Pattaya

Pattaya is a wonderful city of Thailand,where has many accommodation, restaurants and entertainment.You can use your life in Pattaya all day all night.For example in the morning you can jogging on beachside street and have breakfast at many many luxury restaurants on beachside.Because of Pattaya has many kind of water sport that you can play in the afternoon or maybe you can rent a camp bed on the beach to sunbathe & drink some kind of beverage that you want and in the evening Pattaya has a variety of restaurants, night clubs, bars, karaoke bars, discotheques, and cabarets.

Location:Pattaya is 147 km southeast of Bangkok, and faces the Gulf of Siam. It is located within easy access of the Bangkok Airport and has excellent accommodation and restaurants and entertainment for all tastes.

Accomodation:ranges from luxuriously appointed Pattaya beachside hotels with superb convention facilities to simple guesthouses.

Beach:Thais enjoying Pattaya Beach at sunsetPattaya Beach is situated along the central city in close proximity to shopping, hotels and bars. The over-abundance of jet-skis and speedboats has contributed to the pollution of the water along the beach, as has the practice of dumping sewage in the ocean. The section of beach from Central Road (Pattaya Klang) south to the harbor is adjacent to the core of Pattaya's abundant nightlife area, hence it is less family-oriented than the North Pattaya, Na Klua and Jomtien beaches.Most sections of the beach are covered by rented deckchairs run by local beverage vendors during daylight hours so finding an available spot of sand is rather difficult and also unadvisable due to the poor condition of the beach. (Visitors are advised to avoid the beach after dark. Although the Beach Road itself is busy and brightly lit, some criminal elements find the unlit beach useful as a cover for their activities and the local police target this area in various ongoing clampdowns.)

Shopping:In recent years, new shopping malls, outlet stores and jewelry stores have opened up, which has helped in increasing the length of stay of visitors to the city. Among the shopping malls are:Central Festival, Pattaya Second Road – Indoor mall anchored by a BigC; also has a SF Cinema City branch.Carrefour, Pattaya Central Road Mike Shopping Mall, Beach Road Royal Gaden Plaza, Beach Road – Three-story indoor mall with a Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum and an SF Multiplex cinema. Also has a Sizzler restaurant, Au Bon Pain, KFC, McDonald's, Auntie * Anne's Pretzels, ZEN Japanese restaurant, Swensen's, Haagen Daz, Pizza Company, Delice de France, and a large food court. The Marriott Hotel is adjacent.The Avenue, Second Road (near Royal Garden) is in the midst of a soft opening with the following either open or their spaces being fitted out: a 22 lane Bowling Alley, Au Bon Pain, McDonalds,Thanachart Bank, 8 Major Cineplex theatres, Boots, McDonalds, California Wow! a major gym/fitness spa (open for subscriptions), Shenanigans, Iberry, Pizza Pizza, 20 Nails Spa, Starbucks, Kasikorn Bank, Bank of Ayudhaya, and a 24/7 Villa Market, which carries imported goods difficult to find in other supermarkets.Tesco Lotus, Pattaya North RoadTukCom, Pattaya Tai (South) Road, boasts a large computer/IT complex offering reasonable prices.At least one other new large mall is under construction.Pattaya has many large home improvement stores including Home Mart, HomeWorks, Home Pro, Kanyong and True Value.The closest department store to Pattaya is Robinson's, located about 30 minutes away in Sri Racha.There are several large nightly markets in different parts of town.

Transportation:Pattaya is about 1½ hours, or 120 km by road from Suvarnabhumi Airport. Pattaya is also served through U-Tapao International Airport which is 45 minutes drive from the city. By road, it is served by Sukhumvit Road and Motorway 7 from Bangkok. Intercity transport is usually through one of two bus stations, one for Bangkok and one for other destinations.
Until recently the only transport within town were private or shared songthaews and taxi via motorbike. However, a public bus service has begun in 2006, and a metered taxi service began in late 2007.