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  • Is Phuket better than Pattaya?

    If so, state why.

    For me it is the same - beer bars, girls, partying. Nothing special down there imho.
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    Yes, way better.
    60.00%
    6
    No, not at all.
    30.00%
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    I dunno.
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  • #2
    Better beaches and better snorkeling. I would not say it is a family destination, but will say it is more of a family orient city than Pattaya.

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    • #3
      I like to dive. The diving in Pattaya is awful. The diving in and around Phuket is very good.

      I live in Korat.

      Getting to Pattaya takes a long time and is not much fun: five or six hours on the bus, no easy way to get to a hotel.

      Getting to Phuket is much easier: nice three hour bus ride to Don Meuang, fly to Phuket, taxi to hotel.
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      • #4
        ^ True about Patters. Unless you are diving for turds!

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        • #5
          I detest Pattaya. Phuket is nice. I will pass on both however.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Captain Morgan View Post
            Better beaches and better snorkeling. I would not say it is a family destination, but will say it is more of a family orient city than Pattaya.
            Phuket the city or Phuket the island?

            Phuket City has a bit of a cultural heritage area you won't find in Pattaya and the island has a lot of natural beauty ( still but maybe not for long, admittedly) that is totally superior. The Andaman sea is loads better in both aesthetics and hygiene than the nasty ol' gulf below Bangkok with 6000 years of Asian turds and pathogens floating in it. It even smells like shit.

            Pattaya has more foreign criminals, whores and a better public transport.
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            • #7
              would never go to either again, unless I had to.

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              • #8
                Come on?

                There has to be a toffee option?

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                • #9
                  They're both for tourists. I'm not a tourist and neither place appeals to me, but Phuket is worse than Pattaya. There are lots of other decent places around Thailand.

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                  • #10
                    The beaches on Phuket are pretty, especially after the rousting of the plastic lawn chair touts.
                    The traffic is indeed pretty bad, especially now with some big infrastructure projects underway.
                    At least they are underway and will improve the situation significantly.
                    The rate of development over the past 10 years has been astonishing and seems to be moving faster year after year.
                    Phuket town still has much of its old tin mining colonial flavor, one of the more interesting of the old Thai towns.

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Ace of Base View Post
                      ^ True about Patters. Unless you are diving for turds!

                      Don't say that, now we will have a Socal full on moment on how great Patters is

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                      • #12
                        Poll does not make sense. Or at least is confusing. Phuket is a province, small one but still very diverse. Patters is a town that is known for one thing only. Patong is a mimi Patters, Phuket town, the old town is still interesting. The development is killing the island for sure, it will be full of empty condos soon and swarming with 10's of thousands of Chinese package tour types. Another 10 years and it will be more like Bangkok when it comes to traffic.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Delayed View Post
                          Poll does not make sense. Or at least is confusing. Phuket is a province, small one but still very diverse. Patters is a town that is known for one thing only.
                          Nail on the head, and exactly why most Phuket haters are full of shit. For starters you need to be pretty mental and negative to hate anywhere with such a passion, but when you hate somewhere that you've only experienced a tiny fraction of, you're completely full of shit and your opinion counts for nada.

                          The vast majority of people that slag Phuket off have never even bothered to leave one of the main tourist towns. Just walked around Patong or Karon for a couple of days and they think they know the whole island.

                          Suits me. The more people who hate it the fewer negative knobs cluttering up the place when I'm there.

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                          • #14
                            there are better places than either, on both sides, no tourists and pristine locations. I cant image why tourists go to either, no imagination I guess.

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                            • #15
                              Is Benidorm better than Majorca?
                              Is Blackpool better than Weston?

                              But fish are definitely cheaper in Pattaya.

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