I went in 95 for the first time. I was only 17 and overseas alone. The place completely changed everything I ever thought I knew about the world. In terms of comparisons, it was just incomparable. The vibe, the pace, the attitude of locals etc was paradise on earth. There were no cell phones and barely any internet then and I really think that's a big part of it.
Thanks so much James. People are quick to be negative about the internet but sometimes forget all the advantages it has brought, especially to poorer nations like Thailand, as it was then.
@@LePubPattaya that's a pretty deep topic to explore but my view is that maybe the internet has enhanced aspects of life at the expense of others. And more specifically, social media (as it is generally termed) has had an overwhelmingly bad effect on most aspects of society.
Brilliant that Thanks I first came in 87 and last in 91 so it brought back a lot of memories Do you know of anymore old videos I could watch Thanks again
Nice i would love to see more videos on Pattaya during the 80s and 90s but only been able to find a hand full on youtube.... Does anyone know what year the Pattaya sign got put up ?
I went to Pattaya in 96 with my brother for the first time! The good old days are gone but it's still the best nightlife all over the world and I am still coming to Pattaya every year!
Same here as me, Chris. I’m a big believer that the good old days are now, it’s always the best time right now. But we all have happy memories, and I agree with you, but it is the best nightlife certainly in Southeast Asia, and probably the world.
Hell of a lot of work has gone into this so well done and thanks for sharing. As a visitor first time 1990 (and my life was never the same again afterwards!) I really enjoyed this.
I concur about life being changed from that moment forward too. I came from a town of 100 people in country Australia and found myself alone in Pattaya at 17.
Hi Phil Yeah, remember 1994 in Pattaya well. I have quite a lot of footage of Pattaya and other area's of Thailand from 1989 onwards, shot on my old Panasonic camcorder, with remarkably good quality too, but everyone will have to wait until my own RUclips channel is up and running to see it, lol. Yeah, people keep talking about how much has shut down now, since the pandemic started, but there is still more open now than there was in 1989, lol.
I liked your video...amazing ..How your do likes this...Nobody and no ones ,same likes your , but...about your video videos ...that like this...! ..Yours..are...is..my...respect..
great video....my first visit was in 1983, the town was sooooo much fun and the change is unbelievable. Beach St bars down towards what would become Walking Street were very basic but just the place a young bloke should experience in his life. Cheers for posting this
Great video, I can't believe how basic Soi 7 was, we went there for the first time in 2000 and it was pretty much like it is now but with a few more bars where the new hotel has just gone up. Wonder if the Pig & Whistle was going then, that was one of our favourite eateries back then and Rose O'Gradys next door.
Totally agree! We actually went to the Pig and Whistle when we filmed this but it was too long to put in. I nicked the Guinness sign from Rosies. (really)
Hi, Curious Droid - Yes the Pig & Whistle was open back then. Unfortunately, Bob Adams, proprietor of the Pig & Whistle on Soi 7 passed away on 5 Oct 2011 (Heart Attack I do believe). Hope this helps. Regards Ray (Kalasin).
That was interesting. I first visited in 87 and remember bits of it but not much detail, as I never stayed more than 4 nights and usually had some alcohol in my bloodstream (occasionally some blood in my alcohol stream).
I have seen that video before, but without your commentary I didn't know many of the roads and missed some of the points of interest. The original was filmed about the time I was first there.
I mentioned in a previous comment that there's a few old videos of Pattaya. Search " Pattaya 1987 " and there's one. I'm sure there's quite a few from other years as well.
Another great video and like you say big up to Balloon Chaser he done a great job. And of course the commentator done well keeping up with the action and spotting all the sites. Deffo a few million tons of concrete gone into Pattaya over the years.
I see this video is from 2021... Never seen this before... Because my friend took this video, well like Phil says, it was his girlfriend who made this video... It was a Sony ...i still have this camera, but imagine that when this camera had stability... Wow... Both guys have the same name...Hans and the one with his lady behind lives 7 years already in Pattaya... The dark side... Phil if you want to contact him, just ask me, i will ask him if he wants...
I’ve been waiting for years for somebody to get in touch with me about this video. I would just love to get his permission to use it to be honest! I’m quite happy to take it down if he’s not.
