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Casino being prepared next to Yensabai
All attempts to see inside or gain knowledge of what is happening, has not stopped discussion about the casino being prepared at Yensabai entrance gate
The building that runs to soi 17 from the front entrance has been upgraded with huge airconditioners and people are getting nervous about what is about to happen.
Not suggesting the the Yensabai manager and her son, who previously lived in Hong Kong before inheriting Yensabai know anything about this, but time will show more to the background of who is running this business and how or when it was approved.
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Someone should really tell the owners that gambling is illegal in Thailand. That's going to be a bit of an expensive "whoops!" moment when they open their doors and find that out.
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cdnmatt
Someone should really tell the owners that gambling is illegal in Thailand.
Like prostitution you mean?
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Unlikely to be a casino as Bangkok will probably get the one first. However, if it is then wait outside and when a gorgeous but sad looking boy comes out offer to 'help' with his financial woes.
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OK, my two cents. I googled Yensabai and came up with a condo complex near Sunee, map shows it off soi 17 by the VC hotel. As I've said, I don't know Sunee but I did walk the area several years ago during the day. Mostly Arab/Muslim it appears - almost an Arab quarter. It is also not, in any way, glittzy or fashionable. To think this area would get the first permit for gambling in Thailand, beating out Bangkok is far fetched indeed. You have to love rumours, they keep people occupied.
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You'd think that if they were going to build a casino in Pattaya they would at least choose a more salubrious area.
You could say, build it and they will come? But why bother when they are already in Bangkok?
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I think a number of you are talking through your ars.
Paborn in a previous posting said he googled Sunee Plaza and walked there daytime
Unsure if A447 knows more about other places to the east of sunee but it does not seem he does
I am unable to download the maps but Yensabai is a 12 story condo block that looks down on the pool area of sunee, but you have no access.
There are in excess of 400 condos in Yensabai.
To reach Yensabai condos you have to WALK EAST PAST THE 2 ENTRANCES TO SUNEE
With in 50 metres of the top of soi 17, you will see the entrance to yensabai . Turn right and walk beside the large building described.
The soi leads towards the entrance of yensabai, which is opposite the office of the Austrian Consulate.
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I'm sorry, I don't get your issue. I'm very honest in not being intimate about the area and my street camera views did show me the Austrian consulate which is little more than a shop like affair.It is a "honorary consulate" serving Germany as well. Just a paper pushing shop not a diplomatic enclave. Turn by turn directions on how to reach the condo complex has nothing to do with the idea of a permit to build a casino.
All I'm saying is that this area is not Paragon or Siam Center or even any of the really upmarket areas of Pattaya. Besides, the idea that a casino is being built and there is no news, no announcements, nothing but rumours is absurd. I would be less surprised if Soi Twilight were being developed for gambling - still, I find it impossible to believe that such an expenditure was being made without a firm permit.
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Lonley, I suspect this is the former pool hall......why do you think a casino is coming more likely a mosque.....sounds like a tall tale....only Monty could have made a better story.....Lol!
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I had guessed a mosque but did not want to get shouted down by someone brining up my lack of knowledge of the area.
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Blimey so much duff gen by so many people who walked there years ago, googled it, and used street view.
1. As far as I know, the Chinese Witch doesnt own the place, she and her son are the Care takers. Condos are individually privately owned.
2. The Austrian Consulate went years ago.
3. Yes it is the former Snooker Billiard Club.
4. No one knows what its going to be Mosque, Gambling or hopefully another E Saan music place. :)
Said as someone who stays there 4/5 months a year for the last 14 years.
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"Unsure if A447 knows more about other places to the east of sunee but it does not seem he does"
You're right, I don't.
But I do know it is in splitting distance of one of the sleaziest areas in Asia.
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gerefan2
Blimey so much duff gen by so many people who walked there years ago, googled it, and used street view.
1. As far as I know, the Chinese Witch doesnt own the place, she and her son are the Care takers. Condos are individually privately owned.
2. The Austrian Consulate went years ago.
3. Yes it is the former Snooker Billiard Club.
4. No one knows what its going to be Mosque, Gambling or hopefully another E Saan music place. :)
Said as someone who stays there 4/5 months a year for the last 14 years.
Good for you! I never said I was a denizen of the area, only that I've been there and unless a huge transformation has taken place it is an unlikely spot for the first casino in Thailand. I wasn't the one who brougfht up the "consulate" so when or if it moved is a matter of indifference. Yes, I did use street view to get some feel of the place and , guess whaty, Paragon Mall it is not. Frankly, I admit I have no idea what will be built there and neither does anyone else. But, a casino??? A better snooker hall is far more likely.
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paborn
. . . But, a casino??? A better snooker hall is far more likely.
Now, the above comment had me laughing out loud, paborn. Thanks! :)
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A casino! a mosque! They're both forms of gambling just with different jackpots.
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I've heard this rumor from friends who live in the Day/Night area, and I can't imagine why they think it's possible. That location is just way too public.
On the other hand, if you have a car and tend to drive aimlessly around the Pattaya countryside, you will occasionally see a house at the end of a dead-end soi that looks like a whorehouse but is actually a gambling joint.
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Manforallseasons
Lonley, I suspect this is the former pool hall......why do you think a casino is coming more likely a mosque.....sounds like a tall tale....only Monty could have made a better story.....Lol!
I am told by people that work inside that is the plan.
Sure there are experts and people who are totally wrong.
