Daytime in Pattaya vs Bangkok
 

I'm going thailand again in a weeks time but havent decided whether to go bk or pattaya. I'd get bored on beaches sunning myself I like to walk about and see things - preferably not at tourist prices!

Would i get bored in pattaya? I mean sure of a night Pattaya sounds great but do you think I would resent being there bored out of my wits during the daytime?

I'm thinking between 5 and 10 days in pattaya....too much too few? what's your thoughts? Is pattaya just a few market stools, loads of gogo bars and then hangover recovery in the beach / hotel pool until the night again?

The 'nightlife' in Pattaya carries on in the day too. There are a few gogos open in the daytime (albeit with a much lower level of quality than you'll find on Walking st at night) or you've got soi 6 which is a street full of short-time bars and you've also got a few soapy massage places.

If you're looking for sightseeing then it's slim pickings to be honest and in terms of variety of things to do away from the bar scene it's nothing to compare with Bangkok but there's still enough that you wouldn't get bored there on 5 or 10 day stay.

When I was in BKK i would walk 10 - 20 miles per day. Just walk in a random direction and take in the sights stop at a McD have some chicken or street vendor food, go to a market then walk back hit the bars, enjoy the night cocktails come back to the hotel sleep and repeat. Loved it!

I just wan't see myself doing the gogo thing night and day really how big would say you the 'core' part of pattaya is in terms of square miles?

Pattaya isn't that big really. You've got to bare in mind that although Thailand calls many places 'cities', by western standards they've only got one and that's BKK. If you want to walk for miles and miles, surrounded by hustle and bustle, then BKK is your only real option. You certainly couldn't do 20 miles a day in Pattaya for 10 days without covering the same ground quite a few times.

sure from top of naklua to bottom of jomtien is 15k about 9 mile i did on my bike once and measured it..

just stay out at insomnia and the jp bar till the sun comes up like i just did on my recent trip then you will have no need to worry about daytime activity in pattaya coz it will nearly be dark again by the time you wake up and shag your disco bird again,then just repeat that cycle for your entire stay !!!

pattaya is a 24 hour bar and party venue always somewhere open for some fun within walking distanc of the next place, from the daytime beer bars and soi 6 to the night time bars and go-go's then the disco's and jp bar ect. its eay to get caught up in a circle of bars and girls and go to a different venue/street each day, but as gonzo says not to much outside of the beer and girls to attract anyone to pattaya if they're looking for culture then maybe a split trip a few days in bkk then pattaya or even up to chang mai for some trekking if walking's your thing.

BKK is boring unless you like shopping. Pattaya is a lot more fun if you are only there for sex.

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I was never quite sure whether to find Mirky's version of Living the Dream laughable or sad. Now, I think of what any normal person would have been able to achieve in the 18 months or so that he's been here.

Imagine living in Bangkok, one of the best cities in the world, and contemplating spending your birthday at the Cherry Bar in Pattaya. It says everything really - the Jade Goodie of Pattaya forums. :scotty:

More like An Idiot Abroad.


Rumour is the next series will visit Aussie.:sailor:

This from a man who lives in Pontyfrachmegogoglangwellyn.:wierdthread:


The best thing to do during the day in Bkk is visit Ekkamai bus station and buy the 70b ticket to :patters::train:

:hmmm: When was the last time you went on the bus?.....it's more than 100b to :patters: these days

What exactly do you think I should have achieved then? I'd really like to know the answer to this one.
I've upped our sales by over a million Euro's this year. Must be doing something right.

Bangkok one of the best cities in the world?????
Are you joking?
Why is it? What is there to do here that's so good?
It's a shithole. Are you going to tell me about river cruises and 5* meals past the golden palace? Vertigo hi so resturants and wine bars that have waitresses flying on wires serving wine?
Cleopatras and hi class massage parlours that have models to fuck.
5* hotels. Ex pats who know it all.

You seem to forget I do that shit and get paid for it daily. My expenses last month were over 100,000 baht.

