Is There One Business You Wish There Was In Pattaya?

[immortalinthailand]

Pattaya has bars, clubs, go go bars, massage, restaurants etc by the hundreds if not thousands (most all of them copy all the others).... but is there one you wish was here but cannot find?

[pattaya_girl]

Ice skating would be fun - there is one in Bangkok but not one in Pattaya, I hope one day !!!

[raro]

A coffee place that sells you a real coffee if you order one and not a watered-down espresso with the fancy name "Americano".

Those places serve also bread rolls with cheese or minced pork but no blue berry muffins.

[DonTron]

I wish i could find more shops that carry original brand clothing like Armani, Versace, Polo, D&G etc. and I mean the REAL brands, not the copy crap they sell on the streets, in Mike Shopping mall and even in Royal Garden (yes, they sell fake Nike in the sport store there and call them real).

It would be cool with just one shop with the good brands. Right now the only place I can buy proper brands is in Bangkok.

[TomBrown]

A snow / entertainment style place in a big warehouse or underground (I guess) and mini snow board half pipe / course with jumps and such like, oh and an area for people to have snow ball fights (also allow Thais to feel what snow is like ). Would probably cost a bit though for the land, snow machines etc. I have heard there is a place with snow machines in Bangkok somewhere.

[MisterFingers]

Wouldn't mind seeing a "video room" place like the kind that is popular in Northeast Asia.

In these places, you pick a movie you want to see among a selection of DVDs, and get a private room to watch it with a big screen, like a minitheater.

Great for a date.

[timekeeper]

Pattaya has bars, clubs, go go bars, massage, restaurants etc by the hundreds if not thousands (most all of them copy all the others).... but is there one you wish was here but cannot find?

for the brits, Thorntons toffee shop

[dhind1]

Something like a Canadian Tire or NAPA auto parts store

[Jingthing]

A coffee place that sells you a real coffee if you order one and not a watered-down espresso with the fancy name "Americano".

Those places serve also bread rolls with cheese or minced pork but no blue berry muffins.

Starbucks sells brewed coffee.

[issanpaul]

Pattaya has bars, clubs, go go bars, massage, restaurants etc by the hundreds if not thousands (most all of them copy all the others).... but is there one you wish was here but cannot find?

So your thinking of starting a business there?

[monty]

Wouldn't mind seeing a "video room" place like the kind that is popular in Northeast Asia.

In these places, you pick a movie you want to see among a selection of DVDs, and get a private room to watch it with a big screen, like a minitheater.

Great for a date.

I have that!

Mostly used by our guests, only very seldom by outsiders on a "date"

[Bagwain]

A Sushie Train. There is sushie restaurants but not the fast train variety that are cheap as well.

[pluto_manibo]

1) A good music shop with great quality instruments,guitars, amplifiers, drums etc... and the latest audio technological gear. None of that cheap chinese plywood crap.

2) A quality CD shop, with all kinds of music, originals no cheap "mp3 ripped from the internet compacted copies"

3) A quality Bookshop like Barnes and Nobles or Borders...where you have a great selection of books and magazine, cds, dvds and you can practically order anything you want....

4) More quality live venues which would attract local and foreign bands in a great location....give a chance to the new bands for original material....or atleast newer covers! I don't want to hear another Clapton, Eagles, Gary Moore, John Denver, cranberries( insert your preference) cover for the rest of my life!

[Jai Dee]

I wish i could find more shops that carry original brand clothing like Armani, Versace, Polo, D&G etc. and I mean the REAL brands, not the copy crap they sell on the streets, in Mike Shopping mall and even in Royal Garden (yes, they sell fake Nike in the sport store there and call them real).

It would be cool with just one shop with the good brands. Right now the only place I can buy proper brands is in Bangkok.

I think you'll be able to find them once the new Central department store opens.

[Jimmyd]

1) A good Mexican Taco/Burrito place with reasonably priced food.

2) A good Indian restaurant with prices only a bit above Thai food (the ingredients are not *that* expensive).

3) A printing shop where I could get professional quality large-sized prints of photos I have taken.

4) Reasonably priced dim sum restaurant

5) Reasonably priced American sandwich shop (Au Bon Pain is ok, but what I wouldn't do for a salami sandwich on a sourdough roll. Subway bread is garbage--disguised wonder bread).

Well, that only took a minute or two. I'm sure I could think of plenty more with a bit of effort.

By the way, does anyone have any idea why I'm fat?

[farangtingtong]

'Jan Krol' from Den Bosch and his fabulous 'nieuwe haring'.

[Phil Conners]

Plenty of "real coffee" places, one in Naklua road, one in Jomtien, several Starbucks in Pattaya

Snow and sledding in Dreamworld Bangkok (Google it).

Ice skating in Bangkok (one of the stores, don't remember which, Google it).

A good Mexican Taco/Burrito place with reasonably priced food: Tequila Reef, Soi 7.

A Sushie Train. There is sushie restaurants but not the fast train variety that are cheap as well. : There is one in 2nd road, around soi 5 or thereabouts, there was a write-up in the papers when it opened a few weeks ago.

A printing shop where I could get professional quality large-sized prints of photos I have taken: Several in and around Tukcom.

Reasonably priced American sandwich shop: Soi Yamato (we'll reasonably priced ... depends on your wallet)

Me? No, I can't think of anything I'd want that I can't get here or in Bangkok

[BugJackBaron]

Wouldn't mind seeing a "video room" place like the kind that is popular in Northeast Asia.

