Although there will be various maps provided for you in Pattaya city or in your hotel, it will still be better to know which major places in the Pattaya map are before arriving in Pattaya.
To memorize such major places will help you not get lost once you are in the city.
The important places are showed in the following map of Pattaya city, and there is a description of the logos presented underneath
the map, and at the end of this section the breif explanation of this map provided.
Pattaya city map (click for the larger one)
Descriptions of logos in the map are presented below:
Hospital (One in the map near Central Pattaya Road is Memorial hospital and the other one next to Sukhumvit Rd is Bangkok-Pattaya hospital)
Temple
Police station
Workplace for Thai goverment officer in Pattaya
Shell petrol station
Mini Siam (one of the most tourist place)
Central Beach Festival
Carrefour - hypermarket
Tesco Lotus - hypermarket (one of them is at North Pattaya, while the other one is at Thepprasit)
Big C superstore (one is in between Central and North Pattaya, and the other one is at Sukhumvit Rd near South Pattaya.)
Fly Now outlet store
Tuk Com It-department store
Mike Shopping Mall
Royal Garden Plaza
Outlet Mall
The Avenue Pattaya
Top supermarket
Foodland
As you can see, this map is just about the city and base mainly on department stores. There are Mini-Siam and 3 Temples, where the most popular of these 3 temples is Wat Kao Phra Bat on the top-left of the map. Pattaya Walking Street is connect to Beach Road and South Pattaya Road. To keep this map in your mind would help you plan your trip easier.