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Jarodtaz
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Hi there. I am enquiring about a new soapy that was being built last year. The location of this building is just around the corner from Colonze 2. It is perhaps a block from the Robinson on the main road. I am not sure if any of the brothers here know which one I am talking about. I think it is a soapy as it has the basic characteristic. Big but not high-rise big eneough to make it a hotel. Any info is very appretiated. I am planning to go back to LOS next April and would like to re acqaunint mysel with the scene.
Cheers!
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:36 am on Nov. 22, 2005
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Tengotodo
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I'll check in out this December. Can you give me specificss? -Pat
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 6:52 pm on Nov. 22, 2005
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Packripper
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The building itself is about all you'll be able to checkout.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Sexy Bangkok Girls
Posted on: 7:50 am on Nov. 23, 2005
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didiriese
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there are zoning issues which exist regarding Elina which have prevented it from opening. A shame since it was to be the biggest in size of soapies establishments.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 8:26 pm on Nov. 23, 2005
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hkguy
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No one know it can open or not, because now the goverment said that was too close to the school. They are still fighting on it!
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Bangkok Women : Meet Beautiful Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:35 am on Nov. 24, 2005
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nyc boy
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I also was anticipating the opening of Elina... but yes its true... too close to a school... the whistle-blower is none other than (now cleaned and in politics) Chuwit....
here's a news clip from the Nation:
Parlour permit rubs folks the wrong way
The Nation
Publication Date : 2005-09-13
For a city like Bangkok, where sex is a thriving business, the fuss about a new massage parlour springing up in the middle of an entertainment strip may sound hypocritical.
After all, what difference could one more massage parlour make? Bangkok’s image as a “sex city” is not going to worsen because of one more addition to its sex industry, is it?
And by the way, look who the whistle-blower is: MP Chuwit Kamolvisit, once Bangkok’s renowned “massage-parlour king”. He has single-handedly pushed the scandal onto the front pages of the leading national dailies.
This may sound ironic, but sometimes you need a thief to catch a thief. It doesn’t even matter what his real motive was.
And no matter what the cynics have to say about Bangkok’s mess, if, for once, people are up in arms against what they see as a potential threat to public morality, shouldn’t everyone have a say in it?
At the centre of the storm is the decision by a police appeal committee to grant a licence to the Elina Massage Parlour on Ratchadaphisek Road, that Chuwit described as “the mother of all massage parlours”, because of its gigantic size. The decision reversed an earlier ruling by another police panel that claimed there were already too many adult entertainment places in the area.
The uproar was touched off by the fact that Elina’s licence was the first to be issued by the police in more than 27 years. The government of General Prem Tinsulanonda ordered a freeze on new massage-parlour licences, out of concern about the effects such places might have on public morality.
It’s no secret that “massage parlours” are simply a front for sex services, essentially legalised brothels.
Even in the absence of new licences, Bangkok has never been short of new massage parlours, thanks to the recycling of old permits. Ratchadaphisek Road, officially designated an entertainment zone, can probably boast the largest concentration of them in all of Southeast Asia.
But what really shines the spotlight on the Elina case is its proximity to a high school just cross the street.
The appeal committee seems to have had no qualms about the thought of hundreds of students walking right past the massage parlour every morning and evening. Even protests by teachers and parents were drowned out by arguments that the massage parlour had every legal right to be there.
Lt-General Thawatchai Julsukhon, the deputy police chief who headed the panel, appeared nonchalant about criticism that by approving the permit, the police were simply making their duty to protect and serve the public secondary to local business interests.
And it apparently hasn’t dawned on him and the other panel members that the businesses they are serving will have a negative influence on the very children and teenagers they are supposed to be protecting from vice.
Even the Basic Education Commission has demanded a review of the decision, insisting the massage parlour in question stands directly opposite Triam-udom Suksa Pattanakarn Ratchadaphisek campus, in defiance of an Interior Ministry regulation requiring massage parlours to be located at least 500 metres from schools.
The panel members, therefore, face some hard questions. Why did they make an exception for Elina? Doesn’t Bangkok already have enough massage parlours? And why did the interests of the massage-parlour owner take precedence over the concerns of teachers and parents?
It’s rather intriguing to know that not one police officer sitting on the panel gave the question of morality a thought. The vote in favour of the permit was 7-0 and based purely on technical grounds.
Was it because Ratchadaphisek Road is part of an entertainment zone and therefore anything goes? Even sacrificing the interests’ of schoolchildren?
Bangkok MP Chuwit touched a raw nerve by hinting that some police officers might have gained financially by the permit being approved, definitely something that cannot be discounted in a city where law-enforcement personnel often make their fortunes through collusion with law-breakers.
It must be extremely difficult for any layman to understand why, by its owner’s account, Bt300 million (US$7.3 million) had been invested in building Elina long even before a permit was granted.
Now, only the Interior Ministry has the power to block the decision. But so far, nobody has said where the ministry stands.
Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra suggested during his weekly press conference that his government was against any business considered “detrimental” to society, but he stopped short of saying whether he would intervene in the Elina case.
Well, one doesn’t need to be a great leader to know how “detrimental” a massage parlour can be to schoolchildren just across the street.
The teachers and parents of these particular students are waiting for Thaksin to live up to his words.
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Bangkok Girls : Meet Attractive Thai Girls
Posted on: 9:24 pm on Nov. 28, 2005
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jack attack
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I believe there is a new soapie on Rama 9 next to what used to be DaVinci club. Looks small and I don't know the name... anyone seen this or been there?
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Thai Girls : Meet Active Thai Girls
Posted on: 11:23 pm on Jan. 6, 2008
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Packripper
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Yeah, on Rama IX there's ChaiLai -which means dangerous flowers- Arb Ob Nuad -massage parlour-. Haven't been by yet. From the sign, it looks kind of low end. The gent's club that was there before 'Gio" was also of the low end variety. I'm assuming it's the same ownership, as the Gio folks also owned the building.
Will stop by eventually for research sake, but it's been *hard* to because I usually just drive on and go to the nearby ever reliable Emmanuelle or the ever borderline legal Catherine.
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Thai Women : Meet Matured Thai Women
Posted on: 3:41 pm on Jan. 7, 2008
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