Discotheques
Lucifer
Popular with young thai people, although this is not a typical thai discotheque. only r'n'b, sometimes with special guest dj's. a good place to go at about 2am-3pm; extremely crowded after midnight. free entry, expensive drinks.
Marine Disco
on walking street - large dance floor and plays house music it's the house music counterpart of lucifer. free entry, but drinks are expensive.
Tony 2
Not as well known as tony's entertainment complex, but also very pricey.
Hollywood Disco
recently moved to a new location in north pattaya
Tony's Entertainment Complex
(http://www.tonydisco.com) on walking street has an attractive and stylish interior, great live music and service. free entry, but incredibly expensive drinks - and a 5000 baht fine if you're caught bringing your own in!
MIXX
at the end of walking street - opened in late 2007 - has r'n'b and house rooms two rooms in one disco. drinks are expensive.
Club Insomnia - now on Walking Street
House music, cheap drinks, late licence, european dj's, as of mid 2007 "the place to go" after 2am.
Pattaya has two types of disco - those that are on or near Walking Street, and those that are not.
Those on Walking Street are more popular with Westerners accompanied by bar girls, and with bar girls looking for customers. The best known are:
The ones further away from Walking Street are generally more typical Thai discotheques: no special area for dancing, but lots of shows and great atmosphere. Admission is usually around 300 baht and includes one free drink.
Chivas Palace
formerly palladium, on second road
Marine 2
just off walking street - the same music as marine disco; this was "the place to go" before insomnia opened.
Star Dice Entertainment
On naklua road not star dice beach on beach road - one of the few discos in pattaya that doesn't dual-price foreigners.
Xzyte Entertainment
Third road.
Live music
Blues Factory
On soi lucky star just off walking street features the lam morrison band.
Hard Rock Cafe
(http://www.hardrockhotels...) in the grounds of the hard rock hotel resort on beach road has live music and dancing in the evenings.
Live music - especially popular rock oldies - can be heard at several open-air venues along Walking Street, and at various bars elsewhere.
clubs
Pattaya has various clubs, of which the "Pattaya City Expat Club" is the oldest ex-pat club in town. They meet 9:30AM-12PM on Sunday mornings at the Henry J. Beans pub at the beginning of Beach Road. Their motto is "Expats helping Expats" and that is what they do. There are various breakfasts to chose from ranging from 65 baht for coffee and toast and up 185 baht for a combination Western/Thai breakfast. All are welcome.
beer bars
Pattaya is especially famous for its beer bars also called bar-beer, staffed by "bar girls" who are "for hire" to the tourists and ex-pats who drink there. Popular beer bar pastimes include pool, connect-four and shut-the-box.
Open-air beer bars can be found all over Pattaya, with the biggest and best known concentrations being along and around Soi 7 / Soi 8 and Walking Street, at numerous points on Second Road, Beach Road, Soi Buakhao, and in smaller numbers just about everywhere else, including along the southern end of Naklua Road and at Jomtien. Although the staff of a typical beer bar will usually all be prostitutes, customers who have no intention of paying a "bar fine" money paid to the bar so that the girl can leave with the customer are generally very welcome and indeed make up the majority of the clientele.
Indoor beer bars can also be found all over Pattaya, the most notorious areas being Soi Yodsak Soi 6 and parts of Soi Post Office Soi 13/2. While some of these bars are much more "bar fine" oriented, in most cases customers who simply want to buy drinks are still welcome.
The official closing time in "entertainment zones" is 1AM in practice usually somewhere between 1AM and 3AM, depending on the location and 12AM elsewhere - however "closing" is defined as switching off the music and non-essential lighting, and numerous beer bars remain open 24/7.
go-go bars
Also called a-go-go bars, the main concentrations are along Walking Street and the three Pattayaland streets, with more dotted around the most popular beer bar areas; most come to life at around 20:00 and close between 01:00 and 02:00.
Sight-seeing tourists are welcome in go-go bars, however cameras are not. Signs prohibiting photography are widespread, and a minority of venues require patrons to deposit their cameras with security staff as they enter. This rule is enforced: if caught snapping shots, you'll be lucky if you're only thrown out and not beaten up.