The price is good at this place, but there are downsides.
They are not well located. A newcomer only figures out the bahtbus late in the visit and bahtbusses that go the length of pattaya are on beach and 2nd road. Both of those are some significant walking distance away on very poor and uneven sidewalks so you have to do some walking every single time you want to get anywhere at all and the sidewalks generate twisted ankles.
The breakfast buffet is good and included in the price. The staff is good and they care, but when any sort of question arises at the front desk the more senior and experienced people there are referred to and they always choose to gouge in price for something, anything. They arranged a taxi for me back to the airport and priced it at 1200 baht, which was fair. On the morning of departure, however, they informed me that price did not include tolls on the highway and to include them would be another 300 baht. I added the tolls up enroute and they were 120.
I know it's a poor country, but there's no call for this. If they need more money just price it that way.
Mixed experience overall. If you are a veteran of pattaya and are comfortable on the dangerous motorbike taxis the location issue goes away and all will probably be well.
Oh, one more thing. They gave me a room with a weak air con. It just wasn't cooling the room well. I complained and was moved, but they didn't believe me about the air con. The 2nd room was better. I later saw staff with freon testing gizmos in the elevator so they do clearly have an ongoing activity dealing with their air con. OTOH, they have the staff with the equipment trying to address the problem.
So there it is. If you are a veteran of Pattaya the price here is excellent value, given their excellent breakfast. If you are new, I would recommend somewhere else, closer to the beach road and farther towards Jomtien.
- Century Hotel Pattaya