Smashing their own windows as Pattaya bars raise prices and lose customers

Smashing their own windows as Pattaya bars raise prices and lose customers

Bar staff sit waiting for customers along Pattaya’s nightlife strip, highlighting growing concerns that rising prices and bar fines are driving visitors to Bangkok instead. (Photo by Jetsada Homklin) PATTAYA, Thailand – Pattaya’s nightlife has always lived and died by volume. When the rooms are full and the streets are busy, prices feel tolerable and business flows. But as foot traffic thins and spending power tightens, a familiar and self-defea…