OPENED seven months ago, the four-star Mercure Pattaya Ocean Resort has quickly found favour with tourists and business travellers alike thanks to its warm and personal service, stylish design, and carefully considered range of amenities, including, amongst them, a fully-equipped meeting centre, a lagoon-style pool with slides and a climbing wall (the kids love it), and its gem of a casual dining venue, Molten.

SEAFOOD restaurants in Pattaya are as ubiquitous as seashells on a beach, and just as searching for the perfect, unbroken conch can take several hours, seeking out a decent eatery you want to return to here can take several days.

Visit Moom Talay Thai Restaurant, though, and you’ll find it’s not only an 'unbroken conch,' but actually a giant clam of a discovery – that is, one of the best places in town for enjoying some delicious Thai seafood at great value for money.

WHILE many Italian restaurants in Pattaya tempt passersby with the promise of offering the authentic taste of Italy, only a handful actually deliver on this pledge. One of the finest: Luca Marchetti’s Toscana on Beach Road.

Passionate about ingredients, this affable chef and restaurateur imports only the finest Italian fare. His local produce is top notch, too: just outside of Pattaya he operates his own organic farm where he rears chickens, lambs, quails, and cows, and even grows his own veggies. 

MODERN life can be a real pain. Demanding jobs, family duties, and daily responsibilities all bring stresses and strains which, when lugged long enough on humble shoulders, result in bodies and minds that are frazzled, fatigued, and in desperate need of a thorough pampering.

A blissful stress-busting experience is exactly what’s on offer at Hilton Pattaya Resort’s eforea spa, which offers a range of treatments and therapies specially designed to soothe aching muscles, eradicate toxins, dissolve dark moods and brighten the mind.

THIN crust pizzas, innovative cocktails, and two very different atmospheres await at Holiday Inn Pattaya’s Havana Bar & Terrazzo Restaurant.

Located beachside at the front of the hotel, Terrazzo Restaurant lives up to its name by offering an alfresco poolside terrace where diners can enjoy all kinds of Italian treats plus more than 20 piping-hot pizzas fresh from a pizza oven. 

A SWEEPING view of the Gulf of Thailand sets the scene for some good ol’ fashioned feasting at Hilton Pattaya’s all-day-dining restaurant, Edge.
   
Located on the hotel’s 14th floor, the restaurant, well-known for its hearty selection of international cuisines, makes the most of this view thanks to a dramatic floor-to-ceiling window which sweeps across the front of the restaurant. Carefully considered seating in front of this gives almost every diner the chance to admire the visual splendour beyond the glass, and, even better, there’s even an outdoor terrace where the views are complimented by the cooling caress of the ocean breeze and the sound of the surf below.