News Forum - Officials bust Patong hookah venue over violations

[Thaiger]

Officials busted a Patong hookah venue on Friday night following complaints. The raid at Crystal Club on Bangla Road was ordered by Phuket Governor Narong, along with other officials. During the raid at around 11.30pm, officials seized a total of 52 hookah sets along with shisha and other equipment, and handed it to police, The …

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[Ramanathan.P]

Hookah and Shisha are Middle East and Northern African culture.....basically it is easy to guess who the patrons are in that club at that time....

[Huckster]

Literally every big club on Bangla road offers hookah, they must have pissed somebody off (or didnt pay in time).

[Pinga]

What a joke - you can't walk 2 meters in Patong without choking on someone's shisha smoke. Every club openly offers them and there are zero no-smoking areas. The clubs only care about money and couldn't give less of a **** about patrons' health.

[JamesR]

4 hours ago, Huckster said:

Literally every big club on Bangla road offers hookah, they must have pissed somebody off (or didnt pay in time).

Meanwhile the real "hookahs", went about their business in the normal way and were completely ignored by the police. 

[Vigo]

4 hours ago, Pinga said:

What a joke - you can't walk 2 meters in Patong without choking on someone's shisha smoke. Every club openly offers them and there are zero no-smoking areas. The clubs only care about money and couldn't give less of a **** about patrons' health.

I don't care about the shisha smokers health.

If you ware truly concerned about health and safety, you shouldn't be  visiting these clubs. How many of them respect basic fire and safety guidelines? You are right, the clubs only care about money.  There are expensive leases to pay, to the big 5 and of course protection money to pay to the local group.

[HiuMak]

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