Pattaya International Music Festival

One of Biggest Music Festivals in Thailand

Pattaya International Music Festival 2012 is a little different from the other years. This is because the festival is in April instead of March as usual. The reason for the postpone is that there is the Royal funeral on Monday for HRH Princess Bejaratana ion 9th April 2012, and the council of the city does not want to lunch any entertaining event during that period of time.

Pattaya International Music Festival 2012 start from 27th - 29th April 2012, and there are still 5 stages for this event as the other recent years. If you are waiting for this festival, it won't be long already.

If you would like to ask for more information about this Pattaya Music Festival, you can ask a staff at Pattaya Tourism, Tel:038-253128, or a staff from Thai Authority of Tourism (TAT), Pattaya Branch, Tel: 038 427667, 038-428750 or 1337.

Parking Area and Additional Information

After gathering some more information about this festival, we have known that visitors can park there car on shopping centers in the city (some of them will charge for parking there though). The followings are shopping centers close to the festival area: Central Festival Pattaya Beach, Big C North Pattaya, Tesco Lotus North Pattaya, and Royal Garden Plaza. The other shopping centers would not provide much convenience to visitors. There are also parking areas apart from department stores: The School of Pattaya City 8 (South Pattaya), Chaimongkol Temple (South Pattaya), and Goo Chai Parking Area (Central Pattaya).

* Note that if you prefer to park your vehicle in a shopping center, you should come early because it will be full quickly. Shopping centers will close at 23.00 as usual, but you can take your car anytime.

** Techno Stage change its location to near Amari Hotel (North Pattaya), but there is still a stage at Royal Garden Plaza (organized by the shopping center itself).

*** While traveling in Pattaya in the period of this festival, you might also want to see what to eat in Pattaya or Pattaya Attractions.

Pattaya International Music Festival is an anniversary festival of Pattaya City. There are Thai or international bands invited, and currently there are 5 stages set up and the main stage is usually at Bali Hai area. Visitors can enjoy this festival from about 18.00 to 01.00. Vehicles are not allowed to enter Pattaya Beach Road, so there are a plenty of street stalls from North Pattaya until Bali Hai Pier.

Pattaya International Music Festival is presented by a corporation of Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT), Chonburi, and Pattaya City, so that tourism in Chonburi and Pattaya will become more popular during the festival and in the future. This festival was first officially introduced in 2002. It is usually presented for three days (Friday - Sunday) on March.

Those who would like to stay a night during this festival should book a room in advance. This is because there are tons of visitors come to the city, and many of them also want a room to stay too.  It is pretty difficult to find an available room on the festival days, although visitors could find an available room in Pattaya easily on many other days.