Expat living inland

[maump]

Great question:



Personally, and after giving it a lot of thought, I decided to retire in the town of Bang Saray - primarily because it has cleaner water at the beach for swimming, cleaner air for breathing, a lot less traffic - with a more peaceful and tranquil environment as compared to living in the bowels of Pattaya - and it's just a short 25 minute motorbike zoom around the bay to Pattaya when I feel the urge. Best of both worlds!

Good luck

Tell me more about Bang Saray. I see no men on grindr there but it is a close ride. how much for taxi on those drinking nights? do any B-buses run that far? do the boys come to visit? are the beaches clean? is the rent less? good food?

[RonanTheBarbarian]

I was looking at this on google earth... no real info, just a short street you cannot go down. or is there more than I can find?

To find it on Google Maps you have to spell it "Phra Tamnak".

It is the road Behind Big Buddha Hill, between Pattaya and Jomtien. The main sub-sois betweeen it and the sea have a lot of somewhat cheaper (I believe) apartments.

[Dodger]

Tell me more about Bang Saray. I see no men on grindr there but it is a close ride. how much for taxi on those drinking nights? do any B-buses run that far? do the boys come to visit? are the beaches clean? is the rent less? good food?

I have my own transportation - but buses run 24/7 to/from Bang Saray (20-60 baht).

I have my own condo - but condo rentals are typically 20% - 30% less than Pattaya.

I have my own boy - but hundreds are available for rent 25 minutes away.

Beach is pristine - great for swimming.

Plenty of good restaurants, bars, massage parlors (girls), etc..

NOTE:
As nice as Bang Saray is, If you don't have a live-in boyfriend and/or prefer spending your evenings at the boy bars you're better off in Pattaya.

[latintopxxx]

tbh....bang saray doesnt sound that far away...in the good old days when we had fuck shows 3 times a night in every gogo bar all the action was in boyztown and sunee....i prefered to stay in jomtien as that is where I spent the mornomgs and day on the beach...it is about a 20min baht bus ride away taking in all the stops...so add another 5 to 10 min and bang saray sounds great of u want a quieter less commercial scene...

[arsenal]

Bang Saray used to be a pleasant 25 minute motorbike amble away ending with a right turn shortly after Nong Nooch.

However it's now a building site all the way from Jomtien due to the fuck off huge overpass motorway being built. The traffic gets snarled up and you need to go further on and do a U-turn.

However, Bang Saray itself remains glorious and Ruantay restaurant us perhaps my favourite restaurant in the whole world.

So it's worth it.

[Dodger]

tbh....bang saray doesnt sound that far away...in the good old days when we had fuck shows 3 times a night in every gogo bar all the action was in boyztown and sunee....i prefered to stay in jomtien as that is where I spent the mornomgs and day on the beach...it is about a 20min baht bus ride away taking in all the stops...so add another 5 to 10 min and bang saray sounds great of u want a quieter less commercial scene...

Same same.

During my holiday years I always preferred hanging my hat in Jomtien as well - even though I spent every night on the bar scene in PTY. Short rides don't ruffle my feathers, in exchange for some peace and quiet when the party's over.

[latintopxxx]

made the mistake of staying once in boyztown at the ambiance...impossible to sleep before 2am...and during the day the surroundings are little more than a slum...lots of the gogos seemed to live close by so it wasnt unusual to see a few dazed looking ones up and about by 10am...offed a few too...even though im not a morning person...but when a butt that cost 2000 the night before is now on sale for 800 i cant turn down a deal...

[Daveuk]

I stayed at the Ambiance last year and my experience with late night noise was different - there wasn’t any !
For many years it was my hotel of choice as a gay sex tourist, until the dreadful noise from an early morning karioki developed about 5 years ago when I switched my stays to the Jomtien Complex.
After Covid gave the place another chance and had good nights of sex with a selection of boys uninterrupted by noise at all.

[christianpfc]

The entry on google maps is misplaced, try Phra Tamnak instead.