Editor's Picks
The very best of Pattaya.
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cafes · East Pattaya
BRU Coffee & Bar
Considered coffee and properly made food, away from the beach entirely.
A small, quiet room on the east side doing specialty coffee and made-in-house food at a standard that would hold up anywhere in Bangkok, without the traffic or the crowd.
attractions · North Pattaya
Terminal 21 Pattaya
A themed mall that is genuinely worth walking around, and the food court is the point.
Each floor built around a different world city, a food court that is one of the best-value meals in Pattaya, and enough air conditioning to lose an afternoon in.
cafes · North Pattaya
Backstreet House
A garden down an alley, coffee by day and cocktails after dark.
One of the few places in Pattaya that works equally well at 11am and 9pm. Large shaded garden, roasted coffee, and a full cocktail list once the sun drops.
hotels · North Pattaya, Wongamat
Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort
A lost-world water park with a hotel attached.
The most complete family resort on the coast, with a themed water park, a private stretch of Wongamat beach and enough on site that you need not leave for a week.
restaurants · Central Pattaya
Harlan's Pattaya
The steak dinner Pattaya did not used to have.
A small, tightly run kitchen doing classical steakhouse cooking at a standard that would hold up in Bangkok, with service that remembers you.
restaurants · Jomtien, Thappraya
Cafe des Amis
Pattaya's long-running fine dining benchmark.
Decades in one location, still the room people book for anniversaries and closed deals. The kitchen has nothing left to prove and cooks like it.
restaurants · Huai Yai
Patrick's Huay Yai Steakhouse
The Pattaya steakhouse, relocated to where the parking is easy.
The same kitchen standard that built Patrick's reputation in town, in a larger Huay Yai room with a Sunday roast worth planning a week around.
attractions · Naklua
Sanctuary of Truth
A hundred metres of hand-carved teak, still unfinished after decades.
The one attraction in Pattaya that genuinely has no equivalent anywhere else, and it is still being carved while you walk through it.
hotels · North Pattaya, Naklua
Grande Centre Point Space Pattaya
A space-themed resort that families plan whole trips around.
The highest-rated large hotel in the city, with a serious water park, a genuinely committed theme and Terminal 21 a short walk away.