I am trying to piece together Christmas/NY vacation with family (including 2.5 yo kids) given that we have a return fron RGN in early january.

We'll probably spend a couple days in RGN and given the ease of BKK-RGN i suspect the rest will be in Thailand or nearby split between city and resort options.

Would it make sense to spend a few days in Pattaya or Hua Hin in resorty environment followed by NY in BKK? I would prefer smth like Krabi or Khao Lak (where we stayed in the past) but the cost of 4 more tix and adidtional travel time is beginning to add up and we can take a car to Pattaya/Hua Hin. Any other posisble options or practical strategy?

Another piece of this puzzle: on the way out i have lax-pvg and then probbaly an award from pvg to wherever we decide to go

(we traveled a lot with kids incl hong kong, bali, tokyo, singapore so travel in general is not an issue however we strongly prefer the convenience of chain hotels with lounges/clubs etc and i usually book with points)