June 19, 20179 yr Dongtan Beach as we have known and loved it has gone forever. Before photo attached and preview picture of what is to come. I know which I prefer.
June 20, 20179 yr This is so hard to believe!! I was just there in March and really enjoyed walking along the curved colored stone path under the palm trees in back of the beach chairs. It seems like a sick joke to have us walk out in the sun on a wide open characterless walkway!!??
June 20, 20179 yr I visited two weeks ago and the noise from the tree removal and the trucks coming and going was enough to drive me away. As the old growth trees were cut up, trucks with palm trees for planting were arriving. I gave up on beach time and went for a Thai massage at the blind Institute.
June 20, 20179 yr I'm inclined to say TIT but somehow that falls short. There must be a lucrative business in destroying what nature has bestowed.
June 20, 20179 yr Am I missing something here? The first photo shows an uncovered walkway along the beach. The second photo shows the walkway now protected from the sun by some beautiful palm trees, Are some people saying they prefer the first picture??
June 20, 20179 yr Unless the trees were infested with bugs and dying it is not helping with the climate. They should worry with higher sea levels
June 20, 20179 yr The topic is really the gay beach, one should consider the beach not what it was years back but as it is now......No boys work the beach anymore and 4 or 5 old fat falangs getting a rubdown does not a gay beach make!
June 20, 20179 yr first photo are things to come , second one is what it is now / or was recently / Oh, I see. What a disaster.
September 26, 20178 yr Author An update on the Dongtan Beach "improvements" First photo taken on Sunday 24 September just past the first toilet block (which remains closed) The second photo taken last year from a similar position I personally do not regard the change as an improvement.
September 27, 20178 yr I have no idea why the first photo has ended up sideways? I agree, the "after" photo looks horrible, and not because it is sideways. What in heavens did they have in mind?
September 27, 20178 yr Maybe, hopefully, they are planning to replace those lovely palm trees they seemed to have removed with nice new ones in each of those holes on the ocean side of the new walkway!?
September 27, 20178 yr I have no idea why the first photo has ended up sideways? perhaps to align with such stupid idea of uprooting all those trees
September 27, 20178 yr They turn a lovely spacious beach to a narrow ugly one same as the beaches at central Pattaya.
September 27, 20178 yr They turn a lovely spacious beach to a narrow ugly one same as the beaches at central Pattaya. hopefully not, picture of Pattaya beach taken in the morning 1 week ago
September 27, 20178 yr vinapu, I think it's fair to say that the TAT probably won't choose your photo to promote Pattaya.
September 27, 20178 yr Author hopefully not, picture of Pattaya beach taken in the morning 1 week ago MEMO0013.JPG Dongtan Beach is also left in a filthy state on the days when the Deck Chair concessionaires are not allowed on the beach. Ironic really as the original Wednesday closing was labelled as a clean up day.
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