Hua Hin’s Vana Nava themed water park is currently offering a money saving day pass. The price of an adult day pass includes unlimited use of the scintillating rides, chutes and pools, a voucher for lunch and a drink, a towel and locker rental.
The Vietnamese Civil Aviation Authority has given the green light for a proposal to build a new terminal at Cat Bi Airport. The new terminal will enable the northern Hai Phong Province facility to expand and accommodate projected annual passenger numbers of eight million by 2025.
People travelling between Vietnam and Myanmar will have an additional option once Vietjet inaugurates a new route in August. The Hanoi based budget carrier is set to launch daily flights between Hanoi and Myanmar’s former capital city of Yangon on the 31st of the month.
The inaugural Bangkok Midnight Marathon is scheduled to take place this Saturday. The first runners in the 42km full marathon will set off from the city’s landmark Rama VIII Bridge at one minute to midnight on Saturday evening.
Thailand’s National Parks Department has announced the closure of marine parks along the southern Andaman Sea coastline. The ban on swimming, snorkelling and diving in the parks is effective from today and will last until the 15 October 2017.
Friday sees the start of one of Thailand’s quirkier annual happenings, the Phetchaburi Sea Mud Festival. The Tourism Authority of Thailand has confirmed the three-day fest is set to go ahead as planned and there will be plenty of activities associated with mud to keep all comers happy.
A taxi driver in the Vietnamese hill resort town of Dalat has been banned from driving for overcharging tourists. Lam Dong Province Transport Bureau disqualified the cheating cabbie from driving for two months for charging two Israelis more than ten times the going rate for a three kilometre trip.
A spokesperson for the Japan International Cooperation Agency says a delayed viability study for a Phnom Penh skytrain will now begin in August. JICA Cambodia program-officer Chin Kimheang told reporters recent talks between senior ministers meant the feasibility study was now back on the agenda.
Owing to high demand, the promoters of Britney Spears forthcoming Bangkok concert have added an extra date. The US singing icon was due to appear at the city’s Muang Thong Thani Centre only on Saturday 24 June 2017, but will now perform the evening before as well.
Tomorrow sees the start of a programme of cultural shows on a central boulevard in Ho Chi Minh City. Nguyen Hue Street is the venue for performances of dance, music, theatre and circus acts scheduled to take place on Saturdays and Sundays.
The Thai Transport Ministry has given the green light to a proposal to set up two microbus routes to Bangkok. The services will utilise larger 20-person buses than the fleet of passenger vans currently on the streets of the capital.
Maritime authorities in southern Krabi Province have cautioned tourists that it is against the law to take coral and clam shells from national parks. The director of the Krabi regional office of the Thai Marine and Coastal Resources Department says any violators face arrest and fines.
The Bangkok Mass Transit Authority says two new bus routes from the city’s Don Mueang Airport have proved a hit with passengers. BMTA director Chitchai Phuaree said Don Mueang routes A3 and A4 had each attracted more than 2,000 passengers a day in their first five days of operation.
Vietnam’s Da Nang Airport officially inaugurated a brand new passenger building on Tuesday. A spokesperson said that passengers arriving at and departing from the airport on either Vietnam Airlines or Jetstar Pacific flights would now use Terminal 2.
The director of the Bangkok Mass Transit Authority (BMTA) says the planned installation of electronic ticket machines on the city’s buses has been derailed. Somsak Hommuang told reporters on Friday the contract needed revising so it included maintenance services for the equipment.
Thai AirAsia has just announced it will increase flight frequencies between Bangkok and Penang. The new schedule will see two flights a day provide extra choices for people travelling between the Thai capital and the popular Malaysian resort island.
The eagerly awaited Borneo Jazz Festival is due to wow fans of the music genre at a Sarawak hotel later this week. An eclectic line-up of jazz artistes will take to the stage at this open air fest in the grounds of the ParkCity Everly Hotel in the town of Miri.
The management foundation in charge of issuing entry tickets for the Angkor temples says both visitor numbers and income have risen dramatically this year. Angkor Enterprise noted that although ticket prices increased on 1 February, the number of people visiting Cambodia’s best known attraction has climbed too.
Myanmar’s tourist division has announced a proposal to start collecting tax from tourists for every day they spend in-country. The chairperson of the Myanmar Tourism Federation told reporters that a US$1 surcharge would be added to room rates at resorts, hotels and guest houses.
Thailand’s Meteorological Department yesterday warned that storms are expected to pummel parts of the North and Northeastern regions of the country. The weathermen say the freak storms which began earlier this week will continue through the weekend.