Pattaya is the best place in Thailand!

[White Christmas13]

2 hours ago, cdemundo said:

I like Pattaya as well.

It seems like "respectable people" don't like Pattaya and never go there.

Makes me think of Marlena Dietrich in the movie Shanghai Express :

"Don't you find respectable people terribly... dull?"

 

You just gave your age away ????

[Burma Bill]

So, you are currently living in Isaan? - Surely much cheaper than Pattaya!!! And for me, sitting all night until 4am (no doubt in your case at a bar) how boring and what a waste of life  - but everyone to their own likes. Pattaya, in my opinion, is a dump and to be avoided!!

[how241]

Totally agree with op...Pattaya is Great !   I have lived here happily for over 11 years.  Anything-everything you want can usually be easily obtained. 

[DannyCarlton]

11 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

So, you are currently living in Isaan? - Surely much cheaper than Pattaya!!! And for me, sitting all night until 4am (no doubt in your case at a bar) how boring and what a waste of life  - but everyone to their own likes. Pattaya, in my opinion, is a dump and to be avoided!!

I get up between 4 and 5 every morning. You clearly have no idea how expats in Pattaya live. You seem unable to distinguish between 2 week tourists and expats.

 

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by DannyCarlton

[Burma Bill]

2 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

I get up between 4 and 5 every morning. You clearly have no idea how expats in Pattaya live.

That is true, living for nearly 20 years in the north of Thailand - Lanna then Isaan, I have always avoided Pattaya so I do not know how ex-pats live there but I do know how most ex-pats live in the north!

[DannyCarlton]

1 minute ago, Burma Bill said:

That is true, living for nearly 20 years in the north of Thailand - Lanna then Isaan, I have always avoided Pattaya so I do not know how ex-pats live there but I do know how most ex-pats live in the north!

I visit Nong Khai fairly regularly so I have some idea too. They build a house in the village, live in it for 6 months then dissappear back to their own countries.

 

Great to generalise, isn't it?

[newnative]

25 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

So, you are currently living in Isaan? - Surely much cheaper than Pattaya!!! And for me, sitting all night until 4am (no doubt in your case at a bar) how boring and what a waste of life  - but everyone to their own likes. Pattaya, in my opinion, is a dump and to be avoided!!

    I suppose you also think that everyone living in Vegas is 'sitting all night until 4am' at a slot machine.  I've been in Pattaya since 2010 and I can't remember the last time I was in a bar--and certainly not until 4am.  Guess what?  You can live a normal life in Pattaya.  (And Vegas, too!)

[thecyclist]

2 hours ago, DannyCarlton said:

Errr...Yes it is. When the new motorway opens (allegedly May) it will be less.

Of course it is with or without motorway. I can do it in 90 minutes on my bicycle, so if you drive it's about 30, unless it's a long weekend with half of Bkk in sin city when it might take you an hour just to get out of Pattaya. 

[jesimps]

The people who criticise Pattaya the most are those that have never visited the place and those from out in the sticks who would love to come here but their wives won't let them, so they knock it out of frustration and jealousy. I've lived here for 13 years and love the place and wouldn't live anywhere else in Thailand.

[EVENKEEL]

6 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

Of course it is with or without motorway. I can do it in 90 minutes on my bicycle, so if you drive it's about 30, unless it's a long weekend with half of Bkk in sin city when it might take you an hour just to get out of Pattaya. 

It's the road construction that's slowing things down a bit. The 332 has some as does the 3 east of Sattahip.

[rumak]

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Maybe some guys imagine that is real girlfriend. But generally speaking he is only a “customer”.

Yes,  I agree with you  ????  .   And I also see many men (even some older Thai men)  with ladies

that they "imagine" is a real girlfriend , and the girl is not a sex worker.  Just a normal lady who

is after a better material life . 

I like to think Mrs Rumak is different .  I will ask your opinion if we ever meet .

[Jaxxper]

Horses for courses, but I'd have a pretty hard job shooting down any of the OPs comments.....