Always assumed that Le Pub was around Soi Buakhao/New Plaza or 2nd Rd area. Great comparison all the same. Also a far cry from when I was there in a past life in 1896😉🤣
what a difference .... !! I prefer the " atmosphere " of the old style Pattaya .... like comparing good home cooked dish versus instant 7/11 microwave packs ......
Thanks for this video. I have bin coming since 2015, some changes but nothing like 1994. And iy still morphs at a rapid pace ....each and every year!😅😆😃
First time I came was in 1993, remember all this very well. Even the very very dodgy Katoey Bar called Limmotaqai or something very similar near to where Le Pub is, I think it’s Katoeys R Us now. Stitched a few mates up in that place back in the day 🤣🤣🤣 Stayed in Soi Yamato at the aptly named Porn Hotel which was next to the Wonderful Bar for 150 Baht a night, no TV just a fan, bog, bed and Wardrobe, didn’t know any different at the time. 37 Baht to the £, went for a Month with £750 in Travellers Cheques.......remember them? 🤣🤣🤣 Great times though......🏴🇹🇭
You sound like your from near me. A definite midkand accent I'm from Warwick well a village just outside beausale it'd on the way to Balsall Common. The back way into brum.
I will be back to Bangkok and Pattaya after a twenty year absence, and yes it has changed as everything does in life. I always say, "The best is yet to come!" ...I'll see you all in Pattaya at the end April!!!
I think I have looked at all the old Pattaya videos on youtube over the years. so interesting. I first arrived in 2004. Could have gone in the 90s and even the 80s but I was ignorant and did not know. Good job on the comparison post
No, bus to Suvarnabhumi airport Bangkok. There is an airport which is called Pattaya but is actually in the next province Rayong, about 40 minutes away.
Very interesting but I actually like it better now and the Internet is good cause it gives u more choice, thai friendly, Instagram etc and u can still get them from bars n clubs, best of both worlds really.
I think the police station was built around the mid 80's,I used to drink in Caesar's Bar that was next door to it & on one trip it wasn't there & about a year later it was.Tim & her husband(of Tim Beer Bar)started out with a small seafood place behind where the copshop is now.
Hi great channel. I am coming to Pattaya 11th of next month do you think I should book a hotel now do you think there will be a shortage, all plenty of vacancies in the hotels. Great show keep it up
Graham, refer to my previous video last week. You need to make a booking of at leat one day to stay whilst you wait for a PRC test result. After that, I predict, plenty of hotels free next month. Only getting busy by end of December.
heck we got more shade and trees just until a few years ago when they did that hack job, installed the stadium lights. Sucks. Used to be a quiet get away from the noisy sois and it was nice to go down for a walk
Brilliant video, Phil. I love these then & now comparisons, and the side-by-side edit is incredible work. I understand 30 years ago, there wasn't much inland beyond 2nd Road? Soi Buakhao wouldve been a dirt track, possibly? I'm a newbie, first visit to Pattaya in 2011. If any photos/video exists, I'd love to see what Soi Buakhao looked like back in the day. And maybe Batman nightclub, when it was open??? Get digging, Phil! 😃
I first went in 2003 I would have loved to have gone in the 80s or the 90s I bet it was absolutely fantastic. I remember that that old rude saying $10 if you know what I mean..555
Had some fun there in '82. A little sweetheart from Rainbow Bar (Bangkok Sukhomvit before it moved to the 'proposed Nana Plaza') took very good care of me! Yes!
@@LePubPattaya Even though I'm a lot older I think the 'magic of those days' has long passed! There were no tattoos! Nearly all the girls were very slim with long (Natural ) black hair and their English wasn't up too much! With my non existent Thai language skills---it was actually 'bliss'! Cheers! Good luck!
Do you know when the Pattaya City sign went up, please? Very interesting video. The first time I hit Pattaya was January '93. Difficult to remember it. I have subscribed. Hope your business picks up soon.
