Pattaya Beach

Pattaya Beach

Pattaya Beach Road

Published by Chalita Majang on 19 October 2022

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High angle shot of Pattaya Beach Road
Pattaya Beach Road:
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Pattaya’s Most Famous Street?

Pattaya Beach Road is one of the most famous streets in Thailand. It is located on the eastern side of Pattaya Bay and The Gulf of Thailand.

Pattaya Beach Road

ป้ายบนพัทยาคมวินสตีเฟนต์ (Pattaya Beach Road in Thai) is a street in Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand. The street runs along the shoreline of Pattaya Bay. It is famous for its many bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels. In fact, the road has been dubbed “Pattaya’s most famous street” since it was built in the 1970s. However, Walking Street might fairly lay claim to that title too. In recent years, the area has become more popular with tourists than locals. Many people visit the area because of its golden sand and peaceful sea views, although also for its nightlife, shopping, and entertainment options.

However, some residents complain about noise pollution, litter, and crime.

Pattaya’s Strip

The road has many nicknames, depending on where the visitor has come from. It has been known as “Pattaya’s Main Street” since it was first built. It is also called “First Road”, “The Strip”, “The Avenue”, and “The Boulevard”. Nevertheless, most people refer to it as “Pattaya Beach Road” or simply “Beach Road”. The road runs along the beach front for about 3.5 km from near The Dolphin Roundabout in the north to Walking Street in the south. This is the place where tourists come to enjoy the nightlife and shopping. There are plenty of bars, restaurants, clubs, and shops along the road. This is the area to investigate if you are looking for a hotel near a beach in Pattaya.

Why Is This Street So Popular?

Many people visit Pattaya because of its beautiful beaches. However, there are also other reasons why Beach Road is so popular. One reason is that it has a lot of entertainment options. While the area is ‘perfectly’ safe during daylight hours, the actual beach, and even the beach-side pavement is a no-go area at night. It has a reputation for male prostitution after dark and many men have experienced problems there.

Behind The Smile on Pattaya Beach Road

Book cover of Daddy's Hobby - my first book as an indie author
Behind The Smile volume 1

The Welsh author Owen Jones has written a very popular seven-part series called ‘Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya’, which features a bar just off Pattaya Beach Road and the girls who work in it. Many visitors praise the story for being true to life, and several Pattaya bar girls have thanked the author for portraying them honestly.

Click the link below to find out more about the series.

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Beach Road Pattaya in Amazing Thailand

Published by Chalita Majang on 26 February 2022

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The most famous Thai beach road…

A book featuring Beach Road Pattaya
A book featuring Beach Road Pattaya

Beach Road Pattaya is by far the most famous Thai beach road and is the busiest road in the city of Pattaya as far as tourists, pedestrians and vehicles are concerned. It is also the most scenic because Beach Road in Pattaya runs literally the width of the pavement from the golden sand of the clean beach and only metres from the sparkling blue sea. This is the largest of the beaches in Pattaya.

Beach Road begins at the entrance to Walking Street in the south of the city and continues in a gentle curve for approximately 2.8 kilometres before heading east away from the beach at the Dusit Thani Hotel and continuing a few hundred metres towards the Dolphin Roundabout in the south-east.

Having expressed the dimensions of Beach Road in that way, the flow of the one-way traffic is towards Walking Street. This makes sense because the southern end is less busy, and the action tends to be at the northern, more densely populated area.

Travelling along Beach Road in Pattaya

This is far from being a problem though, because of the Baht Bus service. A Baht Bus is an open sided pickup. The majority of them are privately owned, but city licensed, and charge just ten Baht for any length journey, which means that you can travel from your isolated hotel in the south, the full length of Beach Road to Walking Street and only pay ten Baht.

When you want to return the other way, you take a side-street at right angles to the beach, walk to the end, where you will come to Second Road and the traffic flows in the opposite direction.