[lkn]

If you are there for the girls, Pattaya might be the best place, but for everything else, surely there are much better places.

 

For example if you want the “tourist experience” then I would say Ao Nang is a better place, much nicer surroundings (beach, islands, limestone rocks, etc.), it’s a short drive from Krabi airport, you have plenty of good restaurants serving seafood with waiters that speak English, and if you are venturous, there is an actual town nearby which is a real town with Thai people doing everyday stuff, or you can go to the jungle (Khao Sok) which is only a two hours drive away.

 

If you want less of a touristy experience there is Chiang Mai (ignoring some parts of it), again, close to airport, and it’s a real city that existed long before the tourists came, so it has universities with all that this brings (young people living regular lifes and creating demand for what such people desire), much more emphasis on aesthetics (because people actually live there, and is not just seasonal workers for the tourist season), and lots of places, like picnic spots, where Thai people go when they want to relax, again, because this is a real city with a big population of regular people that create a demand for these kinds of things.

 

In Pattaya everything is just there for a certain type of tourist, I am sure it is great for this type of tourist, but it lack diversity, it lack aesthetics, the beach is dirty, and the few daytime activities that exist, are so clearly made for tourists that have no better things to spend their time on.

 

[EVENKEEL]

I enjoy a day trip into Pattaya area every now and again as I'm 40 min away. Malls, every Bike Dealership, movie theaters with Eng. Terminal 21 is great for restaurant variety. Isaan was OK for couple months at a time during my off rotation from work which I did for 7 yrs. but as my retirement grew nearer I decided I had worked much to hard all my life to be content with living surrounded by her family in the sticks. Some of you thrive in that environment and that's great. 

 

Myself, I love living 1 km from a nice beach with only a few foreigners at any given time. Here there's a lot of industry so a lot of the Thais have good paying jobs, different vibe from the NE. And I'm 600 km away from her family.

 

[gamini]

10 hours ago, Halfaboy said:

In short: Pattaya has everything....

for a sexpat.

[emptypockets]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

So, you are currently living in Isaan? - Surely much cheaper than Pattaya!!! And for me, sitting all night until 4am (no doubt in your case at a bar) how boring and what a waste of life  - but everyone to their own likes. Pattaya, in my opinion, is a dump and to be avoided!!

And where do you live?

We know.....Cambodia. Hardly in a position to criticise.

[androokery]

1 hour ago, DannyCarlton said:

I get up between 4 and 5 every morning. You clearly have no idea how expats in Pattaya live. You seem unable to distinguish between 2 week tourists and expats.

 

 

I love walking around in Pattaya (sober) at 4-5 am after a good night's sleep. There's something oddly uplifting about it all:) When it's time to go to my home country, I try to make sure I leave Pattaya early in the morning. Those early mornings really make me miss the place more in all its depravity...

Edited March 3, 2020 by androokery

[emptypockets]

58 minutes ago, newnative said:

    I suppose you also think that everyone living in Vegas is 'sitting all night until 4am' at a slot machine.  I've been in Pattaya since 2010 and I can't remember the last time I was in a bar--and certainly not until 4am.  Guess what?  You can live a normal life in Pattaya.  (And Vegas, too!)

And neither has prostitutes.

[DannyCarlton]

3 minutes ago, lkn said:

If you are there for the girls, Pattaya might be the best place, but for everything else, surely there are much better places.

 

For example if you want the “tourist experience” then I would say Ao Nang is a better place, much nicer surroundings (beach, islands, limestone rocks, etc.), it’s a short drive from Krabi airport, you have plenty of good restaurants serving seafood with waiters that speak English, and if you are venturous, there is an actual town nearby which is a real town with Thai people doing everyday stuff, or you can go to the jungle (Khao Sok) which is only a two hours drive away.

 

If you want less of a touristy experience there is Chiang Mai (ignoring some parts of it), again, close to airport, and it’s a real city that existed long before the tourists came, so it has universities with all that this brings (young people living regular lifes and creating demand for what such people desire), much more emphasis on aesthetics (because people actually live there, and is not just seasonal workers for the tourist season), and lots of places, like picnic spots, where Thai people go when they want to relax, again, because this is a real city with a big population of regular people that create a demand for these kinds of things.