@@LePubPattaya I'll take that. It's just that I have written a novel which ended just under the sign. Well, it would have done, but I edited reference to it out as I knew it wasn't there in 1992. Regards, Nick
First time I turned up in pattaya in the late 80's there was only two beers available singha and kloster and the best go go's were baby go go 3 and the blackout on walking street
Amazing! Time flies! The first time I was there was back in 1995, and I visited it almost every year once or twice ever since. Due to my frequent visit, it is like seeing yourself in the mirror every day, you can hardly see yourself changing. But when you put two videos together, you realized you have aged as much as the city has changed and grown! Let's embrace changes together with one's mortality.
When i first went to Pattaya in Dec 89 there were no bars down soi 6,7 or 8,all the action was between Beach rd and 2nd rd,farangs didn't venture across the 2nd rd and into the outback which is now soi Baukhao.Cheers
Thanks for the memories my egg even thou 2000 was my first visit it's really changed the last ten years still miss the old pattaya but better infastucture know but still remains a fantastic city. Greeting from Oldbury. 👍
Thanks for a very great video. My first visit to Pattaya was februar 1977. You could see fishinboats coming in, it was a lovely place. I lived in hotel Ocean View Resort, it was at same place that Hilton is nowdays.
Thanks for the video. Where was the main entertainment area back in 94? Was it soi pattayaland? Also when are they demoing that building? I'd love to be there to see it come down.
@@LePubPattaya I was in Thailand 2-4 times per year. The exchange rate, then full of a sudden families with kids, then some kind of 'not spending a cent' nation people filled the streets in groups of 3-6, and the party vibe dissipated, then police stopped me more often, then some thing like 10% fees were added to the drinks, then the girls behaved a little desperate to sell drinks. I think live got harder and less relaxed. Lots of closed bars in 2019, so I checked out Vietnam with a friend.
@@LePubPattaya Yes of course, the Baloon hunter did a great job but my comment was about you Sir. Again, you are soo much mote then just a bar owner in Pattaya. Thanks!
thanks Phil and BC for this. thappraya and soi 7 surprised me. always thought soi 7 was an entertainment area, although my first visit there was in 2003, it seemed so well established, thought it had been there since the dinosaurs were around... 555. thappraya i lived around ( soi Pattaya park and VT1) and i remember a lot of road works around 2006-7-8 .... maybe that was the dualling of the road, memories a bit foggy now. wish there were more... now wondering when soi 6 became 'SOI 6' as it is now...
I went in 95 for the first time. I was only 17 and overseas alone. The place completely changed everything I ever thought I knew about the world. In terms of comparisons, it was just incomparable. The vibe, the pace, the attitude of locals etc was paradise on earth. There were no cell phones and barely any internet then and I really think that's a big part of it.
Thanks so much James. People are quick to be negative about the internet but sometimes forget all the advantages it has brought, especially to poorer nations like Thailand, as it was then.
@@LePubPattaya that's a pretty deep topic to explore but my view is that maybe the internet has enhanced aspects of life at the expense of others. And more specifically, social media (as it is generally termed) has had an overwhelmingly bad effect on most aspects of society.
Brilliant that Thanks
I first came in 87 and last in 91 so it brought back a lot of memories
Do you know of anymore old videos I could watch
Thanks again
Yes, we have lots that subscribers have given us. Watch this space.
Nice one , thanks
Nice i would love to see more videos on Pattaya during the 80s and 90s but only been able to find a hand full on youtube.... Does anyone know what year the Pattaya sign got put up ?
About 2005 ish I think
Just watched one from 1984.
yes, I have seen that
Excellent work! An AI computer will be remaking this in a three way review, using VR implant streams in another 30 years.
Look forward to that
I went to Pattaya in 96 with my brother for the first time! The good old days are gone but it's still the best nightlife all over the world and I am still coming to Pattaya every year!
Same here as me, Chris. I’m a big believer that the good old days are now, it’s always the best time right now. But we all have happy memories, and I agree with you, but it is the best nightlife certainly in Southeast Asia, and probably the world.
Hell of a lot of work has gone into this so well done and thanks for sharing.
As a visitor first time 1990 (and my life was never the same again afterwards!) I really enjoyed this.
Thanks Buggsy
I concur about life being changed from that moment forward too. I came from a town of 100 people in country Australia and found myself alone in Pattaya at 17.
