Hollywood Pattaya

Doors don't open until 21:00, and that tells you most of what you need to know. This is a late bar in the middle of Pattaya City, the kind of place you fall into partway through a night rather than plan an evening around. Turn up at nine and you'll have the room largely to yourself. Come back after midnight and it's a different venue entirely.

What you get is a straightforward bar and pub, casual, sociable, aimed squarely at the mixed crowd of tourists and repeat visitors who work their way along the nightlife strip. Nobody's dressing up. Nobody's booking a table. It's drinks, noise and whoever you end up talking to, which is either exactly what you want or exactly what you're trying to avoid. If you're after a quiet drink or a conversation you can hear, I'd look elsewhere in town.