Walking Street is the center of the Pattaya’s nightlife. The city is renowned by go go bars, cabarets, night clubs/discotheques and hundred of beer bars. Many bars, discos and nightclubs are venues for sex workers. There are fewer sex shows (knows as the ping pong shows). Depending on the enforcement climate, go go dancers may be seen fully nude, topless or in bikinis on different days or weeks. However, with the political crisis, there is little incentive to be strict about the former laws.
Muay Thai (Thai boxing) matches aimed at tourists can be seen at several open-air beer bar complexes.
Boyztown, are famous areas for beer bars, and go-go clubs catering to a gay clientele. Pattaya is the largest concentration of gay oriented establishments in Thailand; many specialize in specific types of hosts, while others have a broad range of men available. There is very little in the way of gay nightclubs or bars in the Western sense; the vast majority of places are no different than the venues that target heterosexuals, both feature sexual entertainment.