5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Still the worst thing about Pattaya and Jomtien is the locally sewer smell wherever you go.

Nah thats the Indians walking round.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by Ralf001

5 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Still the worst thing about Pattaya and Jomtien is the locally sewer smell wherever you go

Wherever you go.

Silver lake winery is closed

I think a victim of the Covidiocy ?

There is ongoing building of a village

and what looks like a huge mansion

I only viewed from the road whilst passing by.

19 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Nah thats the Indians walking round.

Okay, so you keep yourself in the gated areas I understand 😁

3 minutes ago, johng said:

Silver lake winery is closed

I think a victim of the Covidiocy ?

I should have said Silverlake Wine and Grill, yes the winery closed but the restaurant is nice and not too expensive. Adds to the day out as its right near the Buddah carving and the water park.

Great seafood at the far southern end of Jomtien beach. PuPen not know well with tourists but packed out with Thai's who love their crab and fresh seafood. Right on the water so eating outside is nice.

32 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Nice beaches too

To help you out, that's Pattaya way, way, way in the distance. When I used to live at Northshore condo on Pattaya Beach Road I'd sit out on the balcony with my morning coffee and watch the beach being cleaned every day. Pattaya Beach does not normally look like the photo you posted. I suspect your photo might have been taken after a storm. Can photos of dirty Thailand beaches be found? Of course. Do they represent the normal cleanliness of Pattaya Beach, Jomtien Beach, Dongtan Beach, Wongamat Beach, and others? No.

Most Pattaya beaches are more like the photo below, which is a snap of the beach area where I lved at in Wongamat. In the background is the Sanctuary of Truth, something you seem to be in short supply of.

12 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Okay, so you keep yourself in the gated areas I understand 😁

Yeah I live in a gated community onm the darkside, often visit the bright side though.

2 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

Yeah I live in a gated community onm the darkside, often visit the bright side though.

Im visiting Pattaya for the live scene and also restaurants, not to stay long, and honestly, pattaya being visited less now than before, to much traffic and more of the negative things I dislike. Maybe it is coming with the age? Or what I feel is true?

Find Bangkok much better for those things now and rather seeking the quiet nice beaches that is left instead other places.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by Hummin

3 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Im visiting Pattaya for the live scene and also restaurants, not to stay long, and honestly, pattaya being visited less now than before, to much traffic and more of the negative things I dislike. Maybe it is coming with the age? Or what I feel is true?

Find Bangkok much better for those things now and rather seeking the quiet nice beaches that is left instead other places.

I like quiet beaches provided there are gyms and good food options. Some places have no gyms and food isn't good. Eat, train and swim. It is a good lifestyle. I even found a 60 baht good gym at the beach plus nice food. That's a 3 way tick.

53 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Just the traffic in Pattaya do not make visiting in the weekends, Thailand is best at travelling on normal weekdays, and even more preferable outside the peak seasons.

Still the worst thing about Pattaya and Jomtien is the locally sewer smell wherever you go.

Thais go to Cha-am or Pattaya. Closest beach cities. Cha-am is a mess. Pranburi is so much nicer.

10 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

I like quiet beaches provided there are gyms and good food options. Some places have no gyms and food isn't good. Eat, train and swim. It is a good lifestyle. I even found a 60 baht good gym at the beach plus nice food. That's a 3 way tick.

Swim and hour a day, or bring elastics and a few ropes, hooks, and anchors for the elastics. Shadow boxing is great training as well,

Walking the beach, and simple body exercises, everything else is just excuses.

7 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Thais go to Cha-am or Pattaya. Closest beach cities. Cha-am is a mess. Pranburi is so much nicer.

We prefer going down to Trat, but right now my insurance is not valid there. Also like Ranong, but it is a long drive for us, still nice once a year, as well love Koh Phangan. If single again, that could be a nice place to stay a few years. But most likely I would had left Thailand.

