Yesterday we took delivery of our new car from the main Toyota dealer in Sukhumvit Road, Pattaya. As usual I was like a kid with a new toy until I was informed I can’t (legally) drive a car with the red number plates between 7p.m and 7a.m. The white plates will not arrive for at [...]

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The high season seems like it has finally started albeit 2 weeks late. Having said that it is still very quiet compared to recent years. Whilst Walking Street and Beach Road are crowded, many of the smaller beer bar complexes have more serving girls than customers with many remaining empty all night. Walking along 2nd [...]

Well actually, for cars, buses, baht taxis, motorbikes, bicycles etc but NOT for pedestrians. I am increasingly exasperated by the stream of visitors who seem to leave their brains behind when they step on a plane and think it’s perfectly acceptable to walk two or even three abreast in the road. I wonder what their [...]

I can’t believe how quiet it is in Pattaya. We should really be well into the high season now but the place is ever so quiet. Of course the hot spots such as Walking Street do have tourists but even there the numbers are visibly low and usually large numbers of Japanese and Koreans. 2nd [...]

There is a new chat forum for Pattaya lovers and visitors at www.pattayaaddicts.com Unlike most Pattaya forums this one is guaranteed flame free. It also has NO ties to one particular bar so offers a completely unbiased view not overly promoting one bar, or more importantly sniping at the bars/owners of the competitors. It was [...]

Firstly, Apologies to readers and contributors alike for the lack of updates on this site. We have recently moved house and as many of you will be aware getting everything sorted out in Pattaya can be a long and sometimes painful process. To cap it all we were burgled last night! Not much went missing [...]