Beach Road and Second Road

Between Beach Road and Second Road, there run dozens of side-streets, called soi, which contain most of the bars, of which there are many and various kinds. The nightlife of this Pattaya beach is legendary the world over with all kinds of bars ranging from Starbucks and Planet Hollywood to girly bar discos. There are also fantastic restaurants, especially seafood ones, along the front mostly near the centre of Beach Road, which is around Soi 7.

Must-see

If you want to get a flavour for this exciting beach in Thailand, try searching for: ‘Youtube Pattaya Beach Road’ and you will find many videos posted.

Beach Road Pattaya is a must-see for any visitor to the city, and a trip the full length of it on a Baht Bus is a must-do.

Best wishes,

Chalita.

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Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby

Published by Owen Jones on 28 March 2019

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Behind The Smile – audiobook

Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby

Volume 1 of Behind The Smile

by Owen Jones

Narrated by John Roberts

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand.

Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and back to work until her kids had their own children and she could stop working to take care of them.

One day a catastrophe occurred out of the blue – her father died young and with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was twenty and she was the only one who could prevent foreclosure. However, the only way she knew was to go to work in her cousin’s bar in Pattaya.

Daddy’s Hobby

She went as a waitress-cum-cashier to Pattaya, but when she realised that she was pregnant by her worthless, estranged husband, things had to change. She had the baby, gave it to her mother to look after and went back to work. However, now she needed real money to provide a better life for her child and to make up for spending its whole youth 500 miles away. She drifted into the tourist sex industry.

The book relates some of her ‘adventures’, her dreams and nightmares and her ‘modus operandi’. It tries to show, from Lek’s point of view, what it really is like to be a Pattaya Thai bar girl – the hopes and frustrations, the hopes and the let-downs, the hopes and the lies and deceit that are part of her every day life.

One day she meets a man she likes and he likes her too. Nothing new there, it had happened hundreds of times, but she feels that it is different. They have a wonderful four weeks together and then he goes home… as they all had, leaving more promises and more hopes.

This one returns. However, real life with a real boyfriend is not as easy as she had dreamed it would be. They go through good and bad times, but will they stay together and for how long?

Behind The Smile

After all she has been through, will she be able to be a regular girlfriend or even a wife again? Will she ever really be able to trust a man enough again either? Or would she be better off giving up her dreams and carrying on working in the bar?

Lek begins to find out that getting what you wish for is not always as good as you thought it would be.

Behind The Smile – Daddy’s Hobby: ‘Behind The Smile’ refers to the fact that Thailand is known the world over as ‘The Land of Smiles’, and Daddy’s Hobby was the bar where Lek worked.

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Pattaya Beach by John Elray

Published by Owen Jones on 27 July 2014 1

Pattaya Beach

Pattaya Beach

Pattaya Beach

By John Elray

A Common Tale of Woe Told in an Uncommon Way

Review by Owen Jones

When I was given this book by it’s author because he had heard that I lived in Pattaya, it was two years ago, but little did he know that I was writing my own first novel on girls working in the same Thai city. I put the novel at the back of my hard drive and wrote my own, because I was frightened that people would say that I had copied someone.

Anyway, I finished my novel, Behind The Smile and it turned into a trilogy, so I retrieved Elray’s Pattaya Beach earlier this week and started it.

I am glad that I left it and I am equally glad that I retrieved it because I loved it!

I have lived in Pattaya and elsewhere in the Land of Smiles for ten years now and you can believe me that most men who write and talk about the girls don’t have a good word to say about them.

However, I do and I am happy to say, so does Elray.

He is sympathetic, but still realistic. They are not all good, but then which group of people is?

The characters were varied and believable and there is plenty of action to keep the story rolling along. I found it a very enjoyable read.

I recognised the streets, the areas and types of places, bars and characters both in Pattaya and Nong Khai, which also features – I have been there many times en route to Laos for a visa.

I even live in a remote village like the one in this story, and as it happens, it is located not far from the one in the book as the crow flies.

If you are not a rabid misogynist of Thais and like the Land of Smiles, this is a book for you. Pattaya Beach was certainly my kind of book. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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Review only, by +Owen Jones

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