Either a mosque or a casino is a problem if you live in Yensabai
[QUOTE=a447;But I do know it is in splitting distance of one of the sleaziest areas in Asia.[/QUOTE]
But it is interesting with all the bars disappearing something is being planned but not openly.
All those buildings will go eventually.
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Latest news it will open as a billiard hall shortly
When the casino gets licenced in Feb 2019, it can be converted within 24 hours.
The billiard tables have now been removed from Yensabai exit, ground floor.
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Thailand doesn't have casino licenses, so what the hell are you on about?
And just a hunch, but the General isn't about to open up gambling. At the very least, you're waiting for a democratically elected government again before any casino license is issued.
More than likely, it's just some idiot who believes this would be a good marketing strategy. Put out false claims that a casino is opening up soon to get people to come to a billiards hall.
It will be well after Feb 2019 before Thailand starts issuing casino licenses.
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I think issuing Casino Licences would be a grave mistake.
I hear a lot of stories about Thais being addicted to gambling without giving them more opportunities.
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cdnmatt
Thailand doesn't have casino licenses, so what the hell are you on about?
It will be well after Feb 2019 before Thailand starts issuing casino licenses.
A very committed reply from cdnmatt. But who does he speak for?
MAYBE AFTER AFTER FEB 2019 BEFORE tHAILAND STARTS ISSUING CASINO LICENCES
WHAT DOES CDNMATT KNOW AND IS NOT SHARING
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To my knowledge casinos around Asia are built in classy areas - look at Macau and Malaysia.
I can't see the wealthy Chinese gamblers wandering through the sleazy backstreets of Pattaya to get there.
If one were to be established in Pattaya, surely it would be inside an upmarket hotel.
If they can convert a billiard hall into a casino it isn't going to be a casino in the usual sense of the word - more like a gambling den.
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I was recently in pattaya. The gossip around yensabai condo is the (alleged) casino is illegal. The story is the police are the owners. It may or may not be true. The story does make for mildly interesting conversation.. for about 2 minutes.
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lonelywombat
I am told by people that work inside that is the plan.
Sure there are experts and people who are totally wrong.
Either a mosque or a casino is a problem if you live in Yensabai
Not so. As a part time resident of Yensabai, a casino operating quietly behind closed doors, for that is what it would be, is not a problem.
What would be a major problem is if it became a Mosque with all the wailing and noise at 5 or 6 a.m. That combined with the Arabs on motor bikes until 5 a.m. would make this resident move out.
Anyway I think its going to be another row of shops similar to those opened last year in Soi Yensabai (one street away).
Move along folks...nothing to see here. I hope!
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While I too think we should move on: one thing, Gerefan2 - a casino behind closed doors would be no problem -- withouit it being part of a major hotel complex your streets would be chocked with tourist buses.
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Actually, not so paborn.
The streets in that area are too narrow for tour buses. They are only just wide enough for a car!
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Lonley this is all a crock of shite move on to something you know about like "Yuppins".
Perhaps your best tale was when you posted that you had been contacted by a group of investors to find a suitable place for a gay venue in the Day Night area, Monty was alot of things but not a group, Lol.
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Well the buses and the hoards of Chinese would be somewhere. They would have to be. Still, it won't happen.
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I would have thought a boat moored in the bay a far more likely location for a casino.
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arsenal
I would have thought a boat moored in the bay a far more likely location for a casino.
A casino moored in a bay sounds like a terrible idea. Higher operating costs, logistics issues of getting people on and off the casino.
Care to shed some light on that random thought of a casino upon the bay?
This supposed casino is presumed to be illegal. An illegal casino moored in pattaya bay is absurd.
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Why are we still talking about a casino?
There is no casino coming to Thailand. At least not one the public has access to.
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Yes Kittyboy. The whole conversation is about if it's legalised. I thought everyone understood that.
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arsenal
Yes Kittyboy. The whole conversation is about if it's legalised. I thought everyone understood that.
You think wrong.
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OK. For those who thought, as Kittyboy did, that I was suggeating a huge casino boat moors itself in Pattaya Bay and takes to fleecing the Chinese. I meant to say if it's legalised that's a likely location.
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arsenal
OK. For those who thought, as Kittyboy did, that I was suggeating a huge casino boat moors itself in Pattaya Bay and takes to fleecing the Chinese. I meant to say if it's legalised that's a likely location.
Stupid people generally assume other people can read their simple minds. I am glad you realized that and clarified you position.
However, even a legal casino moored in the middle is the bay is stupid. High costs and terrible logistics. Bad thinking again .
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Haha. Stop trolling me. Naughty kittybaby.
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arsenal
Haha. Stop trolling me. Naughty kittybaby.
I am publicly questioning your intelligence.
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Kittybaby wrote.
"However, even a legal casino moored in the middle is the bay is stupid. High costs and terrible logistics. Bad thinking again ."
Have you noticed the several large restaurant boats moored in Pattaya Bay? And the hundreds of coaches taking people to Bali Hai pier to go to those restaurants.
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arsenal
Kittybaby wrote.
"However, even a legal casino moored in the middle is the bay is stupid. High costs and terrible logistics. Bad thinking again ."
Have you noticed the several large restaurant boats moored in Pattaya Bay? And the hundreds of coaches taking people to Bali Hai pier to go to those restaurants.
So you have no intelligent response except that there are high end restaurants in the bay ergo a casino would do well there. That is really a stupid assertion.
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Yes it is. My apologies to any potential casino owners who considered the absurd idea.