@@jamesj590 Wow!. found the place a bit scary at first but then didn’t want to leave!😄
Great Video , good luck finding the guys who made it , The one in front is probably dead now by the way that he was driving
Hi Phil
Yeah, remember 1994 in Pattaya well. I have quite a lot of footage of Pattaya and other area's of Thailand from 1989 onwards, shot on my old Panasonic camcorder, with remarkably good quality too, but everyone will have to wait until my own RUclips channel is up and running to see it, lol. Yeah, people keep talking about how much has shut down now, since the pandemic started, but there is still more open now than there was in 1989, lol.
Please upload it soon.
Would live to see that. Hurry up and set it up.
Outstanding video. I've been coming to Pattaya and Jomtien from 1992. What a lovely way to capture 'Then' and 'Now'. Cheers!
Thank you
I liked your video...amazing ..How your do likes this...Nobody and no ones ,same likes your , but...about your video videos ...that like this...! ..Yours..are...is..my...respect..
Thank you so much.
I was in Pattaya for 2 weeks in 1983. It had much more of a small village feel back then. Best vacation I ever had!
Thanks Alan. If you go to certain parts of this city it still feels like that.
great video....my first visit was in 1983, the town was sooooo much fun and the change is unbelievable. Beach St bars down towards what would become Walking Street were very basic but just the place a young bloke should experience in his life. Cheers for posting this
thanks Glenn. Yes it's changed, like all towns.
Great video, I can't believe how basic Soi 7 was, we went there for the first time in 2000 and it was pretty much like it is now but with a few more bars where the new hotel has just gone up. Wonder if the Pig & Whistle was going then, that was one of our favourite eateries back then and Rose O'Gradys next door.
Totally agree! We actually went to the Pig and Whistle when we filmed this but it was too long to put in. I nicked the Guinness sign from Rosies. (really)
I am told by the old timers, that on the sides of the street, those little drainage gulleys is what the raw sewage used to run down.
Hi, Curious Droid - Yes the Pig & Whistle was open back then.
Unfortunately, Bob Adams, proprietor of the Pig & Whistle on Soi 7 passed away on 5 Oct 2011 (Heart Attack I do believe).
Hope this helps. Regards Ray (Kalasin).
Just for interests sake…. My ex.. her brother in law made the city part of the Pattaya city sign.. his name is ham…. And he now lives in samut sakhon
I love this information. The city bit is smaller.
that was a very good video, I remember that year ,I had hair then... lol
Classic
Absolutely brilliant mate, just what I like doing but in Bangkok...and I thought I was a history anorak!! 🍻
love you're channel Pat. I really appreciate your comment
Most popular comment when referring to old to new Thailand (any city);
"and there's a 7-11 there now"
555
I love this comment
That was interesting. I first visited in 87 and remember bits of it but not much detail, as I never stayed more than 4 nights and usually had some alcohol in my bloodstream (occasionally some blood in my alcohol stream).
Never had that issue Andrew
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I have seen that video before, but without your commentary I didn't know many of the roads and missed some of the points of interest. The original was filmed about the time I was first there.
Great stuff. It is fascinating.
This interesting.. foggy memories from 1980 ' to 1990's
Kiss food .. it is the same kitchen table lay out..lol
Yes, it hasn’t changed
if it ain't broke don't fix it :)
I mentioned in a previous comment that there's a few old videos of Pattaya.
Search " Pattaya 1987 " and there's one. I'm sure there's quite a few from other years as well.
Yes I’ve seen them
Another great video and like you say big up to Balloon Chaser he done a great job. And of course the commentator done well keeping up with the action and spotting all the sites. Deffo a few million tons of concrete gone into Pattaya over the years.
Thanks Andy
Thanks Andy. I don’t need to have an excuse to big him up, he does all the hard work.
I see this video is from 2021... Never seen this before... Because my friend took this video, well like Phil says, it was his girlfriend who made this video... It was a Sony ...i still have this camera, but imagine that when this camera had stability... Wow... Both guys have the same name...Hans and the one with his lady behind lives 7 years already in Pattaya... The dark side...
