Pattaya Information

List of local product at Chon Buri

Chaeng Lon
This is Chon Buri’s special delicacy which uses the same ingredients as Ho Mok, with coconut shreds to replace coconut milk. The mixture is hand molded into small buns on a stick, and charcoal-grilled... 
  
Khao Lam
This specialty is made with sticky rice, sugar and coconut cream cooked in specially-prepared bamboo rods. 
  
Hoi Cho
This Chinese delicacy is Chon Buri’s famous dish because a special kind of sea crabs is used as the main ingredient. 

Pattaya Nightlife

The city and its suburbs have a very large number of bars, night clubs and discotheques, massage parlors, and hourly hotels. Major hotels also operate restaurants, cocktail lounges, discothèques, nightclubs and supper clubs which offer food, drinks, music and international entertainment. The Walking Street, a pedestrian area near the beach is the main concentration of Pattaya’s nightlife that has contributed to the city’s reputation as a major destination for sex tourism. Boyztown and Sunee Plaza provide locations for the gay community. Muay Thai (Thai boxing) matches aimed at tourists can be seen at several open-air beer bar complexes.

Events & Festivals

The Pattaya Songkran festival that takes place each year on 18-19 April differs from the rest of Thailand in several aspects. The event includes beauty pageants, musical performances, cultural shows, fireworks, and water sports competition. Pattaya International Music Festival is held annually in the month of March. On different stages, a bandwagon presents several styles of music performed by Thai and international artists.

Pattaya Bars

Pattaya Bars. Pattaya has over 3000 bars catering to all tastes, from small outdoor beer bars in complexes to indoor "shop house" bars and large air conditioned bars, bar complexes and clubs playing live music.

Sub-districts

Pattaya’s coastal side is divided longitudinally into five contiguous sub-districts (or six, if also including Jomtien). Each one is named after the section of beach or headland at its seaboard.

In the middle are the three Pattaya Bay sub-districts, which share the main Baht Bus route (so most places are within 5 minutes / 10 baht of most other places, at any hour) and have much else in common, and hence in combination make up the main quasi-downtown zone:

• North Pattaya (Pattaya Nua) - not the northern-most part of Pattaya (as Naklua lies further north), but the section of Pattaya adjacent to the northern end of Pattaya Beach and extending inland to both the north and south of North Pattaya Road. Does not include Naklua.

• South Pattaya (Pattaya Tai) - not the southern-most part of Pattaya (as the Buddha Hill headland, and then Jomtien, lie further south), but the section of Pattaya adjacent to the southern end of Pattaya Beach and extending inland to both the north and south of South Pattaya Road. Includes Pattayaland and Walking Street. Does not include Buddha Hill or Jomtien.

• Central Pattaya (Pattaya Klang) - not the dead center of Pattaya, but the section of Pattaya adjacent to the middle of Pattaya Beach and extending inland to both the north and south of Central Pattaya Road. Some maps/guides disregard the Central Pattaya convention, and instead extend North Pattaya and South Pattaya to meet each other along Central Pattaya Road; sometimes, Beach Road is described with a similar division, and the respective halves given "North Beach Road" and "South Beach Road" monikers.