Pattaya officials make arrests at three hotels operating without licences

[webfact 78,257]

Pattaya officials make arrests at three hotels operating without licences

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

Sophon Cable TV reported on Facebook that a contingent of Bang Lamung officials along with protection services and the tourist police raided four hotels in the Pattaya area. 

 

Three establishments were found to be offering daily rental without licences. 

 

Sophon said that the state wanted to be able to check guests and the possibility that illegal migrants or foreign criminals were using the hotels. This they could not do if they were not legally registered as hotels. 

 

None of the places was named. 

 

Picture: Sophon Cable

 

But arrests were made and prison terms of one year and fines of 20,000 baht can be given along with fines of 10,000 baht per day against the owners while the establishments remain unregistered. 

 

Thai posters on the Sophon site questioned how the places could open in the first instance with the inference that back-handers were paid to facilitate this. 

 

Source: Sophon Cable

 

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[colinneil 73,993]

Once again somebody forgot the brown envelopes.

[KittenKong 15,881]

31 minutes ago, webfact said:

None of the places was named. 

Not too hard to identify the one with its name on the wall in the photo.

[Vacuum 14,704]

55 minutes ago, webfact said:

Sophon said that the state wanted to be able to check guests and the possibility that illegal migrants or foreign criminals

Is this not what Immigration should do before foreigners are allowed to enter Thailand? Why wait until they check in to a hotel?

[LucysDad 455]

43 minutes ago, KittenKong said:

Not too hard to identify the one with its name on the wall in the photo.

 

 

One down, two to go........ well done Sherlock..

 

 

But would you have got it from this ?..............

 

[Chelseafan 4,420]

Where is the Ta93ht ?

 

[ratcatcher 29,615]

51 minutes ago, Chelseafan said:

Where is the Ta93ht ?

 

[KenKadz 384]

Surprise, Surprise, someone finally checking licenses.

If licenses of hotels, bars, massage parlors, eateries, etc. were entered into computer database systems and checked all year long the city might find a whole new source of revenue.

[KhunBENQ 15,437]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

None of the places was named.

No names please.

Just that you can easily read one of the names on the photo

A fairly new built/renovated place on Jomtien beach.

And of course on all major booking sites.

 

Again and again posters claim that they don't need to show passport at check-in.

And I tell you again and again that this is fishy.

[Benmart 5,364]

Police: Come to any of the upscale condos on Naklua Soi 16, Wongamat. All have AirBnB ads for short term rentals. Scores of "short-timers" flopping down for a day/ week at a time in my 43 story complex. All the fancy signs here recently displayed have little effect.

[Chrisswe 216]

36 minutes ago, Benmart said:

Police: Come to any of the upscale condos on Naklua Soi 16, Wongamat. All have AirBnB ads for short term rentals. Scores of "short-timers" flopping down for a day/ week at a time in my 43 story complex. All the fancy signs here recently displayed have little effect.

Yes and they run the condos as hotel with full ABF 100% short term renting now rare common in Khao Yai !!!

[moe666 5,538]

1 hour ago, KenKadz said:

Surprise, Surprise, someone finally checking licenses.

If licenses of hotels, bars, massage parlors, eateries, etc. were entered into computer database systems and checked all year long the city might find a whole new source of revenue.

This has been on going for over a year Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Bangkok nothing new

[Ulic 5,793]

The question I have is, are the hotels not registered because of construction/design shortcomings, because it is some business tax dodge, because you have to pay millions of baht in tea money to a government official to get the registration approved. What is the real reason? Surely it is not because the hotel owners are too lazy to register them. 

[Chelseafan 4,420]

4 hours ago, KenKadz said:

Surprise, Surprise, someone finally checking licenses.

If licenses of hotels, bars, massage parlors, eateries, etc. were entered into computer database systems and checked all year long the city might find a whole new source of revenue.

And cars, bikes, vans, land.....

[fforest1 5,612]

2 hours ago, Ulic said:

The question I have is, are the hotels not registered because of construction/design shortcomings, because it is some business tax dodge, because you have to pay millions of baht in tea money to a government official to get the registration approved. What is the real reason? Surely it is not because the hotel owners are too lazy to register them. 

The requirements that need to be met to get a hotel licence are huge....Only a handful of 5 star hotels can meet the requirements........About 6 months after the crackdown had started only about 15 hotels in Pattaya had a hotel licence...

The licence has nothing to with any thing except to put the little guy out of business so the big guys get fatter......