On October 1st, 2008, Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome unveiled his ambitious plan to built a Skytrain in Pattaya to connect his City Hall with Bali Hai. In the first project Itthiphol's dream train should run along the City's Beach Road. After many protests, Pattaya's Mayor presented a new project using Pattaya's Second Road. Thailand's Government had to stop the Mayor's stupid plan. The meeting and the feasibility studies cost the taxpayer millions of Baht.

During August 2009 Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall launched 17 million Baht advertising campaign to bring (Thai) tourists back to Pattaya. Tourists called the 'Pattaya Be Our Guest' promotion a scam and complained that no discounts or freebies were actually available. The advertising campaign gave the impression that Pattaya is offering free rooms and a lot of other discounts. In fact the fine print of the promotion had not been properly explained and is hard to understand for most people. The stupid campaign wasted millions of Taxpayer's money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall launched the Pattaya City Hospital on Soi Buakoaw. The Mayor promised that the Pattaya City Hospital will offer free primary health services for people with state insurance and low prices for tourists. The 24-hour center should have five medical departments with 86 beds. Reality is that the hospital opened one and a half year later than projected, the proces for consultation are about in par with the Pattaya Bangkok Hospital but without its expertise. Pattaya City Hospital still lack the recognition of the insurance companies. You still ahve to pay the hospitals invoices from your very own pocket. Until today a gigantic waste of Taxpayer's money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall beautified Pattaya's North Road and Bali Hai with a new street lightings displaying flying dolphins. Instead of investing the money to solve Pattaya's infrastructure problems the Mayor wasted Millions of Baht for unnecessary 'toys'.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall launched the Bali Hai harbour project. The jachts still can't use the harbour. Part of the installations already start to rust. A gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall launched the Bali Hai fully automatic parking house and sacrificed a popular park. The parking house is still out of service. A small pool in front of the building is nothing else than a cesspit and a 'incubator' for mosquitoes. A gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall launched a third lane on Pattaya's Beach Road, officially known as Sai Nueng (1st Road). They forged to install an efficacious drainage system. During rainy times the street is flooded for hours. A gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall installed Pedestrian lights along some streets in Pattaya and Jomtien. Road users and Police are ignoring the lights, making crossing Pattaya's streets even more dangerous. Police even ordered the shutdown of most lights on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall initiated a remodelling of Pattaya's Beach Promenade. The obviously brainless designers removed the existing elevations, provided to stop water to enter the sea. The result: During rain the water not only floods Beach Road and its (new) Promenade, the water also sweeps the sand into the sea. After every flood the City has to restore the Beach. A gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall announced to built the long projected but controversial Sukhumvit Tunnel. According to City Hall the construction on the Tunnel should start on November 15th, 2014. A few days after the announcement media reported that the Pattaya tunnel construction was postponed until the end of new year's celebration to reduce traffic congestion during the holiday period. Many people believe that the tunnel will be a deathtrap during rainy times. Sukhumvit Road is already known as being flooded during rain. Probably another gigantic waste of money.

Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall announced that the long-delayed plans to rebuild Pattaya Beach may finally get underway in December with a 430 million baht Marine Department project. About 360'000 cu metres of sand from a Rayong estuary will be transported into Pattaya Beach, up from the initial estimate of 200'000 cu metres that would be needed. If the sand continued to be swept away by 10'000 cubic metres a year, more would be added in the next decade. It seems that at least some people know where the sand goes, therefore it is unbelievable for observers that the City doesn't use the expertise of foreign specialists to capture the sand in the sea and bring it back to the Beach. Pattaya's way will be another gigantic waste of money.

Update (December 1st): Pattaya Daily News reports that Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome appointed a committe to investigate corrupt Officials... Please note: Attack is still the best form of defence.

Bangkok Post reports that the long-delayed refill of Pattaya Beach is set for December. Pattaya Mail says that the refill project is set to begin early next year. In our eyes Bangkok Post has the more accurate infromation: The Newspaper didn't mention the year...