I can think of Chatuchak market and Cold Stone ice cream shop and that's about it in Bangkok. The rest of it is a nightmare. The traffic for starters would ruin any normal person. The P4P scene is crap here. Pattaya is a 100 times better and that's why everyone on here goes there and doesnt stay in BKK.

Not a single person on this board came to LOS for any other reason that fucking whores. You can put a twist on it if you like but that's why your here not because of Thai culture.

If Thai girls suddenly decided they hated falang men not a single person reading this would ever go to LOS.

I would rather be with my mates in CB on my birthday to be honest.

I'm booked into some yuppie 5* shit place this weekend with my boss. If I could swop places I'd much prefer to be staying at 500 baht Thai Tong Villa and taking a bird LT from Soi 6.

Maybe I am Jade Goody

You could start by cutting down on your xenophobic rants by making some effort to integrate and stopped blaming everyone for your own shortcomings. You're here in their country, it's up to you to make the effort to adapt, not vice versa. The days of the Empire are long gone.

But you can't post a letter or order a pizza.

I think it's got a head start on Maidstone.

Why are you rambling about tourist places and running down 5* hotels and massage parlours? They are options among a whole host of things going on in BKK in any given week. Do you have some sort of inferiority complex about them, or what?

100,000 Baht? It's around 2 grand FFS! Is someone meant to be impressed, or what?

Anyway, luckily for you, the 5* places usually have a guy in the bogs who'll help you if you can't manage a piss on your own. Just don't expect him to have change of a 1k Baht note when you try to tip him.

It suits your argument. Unfortunately, besides being patently untrue, it doesn't prove anything whatsoever.

You have no idea whatsoever why people came to Thailand. There's thousands of guys (and women) in LOS for whom the P4P scene is way down their list of priorities. As you pointed out yourself - it's more difficult to buy a decent pair of shoes (for some) than it is to fix up a threesome with a couple of pornstars.

Why would TGs in your local 7-11 suddenly decide they hated anyone, let alone farang men. The very idea of it is silly.

Pretty much the same as every weekend of the year.

You obviously have issues - nobody mentioned anything about yuppie 5* places as you call them. Why are you slagging them off?

I don't know why you bother Tom

Bangkok One of the best cities in the world ...hmmm...not in the top 20 is it? for culture , technology, architecture its a sprawl cant compare to london ,Paris ,St petersburg ,Vienna, Barcelona, jerusalem.Istanbul,Milan,venice ,Rome,NY ,tokyo , singapore ,SF,Seattle ,Oslo ,Amsterdam not even in the top 20 i have spent years in BKK and you can see all the really valuable Cultural sights in a week the rest is just another big anonymous big shitty city .

According to the latest survey, somebody thinks so ...

Just like all those cities you listed.

As I said Tom why bother with a couple of bell ends whose idea of Thailand is Soi 6 and the Cherry Bar ?

Aye, and you still got yer knickers in a twist about paying the bill in the China Garden. :laughing:


We've done this one before....:rolleyes1: In reality, the traffic flow is a damn site better that it was 20 years ago and it's going to get even better when the skytrain and underground networks extend out towards the suburbs.


Speak for yerself........It's not the only reason I come to LOS :bangin:


The non P4P scene is excellent......but you haven't discovered that yet :thumbsup:


Nope, that's just your opinion. I spend a lot more time in Bangkok than anywhere else, so your argument falls flat in this case. :fish:

Tom, as Rolly says your wasting your breath with Milky. He has no intention of trying to intergrate or understand Thai society. As he readily admits he was and still is a Pattaya sex tourist. He just happens to be Bangkok based these days but he could just as well still be in Maidstone. The only difference now is he gets down to Pattaya a bit more often.
Simie.

Where did you spend your last holiday then?
What Thai culture did you take on board?

I seem to remember you spent most of your time in............Soi 6 and the CB. :bigfinger

Why don't you join up with Winnie? He has bi-polar personality as well.

OK, tell me what I'm missing here then?
What great culture delights or entertainment am I not seeing?

Bangkok is a shit hole.

I've traveled. Now talk to me about a great city. I can give you some examples.

