Pattaya, Thailand Travel Blogs

Pattaya
May 18, 2005 (5 photos)

... ve been to yet. If there's a good reason for a trip to end, it's for a reprieve from the weather. Pattaya is located along the Gulf of Thailand, along the eastern coast. The area was untouched by the tsunami. The tides were only a foot tall at most. ...

The world that is Pattaya
Sep 7, 2006 (17 photos)

... we went to show, along with the 3 sisters that my mum worked with. The show was called Alangkarn, which was a history of Thailand. We arrived at the place - which is where the previous week Miss Thailand 2006 was staged. As we walked in we were greeted ...

Week Seventeen - Chaing Mai to Pattaya to Bangkok
Dec 23, 2003 (11 photos)

... I played with a couple of Finnish paedophiles. Golf of course. Day 117 - Saturday 20 December Get Resort's shuttlebus into Pattaya for bit of shopping and paedo spotting. Went to Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum in Garden Plaza which was largely ...

And for the Lady Boys....
Sep 8, 2006

... an easy day, and spending a bit of time with Andrew and Roisin before flying later tonight to Australia. All in all, Thailand has been an amazing experience. We came with no expectations and have left with an impression and stories that will last a ...

Of Ladyboys and Letchery
Apr 8, 2006 (92 photos)

... sexy, wewcome," they repeat in their Thai accents as all the beer bellies, grey hairs and double chins stroll by. Pattaya has a deserved reputation, having cultivated it's formidable sex industry during the Vietnam war era when our boys came to this ...

Ladyboy ahoy!
Mar 4, 2005 (1 photos)

... feet and, promptly, steadied herself and sat back down with a thud! It was lovely to see them, it really felt like Thailand was washing off the cobwebs of India. First all the familiar products on the shelves and now some familiar faces from home. In ...

Who put pepper in the vaseline?!!
Nov 11, 2008 (17 photos)

... I've met in a long time. Let's just say the next day spent nursing our wounds on the beach was a necessary move. Pattaya Take the seedy side of Patong, multiply it by a factor of ten and you pretty much get modern day Pattaya, or as it's ...

Banana Hammocks and Slimy Grossness
Jan 15, 2006 (8 photos)

... us toward the beach and off we went, laden with our huge backpacks in the hot hot hot midday sun. Lonely Planet kept saying that Pattaya was exactly like Florida, and as we headed to the beach I saw why. On the one hand it was beautiful: lots of trees ...

Move to the Coast
Nov 21, 2007 (17 photos)

Time to move to the coast and the beach---this time southeast of Bangkok and about 2 hours drive by taxi ($50) lies Pattaya. Pattaya in the 1960's was just a little fishing village, but during the Vietnam War saw the start of it's big beginning. The ...

PATTAYA: The 3 S's: Sun, Sand and Sex Industry
May 24, 2009 (6 photos)

... -thai-women-seeking-foreign-husbands-2169681 Bangkok  - A recent survey of marriage preferences among women in Thailand's impoverished north-east region found that more than three-fifths want to marry foreigners with British husbands topping the wish ...

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Jul 23, 2008

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Pattaya - Thai Beach Time
May 6, 2009

... - Pattaya probably seems like an odd choice considering all the other great places in Thailand.  For those who haven't - Pattaya is to Thailand what Tijuana is to Mexico.  Neither is very representative of their countries.  I did spend a fun ...

On the Beach!
Nov 21, 2009 (1 photos)

... , it is packed with tourists, and the beaches are gorgeous. This day we were not booked on a tour, so we rode the shuttle to Pattaya.  The first thing I did was get my hair cut.  It is nice and short now and doesn't take long to fix at all.  ...

Pattaya... don't go!
Apr 6, 2008 (22 photos)

... where we are but I snapped myself out of it and I hurried up to the Asia section. The models of all wats (temples) in Thailand are awesome and finally there it was, the Angkor Wat model,... we are fast approaching!!! We took a bus back to Bangkok at 5: ...

Sex Tourists
Mar 5, 2008

... on the beach so we got a dodgy flight down to bangkok and headed to pattaya which is known as being the sex tourist centre of thailand. It was a sleazy/funny/tacky/nice place and as we were staying a bit away from the main tourist area it wasnt too bad. ...

