Low season on Pattayaâ€™s beaches

October 21, 2011

It’s been a strange season to be beside the seaside anywhere in Pattaya, given the high winds, high waves, rain, misery and flooding that we have seen recently.

Of course, now the beach is also being washed away, there is a lot less space available for punters to actually be beside the seaside, even when the going is good.

A stroll on an average low season day on either Pattaya or Jomtien Beach makes one quickly realise how very low low season has been this year.

A grim low season reality

The deckchair vendors gamely put up a fight for most of it, but to see how many couldn’t be bothered even putting out their chairs on overcast weekdays, or how many open very late and close very early, made us appreciate there are very slim pickings to be had along the length of both beaches on these gloomy low season days.

A perfect time to sort out your carbuncles.

Even the hilltribe tourist souvenir sellers have given up. How bad have things got to be for that to happen?

The only lively parts of Jomtien and Pattaya Beaches are where there are no deck chairs, because Russians flock to these postage stamp sized places to grab some sun even on the most miserable of dry days

: A reminder of warmer times on Jomtien Beach

It will only be a matter of time before these umbrella-free areas are extended along the beaches of Pattaya and Jomtien to take account of the new generation of Pattaya tourists, instead of having a forest of umbrellas which nobody seems to use, or certainly not in proportion to the number of umbrellas about.

A windsurfer enjoys the weather

The only people who seem to have really enjoyed low season’s wind and rough seas are sailors and windsurfers, who have been seen zipping along at remarkable speeds in the recent inclement weather.

For the rest of us, low season on the beach has looked about as attractive as a wet Sunday in Skegness.