News Forum - Phuket ‘ready’ to open nightclubs until 4am

[Thaiger]

The Phuket Tourism Association is pushing for later closing times in nightclubs. Entertainment venues in Phuket, southern Thailand, are “ready” to open until 4am, according to Chairman of the Phuket Tourism Association Thanet Tanipirayakit. The association hopes to extend closing times of entertainment venues on Patong beach’s Bangla Road from 2am to 4am in a Phuket Sandbox-style pilot scheme. Thanet says that Bangla Road, a Walking Street, is full of bars and entertainment venues whose management all agree that opening later would benefit them. If the project is a roaring success for Phuket’s tourism industry, then the Thai government could consider […]

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[Pinga]

I was gonna say "stop talking about it and do it already", but they already do anyway - in Phuket. Bangkok is still in the dark ages of closing major, safe clubs at 1:45 while underground fire hazards pick up the slack afterwards. Stop putting patrons lives at risk and open late already!