Phuket tourists better stop splashing water, or else – PM Prayut

Some splash-happy tourists, and probably a few locals, in Phuket obviously didn’t get all the “dry Songkran” memos. Reports of foreign tourists splashing water in and around some of Thailand’s tourist hotspots these past two days has drawn the ire of Thailand’s PM Prayut Chan-o-cha.

In the case of Phuket, and specifically Bangla Road, the local walking street, the PM called on the governor of Phuket to make sure tourists there are familiar with the rules — i.e. a nationwide ban on water splashing this year.

On Wednesday, provincial authorities directed local Covid command units in three districts to enforce the nation’s water splashing ban, according to Phuket deputy governor Anupab Yodrabam, who expressed confidence that what happened at the beach in Bangla Road won’t happened again.

On Tuesday night (Songkran Eve), both foreign and Thai tourists were spotted…