Just back from a two week break at the Dusit. Room was lovely and the breakfast choice was one of the best I have ever seen. Choice of 3 pools and plenty sun loungers. Hotel is located a short walk from city centre where there are endless bars and restaurants to choose from. Gullivers Bar is about 100 yards from the rear gate of the Dusit and provides good food and beers.

enjoyed my stay with my family in pattaya. World class hotel. biggest plus point is its location. Unlike other good hotels in pattaya ,no road between hotel and the beach.Thus they have their own beach. Highly recoomend it. Only negative was bathroom bit small.

Compared to the dusit in Bangkok and hua hin staff are not great at dealing with guests. Do not pay any extra for the dusit club benefits at Pattaya as they skimp on everything compared to Bangkok or hua hin. All restaurants, cafes and bars will charge you nearly £3 for a bottle of milk for the babies. A very limited choice of restaurants and bars especially if with kids. Seems a bit silly to have a lobby lounge at a beach resort and not allow under 20 years olds to it. What are you expected to do with your kids after dinner? No consideration is given to families with young children at this hotel. Kids club holds no activities for children at all. Beach is dirty, small, overcrowded and over-run with hawkers.

The Dusit Thani in Pattaya is a big hotel with 457 beds, almost as much as in Bangkok. The place is mostly always well booked, it was fully booked when I went there.
I had some kind of sea view room there, nothing special but a good deal for money priced at around THB 6k that time. The view along the whole Pattaya beach was nice, the room is quite modern, the hotel itself looks already a bit older.
At the Dusit Club lounge, 8th flor, you get free drinks from 5.30 to 7.30pm.
The panoramic views are pretty good of the hotel. I didn’t get a chance to try their Cascade restaurant, the Chinese one, The Peak, I didn’t try as well.
The first, actually larger pool is more old-school and has a deeper water level.
The other one, Lagoon pool, is more adventureous, I went there often, moreover they have a kitchen there where I daily ate some kind of early lunch, I am not sure if that gets prepared inside of Bay restaurant. The Dusit Thani is isolated at the one end of the beach but for relaxing it is really good and you can easily jump on the Baht busses when walking out of the gate.
The Devarana spa is great, similar like in Bangkok. The little garden behind the main lobby was a nice idea and makes it look very tropical. From the spa you can also walk into this little garden.
I made a video there, here is the URL :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uax518e-SWU
Every morning at 7am you can watch 9 monks getting food from the hotel. As you know all monks can go wherever they want to optain a food donation and the Dusit Thani is taking care of those 9 monks in Pattaya.