With Bali Hai Pier busier than ever, its shortage of public toilets has become a crisis.
More people use the South Pattaya pier than ever now that speedboats have been consolidated there, instead of loading all their passengers from Pattaya Beach. But the order to increase passengers at the pier was issued without proper foresight on planning about restroom facilities.
Complaints grew after news circulated that there are brand-new, never-used public restrooms in the Bali Hai Service Center, a white elephant of a building built for the International Fleet Show in 2017 and never opened.
City hall still hasn’t opened those facilities and, instead, has brought in mobile toilet buses to serve tourists. None are accessible to the disabled.
Deputy Mayor Ronakit Ekasingh claimed the Service Center is still under construction but said Mayor Sonthaya Kunplome has ordered it to be opened as soon as possible.
Offices there will be allocated to the Marine Department, Marine Police and the Tourism Authority of Thailand as well as medical teams. Extra space will be offered for the public to rent.
He added that there are discussions underway about building new, permanent restrooms for Bali Hai.
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