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Famous for its raucous nightlife, Thailand’s premier beach resort
Pattaya also offers wide beaches, excellent golf courses and spas,
a variety of water sports and sightseeing opportunities as well as
great shopping, affordable hotels and dining experiences. No wonder
so many foreigners want to travel to Pattaya and take their share
of its booming real estate markets.
Popular beach city located on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand
just 147 kilometers from Bangkok, Pattaya is one of the most
popular beach resorts in the world. Receiving an unbelievable 5.8
million visitors a year, Pattaya is the second most popular travel
destination in Thailand. Originally a small fishing village,
Pattaya has developed into a large resort city with high-rise
skyscrapers and mass tourism. Today, Pattaya has over 100,000
registered residents and many hundreds of thousands unregistered
ones, including a large expatriate population. Most of the visitors
to Pattaya come from Russia, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia and East
Asia.
Sights and activities in Pattaya: golf, day tours, shopping &
water sports
Although renowned internationally mainly for its nightlife, Pattaya
offers a myriad of activities and attractions from the beaches and
water sports such as windsurfing and parasailing to golf courses,
spas, water parks, shopping centers and diving and snorkeling on
offshore islands. Water sports available in Pattaya include also
sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, jet-skiing, paragliding and
kite-sailing.
Pattaya Beach is the main beach in Pattaya area, but there are
other good beaches also in Jomtien and Na Klua areas that are also
more family-oriented than the nightlife-driven Central Pattaya.
Golf in Pattaya is excellent with 21 golf courses available.
Charter boats are available, just as a wide variety of sightseeing
tours around Pattaya. There is a large water park on Jomtien Beach,
a modern aquarium, as well as many smaller theme parks and zoos
around Pattaya.
Shopping & entertainment. Shopping in Pattaya offers a wide
variety of good value items both on street markets and in large
shopping centers. There are also many massage shops and spas in
Pattaya, offering pampering traditional treatments and special
services such as plastic surgery. Submarine and boat cruises are
organized daily, and there is also a large botanical garden near
Pattaya. Other attractions in Pattaya include for example an orchid
museum and Mini Siam Park, as well as several temples and
viewpoints.
Pattaya travel information and practical tips
The climate in Pattaya is tropical monsoon climate with three main
seasons: warm and dry season from November to February, which is
the most popular time to visit Pattaya, hot and humid (but mostly
rainless) season from March to May, and hot and rainy season from
June to October.
Traveling to Pattaya is easy: you can either fly to Bangkok,
located just 2 hours drive away from Pattaya, or try the less busy
small airport south of Pattaya. There are frequent buses to Pattaya
from Bangkok, as well as trains and buses from all over Thailand.
Once in Pattaya, you can get around by buses, pick-up trucks called
songthaews or by taxis. The majority of hotels, nightclubs, bars
and shops in Pattaya Beach are within walking distance. Car rental
in Pattaya is also well available in case you want to explore
Thailand beyond the beach.
Visitor services. There is a great amount of hotels in Pattaya with
as many as 35,000 hotel rooms available, and you can easily find
accommodation suitable for your own taste and budget. The equally
ubiquitous restaurants in Pattaya range from international fine
dining to cheap street stalls. The nightlife in Pattaya is infamous
for its connections to sex industry, but the city has been cleaned
up a bit since 2004 and now you can also find many bars and
nightclubs without this phenomenon. Some English is commonly spoken
in the tourist areas of Pattaya.
Safety. Pattaya has higher levels of violent crime than other parts
of Thailand, but this is mainly due to battles within the organized
crime. For a casual visitor, petty crime such as pick-pocketing,
bag snatching and scams are more common threats. Foreigners are
also commonly charged more than locals for most products. Following
common sense, saying no to drugs, and avoiding overly intoxication
will most likely keep you out of any major trouble while in
Pattaya.
Name
Origination
There is different views and opinion where the name of Pattaya
comes from. Actually when visiting the spot the first time in 1986,
we did ask local fishermen in Thai language. They responded the
name is originating in the strong winds which are at the start of
rainy season and one of these winds they call "Pattaya"
( locally spoken Pat i Ya )
It sounds quite logic since if translated " The winds are storming
is in Thai "Lom Pat Raeng"
The more modern version or which is distributed around the Net is
that it is somehow a derivative of Tupphraya( Thappraya ) the
general name for the area which dated back to the time when Pharaya
Taksin (Duke Taksin) camped near there with the followers he had
gathered to help free Thailand from the Burmese (Tupphraya - the
'Pharaya' - army). As a fact the road from Pattaya City to Jomtien
Beach is called Thappraya Road
Pattaya
Climate, Weather and Seasons
Pattaya's tropical wet and dry climate can traditionally be
subdivided into three major seasons:
November - February |
29-31°C |
"cool" and dry |
March - May |
31-33°C |
hot and humid |
June - October |
30-31°C |
Hot, humid and rainy |
As you can see: annual average temperatures during the day do not
change significantly in Pattaya, with average highs roughly between
30 and 33°C and lows between 22 and 27°C.
It is the humidity that frequently climbs up to more than 90% in
the rainy season, not so much a change of temperatures, which often
makes the "real feel" temperature much higher than it really is.
Therefore, "cool" - in the dry and sunny winter months, roughly
from November to January - is just a relative term that cannot be
compared to North European standards. Even in the early winter
morning hours, with a fresh breeze from the Gulf of Thailand,
temperatures hardly ever sink below 20°C which - for Thai standards
- can still feel uncomfortably "cool." As the humidity is rather
low in these "winter months", this is also the favourite holiday
season for most Western tourists, and the peak of Pattaya's
traditional "high season."
Please note that, due to global climate change. these traditional
seasons have become far less predictable than just a decade ago. In
certain years - when there is less rainfall than usual - the city's
main water reservoirs, which feed Pattaya's pipes, may sometimes
almost run dry. Whereas this often causes severe water shortages
around town, all larger hotels have their own water tanks, so water
supply is guaranteed even in relatively dry
years.
Find Your
Way Around Pattaya's Main Tourist Areas
Compared with the old fishing village of the early 1960s, Pattaya
in the 21st century has developed into a bustling beach resort and
effectively one of Thailand's biggest cities. To find your way
around Pattaya and its main tourist areas of Naklua/North Pattaya,
South/Central Pattaya, Jomtien Beach and Pratamnak Hill, is still
fairly simple, however, even for first-time
visitors
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