Pattaya, who does not know it?
Pattaya who does not know it? I think everyone who Thailand visiting more than once knows it. In fact, it works like a magnet! Especially for fans, but not for me.
I wouldn't want to be buried there yet. I've been there several times, both for work and sometimes at night. Every time I think, who would want to live here? But yes, tastes differ.
I know I'm making a lot of noise on this blog right now, because many of the readers live there or go there every day holiday back again. No, give me the other side of the Gulf of Thailand. The city that many Pattaya visitors dismiss as the elderly home of Thailand: 'Hua Hin'.
It is not for nothing that it is the safest city in Thailand. Here you can still walk on the street without being harassed or park your motorbike without locking it. Here you will find everything you need, even the Thai work harder here. Need an internet connection? Arranged the next day. Cable TV? Same day.
To my horror, the Russians are already coming here. It is not yet like in Pattaya, there you read two languages on the signs (read Russian and Thai) but you see them more and more. I hold my heart for Hua Hin…
Anyway, I have been living in Hua Hin for a few years now. I like it very much to give a little counter-action to the many Pattaya lovers on this blog. Even the poll points in favor of Hua Hin, so there is certainly interest in this wonderful city. Why does everyone want to go to Pattaya so badly?
Who knows may say.
Yes, Luckyluke, I think it's a horror too. People who live there almost always say they live in a quiet area, like in Jomtien or elsewhere, but you still live in the sphere of influence of a city dominated by foreigners, the sex industry and package tourists. The atmosphere of Beachroad eo even has something insane; Thousands of screaming girls in hundreds of bars, all shouting the same thing: “Handsome boy, welcome, I love you, (to me) papa strong man etc. etc.
After 6 years I was there again 4 months ago with a friend; after 2 days we fled back to Bangkok, a real Thai city.
But there are many opportunities for foreigners to live luxuriously and comfortably outside the entertainment atmosphere and of course I don't experience that, who rents a room in a guesthouse/hotel and you live in a fresh healthy sea breeze. It just depends on what you prefer.
Do some people call Hua Hin a retirement home? You should walk along the boulevard of Beach Road in Pattaya in the evening: all elderly people!
I don't know if I'm right, but all the villages and towns all look very similar, I haven't been to the south yet.
maybe it's all a bit exaggerated, one city is more beautiful than the other, for me it's almost all the same.
seen beautiful places…
beautiful guest house, swimming pool, beautiful garden, etc
everywhere, throughout Thailand you have beautiful and less beautiful places, although it is a pity that it is often a bit far apart
People, people.
Stop advertising Hua Hin now.
I have just built my wife and house there and hope to be able to live there peacefully within a few years.
Let's keep it as it is please.
Can't we advise another town to attract Russians and Arabs?
It is a pity that the Russians have also discovered Hua Hin. If this development continues – which also applies to Arabs and Indians – Thailand may well start to price itself out of the market with Western tourists.
The question is whether you should be happy with these developments. Of course, the new tourists also bring money, but how wealthy will these countries remain in the future?
There must be quite a few Russians around here, but to be honest I haven't encountered them yet. Many Norwegians, Swedes, Finns, Germans and Dutch. It also all depends on what kind of Russians come to Hua Hin. The alcoholic partygoers find it much too quiet here.
Harold, I don't understand you for a moment. You wonder whether Arab countries (with their oil!) and India will remain financially strong in the future, I would say that is quite safe. In addition, there are Asian countries such as China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan that have been competing with Western economies for a long time and with success! The share of the farangs is now only 15% of the total number of tourists visiting Billboard Country every year, so you can assume that in the near future you will have an Arab neighbor on the left, a Russian as a new farang on the right and on across the street from where you live a Chinese couple and a Korean and Japanese restaurant on the corner and the Euro ceases to exist.
Thailand is the last to worry about the development that Thailand will price itself out of the market for Western tourists.
@ niek I mean by saying that people here in Europe also thought for decades that this would be one of the most wealthy parts of the world. In the meantime, as you know, a lot has changed. Southern European countries are virtually bankrupt, the euro is under discussion and in the meantime it seems to be some time before we emerge from the crisis.
Thailand doesn't really care about it. As long as money keeps coming in.
Well Pattaya, you have to love it. I've been there twice and actually experienced a mistake the second time upon arrival. Anyway, there were some old friends of mine who swear by Pattaya; their motto is: parties and women. If you go for that, you are of course in the right place in Pattaya (or Phuket).
However, I never understood why people want to live there, especially later in life. Can of course still be for that “partying and women”, but I feel that from the age of 70 you are a bit lost. I also don't think you will be taken seriously if you are still walking around at that age for the aforementioned reasons. It is therefore probably not the adventurers among us who settle here. I think it has everything to do with security. In case of problems you can always turn to a neighbor who understands and understands you. In addition, there is of course everything you were used to in the Netherlands. And, of course, humans are also pack animals by nature that like to have others of the same kind around them. But I don't get it.
About three years ago I bought a studio in the quieter Jomtian,
with the intention of coming there 2 or 3 times a year because I found Pattaya so special and because there is a lot to experience.
Now I want to leave because I have come to realize that Pattya is not the real Thailand and nothing is what it really seems.
Everything revolves around money and mass tourism.
But on the other hand, Pattya is also something unique in the world and good for a few days and not for a long time.
In the meantime I have crossed all over Thailand in all those years and discovered what a beautiful country this is.
Now I only visit Pattya again for 3 days and then go back, if only to sniff the atmosphere.
As a newcomer it won't matter, because you can't compare what it once was like, but I too have had to watch with sorrow the change in visitors, Russians and Indians, BBRRRR!!! inscriptions in Thai and in Russian !!
Arabs have always been there, but they had their own streets or hotels, what has always amazed me is that the Arabs follow all the rules of conduct from their country of origin,
in Thailand, throwing them overboard, so drinking and whoring, etc., is really unthinkable in the countries where they come from.
But alas peanut butter, times change, and there is nothing you can do about that, then make the best of it, I miss my old Pattaya.
Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, said Reagan, and then the misery began, the beginning of the end.
I think this gentleman is partly right but pattaya also has its charm like so many places in thailand so feel free to go to pattaya. that will become a world destination in the future
Pattaya has been a major city on the map for some time now, but unfortunately it has grown far too quickly. With all the good but unfortunately also the bad that entails. Despite the recession, people continue to build, because the new class of buyers are the Russians, Arabs, Koreans and the Chinese who are swimming in money. And it won't be long before we have a Chinatown here too!! The extreme city has it all, and no matter what you think of it, it is all there in abundance. And that makes Pattaya so attractive, but I wouldn't want to live in Pattaya itself for any price. I lived very quietly in Jomtien for years and now 6 km from Jomtien in a true Eldorado of peace and nature, where I only hear the birds chirping. It is therefore nice to have all conveniences within reach within a radius of a few kilometers, and I feel great just outside Pattaya. But I will definitely explore Hua Hin soon, because there are undoubtedly several alternatives to live a pleasant life. But what Pattaya has to offer I cannot find anywhere in the world, and I have been on the road for a while.