During our recent trip to Pattaya, we decided to stay away from the crowded city beaches and after looking around the web, we decided to stay at Ravindra Resort in Jontiem beach, south of Pattaya. It is around 8 kms from the city, not far if you have a car but quite troublesome if you do not have one and it can be expensive if you keep going up and down. However, the hotel do provide shuttle service to the city.
Sunset from the city beach....wow....beautiful.
As we have our own transport, this was not an issue and it was perfect. The beach here is not crowded (only those staying in the resort and the neighboring hotels). The resort is new (about 1 year old) and well designed and maintained.
Occupancy was very low except when they had conferences. It seems that is the only way to get in the crowd nowadays. I read that the overal hotel occupancy this year for Pattaya is 27%...wow, that is bad.
We could see from the businesses that it is not a good year for Pattaya but most are optimistic about next year...if the political issues in the country are resolved plus other factors such as the H1N1 virus and gobal economy situation.
The kids loved the beach and the pools (there are 3 pools) and with the low occupancy, sometimes we had the whole pools to ourselves.
Along the way to the city, a new Mini Golf has been built. The kids loved the place but we only had time to go once but for 36 holes. I must say that the French owner did a good job and it is of high quality. Hope he does well.
It was a good short holiday and the whole family has a good time.
Until next time, cheers.
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