Dongtan Beach - before & after.

[biguyby]

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.

[vinapu]

somebody in charge clearly doesn't like trees and shade

[Guest]

The authorities have completely lost the plot. They are ruining the beach area.

[worldatlarge]

Lovely sunburns we will get.

This was really not thought through

[Guest frequentflier]

sad to see this happen.Really trying to kill off tourism.

[santosh108]

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!!?? 

[Guest DThump]

Wow! The new beach rendering looks great.

[vinapu]

Wow! The new beach rendering looks great.

good for you! Happy sunburns !

[ggobkk]

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.

[Alexx]

Sad, really.

[reader]

I'm inclined to say TIT but somehow that falls short.  There must be a lucrative business in destroying what nature has bestowed.

[a447a]

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??

[vinapu]

first photo are things to come , second one is what it is now / or was recently /

[worldatlarge]

Unless the trees were infested with bugs and dying it is not helping with the climate. They should worry with higher sea levels

[Guest DThump]

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!

[a447a]

first photo are things to come , second one is what it is now / or was recently /

Oh, I see.

 

What a disaster.

[biguyby]

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.

[biguyby]

I have no idea why the first photo has ended up sideways?

[steveboy]

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?

[santosh108]

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!?

[vinapu]

I have no idea why the first photo has ended up sideways?

perhaps to align with such stupid idea of uprooting all those trees

[Boy69]

They turn a lovely spacious beach to a narrow ugly one same as the beaches at central Pattaya.

[vinapu]

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

[Alexx]

vinapu, I think it's fair to say that the TAT probably won't choose your photo to promote Pattaya.

[biguyby]

hopefully not,

 

picture of Pattaya beach taken in the morning 1 week ago

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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.