Hotels PATTAYA

[farangbah]

Cheers!

I've been thinking about something like this for the next trip -- mix it up a little. I'll look into it.

Thanks, guys.

[kahuna]

Don't bother...I didn't check out early because I was in love with the place...You'll get blistering hot water and ice cold water but NO warm water...Not recommended...It would be very easy to correct the problem, but this is Thailand...

[pacman]

   The place sounds like a marketer's dream if you understand the magic of statistical averaging.

You know how it works - if you have one foot in a bucket of boiling water & one foot in a bucket of ice water,

'on average' you are comfortable...          

(How hard could it be to sort the tap out? Maybe 10 minutes work unless the hot water was hooked up by "Somchai's Noodle Cart & Plumbing Services")

[PigDogg]

(kahuna @ May 18 2010,18:44) Don't bother...I didn't check out early because I was in love with the place...You'll get blistering hot water and ice cold water but NO warm water...Not recommended...It would be very easy to correct the problem, but this is Thailand...

Note that's in the VCC and My View Condos.

The Yensabai Condo does not have those water problems and is in a better location.  However Yensabai Condo is not brand new like those others and is showing it's age.

[dutch]

(Snick @ Apr. 19 2010,04:22) I would not stay in Areca again, there are a lot of little things that annoy me about the Areca, but the lack of Free Wifi, or even paid Wifi in the rooms is a 'deal breaker'.

There was free wifi in my room in January (and also in Sept '09).

[TEXASMAC]

Since I still havent figured out this whol Soi thing whats close to the So What Bar? I belive that is Soi6?

[Steff]

YES it is on Soi 6 on the left side walking down from 2nd Road towards Beach.

[manarak]

Pattaya hotel choices again...

my options so far are PBR (but the Standard Room is a bit shabby), Mosaik (nice place but no pool), and the LK Renaissance (a bit upscale but a good deal now at 1900 baht).

August suites looks good, but prices are still high.

Financials calculated on 15 nights:

PBR DELUXE
15x 1500 all inc. +7% = 24075 THB

PBR Standard
15x 799 +7% = 12824 THB

Mosaik deluxe appart
rate 8100
power 1000
water 400
internet 600
cleaning 200x4 = 800
bed sheets x14 = 770
towel x28 = 420
fttowel x14 = 420
hd_towel x28 = 280
end cleaning 300
Total 13090

Lk Renaissance
28500 all incl.

So far, I'd be going for Mosaik.

[Buddy]

Just tried to reserve LK on their website.

They're requiring 100% "deposit" for all nights on reservation. I had to write them back to get them down to 1 night. Not pleased with that, though my last stay was nice.

[manarak]

I just got a mail from August Suites (I wrote them a mail with some of the rates of their competitors asking them if they want to compete).

It seems all hotels in Patts are desperate, write them and the will try to beat the other rates.

here is what they wrote:

Now the best rates from June- August are :
-1,300 THB/night/no breakfast for a Superior room City side on the 2nd floor.
-1,400 THB/night/no breakfast for a Superior room City side on the 3rd -5th floor.
-1,500 THB/night/no breakfast for a Superior room Pool side (not directly see the pool) on the 3rd -5th floor.
-1,800 THB/night/no breakfast for a Deluxe room (directly see the pool).

These rooms can stay max 2 persons.
If you would like to have breakfast, there is a 100THB charge/person added into the price.

[PigDogg]

I suggest the 1300 option and u will often get upgraded for free.

[PigDogg]

Pattaya is right now the quitest I have ever seen it.

If you^re a first time visitor, book a few nights, and then look around for something better. Most hotels have plenty of vacancies.

Some exceptions are August Suites which is full because 3000 baht rackrate rooms are only 1300 baht and the PBR which has a huge following and attractive lowseason rates.

[manarak]

If you're a first time visitor

who are you talking to?

hehe

[PigDogg]

(manarak @ Jun. 18 2010,01:54)

If you're a first time visitor

who are you talking to?  

hehe

Hey bro, talking to the lurkers out there.

[El_hefe]

Whoa, I just tried 2 different websites to price August Suites the first week in Feb 2011 & they both came up "Unavailable". I guess that the high season may come back to a pent up demand after this bad year?