About
Small on purpose.
68 curated places and 66 guides. Last updated 16 September 2026.
Most travel sites bury the good places under thousands of listings. We do the opposite. The collection here is small because every entry has been visited and chosen by someone who lives in Pattaya, not scraped from a database or assembled from reviews.
Fewer listings also means less time scrolling and more confidence that the places you see are there for a reason.
How it works
Instead of endless menus, we built one interface: the AI Guide. Ask it anything, where to have breakfast, where to watch the sunset, what to do when it rains. It answers from our curated recommendations and checks live listing data for hours and current details, so what it tells you is both considered and current.
How we make money
Pattaya.Guide is free to use and always will be. We fund it two ways: approved businesses can pay for partnership benefits and additional visibility, and we produce sponsored guides for brands whose readers overlap with ours.
Both are labelled, every time, wherever they appear. A partner listing carries a Partner badge. A sponsored guide says so at the top. If the AI Guide recommends a partner, it tells you.
Partner status can lift a relevant partner higher in a list or an AI Guide answer, but relevance comes first: a partner is never put in front of you when it isn't a suitable match for what you asked, and Editor's Picks are never paid.
What money doesn't buy
The opinion. We write what we think of a place whether it pays us or not, and we don't remove criticism because someone asked. If we wouldn't send a friend somewhere, it isn't listed at any price.
Editor's Picks are never paid.
That page is chosen on merit alone, and no partner has ever appeared on it by paying to.
Get in touch
Suggestions, corrections, hidden gems we should try? Ask the Guide, or use our contact form. To work with us, see Partner with us.