Pattaya
Feb 23, 2009 (6 photos)

... New York (originally from Thailand). Her family has a tea factory. She gave me all kinds of information about Thailand plus her contact information in case I needed anything. She also helped me through immigration, find the ATM ...

Rabbit Resort, Pattaya, Thailand
Sep 13, 2007 (5 photos)

We take a 2 hour car ride down to the Rabbit Resort - thats an adventure in its own right! Typically Terry naps most of the scarry ride down as we weave in and out of the chaotic traffic. Where are my blood preasure tablets! We spend 4 incredibly ...

Pattaya
Jun 1, 2008 (190 photos)

1st June 2008 - 16th June 2008 Finally arrived in pattaya after the long flight and with 17 people asking are we nearly there yet. Stu finally arived on Wednesday after realising his passport was not upto date (silly old bugger, thats dementia for you ...

Pattaya (City of Sin)
Aug 18, 2006 (12 photos)

... to the underbelly of Pattaya. During the Vietnam War Pattaya was the main port for us soldiers on shore leave in Thailand. Naturally certain industries developed in the community and they are still there today. Former American soldiers, who never went ...

The wildest City in Thailand
Feb 22, 2009

This is one city that can only be desribed as wild!

Ko Chang Bound
Jan 25, 2008 (14 photos)

... too bad at all. Tomorrow I leave down south to an island called Ko Chang. It's on the Eastern Coast of the Gulf of Thailand. A lot of people tend to go to the Phuket area on the Andaman Sea but I've heard lots of nice things about this island from ...

Hmmmm... Pattaya
Nov 27, 2006

... and whilst waiting I got chatting to this old guy who was on his way there too. Chatting about various places in Thailand he remarked upon Phuket (one of our intended destinations) being a terrible place... On asking why, he exlaimed 'the prostitutes cost ...

Sex in the city
Jul 20, 2008 (12 photos)

... a complete mess of the pavement. After a couple of days finding my way around and walking for hours, I realized that Pattaya was quite large. I thought about hiring a pushbike, but the mopeds caught my eye instead. This meant I could whiz around ...

Pattaya is MAD!!!
May 28, 2006

... day. Met up with my two mates chris and Dave from back in Enfield which has been a good laugth. Unlike the rest of Thailand there is actually loads to do during the day other than sun bath. We went fishing the other day which was completely different from ...

Jomtien Beach, Pattaya
Jan 10, 2005

... Beer Chang. Anyway we decided that we would travel down the eastern coast towards the Cambodian border and got a bus to Pattaya as a start point. We haven't moved since, other than from one expensive hotel 22pound a night to our current poolside ...

Plavajoce trznice
Nov 11, 2008 (12 photos)

Gospodarski razvoj Tajske je ociten na vsakem koraku, kjer se prepletajo novi pristopi s tradicionalnimi obrtmi. Tako je na Tajskem ze vec kot 3800 7-Eleven samopostreznih manjsih supermarketov po evropskih standardih, ki pocasi izrivajo tradicionalne ...

Thailand - Pattaya
Mar 19, 2009

Those of you who know a bit about Thailand will know that Pattaya's reputation most certainly precedes it.... this notion is reinforced by the abundance of t-shirts bearing the sign 'Good guys go to heaven, bad guys go to Pattaya'...nuff said!! I however ...

Bye Bye Pattaya
Feb 5, 2007 (9 photos)

Well, our days in Pattaya are now over.  It was a nice stay, but time to move on.  Here are some of the pictures we took while in Pattaya.  Enjoy. MJ

Pattaya (Land Of Porn)
Nov 18, 2006

Well this was a fun weekend when we eventually arrived it wellied it down with rain...just what you want when you go to the beach though it was kind of cool...the rain was something i have never seen before.., k we got into a hotel on the cheap so not ...

The City That Sex Built
Feb 5, 2009 (5 photos)

After a short boat ride and a long bus journey, we arrived in Pattaya, the perverts' Disneyland.  Pattaya is a legend in Thailand and abroad.  For those of you who have never had the pleasure (if I can use that word) of visiting Pattaya, it's ...