Walking Street Pattaya: A Night on Thailand's Most Famous Street
Walking Street Pattaya: A Night on Thailand's Most Famous Street Every city has one street that everybody has heard of before they arrive, and in Pattaya that street is Walking Street. By day it is an ordinary seafront road at the southern end of Beach Road, with fishing boats at Bali Hai Pier, tour boats coming and going, and traffic rolling past. At about 6 PM the barriers go up, the cars are stopped, and the same road becomes a pedestrian-only strip of neon, music, food and people-watching that runs for about half a kilometre to the pier. Love it or leave it, you cannot claim to know Pattaya until you have walked it once after dark — slowly, with your eyes open and your wallet in a safe pocket. Walking Street is not a single bar or a single show. It is a whole district squeezed into one straight road: go-go bars and beer bars, live-music pubs and nightclubs, seafood restaurants and street-food carts, tattoo shops, tailors, massage parlours, souvenir stalls and hotels, all li...