Weekend in Pattaya, Thailand Food porn continues.
Just arrived here in Pattaya on the coast, which is South East of Bangkok and about 3 hours by bus. It is a full on coastal tourist city. My tourism planner brain kicked into action the minute I saw all this and was analyzing everything. There are apparently not as many tourists around, plenty of Russians still, but the Chinese have all but disappeared from this place.
Less tourists means cheaper prices as the pie has gotten considerably smaller and everyone is still fighting for a piece of it. Tomorrow I am off for a day trip to a nearby offshore island and hopefully find a secluded beach to hang out and eat some seafood under the shade. There seem to be a lot to do here and even found a 4D cinema which I might go check out tomorrow night. I am even tempted by an all you can eat Japanese sushi buffet.
Anyhow, I hope everyone is looking forward to the weekend.
Have a great one,
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I spent one day in Pattaya and while it was exciting, i also found it to be a place where you are hassled around every turn. I also didn't rate the beach very much. I don't know if it is still like this but i did like the covered areas on the beach where you could rent an umbrella and the staff would keep the hawkers at bay. They wouldn't even let them approach you unless you beckoned them.
Oh I didn't get hassled at all. It was relatively quiet when I was there. The Thai industry are worried about the drop in arrivals throughout the country. I stayed away from the main beach strip in Pattaya. Prefering to use one of the islands beaches.
ah yes, the drop in tourism has been massive. Up here in Ayutthaya we don't really notice it since 90% of our tourists are other Thais coming for the old capitol heritage and history.
I hope you post about the island you visit... Koh Chang?