There are buses that go from Suvarnabhumi airport to Pattaya. I took the free shuttle bus to the transit center to find a bus to Pattaya. (Follow the signs as you get out from immigration.)

Ticket was 106 Baht and bus made several stops along what I think was Sukumvit. The bus actually terminates the run in Jomtien.

I got off at the central stop and grabbed a motorbike to my hotel (Sandy Springs)for 20 Baht. In hindsight, there was a lady that boaded the bus asking if anyone was going to south Pattaya. Had I piped up I might have gotten a better drop-off spot.

I'm uploading some images from the transit terminal.

No idea yet where to grab the bus back for a return to airport. Perhaps somone else can help fill this thread in with more info and pictures.

Its nice of you post this, but i find a bus takes a long time to get to Pattaya with all the stops, so i allways take a taxi.

The bus doesn't make stops on the way to Pattaya; it makes stops once it gets there.

Thanks for posting the schedule. My flight lands at 1135. That 1300 departure is almost perfect for me.

Thanks RG.

Here's another option from airport to Pattaya and back. Bell travel service. They have a office in the back to the right at The pattaya bus terminal. Didn't get a pic of the pick-up spot at the airport. Perhaps someone else can fill that in. My flights always come in around 11:35 so this one is better for the departure for me.

Bell Travel are the folks who have/had the apparently elusive "bus lady" that I swear exists but no one other than myself has been able to successfully track down at Survarnabhumi. There really was a bus lady, I swear.

Last Sept I posted the following. It was as correct as I could make it at the time. I haven't been to Thailand for a while now so I can't vouch for how current it is.

"....The best I can describe is after exiting customs, go down one level on the ramp escalator thingy. Just the same as if you are headed for the meter taxies. If you went down the correct ramp escalator thingy, there is a Qatar Airways office on the side away from the exit and right next to the exit is a Tourist Police kiosk. Now you are in the right region of the airport. Right at the bottom of the ramp escalator thingy is a bank of pay phones, a plant or two and some seats. In those seats or else somewhere else nearby you will find a kind of short, slightly pudgy Thai woman with a perpetually happy smile, wearing a jacket, carrying a satchel, and with a clipboard. Black hair, brown eyes, you can’t miss her. Always the same lady. Ask if she is the Pattaya bus lady. Assuming you have the correct woman, she speaks good English and she sells you a bus ticket for 150 Baht and can answer any questions you have. When it's time for the bus to go she rounds everyone up and leads them out past the taxi stand and meter taxies to the bus. It's an ordinary Air-Conditioned bus, not a minibus. It takes 90 minutes with no traffic or possibly considerably longer with really bad traffic to North Pattaya bus station just the same as any other Air-Conditioned bus. There they off load everyone into minivans and deliver them out to the various hotels. Usually quick but one time I got in the minivan in line after some Indian couple headed for some "resort" which was about 20 minutes out in the middle of fucking nowhere in some part of Pattaya I never saw before. So after they dropped them off I finally got to my hotel. Still beats getting crammed in the back of a Songtaw with 20 other people and their luggage. The whole operation is totally tourist oriented and tourist friendly and no funny business anywhere. Baggage no problem. They deliver exactly what they promise. Buses leave every two hours during the day and roughly mirror the AC buses from the Transportation Center. There are none after ~8:00pm or so."

Phone numbers for Bell
Bangkok
027474675
027474676

Pattaya
038370055

They now have at least one person who speaks a little English at both offices. Be patient.

Photos submitted by Javaj

Bell Travel Service Schedule


Bus Service From Pattaya to Airport


Location of Pattaya Bus Terminal


Pattaya Bus Terminal

Excellent pics Javaj. Last time I went to Pattaya I got there right after the bus left. Rather than wait 2 hours for a bus , I decided I'd rather just grab a taxi and BE in Pattaya by the time that next bus left.

They have more or less adjusted the public bus schedule to mirror the Bell Travel bus schedule, offset by one hour. Therefore one or the other bus is leaving at the top of each hour throughout the day.

So check your arrival schedule against the Bell Travel schedule. Then figure there is a public bus an hour before or an hour after and decide which way to go based on which bus leaves next.

Last time I cleared customs at 10:30AM, saw there wouldn't be a Bell Travel bus until 12:00PM so headed to the transportation center and was on my way to Pattaya at 11:00AM.

On the down side, Bell Travel raised their price to 200 Baht. Although that is still worth it because it also includes van to your hotel in Pattaya rather than paying an extra 20 Baht to be crammed in a baht bus with 18 other people and dropped at the end of your Soi on Beach Rd.

Inside BKK arrival terminal not far from TAT ( www.tourismthailand.org ) booth i found a counter selling pattaya bus tkt for 124B ( www.airportpattayabus.com ). 7am bus departed @ 7:15 from BKK arrival terminal. 1hr 40minutes later bus arrived in pattaya & made stops along Sukhumvit Rd, then continued to Jomtien. I asked driver to stop at South Pattaya Rd, & climbed on a sawngthaew (10B) that drove near my hotel.

I dug through my files of my 2009's Thailand visit and recalled seeing the following web page:

www.paradise-pattaya.com/taxi-to-pattaya.html

I emailed Mr.T to pick me up. No reply. I emailed again. No reply.

About a week later after I was in Pattaya, Mr.T replied that it had a taxi waiting for me. Too late, I had booked and taken a Bell bus.

I know Mr.T exists, because I have walked by his sign on Soi Diana.

A public taxi to Pattaya for THB 1500 is not too bad. By comparison, people inside the terminal approached me with offers of a car to Pattaya for only several thousand bahts (I forgot the ridiculous number).