 

In Pattaya everything is just there for a certain type of tourist, I am sure it is great for this type of tourist, but it lack diversity, it lack aesthetics, the beach is dirty, and the few daytime activities that exist, are so clearly made for tourists that have no better things to spend their time on.

 

Nope, all the things you mentioned are close by in Pattaya. Not ten minutes drive from my home I saw a couple of elephants emerge from the jungle after completing a days logging activities. Red restaurant near me. Huge restaurant near me almost exclusively for Thias with live morlam band and dancers most nights. Most Thai people who live on the Darkside are permanent and don't have jobs in the tourist industry. You really know nothing about Pattaya.

 

Having said that, I do love Ao Nang too.

[Isaanbiker]

7 hours ago, KC 71 said:

How did rest of The Kingdom compare to Patts ? 

I'm sure he doesn't know Bankrud, Bangsak and many other places.

 

  Pattaya somehow suc_s. Too many criminals and rip offs staying at the same place for obvious reasons.

 

    The times are over where you could get some companionship for 500 baht and a small barfine.

 

   Thank Thaksin for his war on drugs. Pattaya isn't the real Thailand in my eyes. It's the Thai version of Disneyland for adults.

 

And considering all the fake ladyboys, aeeh sorry- second type women-a big sh_hole.

 

 

[CGW]

5 minutes ago, Isaanbiker said:

Pattaya isn't the real Thailand in my eyes.

I lived in Pattaya for 15 years, I have now lived in Isaan for 6 years, there is no difference between either place in many, many areas, I never went to walking street and rarely drove down beach road, they are not all off "Pattaya" yet appear to always be the places people refer too as "Pattaya"

[SiSePuede419]

#1. Wrong.  Pattaya is not "centrally located" in Thailand.  It's in the Southeast.

 

#2.  Wrong.  Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Issan are all cheaper than Pattaya.

 

If I want "edgey" I'd go to a knife fight.

 

Pattaya is for people bad at geography and math, apparently. ????

 

 

Edited March 3, 2020 by SiSePuede419

[madmen]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

So, you are currently living in Isaan? - Surely much cheaper than Pattaya!!! And for me, sitting all night until 4am (no doubt in your case at a bar) how boring and what a waste of life  - but everyone to their own likes. Pattaya, in my opinion, is a dump and to be avoided!!

Dude your anger is palpable and most definitely some frustration there. Sounds like you need a weekend in soi 6! Clear the pipes and mellow out! 

[BritManToo]

1 minute ago, SiSePuede419 said:

#2.  Wrong.  Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Issan are cheaper than Pattaya.

Depends what you're buying.

Edited March 3, 2020 by BritManToo

[CGW]

1 minute ago, SiSePuede419 said:

#1. Wrong.  Pattaya is not "centrally located" in Thailand.  It's in the Southeast.

Sure, I thought Songkla was considered to be the Southeast of Thailand?

[CGW]

1 minute ago, BritManToo said:

Depends what you're buying.

Exactly! don't know where people get the idea everything is so much cheaper "up North"

[NoshowJones]

10 hours ago, essox essox said:

plus plenty of roadworks all over the place....

All these road works in Pattaya remind me of when I was living back in Scotland, when driving you could hardly turn a corner without running in to road works.

[Don Mega]

11 hours ago, Halfaboy said:

In short: Pattaya has everything....

Ive not been able to find cans of Edgell's Beetroot.

 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

7 hours ago, baansgr said:

I'd have to say Jomtien...Pattaya ten minutes and ten baht away, without all the traffic etc Pattaya has....however Southern beaches are far superior if you want the island/backpacker feel ....but yes, easy immigration, no real smog, abundance of cheap food outlets and of course...the baht bus...hard to beat

Easy immigration?????????????????

[NoshowJones]

3 hours ago, CanadaSam said:

 

You havent been listening, PATTAYA HAS EVERYTHING!

Except prostitution.