DEAC or anyone else traveling from Bangkok to Pattaya, take the bus not a taxi. I would never have thought this until last trip. I always took a taxi and considered the price of about $60 more than fair given the distance of about 2 hours.
However, this last trip I tried the new bus service and it is both very comfortable and so cheap it is ridiculous. The price of a lady drink! Airport to Pattaya, or vice versa, is 124 baht. Directly to or from the new airport and drops you off in Jomtien, across the street from Pan Pan restaurant in the Food Mart parking lot. A/C and comfortable seats. I had 2 big bags and no problem or charge for those.
If coming to or from Bangkok itself, not the airport, it is a different bus and drop off point in Pattaya. That station is on Pattaya Nua, otherwise known as North road, a little west of Sukimvit. From there you can catch a baht bus which takes Pattaya Nua to Beach road south. Get off whever you want. The bus is 124 baht and the baht bus is another 20 baht.
First timers may be better off in a taxi and the last bus runs at 8 pm or so but Thailand regular visitors can take advantage iof these buses. By the way, taxis are now 2500 baht each way, or around $80 now from the airport to Pattaya where they know most people are in a hurry and afraid to get lost on some bus. Pattaya to the airport runs half of that, around 1200.
Plus in hotels you have free daily maid service while in a condo you must arrange that.
Thanks...getting ready for SongKraun festival this week...the biggest water fight from sunrise to sunset in the world...google it and check it out...
117-39 Phaya Thai Road
Ratchathewi Bangkok 10400
Right now we care about the location, my gf wants to go shopping and all that. Also is it convenient to take the train station from here?
Bruce....plenty of black Thai girls here...as you know!
LOL but those 800,000 prostitutes don't?
BTW lately the BIB have been making multiple nightly raids on the NEP area SWs.
They have been hit up before for years for the 1000 Baht fine, if they can't outrun
the officers, but not at this frequency.
What is SWs?
Perhaps I was reading outdated material, but before I went to Bangkok I was under the impression that the Go-Go girls always danced clothed per the law. I was quite (pleasantly) surprised that 90% of the clubs I went into the girls were topless and left nothing to the imagination in the lower areas. Perhaps the raids are an effort to rope in the nudity. I wonder why they aren't nailing Cowboy every night as well?