Паттайюшка СУПЕР! Всем советую!)) Pattaya SUPER! I advise everyone!))

Hello everyone! I went to Pattaya with a friend from April 9 to April 22.2011. The weather was excellent 30-40 degrees of heat, which was not felt at all. A couple of times it rained for an hour, which passed unnoticed. Hotel. Pattaya Park (3*). We lived in the main building with a tower, 12th floor overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, beauty! The rooms are good, cleaned every day (tip 20 baht), but the bed linen left much to be desired. The room has a TV with a Russian channel, a refrigerator, a safe (all for free). However, we did not interrogate either an iron or a kettle at the reception (no one there knows Russian at all, as well as English). At the reception there is an exchange office, but we exchanged on the street not far from the hotel, more profitable. The territory of the hotel. The pool is small. Between the hotel and the sea there is an aqua park, there is a larger pool, to be honest, they never got there (100 baht). The hotel has shops with clothes, and massage rooms, they also provide services for the selection of excursions. Beach. Urban, ordinary, dirty. Along the coast there are private traders with their sunbeds (100 baht plastic and 60 baht wooden seated). Massage is done right there, I don’t know how, because they didn’t risk it. But I advise everyone to do the current on the legs, because there are no professionals there. Traders walk along the beach all the way, selling fruits, seafood (fried and boiled), clothes, watches, souvenirs, etc. Bargaining with them is not only possible, but also necessary. Personally, I bought a sundress (200 baht), a hammock (400 baht) there and constantly took fruits and shrimp. City. Leaving the hotel and going up to the main street, you pass by cafes, shops and all sorts of stalls with souvenirs, fruits, etc. We ate exclusively there... because it was difficult to call breakfast breakfast..... ate only scrambled eggs, fruits and buns... drank coffee and juices. On this street, we chose the cafe "U Omar", there are very beautiful gazebos, delicious food and friendly staff. All cafes have both Thai cuisine, European and Russian cuisine. Volkin Street is the main street of Pattaya, where there is always a lot of fun, a lot of people and loud music. We visited the Russian cafe there (for some reason, the locals call it "Cattle Bar"), where Russian music is full of Russians. We were also in a nearby restaurant, unfortunately I don’t remember the name, of course everything is civilized there. . )Excursions. Were on a survey (free), represented by CORAL TRAVEL: - were on top of the largest Buddha statue in Pattaya, and next to it - a beautiful Chinese-style sacred place dedicated to Confucius and Lao Tzu - at a jewelry factory in Pattaya, a museum gems, snake farm + snake show, gift shop (absolutely awful). SPA - hot stone massage, herbal wrap, mineral bath, aroma skin restoration with oils and creams, facial massage and hot herbal tea (3.000 baht). Day trip to Bangkok - visiting the royal palace, boat trip on the Chao Phraya river, lunch on the 84th floor of the Baiyoke Sky Hotel - the highest building in Bangkok (2200 baht). Nong Nooch Park, here I highly recommend it to you... you need to visit, it is very beautiful, it will impress even the most unimpressive... it includes the Orchid Garden, Cactus Garden, French Park, Butterfly Garden, Elephant Farm + show of elephants who will draw, play volleyball , ride a bike, etc. . Also visit the Million Years Stone Park with a crocodile farm + crocodile show. All this pleasure cost us 1200 baht. The Tiffany show, to be honest, I didn’t really like it, I will never go there again. For those who have never seen it, you can go just to put a tick (like you saw it) - this performance was given to us as a gift. We were on the islands of Koh Lang (I liked it very much) by ferry from Volkin Street 30 baht, we got on our own and on the island of Koh Samet (through guides, 1600 baht), and it was not worth it. Yes, white sand, and a clear sea... but very far... we traveled by bus for 1.5-2 hours (taking into account the arrival at other hotels for tourists), and then 20-30 minutes on a boat, all the kidneys were beaten off while sailing through the waves)) . It's easier to ride Ko Lang, because it's closer and cheaper. Shopping. The city is full of markets... to be honest there is one consumer goods. But in stores you can find something, sometimes very interesting little things that we don’t have, but the prices are not much different from our Samara ones. And you can pick up every little thing on the cheap in the night markets. Do you want a good fake watch?... it's easy there... a very solid fake (3000-6000 baht). Pattaya is the best place for young people to relax! More mature and elderly, of course, a quieter place is better... for example, Phuket. I advise everyone! But I won’t fly with CORAL anymore (they don’t care about tourists at all, the current babos are rowing). Here are a few examples: (Nong Nooch Park, elephant show - there were no seats at all... people sat on the floor or stood somewhere in the corner), while other travel agencies took places for their tourists in advance and fenced these rows with a rope, inviting everyone taking the handle literally)! In Bangkog we were given a Russian-speaking guide, whose stories we did not understand, since the pronunciation was not perceived by the ear... Airport, departure, flight was delayed for 5 hours, the King brought, dropped off, escorted to the nearest shops and left. For 5 hours we stupidly ran from one window to another, because we were constantly thrown here and there. While 4 people (guides) from Anex Tur stood and waited for their tourists with signs until they passed passport control! They approached everyone, asked, explained everything, showed it. . Maybe for someone my remarks will seem too meticulous... but it manifested itself in many ways... Draw your own conclusions. And everything else is great!! ! If you are not a star people, then you will like it for sure!