I chose a hotel which was outside of the very busy and noisy tourist areas of downtown and beachfront Pattaya. So I reserved the Diana Garden as it looked quiet and with a nice garden area as the name suggests. Yes it has a good garden & pool area, but unfortunately there are two sides of the pool and garden area directly beside a road, thankfully not a main road, but certainly still always busy with all traffic, constant noisy motorbikes, tour buses, and also commercial vehicles and delivery trucks go right past the pool area which makes it totally impossible to relax there... You can even see all the traffic going right past only about 10m from you by the pool, and the noise and the fumes are just too much...! The hotel has two completely different accommodation types... The garden bungalows which seem very nice, although exposed to the traffic noise, and a second downmarket accommodation block with three floors of cheap, old, well used rooms. I saw the pictures of the bungalow accommodation, but I paid for the cheaper accommodation block room, but it was unfortunately worse than I had expected, because it was definitely very old, and very well used... The only good point was that it was away from the roadside so it was quiet inside, but I imagine that the garden bungalows were nicely appointed, but sure far too close to the noisy road traffic to be able to relax properly at all...! The staff also always seemed a bit tired, so that didn't help either,
