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Training Muay Thai in Pattaya

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Gulf coast city in Chonburi province, two hours from Bangkok by road, and the closest cluster of long-running competition gyms to the capital that is not in it. The town has a nightlife reputation that arrives before you do, and the training scene sits beside that rather than inside it: the gyms are in their own compounds, long-stay accommodation is cheap and plentiful, and U-Tapao takes enough regional flights to skip Bangkok on the way in. It suits people who want a serious room to train in and do not need the surroundings to be pretty.

Nearest airport
U-Tapao (UTP) or Suvarnabhumi (BKK)
Suits beginners
Yes
Camps listed
4

4 of the 44 camps listed here are in Pattaya. 3 of them print what a month costs, 9,000 to 16,500 baht. 3 say on their own sites that you can stay at the camp.

4 camps

Camps in Pattaya

Fairtex Training Center Pattaya

Pattaya, large camp

Large resort-style training centre attached to the best-known equipment brand in the sport, with on-site accommodation and food. Polished and self-contained, which is either the appeal or the drawback depending on what you came for.

Muay Thai / MMA / BJJ / Boxing

From the camp's own site,2026-09-02

Sityodtong Pattaya

Pattaya, mid-size camp

One of the historically significant names in Muay Thai, with a lineage that long predates the training-holiday market. Traditional in approach rather than resort-styled, and priced accordingly: a session here costs half what the resort centre up the road charges.

Muay Thai

From the camp's own site,2026-09-02

Kombat Group

Pattaya, mid-size camp

Runs structured multi-week training and weight-loss camps as packaged programmes rather than open drop-in training. Suits people who want the schedule decided for them.

Muay Thai / MMA / Boxing

From the camp's own site,2026-09-02

Sudsakorn Muay Thai Gym

Pattaya, small camp

The gym of Sudsakorn Klinmee, who runs it himself. Two group sessions a day, six days a week, with a five hour gap in the middle of the day and nothing on Sunday, which suits a working schedule better than it suits a fight camp. The published ladder prices one session a day separately from two, so a lighter week costs less here than at a camp selling nothing but unlimited.

Muay Thai

From the camp's own site,2026-10-14

How far apart

Getting between the camps in Pattaya

Measured in a straight line between coordinates the camps publish themselves. It is not a road distance and not a journey time, so read each figure as the shortest the trip can possibly be rather than the trip itself.

The closest two camps we have placed in Pattaya are Sityodtong Pattaya and Sudsakorn Muay Thai Gym, 1.6 km apart in a straight line. The furthest two sit 10 km apart, and 1 of the 6 pairs is close enough to walk between.

Published rates

What the camps listed in Pattaya charge

Read off the camps listed here and nowhere else. The low and the high are figures a camp prints itself, never an average or a midpoint, and the count sits beside each one because a band drawn from two camps tells you less than it looks like it does.
One group session
400 to 800THBfrom 3 of 4 listed camps
A week, unlimited
3,000THBfrom 1 of 4 listed camps
A month, unlimited
9,000 to 16,500THBfrom 3 of 4 listed camps
One private
800 to 1,500THBfrom 2 of 4 listed camps
Room, per night
1,000THBfrom 1 of 4 listed camps

Sourcing

How much Pattaya publishes about itself

The 4 camps listed in Pattaya answer 28 of the 48 questions we put to them on their own sites, against 274 of 528 across Thailand as a whole.

Counted the same way for every region in Thailand, and set out in full on what camps publish about themselves.

When to come

Training weather in Pattaya

Almost every camp in Thailand trains under a roof, so rain cancels your run and your beach day rather than your session. What the calendar below actually decides is heat, humidity, air quality and how full the camp is, which is why the wettest stretch is often the cheapest and emptiest one to train in.
Every region, side by side
Driest
November to February
Wettest
roughly May to October, heaviest around September
Calendar
Central and eastern
The year, January on the left. Solid is the driest stretch and the dot screen the wettest.

It runs on the Bangkok calendar rather than the southern islands, which catches people who booked it as a beach trip and planned around Phuket dates.

6 answers

What people ask about training in Pattaya

Every figure below is read off the camps filed under this region at build time rather than written by hand, so a question this region has no record behind is left out instead of answered softly.
How much does it cost to train Muay Thai in Pattaya?
3 of the 4 camps here print a month, and those months run 9,000 to 16,500 baht with 13,000 in the middle, above the 10,000 baht middle for the country. 3 of the 4 camps print what a single group session costs, running 400 to 800 baht, below the 450 baht middle for the country. Every one of those figures was read off a camp's own website rather than quoted to us, and the camps that print nothing are counted in the denominator rather than left out of it, so the range is what this region publishes and not what it charges. Food, a room off site and a visa run are all on top.
How many Muay Thai camps are there in Pattaya?
This site lists 4 camps in Pattaya, of 44 in Thailand, and 3 of them publish a price. That is a count of what we have checked and written up, not a census: Pattaya has gyms that keep no website, gyms that run out of a yard behind a house and gyms nobody outside the province has heard of, and none of those can be listed honestly from a desk. Read the number as a floor.
Is Pattaya a good place to start Muay Thai?
Yes, on this site's reading. All 4 camps listed here read as a fit for somebody who has never trained, and none of them reads as the wrong room for a beginner. Those are calls made at a desk from what each camp publishes about who it trains, not verdicts from the mats, so use them to build a shortlist and ask the camp how a first session actually runs. A gym built around a fight team will take a beginner's money and leave them holding pads at the back for a month.
Can you stay at the camp in Pattaya?
At some of them. 3 of the 4 camps listed in Pattaya say they have accommodation on site. One of those publishes a nightly rate and the rest leave it blank, because the camp never printed one. Where a camp sells training and a bed as a single package this site refuses to split the figure, which is most of why that column is as empty as it is. Staying in means the commute stops being a decision you make twice a day at five in the morning, which matters more than the saving.
How many sessions a day do camps in Pattaya run?
3 of the 4 camps listed in Pattaya print a timetable, and every one of them runs 2 sessions a day. That is how many are on offer and not how many anybody should plan on taking. A timetable says the door is open twice; how many times you walk through it is most of the difference between a training holiday and a camp, and a first week of doubles is how people spend a second week injured.
When is the best time to train Muay Thai in Pattaya?
The driest stretch in Pattaya runs November to February and the wettest is roughly May to October, heaviest around September. Rain is the thing people plan around and close to the least important thing on this page: a wet month costs you the morning run and the beach, and almost nothing inside a gym with a roof. It runs on the Bangkok calendar rather than the southern islands, which catches people who booked it as a beach trip and planned around Phuket dates.

Narrower

Pattaya read for a specific kind of trip

The region is the same. What it costs you is not, and it depends entirely on why you are coming.

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Two camps in Pattaya, side by side

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