The full moon party!!! this whole town seems to exist entirely for this lunar event. No one seems to have told the local that its not full moon every night!! Every night the local vampires are out, dozens of them in rows trying to sell you buckets of cocktails, juggling fire on the beach with only a hand full of people watching, flashing neon signs trying to temp the tourists on the beach in to their bars. Radio friendly dance music blaring out to half a dozen punters making a half effort to show that they are officially 'having it' The problem is that there is no where near enough people about to create even a tiny bit of an atmosphere. In fact its pretty quiet!!
I'm sure this would be the place to be on that one night of the month but for the other 30 days it feels like the islanders are trying to create the party atmosphere every night and failing to pull it off. In fact Im not sure that this would be the place to be, as the whole thing seems contrived and fake and Im certain it wouldnt feel like the spontaneous party that happened on this beach nearly 20 years ago in the 1980's. It just ends up looking a bit sad and pathetic. A bit plastic!!
The bars end up getting people in by showing back to back films on massive screens - mostly showing The Beach. So on one hand you've got the bars trying to get you in the party mood with all the glitter and flashy lights and loud music and one the other hand you've got the bars who've accepted that its not full moon and its not 1985 and sedated their punters by making them watch a film which silences the bar.
The island has invented black moon, half moon, toenail shaped moon, whatever moon parties on the success of the full moon party. I dont want to sound cynical but thats how it makes you feel here, FORCED FUN!!!!
Unless it is actually Full Moon and you like a bit of prescribed revelry stay away from Sunrise beach!!!
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