Молодежный отдых а Таиланде Youth holidays in Thailand

So. . . I will try to tell you many aspects of rest in Pattaya, in this wonderful city, because at one time, exactly the same reviews helped me a lot. Let's start with arrival: no complaints (flying from Pegasus), met, put on the bus, told everyone along the way, issued local SIM cards (the cost of a call to Russia is about 6-7 rubles / min, depending on the exchange rate of the baht to the ruble) and actually brought to the hotel. The hotel is located about 300 meters from the beach and 3 km from the city centre. Which is perfect in my opinion. Why? Firstly, it makes no sense at all to take a hotel on the first coastline, because they don’t swim in Pattaya. No, well, of course, crazy Russians swim, but they spend the rest of their vacation in a hotel on beds stung by jellyfish and sea urchins, and the water there is not very clean (I’ll write about where to swim later). Secondly, the hotel is ideally removed from the city center and it is really quiet there and you can sleep peacefully. There are no endlessly scurrying cars, motorbikes, screaming boozy Russians (for the whole rest of other nationalities in this state, unfortunately, I have not met). And the center can be reached in ten minutes by any transport or on foot in 20 minutes. The cost of a taxi is 100 baht (about 120 rubles), a motorbike is 50-80 baht (a motorbike is a scooter in our opinion), a tuk-tuk is also 100 baht (these are pickups, with passenger seats in the back). Naturally, you need to bargain, because the Thais, seeing tourists, break prices at exorbitant prices, but you don’t have to bargain for a long time. More about the hotel. Amazingly polite and nice staff, everyone understands Russian, but they don't speak it. Everyone knows English. The rooms are good and clean. Cleaned up every day. We got a room on the first floor with access to the pool directly from the balcony. Believe me, there is nothing better than diving into the pool in the morning, after a stormy night, under the envious glances of the neighbors who live above. You can swim until 10 pm, we swam at night, no one told us anything. The pool, by the way, is not very big, next to it is small for kids. We took the tour only with breakfast, the food is rather monotonous: scrambled eggs, sausages, ham, rice with vegetables, toast, juices, water, tea, coffee, etc.... all) and so every morning. Personally, it didn’t bother me much, the food is quite tasty. By the way, good advice, if you want to enjoy delicious Thai cuisine, do not take tours with a full board or all inclusive. The food there is very cheap, and you can save a lot by eating on your own. It took me an average of 100-150 baht for lunch / dinner in nearby cafes. Bathing. If you have not classified yourself as a crazy Russian, then I highly recommend swimming on the nearby island of Koh Lan. The water is clean, there are barriers from jellyfish, there are several beaches to choose from. Ferries go there from the pier near Walking Street every hour, cost 40 baht, sail 40 minutes. From the hotel to the pier you can walk again, or by transport (60-100 baht). Just get to the very end of the pier, where these very ferries stand, because at the beginning of the pier you will be howled by unborn Thai hucksters and offer you speedboats to the island for 150-250 baht. And of course, what is Thailand without its main "chip", sex tourism. Probably everyone has heard of a street called Walking Street (sorry for the tautology). In essence, the street is... a street where, after 11 at night, or even earlier, crowds of Russian virgin students, unfaithful husbands, inquisitive groups of Chinese (I have never seen a Chinese walking alone) and other people. On the street of this hundreds of cafes, clubs, massage parlors, shops, magicians, beggars, howled (if you decide to walk from the beginning of the walking street to the end, a dozen Thais will come to you with an offer of "ibasa" and pictures of erotic content). Everything is very interesting and unusual at first, but for me personally, my 3rd trip to this street was already somehow boring. I will not describe in detail, because it must be seen. I will only advise that all the services offered on walking street can be taken near the hotel much cheaper. A bit about "near the hotel". There are a lot of massage parlors near the hotel, where for 200 baht you will get a chic massage for an hour. We bought all the products in the supermarkets of seven-evan and family mart, they are round-the-clock and there are a lot of them. We took all excursions from Pegasus, earlier in Pegasus they were much more expensive than street howls (of which there are also a lot on the street near the hotel, by the way, all Russians), but now the prices are equal. Service and quality are about the same here and there. We took the Flight of the Gibbon + Zoo tour (I advise everyone, flying on tight cables, 4 km long over the jungle), Euphoria - a one-day ferry tour, with free alcohol (which is what the Pegasus guide actually attracted our attention, in fact from alcohol turned out to be only Thai rum), swimming and a foam disco on the ferry, various transvestite shows and sex shows didn’t really impress me, you can go for show, but no more. By the way!! ! Pegasus has such a feature that when you buy a set of excursions, it's for you! (and in fact everyone) gets a FREE TOUR to the crocodile farm. On which us.... FORGET TO TAKE! Before that, there were no problems with paid excursions, they called directly to the room, but then they forgot. Anyway. . . rest in peace treacherous pegasus hotel guide-egyptian.... joke) By the way, all the guides from Pegasus and not only speak Russian perfectly, sellers, taxi drivers also understand Russian, the menu is almost everywhere in Russian, money exchangers at every step (you can also in the hotel, but the exchange rate is worse), signs in stores are also in Russian. In general, in my opinion, if it were not for the slightly inflated prices, Tai would have turned into a second Turkey long ago, although it may have turned already. If you want to buy things, then it is better to do it at the night market (150 baht taxi from the hotel), it is open on weekends from 6 pm or so until 11 am. It’s better to buy souvenirs there (many reviews say about Lucdot, but it’s still cheaper on the market). If you want to rent a motorbike, then take it better on Koh Lan, the traffic there is much calmer. Well, that's all for now, have a wonderful holiday and, as the Thais say, Sabai-Sabai are friends.