Enjoy and relax in a sauna, take a Finnish sauna with all the other sauna facilities like a Turkish bath, steam room, herbal steam room, Jacuzzi and swimming pool.

The saunas and spas in Pattaya are very good for your body, weight loss, the cleansing properties and toxins released from your body, plus you will feel better afterwards.

Most of the saunas in Pattaya, you will also be able to have food their like the authentic Thai food or western food and if you are staying in one of Pattaya’s luxurious hotels, don’t look far because most of them over these facilities and services.

Most of the Spas in Pattaya, offer you many packages like massage therapies, aroma therapy, reflexology, facial massages, my recommendation, the Thai herbal body scrub and many more.

For Gay people, perhaps Pattaya is the best place to be in Thailand if you enjoy spas and saunas as they accommodate all your needs. There are so many gay saunas and spas, if you are there, just check the Internet, you will be able to find one near where you are staying.

There are so many spas and saunas in Pattaya to recommend any, there are all good, but for the best trained staff, you will need to go to the proper spa parlors, though you will pay more than shops you will see all over Pattaya.

These days, however, the process of building and flying kites has taken a much more scientific vein with engineers joining the fray to build some of the largest and most impressive offerings around. Kites that resemble new-born babies, houses and even creatures from the deep will be on show in Pattaya next week.

The international kite festival takes place from Saturday, March 13,  to Sunday, March 14, March 2010 at 10.00 until 21.00 at the Mrigadayavan Palace, Naresuan Camp, Amphoe Cha-am, Phetchaburi. Families are very welcome and it will be a fantastic outing for kids and adults alike.

The festival, which will run from the 10th to the 17th of March, has been established in order to celebrate the ancient art of Muay Thai boxing. I’ve been to see a few Muay Thai fights during my time in Thailand, and although I was aware that it was a very popular sport here, I didn’t realised that it crossed borders to any larger extent than the odd western bloke giving it a go on his holidays. This, of course, was a very naive attitude and I have since learned that Muay Thai is now one of the world’s most popular martial arts.

So for anyone who really does know what they’re talking about when it comes to Muay Thai, the Ayutthaya Stadium will be the venue for the festival, where traditional ceremonies will be performed before a bout of matches and tournaments. There will even be training workshops on offer to the novices, so maybe I should give it a go and see what all the fuss is about.

It happend in broad daylight at around 3pm. It is thought that the man’s head came into contact with high-voltage power lines while he was working high up installing a sign.

Officers attended the scene in Soi Mab Bon and found 33-year-old Nikom Unnamthieng unconscious and with blood coming out of his nose.

He was only wearing fragments of clothing and had suffered severe burns.

He is currently in the burns department at Chon Buri Hospital after being transferred from the local facility.

The incident is a shocking one, but surely one that could have been avoided if someone was supervising the project’s safety.

I can’t imagine how horrific it was for anyone unlucky enough to have witnessed the accident and, of course, for the injured man and his family.

After the success and the frivolity of this week’s annual Pattaya Bed Race, it comes as a bit of a shocking blow to hear about the body of an unknown man which was found floating just off the coast of Sattahip yesterday.

The body was found by a fisherman at around 5.30am while on his way back to Prateung fishing pier. The man had deep cuts in his neck and his leg and is believed to have been in dead for as long as four days.

The nationality of the man, who was wearing black shorts and a red T-shirt, is not yet known, but he is suspected to be Thai. He is thought to have been around 30-years-old and he has a tattoo on his left arm of the number 83.

A murder and attempted cover up has not been confirmed but is strongly suspected and an investigation is currently underway.

 What a horrible way to end the week.

 Hot off the press is news that on February 13^th(that’s the day before Valentine’s Day for all you useless men out there), Pattaya will play host to what is scheduled to be the world’s biggest speed dating event.

 The current record, which was set in 2008 by Germany’s Dating Cafe GMBH, stands at 252 participants, but I think we can beat it.

While there may be a lot of single people living it up in Pattaya, those who have been here for a while often feel the need for something a little more meaningful.

 If you want to register for the event, which is being organised by Sanook online dating service and Ripley’s World of Entertainment Pattaya, you can do so free of charge on the Sanook website.

And while everyone knows that you can’t hurry love, this could be your chance to speed it up just a little. If all else fails, it will at least give you the opportunity to catch up with all your exes!

A German tourist, believed to have been drunk, crashed into and killed an Italian tourist who was also riding a motorcycle in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The 29-year-old, Davide Tomast, died of head injuries in a soi off South Pattaya Road at around 5:30 in the morning. It is believed that Norbet ran into to side of Tomast’s motorcycle at high speed as the Italian was riding away from the soi.

The German, 38-year-old Raimund Norbet, was also severely injured and was sent to Pattaya Memorial Hospital. Police are preparing to arrest Norbet as soon as he is released.

Once you have lived in Thailand for a while, drunk driving and motorcycle crashes become part of the fabric of life and everyone knows someone who has experienced a loss due to a combination of these factors.

While the police might not be here to breathalyse you as soon as you step out of the bar, be assured that they will be there the moment you get out of hospital.

The man, who has been identified as 40-year-old Poliakov Oleg, was said to have been diving by the coral off the coast of Bang Lamung when the gruesome incident happened.

He is believed to have been about 300 metres from the shore, outside of the dive zone and towards Koh Larn, when he was caught in the boat’s propellers.

The boat driver, who has since been arrested for reckless driving, was transporting a group of Chinese tourists to the island of Koh Larn in his privately-owned boast when he ran into the Russian. He said he did not see the man swimming with his friends.

My sympathies go out to the friends and family of this man who ended his holiday in such tragic circumstances. I think this incident must be a lesson to us all, divers and boat drivers alike, that when it comes to the water around Pattaya, nobody rules the waves.

Apparently, it happened for the first time last year, and how I missed it, I have no idea. I was probably tucked up in bed. This, however, is no excuse when it comes to this fabulous event, as staying in bed is in fact the name of the game.

On January 31, sleepy heads of all nationalities will be taking their beds to the streets and taking part in the Pattaya International Bed Race. The balmy race, which is organised by the Club and City Hall, will begin and end on The Avenue on Second Road, with beds of all shapes and sizes hurtling down Soi 12, Beach Road and Walking Street.

I am still to find out whether me and my favourite place to be can enter this year, but if not, it will still be worth getting out of bed for.

More than 1,000 people from across the various departments of civic associations helped present the project that includes private companies’ participation, a centre for the training of new recruits plus employees and officials of Pattaya City Hall.

As one of the foremost tourist destinations in the world, it is commonly accepted that keeping Pattaya clean is an important task. This will enable it to build on its already fine reputation, create a good image for visitors and enhance the local economy further.

The resort island of Phuket has also initiated a similar scheme with marked success, with visitors over the peak Christmas period commenting that even popular beaches such as Patong and Kata have been free from debris and waste.