The story of the Batman Disco on Soi Batman in Pattaya with pictures

By: Adam Judd, all photos by Adam Judd, Refreshed and Updated for 2023

  Have you heard of the Batman Disco? It has fascinated tourists and Pattaya residents for decades….a massive and imposing fortress of a building located near Sukhumvit on Soi Batman just past the telephone bar, it can be seen from miles away due to its size.

First I am going to write a bit about the history behind this disco. It was built in 1994 by a construction company out of Bangkok and was a Thai-style disco. At a massive six floors, it rivals even the biggest nightclubs in the states and a quick tour around the building will show you or anyone else that the cost required to maintain a disco of this size would have been intense. It had giant spotlights on the roof that shone the Batman logo across the city to draw customers to the disco. It stayed open for about eighteen months…