I've just arrived in Pattaya for the first time in 17 years and I am totally flabbergasted. This place has changed beyond all recognition. It's constant hassle, full of Indians and very expensive.

Where have all the pretty ladies gone? All I see around me is old women and plumpers. So, so so sad. I'm leaving tomorrow.

 

Mark.

3 minutes ago, Cornish Pasty said:

I've just arrived in Pattaya for the first time in 17 years and I am totally flabbergasted. This place has changed beyond all recognition. It's constant hassle, full of Indians and very expensive.

Where have all the pretty ladies gone? All I see around me is old women and plumpers. So, so so sad. I'm leaving tomorrow.

 

Mark.

It's not for everyone.  Maybe try Bangkok or Phuket?

Try Isaan

4 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Try Isaan

The only isaan girl ive ever been with was very frustrating to deal with

Just now, hotsun said:

The only isaan girl ive ever been with was very frustrating to deal with

Sample 1. 

bob, glad you made it back down here from Bangkok. See you over on Soi 6 in about an hour. Oh, wait...

who's hassling you? 

 

You need to know where to go, if you hang about beach road or 2nd road before Pattaya Tai you'll see hundreds of Indians who walk in the road and have no walking etiquette 

29 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Try Isaan

Boring, there's a reason farang turn to drink

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

I've just arrived in Pattaya 

I'm leaving tomorrow.

 

 

See ya......

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

I've just arrived in Pattaya for the first time in 17 years and I am totally flabbergasted. This place has changed beyond all recognition. It's constant hassle, full of Indians and very expensive.

Where have all the pretty ladies gone? All I see around me is old women and plumpers. So, so so sad. I'm leaving tomorrow.

 

Mark.

I was there in 1986.  Came back in 2007.  Spent one night and left.  Never returned.  No plans to return.  So - I do understand.

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

Where have all the pretty ladies gone?

They are still there but perhaps not so evident at 1pm.  Seek and ye shall find.

I arrived there in 2007. Loved it. 

 

10 minutes ago, connda said:

I was there in 1986.  Came back in 2007.  Spent one night and left.  Never returned.  No plans to return.  So - I do understand.

I visited more than a few times 2003-2006, and definitely not for me.  The touristy area anyway(surf to 3rd rd to Suk rd/hwy 3).   Outside of town would be fine, guessing, though not much of a an of Chonburi province, the parts I've visited.

 

Don't even think I'd like it if I was 20 yrs younger & single.  I enjoyed Udon Thani as a younger (shy of 50 yr old), single  weekend warrior.

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

I've just arrived in Pattaya for the first time in 17 years and I am totally flabbergasted. This place has changed beyond all recognition. It's constant hassle, full of Indians and very expensive.

Where have all the pretty ladies gone? All I see around me is old women and plumpers. So, so so sad. I'm leaving tomorrow.

 

Mark.

Bob, You were whinging about Pattaya a month or two ago.

47 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Boring, there's a reason farang turn to drink

Right.I lived before in surin.Wery boring so i went out to karaoke almost every night.That was funnier then sit in a small village.

21 minutes ago, connda said:

I was there in 1986.  Came back in 2007.  Spent one night and left.  Never returned.  No plans to return.  So - I do understand.

I haven't been in Pattaya for 13 years.No plan to visit that hole again.

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

Pattaya for the first time in 17 years

Thailand 2008.  Maybe I saw Pattaya for the only time (less than 24 hours) in 2009, I guess.   It felt like The Devil himself showed me his bathroom and said, "If you like this, your soul is mine!!!!"     Only remember the Indian suit sellers.....lol.....Lots of Russians.    It's my favorite place to talk about, and I'm sure it's terrible now.   

 

This had got me to think if Saigon is still the same as 2010.   No, but I bet it's way better than Pattaya.  Detroit?  No, Pattaya wins that one.

23 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

They are still there but perhaps not so evident at 1pm.  Seek and ye shall find.

 

Many, esp. the ones not working at bars, have long gone online to advertise their business... 😉 

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

who's hassling you? 

 

 

All manner of flotsam and jetsam. I'll be taking a cattle prod with me next time I visit.

OP : South Pattaya is now like  the worst slum from Bombay. 

 

 

And there are so many Russian peasants in parts of the place they are known as cheap Czar-lies.....

11 minutes ago, norsurin said:

I haven't been in Pattaya for 13 years.No plan to visit that hole again.

 

Went to Pattaya for the first time 25 years ago; hordes of pretty girls, eager to please, and Pattaya inexpensive, with a beautiful beach promenade... Then they cut down most of the trees there, and made the beach promenade a permanent construction site. Emphasizing on busloads of Chinese, as well as Indian tourists, while building oversized shopping malls, Pattaya, IMHO, lost a lot of its charm... Have spent less and less time there since 2006.

44 minutes ago, connda said:

I was there in 1986.  Came back in 2007.  Spent one night and left.  Never returned.  No plans to return.  So - I do understand.

Did the sheer number of ladyboys shock you? 

1 hour ago, Cornish Pasty said:

Where have all the pretty ladies gone? All I see around me is old women and plumpers. 

 

Yes. You left for 17 years. Those plumpers have been awaiting your return all that time.

It's a general trend, wherever you go. The ugly prevails over the beautiful more and more.

In the last thirty years man seems to have developed a tendency to exalt the horrid, from art to cinema to the way of dressing...tattoos, piercings and the list is so long.

45 minutes ago, pub2022 said:

It's a general trend, wherever you go. The ugly prevails over the beautiful more and more.

In the last thirty years man seems to have developed a tendency to exalt the horrid, from art to cinema to the way of dressing...tattoos, piercings and the list is so long.

 

Don't forget duck lips.  Whoever started that trend should be lined up against a wall...

 

...and pelted with rotten tomatoes.

 

What happened the OP?  Maybe he's ensconced upstairs on soi 6?

The very good looking Thai girls can now work in upmarket places and other countries - where they can make a lot more money and have a better clientele. Why get paid so little by fat ugly sexpats in Pattaya, when there are now more upmarket places in Bangkok and Phuket, and also much more money on offer in nearby overseas countries - a lot more.    

Seems there isn't much left for you in Thailand. Maybe time to rethink.

6 hours ago, FriscoKid said:

bob, glad you made it back down here from Bangkok. See you over on Soi 6 in about an hour. Oh, wait...

 

Yes.  He went from Taco to Pasty, and always signs his name.

 

How does he do it?  VPNs?