Skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai: what this page can book

Most pages that answer skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai put both places in the same column and fill the gaps. This one does not, for a simple reason: the selection on this site has seven tandem listings and all seven sit on the eastern seaboard. Four are listed from Pattaya, two from Bangkok and one from Rayong Province. There is no northern listing to compare, so there is no honest column for it.

What we do have is the text the operators wrote. Five of the seven descriptions put a number on the exit: 13,000 feet on four of them, and 4 km on the Bangkok and Pattaya jump, which is the same height written the other way round. The Ocean Views listing is the one that counts out the jump itself, at 60 seconds of freefall and a five-minute canopy ride, and it is also the one that lists a personalised certificate and souvenirs. Two descriptions give a speed instead of a height.

So on skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai the useful half of the question is answerable in detail: what the jump is, how long the listing runs, what it costs, which city it starts from. The other half is not, and inventing it would be worse than leaving it out: no northern fare, aircraft, dropzone or review count is in front of us.

That is also why the fares below read better as a set than one against another. The spread is $304 to $387 and the published lengths run from 1.5 to 4 hours, but a longer listing is not a longer jump: those hours are ground time and transfer as well.

This is the part of skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai that changes someone’s morning, and it is the part most comparisons skip. The jump itself happens over the coast near Pattaya. The city on the listing is where the booking starts you, not where the aircraft is.

Four listings start in Pattaya, two in Bangkok and one in Rayong Province. The Bangkok pair is the point to read twice: the Dropzone Experience listing is filed under Bangkok, yet its own description says hotel transfers from Pattaya. Where the two disagree, the description is the thing the operator wrote about the day, so treat the coast as the starting point and the city as the catchment.

Transfers are written into four of the seven listings: two in the text, as pick-up and drop-off in Pattaya and as hotel transfers from Pattaya, and two in the title, as a return transfer and as optional transfers. The other three say nothing about getting there, which is a gap in the description rather than a statement, and the listing page is where that is settled before paying.

So the starting city is the first filter and the fare is the second. Pattaya opens four of the seven, including the most detailed description at $330. Bangkok points at the $304 listing, the cheapest here and the one carrying 178 of the 210 reviews. From the Rayong side it is the $357 listing.

This is the question the page is named after, so here it is without the padding. If you are in the north and you want to jump there, this site sells you nothing. Every listing in the selection is a tandem jump above the Gulf of Thailand coastline near Pattaya, and the nearest of them is a long way from a northern hotel.

We are not going to fill that gap with numbers. On skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai the temptation is to quote a northern price, a northern height and a northern operator so the page looks complete. We have none of those in front of us, and a figure written to balance a layout is worth less than a blank.

What this page can tell you is what the trip costs on the coast if the itinerary bends that way: $304 at the low end for a four-hour listing from Bangkok, $387 at the high end for the shortest one from Pattaya, and 210 reviews across the seven. Two of the seven are listed from Bangkok, so an itinerary with the capital in it already has a listing written for that start.

If the northern leg is fixed and the coast is not on the route, the useful thing we can do is say so plainly rather than sell around it. Keep the skydive Pattaya vs Chiang Mai page for the day the plan changes.