Bars to Open on December 1st ???

[Gaybutton]

Only four areas in Thailand (coded blue) will have alcohol bans lifted and Pattaya isn't one of them.

Let's see - the Pattaya bars can open December 1, but can't serve alcohol? Really?

If they actually do this, is anyone having any trouble figuring out the next item to be placed on my "I Don't Get It" list?

I don't suppose there was any word on why the alcohol ban won't be lifted, was there - or when it will be lifted?

If it actually does happen this way - I would think every bar owner in all of Pattaya plus their employees will be raising holy hell.

I find it very difficult to believe this really is going to happen. It makes no sense. In my opinion, from among the most incredibly inexplicable decisions I've ever seen Thailand make, this one would definitely have a place in the top ten.

[Nirish guy]

Let's see - the Pattaya bars can open December 1, but can't serve alcohol? Really?.

Perhaps we're all missing the point and the Thai government aren't so daft after all as perhaps they're working off that well trotted out "fact"? that there's MUCH more profit on soft drinks than there is on alcohol and in fact bar owners would and should be delighted if we were all sitting drinking nothing but Coke all night ( personally I doubt that whole more profit thing and who wants to drink 6 pints of coke on a night out .....but still)

So MAYBE this is their serious attempt at quickly and vastly increasing the profits in all of the tills in the bars they had to close right across Thailand !
( note my tongue is firmly lodged in my cheek as I type this as the phrase piss up and brewery and couldn't organise comes to mind quicker perhaps )