Phil if you want to contact him, just ask me, i will ask him if he wants...
I’ve been waiting for years for somebody to get in touch with me about this video. I would just love to get his permission to use it to be honest! I’m quite happy to take it down if he’s not.
I was hoping someone will do comparison video .. you did it. Amazing 👍👍👍👍
Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it.
Always assumed that Le Pub was around Soi Buakhao/New Plaza or 2nd Rd area. Great comparison all the same. Also a far cry from when I was there in a past life in 1896😉🤣
My first trip.
No worries about this... He likes it .. Haha... Thank you for this footage
No worries!
Amazing . November 1994 was my first trip. Even though i have been many many times since , didn't realize how much it has changed since.
Amazing isn’t it.
what a difference .... !! I prefer the " atmosphere " of the old style Pattaya ....
like comparing good home cooked dish versus instant 7/11 microwave packs ......
Swings and roundabouts. Quaint a few years ago, but lots better now.
Great video! 🤓✈️🌏
Thanks Richard
Thanks for this video. I have bin coming since 2015, some changes but nothing like 1994. And iy still morphs at a rapid pace ....each and every year!😅😆😃
Glad you enjoyed it. Gets better every year in my opinion.
You have 666 K subscribers now.......The number of the beast.....I hope you get 667 k soon...
I will loose a few, don’t worry :)
First time I came was in 1993, remember all this very well. Even the very very dodgy Katoey Bar called Limmotaqai or something very similar near to where Le Pub is, I think it’s Katoeys R Us now. Stitched a few mates up in that place back in the day 🤣🤣🤣
Stayed in Soi Yamato at the aptly named Porn Hotel which was next to the Wonderful Bar for 150 Baht a night, no TV just a fan, bog, bed and Wardrobe, didn’t know any different at the time. 37 Baht to the £, went for a Month with £750 in Travellers Cheques.......remember them? 🤣🤣🤣
Great times though......🏴🇹🇭
Nice comparison, good job!
Thanks. It’s my favorite idea.
First time in Pattaya was 89 or 90, 14years old. I wonder if i can find Dads old videos from that trip (and a working vhs player)
oh, I hope you can, let me know if you get a digital copy
1994 was my favourite year in Pattaya especially champion go go.
Yes, had a Great personality.
You sound like your from near me. A definite midkand accent I'm from Warwick well a village just outside beausale it'd on the way to Balsall Common. The back way into brum.
West Brom Stephen.
I will be back to Bangkok and Pattaya after a twenty year absence, and yes it has changed
as everything does in life. I always say, "The best is yet to come!"
...I'll see you all in Pattaya at the end April!!!
I agree, the best is yet to come.
Great Job! Thanks for modern-day's image stabilization.
Yes, it’s a great invention. If you look at the original it’s all over the place.
I think I have looked at all the old Pattaya videos on youtube over the years. so interesting. I first arrived in 2004. Could have gone in the 90s and even the 80s but I was ignorant and did not know. Good job on the comparison post
Thanks GK, this is one of my favorite videos.
There was 2 bars on Soi 7 in 97... cameras have just passed soi 10 that had my most favourite hotel on it "sawatdee court"
Glad we brought back some nice memories.
I have been to Pattaya once in my life time in 2013. You said early in the video a bus going to the airport. Is it an airport in Pattaya?
No, bus to Suvarnabhumi airport Bangkok. There is an airport which is called Pattaya but is actually in the next province Rayong, about 40 minutes away.
Very interesting but I actually like it better now and the Internet is good cause it gives u more choice, thai friendly, Instagram etc and u can still get them from bars n clubs, best of both worlds really.
I do agree with you, but there are many victims.
I think the police station was built around the mid 80's,I used to drink in Caesar's Bar that was next door to it & on one trip it wasn't there & about a year later it was.Tim & her husband(of Tim Beer Bar)started out with a small seafood place behind where the copshop is now.
I heard about Tim's bar being there but never went. I wonder where the cop shop was before that?
I was playing about here in '82. Big changes now! Attitude to foreigners being a big one!
I’ve not been coming that long, 96 my first trip, but haven’t seen a change it attitude.