Zürich.
Stockholm.
Munich.
Berlin.

Clean, fantastic culture and history. Nice food. Great scenery. Nice people.

Let's face it. Bangkok is filthy to start with. The skytrain is a good way of getting round but so what?
Where do you want to go? SUK? Silom shoppng?

There is nothing of interest here.

Thai's hate falangs and see them as something to rip off. Period. That's all of them as well. 100%.

From the moment you step off the plane somebody will be watching you thinking what can I get. That includes any Thai GF/family and friends you think you have. I can work with this system because I want to fuck the girls here. Because of their inbred whore nature this works well for me.

I actually feel sorry for anyone who doesn't share the same mindset. Sooner or later they will find out I was right all along.

It's not the only reason but why would you come here if you were not getting your leg over?

Sit on Koh Samui beach alone?

Walk round Khon Kean looking at market stalls?

Take a trip to River Kwai and eat by yourself?

Get real. You are here for Thai pussy the same as everybody else.

Been a few years.


I do miss those days.:plane:

LOL. Is that the sum total of your travels? Mirky's version of an Auf Wiedersehen, Pet roadtrip.

LOL. The Germans viewed Brit contract workers somewhere below Gastarbeiters. Do you speak German? Beyond "Noch ein Bier, bitte"?

You posted a while back about your time in Germany. You seemed to have spent your time totally wasted and shagging weird birds. At least the ones you didn't have to pay.

So is every city in Britain compared to the four places you mentioned.

As is the subway. Like Germany, the trains run on time.

That says more about you than it does Bangkok. Why would someone living here choose to go shopping on Silom or Sukhumvit when the city is full of air-conditioned malls? It's a silly suggestion.

No. You hate all Thais. 100%.

Great attitude. No wonder the girls at work piss themselves laughing at you when they fuck you around.

Only if they prioritise their lives along the same lines as you.

You could ask that question about anywhere.

Why would I go to Koh Samui when I have Koh Lipe and Koh Tarutao on my doorstep?

Have you been to Chungkai? There's a little bit of history for you there. Quite why you would choose to mock someone for going there is beyond me.

I've realised why you keep making that same claim over and over again. I reckon that until you came to Thailand on this job, you didn't realise that you had never had a decent shag in your life. It explains why you're here - but not everyone else.

I can assure you that if I hated the locals to the extent you do, I'd be on the first flight out tomorrow. It's pretty sad that you put up with all the issues you have for no other reason than you can get a shag here.

Fixed.

I'm looking forward to the day you bastards are sitting down the Coconut bar with your 35 baht Leo's. :furious:

Don't blame me for saying I told you so.

I feel like BigDusa of Revealed.

Can we open a Purgatory section like on FLB? :clapping:

Actually that's the truth.

Don't take any notice of them Mirky.


Tell it as you see it mate.

:thumbsup:




If others have an alternative view to yours then fine, they can state what views they have and have a constructive discussion.



Simply bagging everything that Mirkwood says means nothing to me




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i am with mirky on this one and I have travelled and lived in many big cities that make BKK look like a backwater .......I also have integrated into Thai society after 18 years but all that has gone by the board as i realise its futile , as much as i like Thais and Thailand reality is i see it for what it is and its very flawed .thats why i now only want to spend 4 months a year in the country and the rest either working/travelling or in europe which for all its faults has real culture , no where is perfect .

They don't have garbage disposal units under the sinks in Pattaya thank God. Preferred methods in Pattaya are tying the member to a balloon or feeding it to Ducks.

I've done a couple of non-mongering trips to take advantage of the cheap shopping and cheap medical facilities amongst other things.
One trip was taken up with surgery and I've also done a brief trip for shopping and some other personal business - I'm getting the air fare for free, so it is a viable option.
Oh, one more reason......it's the only place I can practice speaking Thai :gossip:


I'm here for the female company that's for sure, but I could just as easily get that in the Philippines, Cambodia or various other places. I just happen to think that Thailand is a better country than most others and a lot of Thai ways fit my character like a glove. I'd much rather spend time with polite, respectful people in Thailand than the chav culture in the UK.



