new super cheap charlie option

[striderman]

here u go..........

 

 

on buakoaw near soi diana and opposite sutus court

 

 

even cheaper than the tree huggers other local choice

[mixxer]

no thanks ...... 

 

used to get a good breakfast there.... not anymore . 

[tsec]

But is it girl-friendly?

[Sexy Baldman]

160 baht for you own room up Chaiyapoom opposite Anzac bar... if too shitty talk to Chris in Anzac bar, he often discounts in low season to not much more than the hostel 

[passport220]

18 Coins (Dorm) comes up on a few of the hotel booking sites as the lowest cost option in Pattaya.

[racuse]

Thanks but i think i will give this one a miss.

[buck011]

Would be interesting taking a girl back to loom

 

[hoosdathu]

But is it girl-friendly?

i don't suppose we can bonk the TGs in the dorm with other backpackers onlooking?

 

300thb is for beds only.

for personal rooms, i'm sure it costs more...

[semi-retired member]

Perhaps B100-B150, but at B300 per-night for a dorm-bed, this seems just a bit over-priced ? Especially when one looks at what local GHs charge, for an individual room !

 

Another cheaper nearby alternative hostel, just off Soi Buakow is Asia Backpackers, they get excellent reviews.  http://asia-backpackers.com/pattaya/

 

Putting in bunk-beds to some ground-floor bedrooms, doesn't suddenly turn a hotel into a proper hostel either, it takes knowledgeable staff & facilities like a common-room & a self-catering kitchen, purely in my own opinion.

[particle]

What's the problem??! - In 1974 I shagged a girl in a bunk bed in the girl's dorm of an English youth hostel. That was hardcore. I had to cross a courtyard in my pjs in pitch black after everyone was asleep and was locked out of the boy's dorm when I got back.

 

To make matters worse I had to wait 42 years to brag about it on the Internet.

 

Call yourselves mongers???? Where's your sense of adventure pussies???!!!

 

 

(Post 400 - Peace!)

[just hanging]

great idea for someone on a tight budget, great idea as long as they keep eveyting clean

 

9 hours in Japan......... 1000 baht plus

 

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g298564-d6028872-Reviews-9_Hours_Capsule_Hotel_Kyoto-Kyoto_Kyoto_Prefecture_Kinki.html

[jaynewcastle]

Cheapest bed I've ever seen on booking.com was a 80bt per night dorm room in Bangkok

 

Also saw a $3 a night dorm room on the beach in Sihanoukville last year

 

For young people just wanting somewhere to sleep, good prices I guess & makes a long trip to SE Asia affordable

[semi-retired member]

I used to pay B50 per-night, for a basic small single-room with shared shower/toilet downstairs, at a guesthouse up in Mae Salong, they recently doubled that to B100 per-night, their first price-increase in almost a decade.

 

Nowadays I go for the luxury-option up there, a double-bed bungalow with en-suite & cable-TV, B300 per-night. Because I do like my comforts.

 

While staying there, I met someone who was teaching English in Laos as a volunteer, and had just B5,000 total to spend on a month's hitching round the North-West.

[semi-retired member]

Save 10% on their posted-price , and pay only B270/night, by booking via www.hostelworld.com !

 

http://www.hostelworld.com/hosteldetails.php/18-Coins-Hotel/Pattaya/99328?dateFrom=2016-02-06&dateTo=2016-02-09&sc_sau=prfs&sc_pos=3

 

Or from only B250/night at nearby Asia Backpackers, or B260 at the Jomtien Hostel.

 

http://www.hostelworld.com/search?city=Pattaya&country=Thailand

[Daveo]

We offer this room at 350baht per night, toilet/shower is private to the room but not en-suite just a few yards along the corridor.

[semi-retired member]

And that private-room at the Tales is potentially for double-occupancy, so B175 per-person per-night, therefore far better value-for-money !

[striderman]

i only opened the thread as a joke not a serious option !

[semi-retired member]

But the backpackers of today, god bless their cotton-socks for at-least getting off their arses & coming here, will become the family-tourist package-holiday-travelers in a decade-or-so, and then in turn become P-A members twenty years later !

 

And we all like our dosh to go further, which is why I now use perfectly-adequate guest-houses instead of staying at the Amari-Orchid like I did, when I first came to Pattaya half-a-lifetime ago !

 

Ye Gods, I wish I knew then, what I know now !

 

And I wish I still had the moolah I blew, as a 10-day escapee, from the Sand-Pit in the mid-80s !

 

Not to mention the staying-power which I once took for granted ?

 

Youth is wasted on the young !

 

Now, where did I put my Viagra & walking-stick, I've got a Pattaya-trip coming-up soon ! 

[Daveo]

Budget room on the roof, If your heat tolerant as no A/C, and fit as on the 4th floor, includes fan, King size bed, large room, has TV, hot shower, fridge, free WiFi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[striderman]

i don't know what is happening with the dorm rooms at this place.......

 

 

 

 

 

but the painters were in with changes afoot this afternoon........

 

 

 

 

[semi-retired member]

So much for "proven-returns" & their business-model, as claimed in the franchising-advertisement.

 

Running hostels for profit isn't as easy as some might at-first think it is !

 

But some of us have done it successfully, just not in Thailand, where there's an awful lot of low-priced competition of all standards of cleanliness & comfort, from guest-houses & budget hotels.

 

It's only when you contemplate traveling elsewhere, and research how expensive basic clean accommodation can be, that you realise what good-value-for-money we enjoy here !