Shopping malls in Pattaya: Terminal 21, Central and outlets

Pattaya's malls line up along two parallel streets. Beach Road, on the seafront, has Central Pattaya, Mike Shopping Mall and Royal Garden Plaza within a 15 minute walk of each other. Second Road, one block inland, has Terminal 21 at its northern end beside the Dolphin Roundabout and Central Marina a few hundred metres south. All are air-conditioned, all have clean toilets and cash machines, and each does one thing better than the others.

Which mall in Pattaya is good for what?

What will you find at Terminal 21 Pattaya?

Terminal 21 opened in October 2018 and is the mall most visitors enjoy as a place, not only as shops. Each of its six retail floors is dressed as a city: Paris on the ground floor with a replica Eiffel Tower, London on the mezzanine, Italy on the first floor with a leaning tower, Tokyo on the second, San Francisco on the third and Hollywood on the fourth. The whole building is a photo stop.

The shops are mostly mid-price fashion, sportswear, cosmetics and phone accessories, with a Foodland supermarket on the ground floor and an SFX cinema. Pier 21, the food court on the third floor, is the cheapest sit-down meal in any Pattaya mall: Thai dishes cost 40 to 70 THB. You load cash onto a card at the counter by the entrance, pay each stall with it and collect the unspent balance when you leave. The HarborLand indoor playground operates here daily from 11:00 to 20:00.

What is Central Pattaya, the former Central Festival?

Central Pattaya is the beachfront mall that opened in January 2009 as CentralFestival Pattaya Beach and now trades under the shorter name. Older maps, signs and taxi drivers still say Central Festival. It runs through the block from Beach Road to Second Road, with the Hilton Pattaya above it.

This is the city's main address for international brands: the Central department store is the anchor, with Tops Food Hall as the supermarket and an SFX cinema and the SF Strike Bowl bowling alley on the upper levels. The restaurants on the beach side have terraces facing the bay, which makes the mall a comfortable place to sit out the midday heat or watch the fireworks during festivals. The mall's Tourist's Guide pages list visitor offers and explain its VAT refund procedure.

The streets around it, and hotels within walking distance, are covered in the Central Pattaya area guide.

Where is the outlet shopping in Pattaya?

Central Marina, on Second Road in North Pattaya, is the oldest Central mall outside Bangkok (1995) and was relaunched in November 2024 as Central Marina Outlet. It holds factory stores for Nike, Adidas, Puma, Skechers and New Balance, a Supersports Factory Store and a Pan and Arena outlet, with discounts of up to 70 percent on past-season stock. A Big C hypermarket and an SF cinema anchor the site.

From about 17:00 the forecourt becomes the Marina Night Market, with more than 100 street food vendors and stalls of clothes and souvenirs trading until midnight. The second outlet address is Outlet Mall Pattaya on Thepprasit Road near the Sukhumvit junction, open from 10:00 to 20:00 from Monday to Thursday and to 21:00 from Friday to Sunday. It sells discounted sportswear, shoes and casual fashion and sits next to the weekend night market, so the two combine well on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

Days and hours for the open-air markets are in night markets in Pattaya.

What about Royal Garden Plaza, Mike Shopping Mall and Harbor Pattaya?

Royal Garden Plaza, at 218 Beach Road in South Pattaya, is recognisable by the red aeroplane crashed into its facade. That is the sign for Ripley's Believe It or Not, a museum of oddities with sister attractions on the same floor, open daily from 11:00 to 22:00. Arrive by 20:00 to see it all before closing. The shops are mid-range and the upper floor has a food court and restaurants looking over the beach.

Mike Shopping Mall, on Beach Road just south of Central Pattaya Road, is a local department store with a bazaar underneath. The ground floor sells T-shirts from 100 to 250 THB, shorts from 150 to 300 THB, luggage, sunglasses and souvenirs at stalls where bargaining is expected. The department store occupies the upper floors, a Thai food court is upstairs, and the rooftop swimming pool is open to the public for 100 THB per adult and 80 THB per child.

Harbor Pattaya, the family mall on Central Pattaya Road, closed its play zones on 3 November 2025 and its shops at the end of that month for a full renovation. It has not reopened, so do not plan a day around it. HarborLand, the indoor playground it was known for, has a branch at Terminal 21.

Which malls work best with children?

• Terminal 21: the HarborLand indoor playground, open 11:00 to 20:00, the themed floors and a cinema.
• Central Pattaya: bowling, cinema and plenty of family restaurants with high chairs.
• Royal Garden Plaza: Ripley's fills a rainy afternoon for school-age children.
• Mike Shopping Mall: the rooftop has a shallow children's pool.

Cinemas show most international films in English with Thai subtitles. More ideas for wet days and hot afternoons are in Pattaya with kids.

How does the tourist VAT refund work?

Thailand's Revenue Department refunds the 7 percent value added tax to foreign visitors on goods they take out of the country. The rules are the same in every Pattaya mall.

1. Buy from a shop showing the "VAT Refund for Tourists" sign and spend at least 2,000 THB, VAT included, in that shop on one day.
2. Show your passport at the till on the day of purchase and ask for form P.P.10 with the original tax invoice. Many stores now issue it electronically.
3. Leave Thailand by an international airport within 60 days of the purchase.
4. If your P.P.10 forms total 20,000 THB or more, have the goods and forms inspected at the customs VAT counter before you check in your bags.
5. After passport control, claim at the VAT Refund for Tourists office. Refunds up to 30,000 THB are paid in cash or to a card; larger amounts go to a card or bank draft.

Luxury goods such as jewellery, gold, watches, glasses and pens worth 40,000 THB or more per item are inspected a second time at the refund office after passport control, so carry them in hand luggage. Services, hotel bills and restaurant meals do not qualify.

Allow an extra 30 minutes at the airport for this. Transfer times are in Bangkok airports to Pattaya, and baht bus routes between the malls in getting around Pattaya.