Walking Street runs along the south end of Pattaya Bay, from the bottom of Beach Road to Bali Hai Pier, where ferries leave for Koh Larn. In the evening it closes to traffic and fills with bars, clubs, seafood restaurants and street performers.
Staying within a kilometre or so means you can walk back instead of finding a baht bus late at night. The trade-off is noise: rooms facing the street, or the sois behind it, can be loud until the early hours, so light sleepers should ask for a high floor on the quiet side.
Distances below are straight lines from the middle of Walking Street to each hotel's map position, so the walk is usually a little longer.