Pattaya, you love it or hate it, but even the most ardent Pattaya fanatics don’t like everything about Thailand’s Sin City. Pattaya has it’s good points, and there are not many things I would change if I had the chance. I don’t want to contradict myself and be a whinging farang, all I’m doing is merely highlighting the worst things about Pattaya.
- Markets on footpaths, I guess there’s no avoiding them, “all footpaths lead to the market”.
- Motorbikes parking on footpaths.
- No footpaths. That’s probably the local councils counter measure to people putting motorbikes and markets on them.
- Soi dogs, it’s a shame because they are the by-product of neglect.
- Complete waste of land which could used to grace the city with some public parks, I guess living space is more important than lifestyle in Pattaya.
- Parking attendants, are they the only one’s who know what all them silly little blasts on their whistle mean.
- Pattaya’s “motorcycle highway men“, the 2 blokes on a motorbike who snatch your gold or your bag.
- Seems like everyone in Pattaya has a website or blog, why can’t mine be the only one.
- You don’t find out what’s going on until it’s gone on.
- “Johnny Ten Men”, he’s usually out in force on Walking Street, especially on New Years Eve, he’s usually a bit bigger than you, and he’ll walk right through you if you don’t move. I know he frequents other places but Pattaya brings out the worst in him.
- Pushy girls, you know what I mean, “Hello, what’s your name, do you want to buy me a drink”. They used to call me a sexy man first !!.
- For some reason Pattaya’s “powers that be” keep trying to build the worlds biggest city on the infrastructure of a fish bowl.
- Bad smells, one of the best, or should I say worst examples of this the terrible smell rising from the drains on Beach Road, just before Walking Street.
- Death by chilli fumes, have you ever drove a motorbike past one of Pattaya’s roadside food vendors when they’re stir frying chillies. They make beautiful food but those fumes must be responsible for many temporarily blinded motorcyclists.