What might you recommend in Pattaya for those who "have been there, done that" throughout Southeast Asia and other parts of the planet for several decades and are more than a wee bit jaded and world-weary (not really a tourist)?

Is there anything, or is it all beer bars, geezers, tattoos, ladyboys, Issan girls, ear-splitting discotheques, shopping malls, traffic, air pollution. tourist food, over-priced accommodation, massage parlours, empty Indian restaurants, kind of lousy beach, etc.?
(which I'm sure is all pretty impressive and great if you're escaping winter in Europe or North America)

Thanks much for any info, real or imaginary.

Some decent fishing.......

got many long time friends that love it there
Excluding walking street, beach road.
People are very friendly, wide choice of food and shopping, Golf, if thats ur thing,
Inexpensive, Jomtien over the hill, affordable rents. Easy to get to Bangkok
and there is a whole other life across Sukumvit including the dark side

its NOT just a tourist dump

Not my cup of tea thou

My wife (Canadian) actually went there and loved it. They jet skied, though watch out for scam operators, bungee jumped, and went to a fishing pond where you're almost guaranteed to catch and release a whopper. I think she rode an elephant too. She loved it.

Of course you could do a swan dive off of an 8th story balcony, which seems to be a semi regular occurrence there. I used to have Pattaya in my news feed. Total Shit show.

sammycooke wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:14 am My wife (Canadian) actually went there and loved it. They jet skied, though watch out for scam operators, bungee jumped, and went to a fishing pond where you're almost guaranteed to catch and release a whopper. I think she rode an elephant too. She loved it.

Of course you could do a swan dive off of an 8th story balcony, which seems to be a semi regular occurrence there. I used to have Pattaya in my news feed. Total Shit show.

So your wife went to Thailand without you did some riding and played with a whopper?

truffledog wrote: ↑Fri Nov 18, 2022 12:40 am This sounds like you are inciting to make Pattay look like a real shithole for loosers. It indeed is.

"a real shithole for loosers." yeah - it's full of the sort of folks who can't spell.

I wouldn't live there. Try Jomtien. Gives you access to friends that do live in Pattaya, is 10 minutes away when you do need that nightlife buzz and is close enough to Bangkok for whatever you can't get down on the coast. Perhaps the best of both worlds.

showed up on my FB feed:
Bus to patttaya


FYI: just north of Patttaya beach is Naklua, nice place to stay
Back in '84 lived in Bang Lamung on the sea front, the whole area has changed so much but still people love it or hate it ( mostly those that have never been)

^^^ Got a laugh out of the headshot photo. But I call fake. Heads look too much the same, red bald skin patch in same place, three or four of them lean exactly the same way, same haircuts.

Having done something close to 200 return trips BKK-Pats since early 2010s, I've never been on an inter-city bus with those crappy seats. In fact, the bus looks like a Bangkok local street bus.