Closure of Pattaya set to begin on Thursday 9 April

[johng 17,135]

4 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

 

That big guy with the bald head and white mask on his mouth ( not nose)  was still there at about 5.30 pm

there where still Russians waiting at 6.30PM when I left !!!!!

PS also recognise the guy on phone with blue folder and woman with white jeans both also still there till late

total mayhem.

Edited April 7, 2020 by johng

[kevinsan 186]

Can we still buy food at Big C, Macro etc?

[Chazar 8,650]

6 hours ago, Jonathan Fairfield said:

and trips to immigration to be permitted.

Such  good  news, Thanks  , thanks and THANKS again

[fforest1 5,612]

2 hours ago, Chazar said:

Such  good  news, Thanks  , thanks and THANKS again

lol......No restrictions on immigration lines...

[gamesgplayemail 510]

can someone explain please ?

the railway road will be closed ?

when living at Pattaya we can only drive along Sukhumvit from motorway to NA JOMTIEN (ambassador hotel) ?

people from Pattaya center cannot go to dark side / Maprachan lake ?

 

[timendres 6,821]

11 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

Kindly explain your rather stupid comment 

Any why would I bother?

[samsensam 8,155]

 

stay inside, stay safe. good advice wherever you are.

[Ron jeremy 2,281]

14 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought it was to keep out those dirty foreigners

 

They are already there and have been for years. Perhaps to keep the lowlifes away?

forget it, too late!

But the government has things under control????

few deaths, few cases, why the lockdown, surely everything is u dear control???

it sure looks under control at the immigration! 

Edited April 7, 2020 by Ron jeremy

[oneorenone 5]

13 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

 

How ironic, Thais call us dirty Farlang while they force us to stand in immigration lines for hours putting us and their own people at high risk.. 

[Kerryd 9,469]

If you LOOK at the map you can see that there are still a number of routes from the "darkside" into Pattaya. Nern Plurb Wan, Boonsamphan and Khao Talo are all within the checkpoints, not to mention a number of the smaller "shortcut" sois that wind through those areas.

Sukhumvit (north and south) will be closed on the outskirts of Pattaya (*1 - at the Highway 36 intersection in the north and *5 - around Central Jomtien where the railway bypass road starts). Google maps says it is Tesabal Road 1. On the East side of Sukhumvit it's called Rural Road 1096 and on the West side it is Na Jomtien 6.
As well, they will be controlling access from *2- Highway 7, *3- Soi Siam Country Club and *4- Soi Chaiyapruek.

That leaves a lot of ways to get to "Pattaya". Take Nern Plurb Wan to Sukhumvit, cross over quickly and turn into Central Pattaya Road.
Take Boonsamphan to Sukhumvit, take a U-Turn to go back to Central Road or keep going to South Pattaya Road.
Take Khao Talo to Sukhumvit, go left and take the U-Turn just past Makro, or cross over quickly and go right to Tesco, or make the right turn and go to Big C - South Pattaya (or wherever).

To me, it appears that they deliberately left those openings along the bypass road just so the people on the darkside could still get into Pattaya. Otherwise they could have simply blocked all the routes along the bypass (there aren't that many of them) and stopped anyone from crossing the railway at all.
Note that Makro opens at 6:00
Tesco and Big C are open at 10:00
Not sure if Foodland and Friendship have changed their hours.

On the Darkside, aside from the Chill (Tops supermarket) on soi Khao Noi, there is a Tesco market (not big but larger that the average "mini mart" type shops) just up Soi Chaiyapruek from the railway bypass intersection.
Siamburi (just off soi Khao Talo) also has some foreign foods and a fair bit of frozen stuff. Not sure if they are still open (or what the hours are). I suspect they'll run out faster than the big shops though.
 

Edited April 8, 2020 by Kerryd
location clarification

[thailand49 2,476]

16 hours ago, doctormann said:

Looks as though us folks on the east side of the railway may be going hungry!  The only supermarket of any size on the Darkside is 'The Chill' on Khao Noi.  We have quite a few convenience stores but all the large supermarkets are to the west of Sukhumvit.

 

You can't be buying so much that you really need to go into town. There are a number of stores in between 7/11 and the big chains more than necessary to get by.  There is the larger lotus on Sukhumvit behind Num Chai, number of Mini big C's and Lotus on Nernpludwan and Soi Siam, then you got the new Thai supermarket called CJ, then the often forgotten new market Friendship? on the left side when you come off Hwy 7, just before you get to Soi Siam the old Index location go all the way to the back is the market unless you know how to get to it from the back.

 

From the map, and the checkpoints outline there are a number of holes in between if you know Pattaya you can get to Makro and Lotus from the Darkside.

 

Edited April 8, 2020 by thailand49

[mikebell 13,693]

17 hours ago, doctormann said:

Looks as though us folks on the east side of the railway may be going hungry! 

We are still residents of Pattaya so should be allowed thro'?

[atyclb 6,536]

18 hours ago, luckyluke said:

I suppose/hope supply from outside Pattaya will still be allowed.

 

consultants from thaifriendly have waivers

[jacko45k 17,786]

25 minutes ago, mikebell said:

We are still residents of Pattaya so should be allowed thro'?

Not Nongprue rather than Pattaya City? I don't like the idea of being cut off from the supermarkets I normally use, the banks nor the pharmacy. And my Mrs says she still wants to go to the Naklua market. I am betting this won't be that strict.

[Central Pattaya 38]

This is going to be bliss.

 

No more Darksiders who I never really considered as being one of us, mostly an odd reclusive bunch, there's plenty of food outlets over there we don't need unnecessary traffic and contagious outsiders in our city, please stay in bandit country.

 

No more Bangkokians I sick of seeing Bangkok license plates clogging up our roads with extremely poor road etiquette.

 

And what with the Chinese flag waving sheep now at an all time low along with the Indians that used to walk down the middle of the sois like they was in Mumbai at last we can have our great city back.

 

Feed the poor, help the sick this is our city please stay away until further notice.