I am planning my first trip to Thailand with seven days of my bachelor friends and we want to visit both Phuket and Pattaya. I m chte? Know which place to stay first then Patong Pattaya Pattaya or Patong then? plus I f good hotels? r bachelors who we were like erm?, f lady guest? know to bring for the night.
Need travel tips for Patong and Pattaya?
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I would forget Patpong, where you really want to be in Soi Cowboy or Soi Nana.
Hotels to stay would be Nana Hotel or Majestics Suites for Bangkok
For Pattaya I would recommend Galaxy Suites
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One place you must see is Eden Club Bangkok and Hell’s Club (changed it name) Pattaya, but every-one will understand.
Pattaya is really great for a group of bachelors .all the hotels allow you to bring ladies but the best ones cost you extra money(u need to give money to hotel,usually 4and5 star hotels are like this and it’s between400-800baht beside the money u give to your guest)so i suggest to get a room in a 3or lower star hotel and pay nothing to hotel.(the hotels near walking street would be good for you like Siam bay view hotel but not expect that these hotels have all facilities,some of the Pattaya best hotels are garden sea view and Royal cliff but they charge u extra money and i’m not sure that the last one would really allows you to bring someone)chek the sites below
good luck
Fancy expensive hotels will want you to pay for any extra “guests.”
Stick with a hotel in the 700 baht to 1600 baht for Bangkok. Get a hotel in Bangkok in the Sukhumvit Road area, not far from Nana Skytrain stop. Even in this price range you will get a room with air and private shower. Fortuna Hotel on Soi 5 will do. Nana Hotel is right across the street from the Nana Entertainment Center.
Check out Soi Cowboy, Nana Entertainment on Sukhumvit Soi 4 and Pat Pong for the heck of it and visual entertainment. For up close, personal entertainment go to a beer bar, a beer bar will save you money. Skip Patong and after Bangkok head to Pattaya. Patong will only be a more expensive foray, not even counting the cost of the flight, plus only a cheap copy of Pattaya.
Pattaya is 2.5 hours from Bangkok by bus or around 1100-1200 baht by meter taxi. In Pattaya choose a hotel in the 500 baht to 1200 baht range. Look up the Areca Lodge, Bay Breeze, Intown Holiday Hotel and Honey Inn Hotel. From this area you can walk to most places. (All hotels will have A/C, private bathroom, TV and maid service.) Areca is best, Intown Holiday has a pool on roof, Honey Inn around 500-600 baht, lots of other choices on the soi near the Honey Inn.)
Happy trails!
Did you mean Patong or Patpong?
Patpong is a strip bars and nightmarkets in Bangkok and is really not worth the effort these days.
Patong is a district in Phuket which also has strip of bars.
Lots of info here: http://www.adultguide-bangkok.com/
Just a couple of extra notes about Pattaya (I’ve not been to Patong) – it is no accident that on every street corner which has a “massage parlour”, the opposite corner has a STD clinic!.
The guys are, if anything prettier than the girls and they go in for a lot of cross-dressing!! Exercise caution!
Make sure you follow your malaria medication instructions to the letter and take some insect repellent with you. The mozzies in Thailand are man-eaters!!!
“Hot” Thai food in Thailand bears no resemblance to “hot” in England!!!!