Edit note: Like Krabi and Trang to. Many options if you have to make choices, still the most convenient is more practical these days. Been all over Thailand a few times, so nothing the Im urging to see anymore. Thailand will never be like it was when we first came here anyway.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by Hummin

7 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Thais go to Cha-am or Pattaya. Closest beach cities. Cha-am is a mess. Pranburi is so much nicer.

Did you google up that BS about Cha-am? Pranburi is also 60 K south of Cha-am. Going to either most have to deal with Rama II road which has been traffic hell for over 15 years now. Constantly jammed and also a number of deaths of both workers and the general populace due to poor construction and accidents. Bang Saen is on the way to Pattaya and very popular with the Thai's, often driving down for just the day.

Please stop googling and post from your own experiences.

8 minutes ago, Hummin said:

Swim and hour a day, or bring elastics and a few ropes, hooks, and anchors for the elastics. Shadow boxing is great training as well,

Walking the beach, and simple body exercises, everything else is just excuses.

I have done 3km non stop in a pool. Bit boring though. Gym allows you music and breaks. Bands on the beach is good idea but a gym is better.

10 minutes ago, Hummin said:

We prefer going down to Trat, but right now my insurance is not valid there. Also like Ranong, but it is a long drive for us, still nice once a year, as well love Koh Phangan. If single again, that could be a nice place to stay a few years. But most likely I would had left Thailand.

Edit note: Like Krabi and Trang to. Many options if you have to make choices, still the most convenient is more practical these days. Been all over Thailand a few times, so nothing the Im urging to see anymore. Thailand will never be like it was when we first came here anyway.

Things change. Islands are not as good as before. I found a few mainland spots that are great.

On 4/25/2026 at 8:13 AM, Rockyroad said:

Roid boys

Bikers

Angry drunks

Russians

Indians

Why even go to Pattaya?

Haven't been there for years, but every time I stayed there I was able to tick every item of that list in the first five minutes.

3 hours ago, IsmeUno said:

Just to set the record straight, absolutely no negative connotation to being a 'rig pig'.

No offence taken, like I said you nailed it, the travel, socialising, drinking in bars before crew changes, during training etc, it's probably why I ended up in Pattaya. I'm blessed to have such a great job.

I have another great time story, during my employment, 28/28 day rotation, year 2010, I spent commissioning billion dollar drillship in DSME shipyard. Lots of free time, most hitches we would travel around Geoje Island, sightseeing etc., on weekends, days off. We lived in town, had our own apartments, up the hill from our apartments were lots and lots of naughty bars, spending many evenings drinking with co-workers and bar girls. I remember one hitch the Norwegians got into a massive street Brawl, the local council decided to shut down the bars for a few days, calm things down

I reckon if you haven't spent time in a Korea shipyard you've not lived, everything is big, big and bigger.

Edited April 26Apr 26 by SAFETY FIRST

5 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

No offence taken, like I said you nailed it, the travel, socialising, drinking in bars before crew changes, during training etc, it's probably why I ended up in Pattaya. I'm blessed to have such a great job.

I have another great time story, during my employment, 28/28 day rotation, year 2010, I spent commissioning billion dollar drillship in DSME shipyard. Lots of free time, most hitches we would travel around Geoje Island, sightseeing etc., on weekends, days off. We lived in town, had our own apartments, up the hill from our apartments were lots and lots of naughty bars, spending many evenings drinking with co-workers and bar girls. I remember one hitch the Norwegians got into a massive street Brawl, the local council decided to shut down the bars for a few weeks.

I reckon if you haven't spent time in a Korea shipyard you've not lived, everything is big, big and bigger.

The best part for me was the money and the time off.

Working two weeks on and four weeks off, and overtime by hour was extremely well paid, but every extra day offshore could bring in as much as 1,000 to 1,500 USD.

In my last decades working freelance, it became even better, more time off for the same money!

10 minutes ago, Hummin said:

The best part for me was the money and the time off.

Working two weeks on and four weeks off, and overtime by hour was extremely well paid, but every extra day offshore could bring in as much as 1,000 to 1,500 USD.

