Located in a crescent on Thailand’s Eastern Seaboard, only 147 km from Bangkok, is the closest of Thailand’s major beach resorts to the capital city – Pattaya Beach. While most beaches rely simply on the beauty of their natural surroundings for their charm, Pattaya Beach ‘a 4km crescent-shaped sandy bay’goes all out to give visitors everything their hearts desire.

As abundant as sun, sand and sea along this bustling palm-fringed stretch, are superb hotels, value-for-money shopping malls and market stalls, a huge variety of restaurants, endless sports and leisure activities, and, of course, the bars and discos that have earned it its raucous reputation.

Pattaya Beach Nightlife
Glamorous ladyboy cabarets to entertain all the family, sunrise beers with the boys, and delicious nights spent with nubile local women, are just a few of the nighttime pursuits Pattaya has to offer. Live music, plenty of pubs, and nighttime shopping all broaden Pattaya’s after-dark potential beyond meeting promiscuous girls or boys.

Pattaya’s nightlife is a modern, sometimes unsightly tapestry of the wild and debauched. The turnover of pubs, beer-bars, discos and go-go bars is phenomenal, almost as frequent as the coming and going of tourists. Go-Go Bars, Beer Bars, Discos, Ladyboy Cabaret, Pubs & Live Music, Not too loud live music, Gay Nightlife

Beer Bar
They’re ramshackle, cheap and loud but often a lot of fun ‘Pattaya’s beer bars are legendary! Each ‘establishment’employs numerous hostesses to lure you in, serve you drinks and flirt with you. If the conversation is a little stilted, and their seductive strokes don’t smooth things along, they’ll try connecting with you on another level: with a game of Connect 4 to be precise, or, failing that, Jenga. You find them all over Pattaya, but the densest concentrations are to be found in and around Walking Street, lower Beach Road, at various points on Second Road (around Soi 2 and 3, between Soi 7-13), and Sois 6, 7 and 8. Many commence dispensing their irritating-to-some, irresistible-to-others mix of cheap beers, frenetic Isaan (Northeastern) music and shouts of “Hey handsome’long before midday, though many of the girls don’t look so good in daylight. In addition to beer bars, Soi 6 (also known as Soi Yodsak) is also renowned for its many ‘short-time’bars .

Pubs and Live Music
For lively live music and dancing you could hit Pattaya’s aforementioned discos (see above). Hard Rock Café (429 Beach Road), part of the groovy Hard Rock Hotel Pattaya chain, has a house band playing rock ‘n roll classics at high decibels. Green Tree (436 Second Road) is calmer ‘an al fresco bar-cum-restaurant with lush tropical vegetation dangling over the Thai band and patrons. Further north, the charming three-storey Euro pub/restaurant known as Hopf Brew House (219 Beach Road) has not-to-loud live music and very quaffable home-brewed beer concocted by a German beer master. The Blues Factory (Soi Lucky Star, Walking Street) has two live bands on its books. Many beer bars also feature live music.

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