Pattaya festivals: activities, Pattaya nightlife - travel guide

Major Events:

Pattaya's Annual Festival
Each year, usually during April, the week-long Pattaya Festival is celebrated with a wide range of entertainment spectacles, including parades, beauty contests, concerts, food festivals, fireworks and an exciting calendar of sporting events, including Grand Prix and go-kart motor-racing, sailing regattas, windsurfing competitions, power boat racing and fishing contests.

Special exhibitions and shopping opportunities abound as Pattaya celebrates in a style befitting its stature as Asia's premier beach resort.

Wan Lai Festival
The heat in Thailand intensifies once the month of April comes. People of old were wise enough to initiate the Songkran festival to cool themselves off from the heat and celebrate it as the Thai New Year. In the central region, the festival is usually held on the 13th, l4th and 15th of April while in the East there is a difference as the water throwing activities commence on the l6th or 17th, 18th or 19th known as "Wan Lai" (Flowing Day).

Pattaya City holds its Wan Lai festival annually on April 19th with activities such as water pouring for the elders, processions and the fun of dowsing and another with water, a time for Thais and foreigners alike.

Chonburi Buffalo Races
These are held in Chon Buri during October every year. The water buffalo is one of the mainstays in the life of a Thai farmer, but in this annual event it is put to more amusing uses than ploughing the local fields, such as buffalo races and contests pitting buffalo and man. Beauty contests add to the fun a festival that attracts crowds from nearby seaside resorts.

Nightlife

Alcazar

Alcazar Cabaret of Pattaya is now well-known throughout most of the "International" community in equivalence to both the Lido & Moulin Rouge of Paris. But Alcazar is different in that here a Drag queen stages it. Alcazar was not accepted in its early days of establishment when audiences misinterpreted their shows. After years of working hard & developing their technology, Alcazar of today is a world acclaimed extraveganza. Alcazar can successfully blend the art of acting, stage design, costumes & the sequence of the shows so well, that people of all ages cannot fail to be impressed. Alcazar is a must see show for both local & foreign visitors.

Tiffany Show
Tiffany's show is the First ever truly transvestite cabaret show in South East Asia. With over 28 years of stage experiences, the fame of TIFFANY'S SHOW is undeniable and become a recommended tourist destination of the successful growth of Thailand's most popular resort city , Pattaya City. Millions of international visitors from every part of the world have experienced our spectacular performances and enjoyed our marvelous, talented and beautiful Tiffany performers.