Pattaya is the place that you would end up with if you combined Benidorm and Amsterdam and gave it an oriental flavour - nothing but huge great hotels and bars full of prostitutes. Everywhere we went there were the cries of "Hello sexy man, I want to go with you!" There were the usual fat Germans, walking around with tiny Thai girls. On the positive side however, after all the secluded, no-frills places we'd been to so far, Pattaya was much more like the resort type holiday that you go to to have a good time - bars, clubs, lively beaches, jet-skis, live Thai-boxing, junk food, ice-cream parlours, decent accommodation etc. etc. We spent most of the days on the beach either growing the skin cancer, swimming or trying out the jet skis. We'd then go
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