Yes. As I said in an earlier post, I have been to Phuket (Patong) more times than I could count and Pattaya was always on my list of places to go, however, I never got round to it and right now, I really can't be bothered.

It certainly serves its purpose as a haven for foreigners to 'let off steam', drink cheap beer and screw cheap women. If it wasn't Pattaya it would be somewhere else, since that 'need' is always going to be there, and, as in every other 'business', it's simply a matter of supply and demand.

The problems only arise when people lose their sense of reality after being part of a fantasy-land. Because that's all Pattaya is....a place to act out a fantasy....

No-one should get hurt.....!