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Pattaya, 147 km south-east of Bangkok, is Thailand’s busiest beach resort. Pattaya hotels, bungalows and guesthouses spread along Pattaya beach and adjoining Naklua and Jomtien beaches. Pattaya Beach is the most active of the three beaches. Pattaya is also noted that it is the town’s biggest businesses and water sport. Due to the boom of water sport, Pattaya area may be a diving centre because there are over dozen islands off Pattaya’s shore. If you’re a snorkeling or scuba enthusiast, equipment can be booked at any of the several diving shops or diving schools at Pattaya beach.
Due to short distance from Bangkok, many tourists would like to stay in Pattaya hotels during vacation. If you have no plan to do during vacation, let see what you can do.
What to do
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Golf In Pattaya Hotels – it is suitable for business or single trip. You can enjoy golf course provided within |
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hotels and playing golf in groups in mid-range Pattaya hotels or chain hotels in Pattaya. |
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Windsurf in Pattaya Hotels- it is a risky water sport in Pattaya and popular among tourist. It is found on |
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Jomtien beach. |
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Scuba diving in Pattaya –an interesting water sport around Pattaya Bay |
In case, you come in groups, seminar or meeting, Pattaya hotels are ready to serve your requirement including world-class conventions, seminars and meetings room. After meeting, you can enjoy a nightlife or water sport as you needed.
At Pattaya Beach, jet-skis and speedboats are the popular water sport. Most areas of Pattaya beach are covered by rented deckchairs during daylight hours. Jomtien Beach locates in the south of the city, divided from the main part of Pattaya by Pratumnak Hill. In contrast to Pattaya Beach, hotels on Jomtien beach are more popular for family vacationers and watersports enthusiasts. Most accommodation on Jomtien beach are beachside hotels, bungalow complexes, condominiums and restaurants. By staying in hotels on Jomtien beach, tourist will find that it is convenient to enjoy a wide array of watersport activities, including jet-skis, para-sailing and scuba diving. Dongtan beach, in Jomtien, is known as the gay beach, and is busy every day of the year.
Naklua beach, a smaller beach on the north of Pattaya or well-known among tourists as Pattaya North, Pattaya hotels on Naklua beach are quiet and most suitable for family vacation or single tourists who love a calm and sandy beach but still need the convenience of department stores, restaurants, discotheques, bars and nightclubs and shops of all kinds.
Jomtien beach, the 6-kilometer long, straight beach remains a popular beach and is especially the best spot for windsurfing and is a perfect place for windsuring beginners. Pattaya hotels on Jomtien beach is highly recommended to tourist who seek for a quieter resort. Besides, fishing trips are a watersport popular among tourists.
After dark, Pattaya hotels on South Pattaya beach will be the hottest beach and nightspot. It is surrounded by dining, shopping or entertainment establishments. Comparison to the north Pattaya, Pattaya hotels on South Pattaya beach, will be a place of messy and noisy, where both sides of the street are lined up with department stores, restaurants, discotheques, bars and nightclubs and shops of all kinds. Moreover, if relaxing in elegant hotels is your favourite, Pattaya hotels on South Pattaya beach focus on luxury decoration, good service, beauty salon and pool.
If you would like to do more than watersport and you stay at Pattaya hotels on North Pattaya beach, you shoud visit Sanctuary of Truth, a gigantic wooden structure with exquisite architectural features, situated by the sea at Laem Ratchawet, North Pattaya.
For family tourists, Mini Siam, located at km. 143 on Sukhumvit Road., Highway No. 3, North Pattaya, is an interesting place to visit on North Pattaya beach. Mini Siam is one of famous model villages in the world, celebrating the heritages of Thailand with miniature replicas of the most famous monuments and historical sites, sometime it is called “mini world”.
For snorkeling or scuba enthusiast tourists, Pattaya hotels are the good locations for this sport because the snorkeling spots are not far from Pattaya hotels such as islands include Koh Sak, Koh Larn and Koh Khrok.
Koh Larn means "Coral Island" in Thai, around 6 km from Pattaya, and the short boat trip takes less than an hour to reach the first dive site.
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Koh Sak |
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A sheltered, shallow bay, an ideal site for beginners, novice divers, and snorkeling in |
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Pattaya. |
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Koh Larn |
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The Golden Bay on the western side of Koh Larn provides a variety of dive sites for divers of |
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all levels. |
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Koh Koh Khrok |
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A finger shaped island that is suitable for drift diving. |
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| Information Source :by Getthepalce.com |
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