The Ambassador City Jomtien is a large hotel and convention centre at Jomtien Bay, near Pattaya, Thailand, with "over 4,000 rooms" . Located about 8km south of Pattaya, it occupies a 40-acre (160,000m2) campus overlooking the beach and nearby mountains. It consists of 5 buildings that each contain 150 to 2,000 suites. There are eight restaurants, several bars and nightclubs, a convention center, sport centre and what is claimed to be Asia's largest swimming pool.
Pattaya is a resort city in Thailand. It is on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) southeast of Bangkok, within, but not part of, Bang Lamung District in the province of Chonburi. Pattaya City is a self-governing municipal area which covers tambons Nong Prue and Na Klua and parts of Huai Yai and Nong Pla Lai. The city is in the industrial Eastern Seaboard zone, along with Si Racha, Laem Chabang, and Chonburi. Pattaya is at the center of the Pattaya-Chonburi Metropolitan Area—a conurbation in Chonburi Province—with a population of roughly 1,000,000.
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a country at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces. At 513,120 km2 (198,120 sq mi) and over 68 million people, Thailand is the world's 50th largest country by total area and the 21st-most-populous country. The capital and largest city is Bangkok, a special administrative area. Thailand is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the southern extremity of Myanmar. Its maritime boundaries include Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand to the southeast, and Indonesia and India on the Andaman Sea to the southwest. Although nominally a constitutional monarchy and parliamentary democracy, the most recent coup in 2014 established a de facto military dictatorship.
A convention center is a large building that is designed to hold a convention, where individuals and groups gather to promote and share common interests. Convention centers typically offer sufficient floor area to accommodate several thousand attendees. Very large venues, suitable for major trade shows, are sometimes known as exhibition centres. Convention centers typically have at least one auditorium and may also contain bon concert halls, lecture halls, meeting rooms, and conference rooms. Some large resort area hotels include a convention center.
The Ambassador City hosted the United Kingdom Contingent to the 20th World Scout Jamboree consisting of 2,500 young people aged between 14 and 18 and many of their support staff prior to the Jamboree at Sattahip in 2002/3.
The 20th World Scout Jamboree took place in the naval base in Sattahip, Thailand between 28 December 2002 and 8 January 2003 - the 62nd anniversary of the death of Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scout Movement. It was the second World Jamboree to be held in Southeast Asia after the Philippines hosted the event in 1959.
The hotel is located at: 21/10 Sukhumvit Rd., Na Jomtien, Sattahip, Chonburi, 20250, Thailand
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