Top 10 Nightlife in Pattaya

If naughty nightlife is just not you, try some traditional entertainment at one of the many pubs about town. For lively live music and dancing, hit Pattaya's enduring disco scene. The music is mostly rowdy US hip hop and Thai pop anthems at ear-shattering volumes. A few venues with hip modern interiors and names like Club Insomnia or Lucifer Disko TK are even sometimes sophisticated. Best time to go: after 21:00

They're ramshackle, cheap and loud but often a lot of fun – Pattaya's beer bars are legendary! Some are found in enclosed shop-houses, but most come jam-packed together inside tatty open-plan corrugated sheds around Walking Street and lower Beach Road, each comprising little more than a few stools and raised speakers assembled round a rather sorry-looking central bar. Open: around midday onwards

With the exception of some open-front beer bars and a small gay scene, nights in Jomtien are mostly wholesome and family-orientated. Those that don’t head to Pattaya Beach for a night of partying can relax in one of Jomtien’s many bars and restaurants, head to a cultural show like Alankarn, or just chill out around their hotel. Without a huge crowd of revellers, the atmosphere is a little more ‘authentic’. Location: Thappraya Road, Jomtien Complex, Soi Whitehouse and Soi 7

A must-see while in Pattaya, head over to Tiffany’s or Alcaza. Match dazzling stage sets with blindingly shiny costumes and stunning ladyboys, and you have a show so mind-blowing that it completely shatters the ‘fourth wall’ between audience and entertainers. In a breathless hour-long riot of sounds, colours and lights, experience a theatrical event that spans the entire hemisphere through song, dance or skit, from a Bollywood-style musical to Korean fan dance, to slapstick burlesque to Broadway Spectacular. Location: North Pattaya Book a tour, call 02 651 9515 Read More...

Saturdays at the famous American pop culture hotel are party time. The always lively poolside area morphs into a bubbling foam pool, with games, frolics and lots of fun. The milder, toned-down version for kids is between 17:00 and 18:30, while adults coming for the Beach Foam X Party are usually up to their necks in it at not long after 21:30. Location: Hard Rock Hotel, 429 Beach Road, North Pattaya

In Pattaya, Beer bars are not only good for drinks or picking up girls – they offer adrenaline-pumping entertainment as well. A number of open-sided bars lining Beach Road and Walking Street host nightly Muay Thai matches for the amusement of tourist spectators and those daring enough to enter the ring. Although amateurish, these fighters spend hours training and conditioning their muscles, so think (or wait until you’re drunk) before putting your life on the line. Best time to go: matches start at 19:00 and continue until 23:00

Pattaya Beach ensures muscle boys, bikers and toy boys are kept happy. Gay bars and A Go-Go joints are centred around the aptly named Boyz Town (Soi Pattayaland 1 & 3 and Soi 13/4). Highlights along these busy, noisy, neon-lit streets include Throb/Splash (325 Pattayaland 3). In addition to being a conventional A Go-Go bar, this also has a fish tank in which well-toned guys glide and dive gracefully through the water in very tight pants. After that there's a storming cabaret show. Sunee Plaza is just off the strip, quieter and more private.