Hi great channel. I am coming to Pattaya 11th of next month do you think I should book a hotel now do you think there will be a shortage, all plenty of vacancies in the hotels. Great show keep it up
Graham, refer to my previous video last week. You need to make a booking of at leat one day to stay whilst you wait for a PRC test result. After that, I predict, plenty of hotels free next month. Only getting busy by end of December.
Very cool. Great job 👍
Thank you Mitch
And I used to stay at the Nepa Hut Hotel on Pattaya Beach in 1974.
don't remember that one Ken
Excellent work chaps. And don't we all remember Thap Phraya Road duplication project! I suspect it took longer than the Channel Tunnel...
Yes, I remember it now.
Very cool seeing the huge difference of just 30 years
Thanks for watching
Great vid, amazing job on the edit.
Glad you enjoyed it! It was all my editor, Balloon Chaser's work.
" annoying Yootoobers " ? Nooooo..... thank god they're here to record history & the rise of " greed " ......
I've been called worse than annoying!!
heck we got more shade and trees just until a few years ago when they did that hack job, installed the stadium lights. Sucks. Used to be a quiet get away from the noisy sois and it was nice to go down for a walk
Actually prefer it now. More room
That is a great video I really do loved it ☺️ it's amazing me that in those days they have ridden like that no helmet not other protection 😮🤔😂
Same as today really. Nothings changed.
Was first there in 1979 and it certainly has changed so much.
Ain’t that so.
Brilliant video, Phil. I love these then & now comparisons, and the side-by-side edit is incredible work.
I understand 30 years ago, there wasn't much inland beyond 2nd Road? Soi Buakhao wouldve been a dirt track, possibly?
I'm a newbie, first visit to Pattaya in 2011. If any photos/video exists, I'd love to see what Soi Buakhao looked like back in the day. And maybe Batman nightclub, when it was open??? Get digging, Phil! 😃
Buakow had pavements in the 90s but everyone just built on them. Just a less built us version of today.
I first went in 2003 I would have loved to have gone in the 80s or the 90s I bet it was absolutely fantastic. I remember that that old rude saying $10 if you know what I mean..555
cheers Mark.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video 😎🇹🇭🙏
Thanks you Bredan
Great to see how it was compared to now. Can't wait to come back.
looking forward to seeing all of you, Neil.
Crazy :O 1994 is the year i was born
your golden age is yet to come
47 now but arrived at 20 and remember this well.
Great comment. It was a different world then.
this is a seriously good video.
thanks Liam
I did not see any Indian Restaurants in the 1994 video....
Ali Baba there in 1990’s food was shite
First went to Pattaya in 1991 so this video brings back great Memories . Cheers mate .
Thanks Alexander
way interesting for sure!
thanks Jett
Nobody..noec..Can do it's this like same yours
I am thailand people...commented..!
Thank you very much for your comment
Had some fun there in '82. A little sweetheart from Rainbow Bar (Bangkok Sukhomvit before it moved to the 'proposed Nana Plaza') took very good care of me! Yes!
Thats Bangkok. Hope you had a good time. Happy memories.
@@LePubPattaya Even though I'm a lot older I think the 'magic of those days' has long passed! There were no tattoos! Nearly all the girls were very slim with long (Natural ) black hair and their English wasn't up too much! With my non existent Thai language skills---it was actually 'bliss'! Cheers! Good luck!
Do you know when the Pattaya City sign went up, please?
Very interesting video. The first time I hit Pattaya was January '93. Difficult to remember it.
I have subscribed. Hope your business picks up soon.
cheers 1990. A good question. I think about 2006. Does anyone know?
@@LePubPattaya I'll take that. It's just that I have written a novel which ended just under the sign. Well, it would have done, but I edited reference to it out as I knew it wasn't there in 1992.
Regards, Nick
Great video mate brought some memories back I stayed on soi 7 in 1991 at a place called PV COURT
Don't remember that Craig. It's changed a lot since then.
First time I turned up in pattaya in the late 80's there was only two beers available singha and kloster and the best go go's were baby go go 3 and the blackout on walking street
Simply brilliant. The editing is unbelievable.