On September 6th, 2014, our Police arrested a Cambodian for destroing the good image of Pattaya: He kicked sand of a Russian tourist not paying for sitting down on Koh Larn's Beach. Since many years Pattaya's Jet Ski operators destroy Pattaya's good image by scamming tourists. Our lovely Police never arrested one single scammer. It is said that most of the Jet Ski business is in the hands of influent people as well as some Officials. Pattaya's Police and the City Hall's Officials are responsible for Pattaya's bad image in this world, nobody else. Our Police clean up Pattaya Beach from its prostitutes on a regular basis: They collect them, move them on a pickup car and drive them to Soi 9. There they get some ethical instructions and a fine between 100 and 500 Baht. Furthermore the Police register the names of the detainees. If a arrested person don't like to be registered he/she has usually has to pay 500 Baht. After the procedure the Ladies and Ladyboys can go back to their working place(s). A ridiculous exercise. Pattaya's Police behavior is responsible for Pattaya's bad image in this world. Some time ago Pattaya's Officials ordered Police and volunteers to patrol on Pattaya Beach to supress criminals and what these people do? They sit down on Pattaya's Beach Promenade, play with their phones and tablets and are socializing with the gangster. Pattaya's Officials are themself creating Pattaya's bad image.

Thailand's Public Health Ministry reports that heart disease kills six Thais an hour. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), about 17 million people worldwide die from heart problems each year. The number of deaths is expected to reach 23 million by 2030. Thailand's ministry has so far focused on preventative measures, such as a campaign to educate people on the importance of a balanced diet, underlying that the cause of heart disease usually was an unbalanced diet. Other chronic diseases, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and obesity affect the blood vessels and increase the chances of patients suffering from heart disease. People should consume less sugar-loaded and greasy foods and reduce their sodium intake. Quitting smoking and reducing alcohol consumption could also improve health. The rising prevalence of diabetes in Thailand is associated with dietary changes, reduced physical activity and health education, the Ministry says. The incidence of obesity in Thailand is already significantly higher than in most other countries in the region, and worse is yet to come. The obesity epidemic now developing in Thailand has all the makings of a perfect storm because the Thai approach to food and eating is social and relaxed, often featuring multiple snacks or meals at irregular times of the day or night. Thai people love sweet tastes and add a considerable amount of sugar to many popular recipes. As an example, a key factor in the successful introduction of pizza to the Thai populace was the addition of extra amounts of tomato sauce (which is high in sugar) than is used in pizza topping in western countries.

General Prayut Chan-o-cha, the Chief of the Military Junta and Thailand's current Prime Minister told people in his weekly TV show: We should preserver Thai culture of eating rice instead of teaching Thais to eat bread. Foreign athletes now eat rice as source of energy while Thais have started shunning rice. I would like to promote Thais to eat rice and would like the entire global populations to eat rice. The fast speaking General forget to mention - or perhaps not even know - that top athletes like to drink Coca-Cola too... Obviously Thailand's strong man doesn't know that rice not only contains three times as much calories as potatos - and 50% more calories than French Fries - most varieties of Thai rice contain an excessive concentration of Glucose. For diabetics high concentration of glucose can end deadly, the rest of Thailand's population transform it to fat - as explained above. Perhaps the General as well as YOU should read Sugar worse than Salt. Researchers from St. Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the Montefiore Medical Centre in the USA came to the conclusion that sugar - particularly Fructose - may play a stronger role in high blood pressure and other cardiac conditions than salt.

Honey is currently advertised as a very healty food, mainly because its a natural product and some of its ingredients are now used in medicines. It is true that Honey contains antimicrobial, antioxidant, and hygroscopic ingredients and possesses carcinogen-preventing and anti-tumour properties. But these ingredients must be extracted to be effective. Honey contains about 31% Glucose and 38.5% Fructose. Our body metabolizes excessive Glucose and Fructose into blood fat. Think about! Spores of some bacteria can survive in honey. Especially dangerous is the pathogen Clostridium botulinum. Therefore: Never feed infants with honey! Food that is dangerous for babies can't be called healthy. Call it eatable but never healthy.

Sense - of the sea is announced as a new high-class restaurant in Na-Jomtien, located somewhere between Soi Chayapruek and Soi Na-Jomtien. According to our information the new restaurant is managed by the same people that are running The Living on Pattaya's North Road.

On December 27th the Leo Blues Bar, located on Naklua's Soi 18 just across from the Kakadu Restaurant (known for its tasty German and Swiss Food at reasonable prices), celebrated its final farewell party. The area is known as Pattaya's Germany, now partly occupied by Russians. Therefore dubbed DDR II by some jesters.

On November 30th Naklua relaunched it's Walking Street. The popular 'Night Market' opens every Saturday and Sunday until January 18th 2015 from 16:00 to 22:00 and will have cultural shows sponsored by Thailand's Ministry of Culture - once directed by Sonthaya Kunplome, the brother of Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome.

