Travel in Pattaya by Soi: Main Roads and Streets
Pattaya is an easy city in which to travel around - once you know how? We take you road by road - or should we say - by soi.
The road system - Sois - in Pattaya is laid out in a very logical way - though it may not seem so at first.
Pattaya is after all, quite a sprawling city with the usual differences between the different areas.
If you enter Pattaya from another province, coming through Chonburi, you will most certainly enter at some point on the Sukhumvit Road.
After you have travelled Thailand, you will have noticed that most areas have their own version of Sukhumvit Road.
The main Sukhumvit Road stretches from Bangkok and travels Eastward to Trat. It was named after one of the chief Highway Engineers by same name.
In Pattaya, the Sukhumvit Road is the main 'through road' from Chonburi to Sattahip North to South.
The main road system in Pattaya is basically a grid of 4 main roads running North to South, (Sukhumvit, Pattaya 3rd Road. Pattaya 2nd Road and the Beach road - Pattaya 1) which are then interconnected by the three main roads that run between Sukhumvit and the coast.
These three roads are conveniently named North Pattaya Road - Pattaya Nua; Central Pattaya Road - Pattaya Klang; and South Pattaya Road - Pattaya Tai. They are the main access points to the city when travelling along Sukhumvit.
Further to the south, there is another main road between Sukhumvit and the coast being Thepprasit road. This road takes you to the Jomtien Beach area of Pattaya.
Sukhumvit Road - Main through route through Pattaya in north to south direction and vice versa.North Pattaya Road - Pattaya Nua - from the Sukhumvit Road down to Westernmost main Beach Road at the 'Dolphin Water Fountain roundabout. Also serving as entrance to the Naklua area of Pattaya.
- Central Pattaya Road - from Sukhumvit Road down to the central beach area of Pattaya on Beach Road. Crosses the Pattaya Third Road, Pattaya Second road, before terminating at the beach.South Pattaya Road - Pattaya Tai - from Sukhumvit Road down to Pattaya second Road. No direct access to Beach road as there is a one way section 'from' the beach road.
- Thepprasit Road - from Sukhumvit Road down to the Jomtien Beach Road area. No direct access to the main Pattaya beach from this road, but it connects up with Jomtien Beach Road.
- Pattaya Third Road connects North Pattaya Road through to South Pattaya Road - then beyond and eventually meeting up with Thepprasit Road and Jomtien area. It runs roughly parallel to Sukhumvit Road - but nearer to the Beach.
- Pattaya Second Road connects South Pattaya Road to North Pattaya road - crossing Central Pattaya road as it does so. It is one way in South to North direction. It runs more or less parallel to the main Beach Road.
- Pattaya Beach Road runs along the length of the main Pattaya beach - a one way road starting at bottom of North Pattaya Road and finishing at the start of Pattaya Third Road, still being one way until after Pattaya third Road. At the end of Beach Road/start of Third Road, there is the world famous Pattaya Walking Street.
- The main nightlife takes place off the various sois that stretch between Beach Road and Pattaya Second Road, and then across from Second Road to connect up with Pattaya Third Road.
- The other soi that is gaining in stature for the famed night life, is Soi Bukhaow. This stretches between Central Pattaya Road, and meets up with Pattaya Tai (South Pattaya Road). It runs between Beach road and Pattaya Second Road - parallel to Second Road and Third Road.
- Soi Bukhaow seems set to take much of the night life business away from Second Road. Soi LK Metro in particular being a growth area.