Now now Bazzap, nearly all the comments on here have been constructive. Others are equally telling it as it is. Mirkwood hasn't really received any bagging that wasn't justified.



The big difference is that you and Mirkwood work here (or have worked here) which is a different scenario to being here for mongering or for retirement. There's a lot of truth in the old saying that Thailand is a great place to live but not a great place to work. Mirkwood is just going though a love-hate phase which is typical amongst working ex-pats. Take a look at the Ajarn board - there's hundreds of similar examples - they usually end up going home and then returning to Thailand when they realise the grass is not greener on the other side. I think you're on a downer now that you realise your in-laws are a load of trash.

That is so true.

It's the working here that makes it a world apart from what everyone else does.
I know if I had to go home I would be gutted.

I think the best feeling I ever had for LOS was when I worked 3 months Europe and came on holiday for 1 month.

I was earning well with my own company in those days. Unlikey to see that again if I went back.

No need to patronise me, pal. You might get away with talking to other people in this world like they are a 8yo kid but not me!!

OK??





Well that is a matter of opinion isn't it? Between you and Tom telling him that he has a sad life in Thailand and dissecting his posts so you can be argumentative does not seem constructive to me. No wonder he feels like BigD.

To be fair mate the only offensive comments have come from Mirky himself as he tries to get a rise out of people and deflect attention from the fact that he's struggling with basic tasks and getting frustrated trying to get anything done whilst living over there. Nobody's having a go because of who's saying it it's because of what he's saying, some of which has been ridiculously over the top.

It's all well and good defending your mate but if he'd directed even half of his comments towards Pinoys rather than Thais you'd spit the dummy so far you'd have a bloody polar bear's eye out :laughing:

The only reason Mirky feels like Big D is because he's posting like him and getting a similar response.

Are you suggesting his posts were serious?

If so, they're indefensible. :yellowwarn:

But it's OK for you to dissect InCider's post to offer an opposing view. Or, were you trying to be ironic?

I think the best bet here would be for the people who like Bangkok to tell the new poster exactly what it is they like to do. He cn decide if that's for him or he would prefer Pattaya.

No secret. I'm not a fan of Bangkok. Let's leave it at that.

Hi

I cannot speak for Bangkok, don`t know it.
Also I`m more of a night time person but I don`t see Pattaya being lacking in non bar/drinking activities in the daytime.

ferocious already suggested a route for a long walk, try far end of naklua and take a walk towards Jomtien, that will take some time.

non tourist place, just 1 example, behind the naklua fish market there is a large open air area where many Thais go to relax, there are a few basic exercise machines there free to use if you want.

Exercise classes at 6.00 PM most days, free or 10 baht up to you.
Just watch and listen to the music or participate.

Some people walk around the area, some jog and sometimes some
young Thais who are fixed gear bike enthusiasts come and ride their bikes.

I go there once a week or so to chill out and relax.


Heading towards Jomtien you could always walk or jog up the hill that leads to Buddha hill, then take a walk up the hill leading to the
statues etc.


Then you`ve got at least 2 bowling alleys in Pattaya, 1 very near BigC north on 2nd Road, does a cheap basic breakfast if you`re up early enough.

Go to a gym, fair few in Pattaya

Gym/sauna/Muay Thai/tennis courts all at Fairfax, not the cheapest
but has a good reputation for facilities.

Go play pool or snooker.

Plenty more things to do and IMO there`s simply not enough hours in the day nor days in the week.

:cheers:

The OP didn't ask for opinions about BKK, he asked for opinions about Pattaya. He is familiar with BKK and, in his words, he "loves it". Perhaps the people who like Pattaya could tell the poster what there is to do in Pattaya i.e. respond to what the OP actually asked, rather than just see the thread as another excuse to spout negative dribble about Bangkok.

Personally speaking, I don't much care for Pattaya these days for a whole host of reasons but I wouldn't dream describing it as boring to the OP, if for no other reason than it's obviously not to a significant number of people.

He's probably fucked off to Benidorm after reading this thread. :scared:

Shame you don't go with him