News flash: Pattaya is not Miami Beach

PATTAYA:--It’s obvious to anyone who visits the beach here that Pattaya is no Miami Beach. But that didn’t stop some graphics-skilled social media user from uploading doctored photos of the local shoreline to Facebook along with pristine images of the American tropical resort to favorably compare the two.

 

While much has been done to improve the image of Pattaya Beach, the Photoshopped pictures of clean beaches and smooth, clear sidewalks clearly paint an unrealistic photo of the local shoreline – a fact that many online users, including even Sophon Cable TV, quickly reaffirmed.

 

The cable company, on its Facebook page, posted photos of how it really sees Pattaya Beach, with sandbags, piles of garbage, concrete obstacles on the footpath, dilapidated tin shacks at the edge of the sand, and homeless people sleeping under the tiny boardwalk.

 

Sure, efforts to reorganize the beach chairs and umbrellas have brought a more uniform look and large trees look better than the smaller ones they replaced. In addition, Beach Road is – and has been since 2004 – clear of the utility-wire clutter in the rest of the city.

 

But there are plenty of blemishes, including the large water pump planted at the south end, sand blackened by sewage spills, and an entire section fenced off where sand replacement was supposed to take place. Then there’s that small matter of erosion threatening to eat all the sand off Pattaya Beach within the next decade.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/news-flash-pattaya-not-miami-beach-188059

 

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There are very few beautiful beaches left in Thailand. Even remote island beaches littered and worse. Who calls Thailand a tropical paradise must have very limited travel experience or a weird view of paradise. Obviously it all depends where you come from and what you are looking for, might still be a pleasant city for Indians who have disastrous living and environmental issues etc. etc. There are zillions of better places to vacation and retire, some as affordable as Thailand and with much better quality and safety in most respects. MS>

In any case, most agree Miami isn’t what Pattaya should try to be anyway. Only Miami’s nightclub-centric South Beach (8th) ranks on a Business Insider list of America’s best beaches, which averaged the rankings of seven travel guides and websites.

If Pattaya really wants to replicate an American beach, it should perhaps look instead to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, the top-ranked beach in the U.S., or Coronado Beach, California, which ranked second.

 

There's a disaster (or 3) waiting to happen.  Trying to model the beach after another one that's not even close to the same topography and other conditions is a recipe for heartache and big $$$.  I've been to both of the suggested beaches and can categorically state that Pattaya cannot match them and shouldn't even try.  Unless they're willing to tear down the first 3 or 4 blocks of buildings  and haul in several million (billion?) tons of sand to widen the beach by a few hundred meters.

 

Why not set the sites on something that's possible, even if it's not in the top 10?  

 

22 hours ago, moonseeker said:

There are zillions of better places to vacation and retire, some as affordable as Thailand and with much better quality and safety in most respects.

Please list a few.  Do include an index of feminine pulchritude.

A zillion?  Really?

On 05/10/2017 at 10:17 PM, moonseeker said:

There are very few beautiful beaches left in Thailand. Even remote island beaches littered and worse. Who calls Thailand a tropical paradise must have very limited travel experience or a weird view of paradise. Obviously it all depends where you come from and what you are looking for, might still be a pleasant city for Indians who have disastrous living and environmental issues etc. etc. There are zillions of better places to vacation and retire, some as affordable as Thailand and with much better quality and safety in most respects. MS>

???  A 30-45 minute ferry to Koh Larn and very nice beaches.  Of course Phuket has some nice beaches.   There are lots of nice beaches scattered around.  

Edited October 17, 20178 yr by lapd