Pattaya Beach and Central Pattaya: The City Bay Between Beach Road and Second Road
Pattaya Beach and Central Pattaya: The City Bay Between Beach Road and Second Road Pattaya Beach is the beach everybody pictures first, and also the beach everybody has an opinion about. It is the city's original front room: a gentle crescent of sand about three kilometres long, curving from North Pattaya Road and the Dolphin Roundabout in the north down to Walking Street and Bali Hai Pier in the south, with a palm-lined promenade on one side and the Gulf of Thailand on the other. Behind the promenade runs Beach Road. One block inland, parallel to it, runs Second Road. Between those two roads, and in the sois that stitch them together, sits Central Pattaya — the densest, busiest, most convenient square kilometre in the city, holding its biggest beachfront mall, hundreds of hotels in every price range, and more restaurants, bars, massage shops and convenience stores than any visitor could work through in a month. This guide does the centre honestly and in order: what the rebuilt...