The all new Siamese Hotel, located at Naklua's end of Pattaya's 3rd Road, about 200 meters only from Soi Photisarn, runs its very own version of a Tuk-Tuk to move its guests around Pattaya. It's based on a Suzuki Carry Transporter.

On December 4th large parts of Naklua faced Power Blackouts at 18:00 and again at 20:30. It wasn't the first time. I was told that the area around Naklua's Soi Photisarn faced about 5 power failures during the last few months only. Instead of improving Pattaya's infrastructure Pattaya Mayor Itthiphol Khunplome and his City Hall waste the taxpayer's money to finance projects nobody really needs. The result: Blackouts, flooded houses and roads, and bumpy streets.

On Pattaya Third Road the SN Plus Hotel with 110 rooms opened about 200 meters from North Road.

Once a beach side hotel with a popular spaghetti restaurant at Pattaya's Beach Road's entry to Soi Post Office - but today? The large souvenir shop in front of the building closed, the main building caved.

On December 26th HomePro opened a new large outlet on Sukhumvit Road.

On Sukhumvit Road, at the entry to Soi 42, the CTH opened its MAX Muay Thai Boxing Stadium.

On Central Road a new shopping area called Welcome Town is on the way to open, with a Beauty Clinic, nice coffee shops and restaurants as well as an exclusive motorbike shop. Located just above the Power Buy Outlet.

Enjoy your Holidays in Thailand's #1 Beach Resort!

The Cave is a new bar and the successor of the failed Sexy Submarine. The bar is built into a spectacular cave and is serving drinks at reasonable prices. A perfect meeting point to start or end your evening.

WannaDo Pub & Guesthouse opened in the room(s) of the former 3 Som Bar.

Crowded as in the good old days - and without the help of Pattaya's Chinese Tourists...

A Crazy Beer Bar opened at the entry to Soi Happy A Go-Go. We still don't know who or what is crazy in this Bar, its Boss, its Ladies, its Customers, its Beer or just its Name...

Endorphin - first announced as Connection People, but later corrected to Connecting People - is Tony's replacement for the group's not so successful Abyzz Disco. According to Tony's Ankor Disco is still open, with access from Soi 16. Tony's new club has 3 (THREE) dancefloors and the latest gadgets in lighting technology, the group promises. Walking Street's new dancing (soft) opened on December 6th, 2014. Endorphin's big Opening Party happened on December 24th, 2014. Not everything worked the way it should but it will be corrected (perhaps) during the next few days. Russian Angels patrolling in front of the new Disco try to attract Russian Tourists before they reach Insomnia, Lucifer, Mixx or LimaLima.

Tiger A Go-Go, the second floor club located on Soi Diamond with an entry on Walking Street, reopened on December 5th. The venue was closed since June 2014.

After a visite from Pattaya's Police the Rhino Club A Go-Go closed its door without stating reasons. The venue reopened last month. As expected, it had a short life.

Apelsin, the restaurant, got refurbished with new chairs and tables and a new name, undecipherable for people not knowing the Russian language.

Viewed from a distance Pattaya's Walking Street is clean, quiet and beautiful.

On Soi Phaniatchang, also known as Soi Yume or Soi Carrefour, City Hall spent 3 million Baht for a wheelchair path. Pattaya's large-hearted road users are happy to block the path with their vehicles and say thank you for the new parking lane. It seems that nobody takes care of the about 850 students from the Soi's Redemptorist Vocational School - not even our lazy police. They close the eyes.

PS: On July 28th Officials from City Hall inspected the area. They discovered that people drive their vehicles to fast in this small Soi and (as documented on this website since June 2014) are parking cars and motorcycles on the wheelchair way. Pattaya's Officials urge the people not to be selfish...

Update: On October 21st Pattaya Deputy Mayor Ronnakit Aegasing paid a visit to the area and saw himself that irresponsible people are obstructing the stretch. Therefore the lovely Deputy Mayor arranged a meeting for October 24th to discuss the matter...

Update: On October 25th Mr.Rattanachai Sutthidechanai, President of Pattaya Tourism and the City's Tourism Association, as well as Police Officers inspected the wheelchair way on Soi Phaniatchang.

Obviously the 3 million Baht weren't spend to help the Handicapped, but to fill up someone's pocket...