Looking for things to do on vacation in Pattaya with kids? There are actually lots of family and child-friendly things to see and do, from simple and cheap everyday amusements and educational sightseeing trips to fun-filled adventures and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Family-friendly hotels: Staying at one of the popular family-friendly hotels in Pattaya, many of which have kid’s clubs and their own water amusement parks, makes keeping your kids entertained in Pattaya childs-play, so to say.
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Water Amusement Parks: Water activities such as swimming pools are always popular with children. Add a few slides and rides, like at the water parks in Pattaya, and you have a paradise for children of all ages.
Cartoon Network Amazone (now Columbia Pictures Aquaverse) features water slides and rides of varying height and intensity, from heart-stopping near vertical drops to gentle rides and slides for younger children. There’s also a wave pool, a lazy river, a dining area, and cabanas available.
Ramayana Water Park: The largest water park by area, it also boasts thrilling rides and slides, a lazy river, a party pool, and a wave pool. But with many gentler children’s rides and play areas, Ramayana might be the best water park for younger children to visit in Pattaya.
Pattaya Water Park: The oldest and most basic water amusement park in Pattaya. It features several slides, a lazy river, a kid’s pool with slides, a monorail, a roller coaster, a carousel ride, and a tower shot for the not-so-faint-hearted. While it’s basic, it’s centrally located (in Jomtien) and by far the cheapest children’s water amusement park in Pattaya.
Elephant Jungle Sanctuary: If there is a best thing elephants prefer families with kids to do in Pattaya, it’s visit the family and elephant-friendly Elephant Jungle Sanctuary and get up close with the elephants and enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime experience without riding or watching them perform circus tricks.
Go Karting: If you’re looking for something fast and furious to do in Pattaya with kids, there are two go-kart tracks suitable for adults and kids aged around 7 years and up.
Tenpin Bowling is something the whole family can enjoy until late at night. The most centrally located tenpin bowling alley at Central Festival Beach Mall is open until around 10 PM.
Catch a movie together: There are four movie cinemas in Pattaya, so you can do something with the kids when it rains or you just want to spend some quality family time doing very little.
Visit Koh Lahn: The soft sands and clear shallow water of Koh Lahn’s beaches, Tawaen Beach, for example, are more suitable for kids (especially toddlers) than the beaches around Pattaya. Koh Lahn is the closest of all the islands near Pattaya. It takes approximately 45 minutes to get there by ferry from the pier at Bali Hai, and it costs around 40 baht per person.
Underwater World: Continuing the theme of educational things to do in Pattaya with kids, Underwater World is a walkthrough tunnel aquarium where you can learn about and get up close to many different species of marine and freshwater creatures, including sharks, giant freshwater stingrays, turtles, and Arapaima.
Nong Nooch Gardens: With 1,700 rai (672 acres) of themed gardens, you can spend as much or as little time as you want to explore Nong Nooch. It’s far from simply gardens, though, and has something for the whole family.
The gardens themselves include the popular Dinosaur Valley with its lifesize dinosaur replicas. There are optional Thai culture and elephant shows every day, elephant riding, Arapaima feeding, and Hog Deer feeding. There is also an impressive automobile collection, with more than 100 famous vintage, classic, and muscle cars from around the world.
Khao Kheow Zoo: With over 300 species and around 800 animals, including lions, elephants, hippos, rhinoceros, and giraffes, to view in an area covering approximately 2,000 acres, you can spend a full day taking in all the sights at Khao Kheow Zoo.
Harborland: The biggest indoor air-conditioned children’s playground for families in Pattaya with kids. It’s centrally located at Harbor Mall on Pattaya Central (Klang) Road and is easy to reach by baht bus.
Children’s activities at Harborland:
- slides
- trampolining
- climbing wall
- roller skating
- laser tag battle
- bicycle riding
- swings
- obstacle course with zip lines
- toddlers building bricks
- kids’ go-karts and bumper cars
Note: there is also a Harborland on the 4th floor of Terminal 21 shopping mall in Pattaya.
Visit the Harborland website https://harborlandgroup.com/list-by-locations/ for more details.
Ripleys Believe It Or Not: Be amazed, meet famous celebrities, walk with dinosaurs, and have a hilarious haunting experience with your kids in Pattaya. There are several family-friendly attractions to enjoy at Ripleys, including the Odditorium (oddities museum), scream in the dark, haunted adventure, 9DX moving theater, and Luis Tussaud’s Waxworks.
View Ripley’s website https://ripleysthailand.com/home for more information.
Mini Siam: Take your kids on an educational whistle-stop tour of Thailand and the world without leaving Pattaya. Mini Siam is a park featuring replicas of famous buildings and landmarks around the world.
