Pattaya Transport

The Pattaya City administration plans to build a nine-kilometre monorail to ease traffic congestion and connect the city with the government's flagship Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) project.

Pattaya deputy mayor Manote Nongyai said:

Pattaya needs to develop a public transport system to facilitate travel across the city.

For the future development of Pattaya, it is necessary to reduce the use of private cars while moving towards public transport in the form of an electric rail system to distribute wealth, promote tourism and help the industrial sector

Adding that a highly efficient system will be in high demand after the Covid-19 crisis eases, which will see an influx of tourists return to the city.

Manote said the Pattaya City administration has allocated a budget of 70 million baht for a feasibility study project

The nine-kilometre monorail would run from Pattaya railway station via a motorway, Northern Pattaya Road, Pattaya Sai 2 Road, Thap Phraya intersection to Bali Hai Pier.

A meeting took place at Pattaya City Hall to discuss supposed problems and complaints about illegal taxis operating in the city.

The problems have escalated with many complaints about unacceptable bad behavior from taxi drivers from tourists, both Thai and internationals.

Presumably tourists are complaining that the green and yellow taxi carry signs purporting to be licensed taxis when in fact they refuse to use their meters and instead charge inflated fares.

A programme is to be set up to inform everyone about illegal taxis:

• Registered taxis carrying yellow license plates are doubtfully legal because they do not use their meters and charge inflated fares above the authorised rate.
• Cars with black license plates are illegal because they are not registered to carry fare paying passengers and charge reasonable rates.
• Baht buses are legal and are available for private hire at middling rates.

Whatever forms of taxis are available, there needs to be a few more. During peak season week in Jomtien, the main road was lined with people trying to get transport to Pattaya.

Coach service connecting Bangkok International Airport (Suvarnabhumi) and Pattaya.

The 32 seats coaches are non-smoking and the single fare is 134 Baht

From Suvarnabhumi airport , buses depart each day.

7am then every hour until 10pm

Ticket booths at
1. Airport Bus Terminal
2. Arrival Terminal Level 1 between Gate 8

From Pattaya , buses depart each day.

7am then every hour until 8pm

Ticket office and bus stop is located on Thapphraya Road opposite to Pan Pan restaurant

Thailiving Ferry provides a new high speed

Catamaran ferry service between Pattaya and Hua-Hin.

The Ferry operate a regular schedule of three crossings per week. Wed, Fri and Sun The crossing takes about 3:15 hours.

Departing from Pattaya 08:30 from Hua Hin 12:30

Customers get transportation to and from the piers with minibuses collecting and dropping of at central points in the cities

Following the relief service the airport provided to stranded tourists during the shutdown of Suvarnabhumi Airport by anti government protesters, Pattaya City decided that U-Tapao should be developed as an international airport for Thai and foreign passengers, and its name changed to U-Tapao, Pattaya International Airport.

Mayor Ittipol presented the plans for renovation and development including the environment around the airport and the road and traffic systems. The road to the airport will be expanded from 2 to 4 lanes and advertising boards will be erected to provide income to offset the costs of the development.

Up to now, the navy has presented the project to the government, requesting a budget of 995 million baht to rebuild the airport terminal and doubling the capacity of the passenger lounge, to renovate the landing area and parking area for aircraft, the X-ray machines, the fuel storage facilities, the fire and rescue service and the security facilities.

The Rear Admiral stated that if the budget request was approved, the airport could become one of the most popular airports in Thailand.

To welcome visitors, U-Tapao, Rayong International Airport will be renamed to U-Tapao, Pattaya International Airport within next 2 months.

By this issue, Rear Admiral Surapong Aiyasanon, deputy director of the airport, had joined the conference discussing tourism and transportation development matters.

At the meeting, Rear Admiral Surapong revealed that the airport's passenger terminal had been improved to facilitate more than 400 passengers and the run-way had also been widen to land up to 49 airbuses. In addition, the airport required international security standard by installing radar for airlines landed in the airport and allowing passengers 24-hour entrance.

I used to see the Red Line bus quite frequently, but haven't seen it for some time now. Has the company gone bust? Driven away by the baht bus mafia? All those shiny new bus stops are now worthless antiques, and the bus stops on Beach Road have *never* been used.

Mind you the company didn't help itself, refusing to publish a timetable, and changing the times and routes several times without warning.

Anyway RIP Pattaya bus service.

Pattaya’s Beach Bus is the latest victim of the increase in gasoline prices, with the operator axing one of the routes because it is no longer profitable to run.

Pattaya Beach Bus Co Ltd, which has a seven-year contract to operate a scheduled bus service and which began operations in August 2005, has found itself with an inadequate number of passengers and escalating costs of running its vehicles.

The company’s general manager, Suriyont Klindee, has announced that the Yellow Line has been axed. The buses had run on a Soi Chayapreuk-Thepprasit Road-Thappraya Road-Third Road-South Pattaya-Central Pattaya-North Pattaya-Pattaya City Hall-Sukhumvit Road route. Suriyont said there were too few passengers for the route to be viable.

The Red Line and the Green Line services remain. Suriyont said that the travel time for these routes is 45 minutes and that the buses run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. The buses, however, must have at least 25 passengers for the service to be sustainable, he said.

The fare remains at 20 baht per route.