Public Holidays For 2552

[PigDogg]

Note these are not the same as when bars close. Think these are when government offices close.

Note: Loy Krathong is very early this year, Nov 2.


January 1st (Thu) New Year's Day
January 2nd (Fri) New Year's Day (added holiday)
January 26th (Mon) Chinese New Year (not a public holiday, but some businesses close)
February 9th (Mon) Makha Bucha
April 6th (Mon) Chakri Day
April 13th (Mon) Songkran
April 14th (Tue) Songkran
April 15th (Wed) Songkran
May 1st (Fri) Labour Day
May 5th (Tue) Coronation Day
May 8th (Fri) Visakha Bucha
July 1st (Wed) Mid Year Bank Holiday
July 7th (Tue) Asanha Bucha
July 8th (Wed) Khao Phansa - Beginning of Buddhist Lent
August 12th (Wed) H.M. the Queen's Birthday; Mother's Day
October 4th (Sat) Awk Phansa Day - End of Buddhist Lent
October 23rd (Fri) Chulalongkorn Day
November 2nd (Mon) Loy Krathong (not a public holiday)
December 5th (Sat) H.M. the King's Birthday
December 7th (Mon) Substitution Day For the King's Birthday
December 10th (Thu) Constitution Day
December 31st (Thu) New Year 's Eve

[Stogie]

Pinned for future reference! Thanks, PD...

[Road Runner]

Anyone notice that as soon as they got into power the new government made the 2nd January a holiday.
Everyone had already written it off as a holiday anyway so why bother?

Perhaps they were just trying to be nice.

RR.

[Snick]

they ALWAYS do that, every year I have been here they have added 1,2 sometimes 5 extra holidays -- TIT

[johnlbx]

Are the bars still likely to be closed on Jan 10 for elections? I ask because maybe the airport fiasco and resulting changing of the guard might have caused the election day to change. I know it's unlikely but I've only got one evening in Bangkok (Jan 10) and I'm hoping that things will be open (for once, I had very bad luck on my visits during 2008).

[petesie]

I had some bad luck in LoS in 2008 too........stuck there for an extra 11 days due to the airport fiasco.........woohooo

[Ivor Biggun]

I wondr how many closings we will get for 'erections' this year?

[Snick]

I'm going to go out on a limb here, but it looks like this government has gotten a firm standing recently, and we might not have any more elections this year.....but if I'm wrong I plead TIT

[Stogie]

There's a Mardi Gras parade on the 23rd of Jan in Pattaya...

[bigmick22]

(Stogie @ Jan. 20 2009,05:34) There's a Mardi Gras parade on  the 23rd of Jan in Pattaya...

Mardhi Gras?

[BAM]

(bigmick22 @ Jan. 20 2009,17:59)

(Stogie @ Jan. 20 2009,05:34) There's a Mardi Gras parade on  the 23rd of Jan in Pattaya...

Mardhi Gras?

Yeah even Kiss will be there!

[EyeMahk]

(PigDogg @ Jan. 01 2009,16:42) July 7th (Tue) Asanha Bucha
July 8th (Wed) Khao Phansa - Beginning of Buddhist Lent

Anyone know if bars closed on these days?  Thinking of sneaking in for a visit.  

Edit:  This is from a Pattaya newspaper last year, so maybe this will be variable based on location:

Buddhist holidays
On Asanha Bucha and Buddhist Lent usually bars have to remain closed, but the bar owners are still waiting for an official notice...

[Snick]

ask me on the 9th

There really is no way of knowing, "enforcement" is so random these days.
They are Buddhist holidays so its certainly possible, lately Bangkok has been more lax and Phuket more strict. Pattaya somewhere in the middle.

Bar owners are usually informed the day before.

[EyeMahk]

Any update on bar closings for July 7 and 8 ?? I will be there ...picked a great time to visit, huh?

[PigDogg]

Secrets, a straight Pattaya bar, received a letter stating that they could stay open with "limited service".  However, they decided to close the bar for those two days instead.