Dining & Nightlife

Some of Thailand's choicest seafood is found in hotel buffets and several specialty restaurants. Steakhouses, coffeeshops and fast food outlets provide attractive alternatives. Gourmets and gourmands alike find satisfaction in numerous restaurants featuring regional Thai cuisine and French, Swiss, German, Italian, English, Scandinavian, Indian, Arabic, Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese and Korean food.

Major hotels operate gourmet restaurants, cocktail lounges, discotheques, nightclubs and supper clubs which offer excellent food, drinks, music and international entertainment. Such establishments are ideally suited to family entertainment. Nightlife beyond Pattaya's hotels is more liberated and exciting. Discotheques, transvestite cabarets, nightclubs, coffee shops, karaoke bars, open air bars and restaurants with live music and entertainment compete for attention. Most such establishments are located along the Beach Road, Pattaya 2 Road, and in South Pattaya, which is also the resort's major shopping area. Up-to-date listings of entertainment and shows are available in local English language tourism publications.

Nightlife in Pattaya attracts a great deal of visitors from all over the world for its vivacity and ceaselessness of entertaining activities. South Pattaya is the most vibrant center among sundowners; bars, go-go bars, restaurants, night markets, discos and all kinds of entertainment are all on hand. After sunset, colorful neon light signs brighten Pattya up and chase the nocturnal curtain which envelopes the city away, only happy time and recreation are left.

The three sois of Pattayaland form a major bar district, as do Soi 2, Soi 7, Soi 8, Soi Yodsak, Soi Yamoto, Soi Post Office, Sunee Plaza, Second Road around Soi 9, & Naklua Rd