News Forum - Thailand News Today | Afternoon alcohol sale ban to be lifted

[Thaiger]

https://youtu.be/bzMTjdgV7GY   According to Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, restaurants and tourist attractions may also sell alcohol during this time, at the provincial governors’ discretion. Phiphat stressed that lifting the ban could hugely boost Thailand’s tourism industry who have been bewildered by the 2 – 5pm ‘ban’ for many decades. The afternoon booze ban has confused both Thais and foreigners forever and explanations for the ban have been many, but not necessarily historically accurate. Suffice to say, depending on who you talk to, you will get many explanations, including from the officials and police who have overseen the ban […]

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[Loong]

In over 20 years in Thailand I have never found a restaurant or bar that stops serving alcohol between 2 and 5 pm.

Same goes with hotels, but I don't stay in hotels often.

[Outsider]

10 hours ago, Loong said:

In over 20 years in Thailand I have never found a restaurant or bar that stops serving alcohol between 2 and 5 pm.

Same goes with hotels, but I don't stay in hotels often.

Maybe so but....at an undisclosed cost? At least that aspect will be also "lifted".

[alex12345]

to quote the article "continues to be the excuse by utilities suppliers to raise energy prices." even you don't believe it either.

Other news articles yesterday said this war may rage for years, meanwhile in the Ukraine literally a week ago tourists were relaxing at a riverside beach in the Ukrainian capital and yesterday they reopened some opera house and had a show.

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Edited June 20, 2022 by KaptainRob
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[Cabra]

Regardless of if the rules are followed or enforced, it's good to now see messaging from the government that the rules are now going away. It's a psychological thing.