Bella Villa Cabana

With a stay at Bella Villa Cabana in Pattaya (North Pattaya), you’ll be within a 15-minute drive of Walking Street and Pattaya Beach. This upscale hotel is 9.3 mi (15 km) from Jomtien Beach and 5.2 mi (8.4 km) from Terminal 21 Pattaya. Head down to the water and enjoy a day at the private beach, or take advantage of other recreational amenities including a health club and an outdoor pool. Additional amenities at this Art Deco hotel include complimentary wireless internet access, wedding services, and a television in a common area. Guests can catch a ride to nearby destinations on the complimentary area shuttle. Satisfy your appetite for lunch or dinner at the hotel’s restaurant, Terrace Lobby Restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the 24-hour room service. Relax with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge or the poolside bar. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 6 AM to 10 AM for a fee. Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite. Make yourself at home in one of the 103 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring microwaves and LED televisions. Rooms have private balconies. Your Select Comfort bed comes with premium bedding. Complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and bidets.

Why Are Pattaya‘s Roads So Bad? Gavin Perfect of Global Design & Build Co,. One section of the road was partially completed in Jomtien over the Christmas holiday periods, being the area behind the Immigration office. Being a local expat you would sometimes ask yourself when driving up Theppraya Road, “How long have they been working on this road for?” I estimate that road has been under construction now for around four years. Ask yourself the question, why does it take so long to complete a relatively easy road construction? I was amazed to see a TV report not so long ago showing cars and bike trying aimlessly to drive through 2 feet of water after a small rain shower. The answers to solve these problems are clear to see during the construction process. Why is it that in just a few months the road is completely damaged again? Like any road in the world the most important part of road construction is the sub foundations.

These are the materials and base foundation that the road finishing is laid on. To make sure this sub – base is constructed correctly you require specific machinery that they simply do not use here in Thailand. When constructing a heavily trafficked road the first objective is to excavate to a good sub virgin (or compact) sub soil. The procedure to comply to also isn’t implemented in Thailand road construction. Before completing the sub base to finished height (ie the final layer) you would then install all underground services, being drainage, cable ducts (Thailand seems to not want these). Once complete the sub base should be installed in layers of a specified maximum depth along with special membrane materials, and compacted to a specified strength, which is then tested using a compaction gauge. Now this is where many of the problems arise here in Pattaya. Once any services are laid in place the void should be filled using a graded material and compacted to a specified target.

My personal opinion for a country such as Thailand would be to use concrete.

This simply isn’t done here and hence once the rains come the underground voids fill and subsidence occurs, meaning the road surface becomes under mined which creates all the pot holes we see and the breakdown of the road finishing surfaces. You will notice that many of the local roads are of two different types of surface, some being Tarmacadem (Tarmac) and others concrete. Both road surfaces hold their own advantages and disadvantages. In many cases the reason for installing one over the other potentially comes down to cost. My personal opinion for a country such as Thailand would be to use concrete. My reason for this is due to the climate, with tarmac decomposing quicker in high temperatures. Concrete roads are easier to repair, but in hand cost more in labour to install and take longer to install. Tarmac can handle traffic just hours after installation. Another major problem is the drain locations. I’m still amazed that the Civil Engineers designing and constructing the local roads seem to think that water travels up hill.