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So its definite: the Covid virus only comes out at night, so its OK to hang around bars and restaurants during the day, but everything will close at 8pm. As if the poor owners didnt have enough to contend with - no tourists, roadworks everywhere - and the cops will be hauling people off the streets after 8pm, to be released after paying exorbitant fines (you want receipt or not?). Fun times for khmer New Year.

I don't think anyone can be surprised. Khmer New Year is coming and they want to prevent as many mass gatherings as possible. With the large numbers yesterday in PP and the # of people being caught leaving PP for home province, the authorities have limited options. If anything I think its just to reinforce with people in PP not to be heading to Siem Reap for KNY.

I don't see many people at any restaurants when I head out to the grocery store.

lagrange wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:33 pm the Covid virus only comes out at night

What an intelligent little virus it is!

It even knows to enter small businesses yet stay out of big ones.

Is it legal to lock everyone in the pub at 8pm and release them at 5am?

kai wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 3:34 pm

lagrange wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:33 pm the Covid virus only comes out at night

What an intelligent little virus it is!

It even knows to enter small businesses yet stay out of big ones.

true true true, it will even get you in a car if you have others in there with you.

Does anyone know if there is a set end date for the curfew in Siemp Reap?

Obviously they could extend if there is deemed the need, but is there an end date on the current measures?

Also are there any restrictions applicable to Siem Reap in particular, it seems different areas are running different rules and I'm having trouble finding reliable information for anywhere outside of PP and SHV?

The curfew only applies to foreigners, and the drinking ban is not observed in most bars.I was with gf in a bar last saturday, 8pm she wanted to keep drinking, I said we had to go, she said "no problem, if we get stopped by police they just tell me to go home". However a barang without a khmer would be hauled off, fined, made an example of.
My favourite bar stopped serving alcohol for a week, then they put a menu out front, said it was a restaurant, put beer back on. In another case a 'girly bar' was shut down by the cops and has not reopened yet. Maybe because one is owned by a khmer, the other by a French guy?
Its a confusing situation that doesnt make a lot of sense and defies rationality. But hey this is Cambodia, no-one ever said they had to make sense.

lagrange wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:37 pm The curfew only applies to foreigners...

Ah, I see, haha. That's really quite bizarre but as you said, nothing is expected to make sense.

You have confirmed that it is 8pm as we had thought.
Is there a time period for this foreigner curfew from when it was enacted to it's expiry date? Or is it an ongoing rule with no set end point?

We will be arriving in a little over a week, and want to make sure we do things by the book, or as close to the book as we can, when we arrive...

Do not plan ahead too far. Local rules change overnight. It was just announced that the curfew in Siem Reap has been lifted. (For the moment.)
Posted 4 June 2021

MaxNormal wrote:

lagrange wrote: ↑Fri Jun 04, 2021 3:37 pm The curfew only applies to foreigners...

Ah, I see, haha. That's really quite bizarre but as you said, nothing is expected to make sense.

You have confirmed that it is 8pm as we had thought.
Is there a time period for this foreigner curfew from when it was enacted to it's expiry date? Or is it an ongoing rule with no set end point?

We will be arriving in a little over a week, and want to make sure we do things by the book, or as close to the book as we can, when we arrive...

It was not only applied to foreigners, they were very lax about it the whole time, I drove around at night several times alone, on my way back from nights out and at each check point they just tell you to go back home another way, no further issues at all.

Anyway, all the better it's over... for now.

There's plenty of booze on sale if you know where to look.

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