In these places, you pick a movie you want to see among a selection of DVDs, and get a private room to watch it with a big screen, like a minitheater.

Great for a date.

It exists. I don't remember the exact soi but it's in a small side street between Greg's Kitchen and big C shopping on second road. Look left when heading toward Naklua. It's combined with a 24 hours internet cafe.

[redman]

Bit of a fantasy I have, but how about an estate agent who tells the truth when his lips move

A newspaper which doesn't act as an estate agency's company mag

[Guderian]

I wish i could find more shops that carry original brand clothing like Armani, Versace, Polo, D&G etc. and I mean the REAL brands, not the copy crap they sell on the streets, in Mike Shopping mall and even in Royal Garden (yes, they sell fake Nike in the sport store there and call them real).

It would be cool with just one shop with the good brands. Right now the only place I can buy proper brands is in Bangkok.

Not sure about the brands you mention, but there are relatively cheap, genuine (I think ), branded clothes on sale at the Designer Outlet place next door to Tesco-Lotus at the Thepprasit/Sukhumvit junction.

1) A good music shop with great quality instruments,guitars, amplifiers, drums etc... and the latest audio technological gear. None of that cheap chinese plywood crap.

2) A quality CD shop, with all kinds of music, originals no cheap "mp3 ripped from the internet compacted copies"

3) A quality Bookshop like Barnes and Nobles or Borders...where you have a great selection of books and magazine, cds, dvds and you can practically order anything you want....

4) More quality live venues which would attract local and foreign bands in a great location....give a chance to the new bands for original material....or at least newer covers! I don't want to hear another Clapton, Eagles, Gary Moore, John Denver, cranberries( insert your preference) cover for the rest of my life!

I'd definitely second idea no. 3. Bangkok has some great bookstores, and what do we have here? A couple of Bookazines! I've not found a decent bookshop in Pattaya yet – has anyone else?

[NotNew2You]

A coffee place that sells you a real coffee if you order...[and] blue berry muffins.

All outlets of Au Bon Pain (Royal Garden, The Avenue, Bangkok-Pattaya Hosp.). Great drip-brewed American style coffee and blue-berry muffins too.

As to "designer" clothing...who the <deleted> needs that crap. I think most people gave-up all that pretentious non-sense when they expatriated. Much more fun spending the equivalent of $ 200 shagging 10 girls (all at once or day-by-day) then making some gay Italian's estate even richer!

As for books, I find Bookazine has quite a good selection. Sure, it's not B&N or Borders but come-on...this is Patters, not NYC!!! Often times, I find recently reviewed books by Western authors (both fiction and non-fiction) available at Bookazine. Also, their magazine selection is really comprehensive (almost like a college bookstore's in that respect). If you are desperate for more selection, hope the bus and spend the day in Bangkok. There you have several branches of Kinakuniya and Asia Books, in addition to Bookazine.

Maybe even pick up that Versace shirt for some fella in Patters pining to impress the ladies (or men) with it.

[Hobgoblin]

1) I agree with the bookstore idea. At the Emporium and Paragon in Bangkok, there is a great English bookstore (small Thai section too) called Kokiniku (or something like that).

2) Jewish Deli with real NY style rye bread and bagels

3) NY style pizzeria

Screw the Versace type stores - they're all over Bangkok... and people who can afford that crap can pay the 121 baht bus ride up there.

[pluto_manibo]

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Screw the Versace type stores - they're all over Bangkok... and people who can afford that crap can pay the 121 baht bus ride up there.

I think people who wear that "crap" wouldn't go on the 121 baht bus to Bangkok...and if they do, they are even bigger posers then what they set out to be.

[Madame]

A coffee place that sells you a real coffee if you order one and not a watered-down espresso with the fancy name "Americano".

Those places serve also bread rolls with cheese or minced pork but no blue berry muffins.

Try Au Bon Pain in the Royal Garden Plaza. Entering the plaza from the Second Road you will find this on your right side.

[twix38]

Not a business I know, but guess it could have a small entrance charge.

I'd like to see a big public park, where you can rest, play sport, picnic, walk etc. A bit like Lumpini and for everyone to enjoy. A public amentity with facilities instead of concreate and any spare land being built on.

As an alternative to the beach and a place to socialise with family/friends.

[sotsira]

Pattaya has bars, clubs, go go bars, massage, restaurants etc by the hundreds if not thousands (most all of them copy all the others).... but is there one you wish was here but cannot find?

After reading this thread, it seems that most of the ideas and requests are actually available in Pattaya, maybe not to the satisfaction or standard of some, but generally it's all available at some scale, except for the snow related activities that have been mentioned.

The one thing that i think would go well here in Pattaya is a theme park with hairraising rides and water park, something like Alton Towers or Disneyworld,as all we have here at present is Pattaya Park which is way to small and pretty crap!

This would stimulate the tourist market towards more couples and families instead of only the sex tourist it would also generate a lot of work for the locals and the economy of the area.

[Madame]

I should like to be able to buy good quality cosmetics like Guerlain, Lancome or Estée Lauder.

Watson is OK but they do not sell the kind of stuff I like to use.

[Jale]

A true Hooters restaurant. Cant find better chicken wings!!!

[timekeeper]

I should like to be able to buy good quality cosmetics like Guerlain, Lancome or Estée Lauder.

Watson is OK but they do not sell the kind of stuff I like to use.

you can get all those brands in Robinsons in Siracha

[timekeeper]

A true Hooters restaurant. Cant find better chicken wings!!!

or a TGI Fridays