Thanks to Balloon chaser
Really fantastic video thanks
Thank you William
Brilliant comparison ! Thx
Thanks to my editor, Balloon chaser
Amazing! Time flies! The first time I was there was back in 1995, and I visited it almost every year once or twice ever since. Due to my frequent visit, it is like seeing yourself in the mirror every day, you can hardly see yourself changing. But when you put two videos together, you realized you have aged as much as the city has changed and grown! Let's embrace changes together with one's mortality.
Yes, it flies by.
Cool video bud.well done.keep it rollin
thanks Nicky, one of my favorites.
When i first went to Pattaya in Dec 89 there were no bars down soi 6,7 or 8,all the action was between Beach rd and 2nd rd,farangs didn't venture across the 2nd rd and into the outback which is now soi Baukhao.Cheers
Yes, I never ever went soi Buakhao till mid 2000s
Thanks for the memories my egg even thou 2000 was my first visit it's really changed the last ten years still miss the old pattaya but better infastucture know but still remains a fantastic city.
Greeting from Oldbury.
👍
Hello r kid. Yes, I’m glad you can see the infrastructure is better.
Great concept for a video. 👍
Cheers Neil
Amazing work guys
Thank you DC
Excellent idea 👍 thanks for sharing
Thanks Dave
Nice video and good commentary
Thank you
Thanks for a very great video. My first visit to Pattaya was februar 1977. You could see fishinboats
coming in, it was a lovely place. I lived in hotel Ocean View Resort, it was at same place that Hilton is nowdays.
Ocean view resort. I don't remember it.
I have 1973 film (8mm)
would you get it transfered?
Thanks for the video. Where was the main entertainment area back in 94? Was it soi pattayaland? Also when are they demoing that building? I'd love to be there to see it come down.
Walking street.
Pattaya land 1 and 2
Very interesting.
Thanks Stephen
94 looks better not so cluttered
Agreed, but much nicer more modern experience now in Pattaya, food, shopping etc. There are good and bad points. Thanks for the comments.
This is amazing. Outstanding work. Well done.
Thanks to my editor Balloon Chaser Michael
Great vid, well done! 👏
thanks Dave. One of my favorotes.
Great comparison 👍
Glad you liked it Mark.
Great video thanks
Thanks Enzo
Great work, I had my second youth in this town from 2010 to 2015
Lucky you. Why did you go home?
@@LePubPattaya I was in Thailand 2-4 times per year. The exchange rate, then full of a sudden families with kids, then some kind of 'not spending a cent' nation people filled the streets in groups of 3-6, and the party vibe dissipated, then police stopped me more often, then some thing like 10% fees were added to the drinks, then the girls behaved a little desperate to sell drinks. I think live got harder and less relaxed. Lots of closed bars in 2019, so I checked out Vietnam with a friend.
@@Hangover-ry9bo hows Vietnam?
So interesting. You can see how the city council had a chance to have tree lined streets and many small squares or green areas around the city centre.
Yes, they made Beach road better in my opinion Ads
Cracking video cheers 🥃👍
Thanks Bob
A very nice video !!
one of my favorites
thanks
Glad you enjoyed the video
I was there 1990cant remember much lol
Me too
@@LePubPattaya haha
God work mate !
Thanks
Dear Sir, you did it again - brilliant✨✨✨
Thanks to my editor Balloon chaser
@@LePubPattaya Yes of course, the Baloon hunter did a great job but my comment was about you Sir. Again, you are soo much mote then just a bar owner in Pattaya. Thanks!
1990 I stayed at the hotel right end way they came in and 2000 always smelt of shirt badly true story before got to hotel
thanks Phil and BC for this. thappraya and soi 7 surprised me. always thought soi 7 was an entertainment area, although my first visit there was in 2003, it seemed so well established, thought it had been there since the dinosaurs were around... 555. thappraya i lived around ( soi Pattaya park and VT1) and i remember a lot of road works around 2006-7-8 .... maybe that was the dualling of the road, memories a bit foggy now. wish there were more... now wondering when soi 6 became 'SOI 6' as it is now...
Thanks FtM
I always remember soi 7 being an entertainment zone as well. Shows how wrong I was.
Awesome video Phil
thanks Don.