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I can only advise anyone not to stay in Pattaya between about 20 December and 12 January, so round about. I am not talking about local expats or long-term holidaymakers who spend three to four months in Pattaya in winter. I mean the vacationer who comes to Pattaya for 3 to 4 weeks to have some Sanuk and fun with the girls. In this period Pattaya is the exact opposite of "Dead as a Dodo". It's an exploding volcano, black with crowds of people. The pushing and shoving in the WS is unbearable. It's mainly these Asian crowds of visitors who invade Pattya in their hundreds of thousands and they are curious gawpers in the streets and sois of South-Pattaya. Every day hundreds and thousands of coaches come and go, clogging the streets of Pattaya. I know all too well these gazers, onlookers tourists from the Hamburg Reeperbahn, mostly elderly people of retirement age. Especially on Friday and Saturday evenings they are taken in dozens of buses to the Reeperbahn, which then unload their crowds. When the group passes a brothel or a table dance bar, this ambivalent, malicious grin is reflected on their faces, always associated with embarrassment, awkwardness, and humiliation. Behind these walls, behind these doors, it is vice that reigns, here is sin at home. At the same time one feels magically attracted to these places, because here the glamour, the eroticism, the sexuality, the sensual lust is celebrated - supposedly. Exactly this facial expression and this embarrassing grin can be found on the faces of many package tourists and mass tourists at the WS.