Pattaya Thailand Guide

Jomtien Beach: Pattaya's Quieter Six Kilometres If Pattaya Beach is the city's loud front room, Jomtien is the balcony where people actually live. Six kilometres of mostly straight sand run south from Pratumnak Hill to Na Jomtien, backed by a beach road, rows of deckchairs, seafood restaurants and a skyline of condos that house a large long-stay and retiree community. It is calmer, cheaper and more local than central Pattaya — and for many visitors, it is simply the better beach day. The Beach, Section by Section The northern end, around Dongtan Beach , is the liveliest and most shaded, with casuarina trees, deckchair rows and vendors selling grilled prawns, som tam and cold drinks. Chair and umbrella rental is typically 50–100 baht per item for the day, often waived if you order food. The middle stretch along Jomtien Beach Road is the classic strip: hotels and condos across the road, restaurants at ground level, and the widest choice of places to eat. Further south towards ...

Jomtien Beach: Pattaya's Quieter Six Kilometres of Sand Every visitor to Pattaya finds the beach in the middle of town first — the famous curve of Pattaya Beach, with its speedboats, its promenade and its non-stop hum. Fewer find the beach that local residents, long-stay visitors and Bangkok families actually use, and it is only ten minutes away. Go south, over the green shoulder of Pratumnak Hill, and the city exhales. The towers thin out, the road calms down, and a long, straight, tree-lined beach opens up and runs for about six kilometres toward the horizon. That is Jomtien. Jomtien Beach — Hat Jomtien in Thai, sometimes spelled Chom Tian on road signs — is Pattaya's second beach, and for many people it is the better one. The sand is wider than in the centre, the water is generally calmer and cleaner for swimming, the sunsets face straight out over the Gulf of Thailand toward Koh Larn, and the whole strip has a lived-in, unhurried feel that central Pattaya never quite ma...