In my last decades working freelance, it became even better, more time off for the same money!

Wow, you're a Norwegian, you had the best conditions. I remember my Norwegian friends when their rotation was changed from 4 on 4 off to 2 on 4 off they stopped work for more money, saying with more time off, now they are spending more money 😂

BTW, I spent a lot of time in Norway, training.

Kongsberg, lovely region

Edited April 26Apr 26 by SAFETY FIRST

No man ever lay on his deathbed and exclaimed....."Lord, I wish I had never slept with so many women"

YOLO......

11 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Wow, you're a Norwegian, you had the best conditions. I remember my Norwegian friends when their rotation was changed from 4 on 4 off to 2 on 4 off they stopped work for more money, saying with more time off, now they are spending more money 😂

BTW, I spent a lot of time in Norway, training.

Kongsberg, lovely region

When I started, we worked two weeks on and two weeks off. Back then, I think the annual hours were around 1460 before overtime kicked in.

Even so, we managed quite a bit of off-schedule work, mostly because the operators did not plan well enough. So we travelled almost as much off-schedule as on-schedule, and still got overtime paid out at the end of the year.

Later we moved to two weeks on and three weeks off, and finally the same as drilling: two on and four off. But there was still a lot of off-schedule work and training.

My original plan was to retire at 47, but that became too boring, so I kept going for almost another decade.

Now I am done.

2 minutes ago, MIke B Bad said:

No man ever lay on his deathbed and exclaimed....."Lord, I wish I had never slept with so many women"

YOLO......

Im sure there is a few you wouldnt tell your friends about ;-)

Delete

Edited April 26Apr 26 by Fat is a type of crazy

15 hours ago, MIke B Bad said:

No man ever lay on his deathbed and exclaimed....."Lord, I wish I had never slept with so many women"

YOLO......

Charlie Sheen

Magic Johnson

2 minutes ago, Rockyroad said:

Charlie Sheen

Magic Johnson

Both still very much alive~~

17 hours ago, Peter Crow said:

Haven't been there for years, but every time I stayed there I was able to tick every item of that list in the first five minutes.

Yeah well it is all families next year. All being cleaned up. No more crooks, hookeds, ladyboys, Russians, 5 day Indians in gold chains. Just mum, dad and the 3 kids.

On 4/24/2026 at 7:59 AM, Rockyroad said:

Aren't the ones on here miserable too?

You don’t live in Thailand. You can’t afford to.

And it seems like you haven’t even visited here for at least a couple of years.

So you seem to be the miserable one in this equation.

You spend all day every day yelling at happy retirees, livingwhere you wanna live, with the exact kind of woman you want to live with.

Why?

14 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

You don’t live in Thailand. You can’t afford to.

And it seems like you haven’t even visited here for at least a couple of years.

So you seem to be the miserable one in this equation.

You spend all day every day yelling at happy retirees, livingwhere you wanna live, with the exact kind of woman you want to live with.

Why?

You have no idea what you are talking about.

17 minutes ago, Prubangboy said:

You don’t live in Thailand. You can’t afford to.

And it seems like you haven’t even visited here for at least a couple of years.

So you seem to be the miserable one in this equation.

You spend all day every day yelling at happy retirees, livingwhere you wanna live, with the exact kind of woman you want to live with.

Why?

Most people here are of the opinion that the clown has never ever been to Thailand at all. That is probaly why he makes such terribly comments all the time.

1 minute ago, Rockyroad said:

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Answer his question! While you are at it answer the ones I have asked you as well.

Think about it, is the posting style you are using now working out well for you? Engaging in nice dialogue and enjoying yourself on here by exchanging ideas? Or pounding away at the keyboard in some sort of cyber war with your "perceived" enemies"

Do you think the mods dont notice when you whine about about people downvoting you and then you turn and downvote any negative comment towards yourself. Stop being a hypocrite and grow up.

Edited April 30Apr 30 by marin