a number of officials have woken up and crawled out from under their rock to get into the good graces of the current government. few sensible proposals largely nonsensical and unworkable proposals.
Sending from my smartphone was not very convenient. There are quite a few capital letters missing, can perhaps be corrected this time.
Don't think it's so crazy that this message comes from Chiangmai.
About 10-15 years ago beer was allowed (or actually not) to be tapped after midnight.
Beer was poured into glasses whose logo was covered with a piece of toilet paper and the beer was also of an unknown brand.
Ridiculous but true.
Then it was on an outside location, maybe that was also the reason why this was done.
I forgot the name of that tent, but they still exist and have often changed location.
The owners appear to be police officers.
There is also still a place where alcohol is served at night outside that is the Bus-Stop.
A black caravan where you can order your drink.
Could it just happen that this will happen again here.
Or as Chris says a Hoax.
But the above story really happened.
Kind regards, Peter *Sapparot*
Of course, the Thai government (or whoever decides about it nowadays) can take all those kinds of measures. They thus protect their population in their imaginary world.
All ridiculous measures in our eyes. In the past, years ago I went to Thailand.
Putting the flowers outside together with friends. Everything was possible in Thailand.
Sitting in a bar. Play pool and go to bed late. Some drank too much, but the time of their lives. Not early in the morning and then to the beach of Pattaya.
What happens now? Suddenly Buddha day. No beer available.
Then comes the curfew. Remain in the Hotel after 10.00:24.00 am. Now a story about no longer serving drinks after midnight. The beaches of Pattaya have largely been washed away.
Of course we also spent a few (cents) euros.
If I could go back to that beautiful time, I would never go to Thailand again.
I think many with me.
You can make a calculation. There are not so many walkers who book a holiday to Thailand.
Cor.
@color
You are getting old Cor 🙂
I've been coming to Thailand for 30 years and every time the "government" tries something.
No liquor sales on Buddha day has always been the case. Not even on the king's birthday and
queen. We always shouted: “In Thailand it is Queen's Day every day, except on the Queen's birthday, when the sale of drinks in bars is prohibited.” Then the large coffee cups come out of the cupboard again to secretly sell drinks.
I never noticed a curfew. Cor does make a negative mess of it.
He had a lot of fun, back in the day, but would never do it again. hahaha.
The funny thing about Thailand, for example, is that supermarkets are not allowed to sell drinks between 11.00 a.m. and 17.00 p.m., unless you buy 2 crates of beer at the same time, because then you are a wholesaler 🙂 TIT
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Hello.
@ freddy.
Ban drinking here in Pattaya after midnight??? I just came back from my favorite pub between soi 7 and soi 8 on Beachroad, and I still don't know how many people are walking around here, if alcohol is no longer allowed to be sold after midnight, half of the beer bars here in Pattaya can close their doors So I really don't believe much of that.
Even on holidays, or elections, when alcohol is not allowed to be served all weekend, you can get beer everywhere in a Coke glass in a bottle cooler, or in a large coffee mug, as if the police don't know there's no beer in it, and everyone sitting with an empty bottle cooler in front of them, whether everyone in Pattaya is suddenly drinking coffee here.
It won't go that fast...
Mvg… Rudy…
This is the law, introduced by Thaksin to prevent alcohol abuse
Alcoholic drinks may be served or sold between 11 a.m. and 14 p.m
No alcoholic beverages may be served or consumed between 14 p.m. and 17 p.m
You may purchase more than 10 litres, as this is considered a whole sale
Alcoholic drinks may be served and sold between 17 and 01.00 a.m
General alcohol ban again between 01.00 and 11.00, with the above exceptions
Hello.
@Henry.
Yes, in a Big C or Makro... here in Pattaya you can buy beer day and night without interruption in any Family Mart, or 7/11, day and night, I've never known that they don't sell beer between 11 a.m. and 17 p.m. , and at that moment all the beer bars here are packed, and there are more than a thousand of them and I don't see that much coffee on the bar yet 😉
Mvg… Rudy…