Get your bus from the Ekamai bus station on Sukhumvit Road in Bangkok. This station is right on a Skytrain stop. You want to avoid the much slower local milk run. Go to the Pattaya window, right side. Price of the ticket will be around 127 baht, depends on cost of fuel that day. Make sure it is the VIP bus that takes 2 hours. Bus leaves around every 20 or 30 minutes from back dock. Pattaya bus out front, left side is usually the much slower bus.
At the bus station on North Pattaya Road, Pattaya - look towards the road, you will see some baht buses. There is a sign that says 20 baht for the ride to Beach Road. Get off at Beach Road Soi 10 and walk up to Pattaya 2nd Road and cross the street. Seven Eleven store and a bank are on the corners.
That Soi 11 is also called Soi Honey Inn. You will see the Bay Breeze Hotel, just after it is the one of the Sawasdee Hotels. http://www.sawasdee-hotels.com/pattaya/sawasdee_mansion/index.html
You can also walk over to one of the motorcycle taxis at the bus station and barter a ride from them. Their price will run around 40 to 70 baht for the ride depending on how easy you are. (Baht bus rides after the bus station are only 10 baht, wave a moving baht bus down and hop on, pay 10 baht when you get off.)
Here is a map. Map shows soi 11 and Bay Breeze Hotel. Walk from Beach Road isn't much more than 5-8 minutes. Pattaya Sai song is Pattaya 2nd Road.
http://www.thaiwaysmagazine.com/pattaya_map/pattaya_map_pattaya.html
All you can eat breakfast at the Apex and Lek Hotels isn't too bad.
Good luck.
Use the Song Thaews or baht buses, they're the pick-up trucks with covered bench seats in the back of the trucks. There are hundreds of them in Pattaya and will take you just about anywhere. The prices start at 10 baht for short distances, it shouldn't cost more than 20 baht or so to your hotel from the bus station in North Pattaya. Someone at the bus station can point you in the right direction, it's not far.
The cheapest mode would be to walk (free)... but if you only have a small suitcase, hop on a morotbike taxi. If you have more than one, or larger luggage, you'll have to hire a baht bus to take you directly to the hotel. Your hotel isn't that far from the bus terminal - just down Central Road and then left onto Second Road for a bit- near the Mike's shopping mall.
here's a great map:
http://www.real-estate-thailand.com/PattayaMap.jpg
If you can get your bag on a motorbike it is not going to cost you much more than 50 Baht (they will always try and charge for the bag). Without the bag it will cost you 30 Baht and if you are a local then only 20 Baht.
There are always Sang Thaew hanging around outside the bus station. Haggle and you will get the ride for 100 Baht...they won't do it for less and will always try for 150. Is it really worth arguing? 100 Baht is just a couple of quid...less than five dollars.
Then you could catch a regular Sang Thaew on its route...10 Baht and you will get pretty close to where you are heading.
Take a look at maps etc. In fact read all the info on this site:
http://www.pattayahome.net/home/
It will help you big time...honest.
Have fun!
if not to much luggage a motorbike taxi will get you their the easiest and quickest or little buses usually sit outside the bus station
