Pattaya Beach, Thailand Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

With its murky sea, streets packed with highrise hotels, and touts on every corner, PATTAYA is the epitome of exploitative tourism gone mad. The town swarms with male and female prostitutes, and plane-loads of Western men flock here to enjoy their services in the rash of go-go bars for which "Patpong-on-Sea" is notorious. Yet watersports facilities here are among the best in the country, and it's not a bad place to learn to dive , though the reefs off the Andaman Coast are more spectacular. TAT-approved dive shops that run four-day Open Water courses (B12,000) and diving expeditions include … more »