Hotels in Pattaya

Crazy place! Loved Tiffany's for a bit of a laugh and a rather fun night out. Not really a great city for young children, but older teenagers will get a real buzz from walking street. Watch your belongings - lots of police, so felt safe in general. Found a wonderful stone park about 15 mins drive from Pattaya - it had a crocodile farm and kind of zoo experience with it. Animals all looked healthy and well fed. Loved feeding the Giraffe's up close (a highlight), hated seeing a beautiful white Tiger being 'poked' to get a roar for photos - ruined the day. Some cages looked small, but clearly the animals are rotated through the day so that they all get to stretch their legs - it was so hot that I doubt many would have been out anyway, even if the doors were open. Thailand is still good value for money - as long as you don't fall into the 'Go Go' bars - then it really is down to you! Didn't get bitten by mosquitoes at all - a super highlight for me. Definitely will go back!

A Christmas Holiday in Pattaya for an English Man, Hotel booked, Red Planet, Clean, functional, good Wi Fi and just far enough away from all the noise, but an easy walk to get to all of the action, first night, Christmas Eve spent @ Holiday Inn, carol singers, Turkey with all the trimmings, sitting on the balcony looking out to sea and watching the fireworks. A great start to the holiday. Now for Christmas breakfast taken at the Pig & Whistle, Kippers and a Pot of Tea, Holiday turning out great. All of my breakfasts for the whole of the 10 day holiday are taken at the Pig & Whistle, totally English in every way, as I am. Following breakfast shopping in the Local Day Market, Buying a selection of Lacoste tea shirts at 199 Bhat each that's 4 pound in the UK. Next to the beach for some sea food and a drink and a nice lounge. Setting me up for a night on the town. Truthfully Pattaya has it all it is up to you to select the parts that you like. I will be back again and again.

Pattaya is not known for its beaches but for its nightlife, but if you want both then you can visit pattaya. There are a lot of fun in the beach either parasailing or jet ski or just swimming in the sea. Nightlife is very active, so expect to see a ghost town during the day and lively evening with all the bars and all kinds of stuff. This place is not really family-oriented in the evening, you can see ago go bars, gay bars everywhere especially in the walking street, if you want to make your senses alive then come and visit this street during the night. If you visit pattaya then you should watch the shows either in Tiffany's or Alcazar, ladyboys will perform and guaranteed to your satisfaction. We ate almost anywhere, you can find restaurants anywhere in central pattaya with lots of seafoods so it's not difficult to find food to eat. This place is also a paradise for thai massage, starting from 200 bhat you can have a full body massage. Getting around pattaya is easy using the bhat buses, its goes around the central pattaya but never asked for directions because the drivers will charged you a lot, and make sure if you hail bhat buses choose the ones with passengers already. 20 bhat per person.

I love it here. It's a great place to spend Christmas and the new year. Plenty of bars and restaurants to choose from. Great weather (even though the Thais think it's cold). The bars are a mainly a mixture of go-go bars with scantilly-clad sexy girls or bars with live rock bands playing. Walking Street is a bit too in-your-face for me, my favourite area is soi 7 and 8. European police are on duty on Walking Street. On the negative side, there are quite a lot of rats on the beach road, mainly at night, probably due to rubbish bags of food left next to the road. Also, the sea isn't very clean, it's better at Jom Tien or on the nearby island. Another thing I don't like is that whenever you go to a bar for a drink, one of the bar girls will come and talk to you making small talk. What is your name? Where are you from? Then they'll ask you if you'll buy them a drink. If you do, the price of a "lady drink" is about double what you pay for yourself. They're not being friendly, they get commission from the bar each time a customer buys them a drink. Sometimes they don't even drink it, they just want the commission. Then unless you buy another drink for them, they'll leave you for another customer. Not nice. There are some nice girls here, but some bad ones too.

We have visited Pattaya twice to date and it never ceases to enthrall us. The people and general atmosphere are fantastic. So many trips to enjoy from elephant riding to zip-wire runs through the jungle, tigers, snakes and a sea full of coral and colourful fish. If you enjoy shopping, two large centres and dozens of stalls and street vendors will sell you anything from souvenirs to crocodile shoes. Then as night falls the atmosphere changes into one of full on partying. Walking Street is world famous for entertainment. The street food is delicious, and reasonably priced. The whole place buzzes with sights, sounds, aromas and all of the fun that you can imagine. A must for travelers.

There is more than you think in Pattaya Central some very good Shopping Centres including the new Centre at the Hilton Hotel. Mike's shopping centre well worth a look something for everyone all clothes very well presented always crease free on the rails. New food centre on the 5th floor well worth a visit not complete yet but still good choice staff very helpful helping with choices of foods especially when you're not used to spicy food choice of different foods well cooked reasonably priced. Plenty of interesting places to visit and very easy to get around "Buses" just stop to pick up trip only 20 bht.