Due to the fact that in Thailand, sometimes in a very unexpected way call different types of housing, I decided to write a post about what exactly implies a Thai landlord by the word “resort” or “apartments”. This is not some kind of super important life hacking, but it will help you. more precise orientation when communicating with agents or owners housing. And just as briefly – about the advantages and disadvantages of each of types.
The content of the article
- 1 Accommodation in Thailand
- 2 Tystyle units
- 3 Hostel
- 4 Guesthouse
- 5 Hotel
- 6 Resort
- 7 Bungalows
- 8 Apartments
- 9 private house
- 10 Villa
- 11 Business House and Townhouse
Contents
Accommodation in Thailand
In Thailand, you have several types of housing available, each of which has its advantages and disadvantages: thai style units, guesthouse, hostel, hotel, resort, apartments, private house, bungalow, townhouse or villa.
You have only 2 options, how to rent a house / apartment in Thailand: through a realtor or independently on the spot. Last thing very much to the amateur. Believe, combing the streets for several days in a row in 30-degree heat, not for everyone, you can rest are driving.
I recommend to book accommodation in advance through a realtor. You avoid unnecessary trouble in an unfamiliar country. Than before refer, the better option will get. Send me a request, I have her I will send to a proven person whom I trust myself. And then in The last time scam has become a lot.
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Tystyle units
Tystyle units – is a classic Thai building. Long one-story building, under the roof of which is located several rooms (units) not connected to each other. Everyone has it the unit has a small shower, a corner for a gas stove and, in fact, a room with a fan and a bed. Tystyle units is the cheapest accommodation you can find in resorts Thailand In these usually visiting Thais or citizens neighboring countries, migrant workers. Well, do not shy away from such options all sorts of backpackers and downshifters. Unit can be removed for a month for 3000-5000 baht, separately pay for light and water.
Pros: long-term capital savings for the lowest prices you get when signing a contract for 6-12 months. Cons: maximum immersion in the local routine, neighbors with crumpled faces, litter at the doorstep, interruptions in electricity and Spartan living conditions.
ThaiStayl units in Thailand
Hostel
A hostel in Thailand is the same as a hostel in all the rest of the world. Multi-person rooms often with bunk beds and a shared bathroom. AT depending on the owner, it can be like a decent institution with clean rooms and bedding and full treshnyak with bedbugs. At different resorts the cost of a bed in The hostel ranges from 200 baht and up. BUT! Sometimes going into hostel, you discover quite nice guesta, since there There are also private numbers.
Pros: savings, youth get-together, shared kitchen. Minuses: Spartan comfort level, noise, lack of privacy. Shared toilets / showers do not add convenience either.
Guesthouse
The Guesthouse in the global sense is a guest house, that is private housing, which the owners themselves rent, sometimes even living next door. But in Thailand the guesthouse is usually just a cheap hotel for a dozen rooms. Also in guesthouses can be a few shared rooms, like in hostels. The cost of 300-1000 baht per day per room.
Pros: saving money, sometimes the pool goes as a bonus. Minuses: there may be no breakfast and a restaurant at the guest house, there is no cleaning in the room. Minimal service.
Typical room in Thai Guesthouse
Hotel
The hotel is the same as all over the world. Maybe like one several storey building, and a complex of different buildings with separate villas or cottages. The price for a room is very wide. limits, from 500 baht to thousands and tens of thousands of baht.
For myself, at a cost, brought about a gradation: 800-1500 baht – cheap simple hotels. 1500-3000 baht – medium hotels price category, suitable for most travelers. Can be with green territory and swimming pool. 3000-6000 baht – 4x star (less often 5 star). Not a luxury segment of course, but for me personally already enough comfort and more expensive does not make sense unless it is something special.
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Pros: the number of service options depends on the price. Cleaning, breakfast, its hotel infrastructure, anti-insect treatment. Cons: There may be a lot of people in peak season, especially if this the hotel was chosen by the Chinese (then also noisy).
Hotel in Thailand
Resort
The resort is a hotel where there are a dozen or a couple of dozen houses / villas. Sometimes there is a high-rise building with classic hotel rooms, or all together – houses and a building. The main advantage of a good resort is a big, well-groomed green territory, flowers, trees, streams, rock garden, with one or several pools and so on. The price is different, but normal resorts go anywhere from 2,000 baht per night. So let’s say the smaller and simpler the territory, the fewer the stars of the hotel, the price is less.
Also Thais sometimes call a complex of houses, which are rented for long term. And this is not a hotel at all.
Pros: beautiful area, hotel service, processing against insects. Cons: in the houses there is always a chance to meet wildlife
Resort in Thailand
Bungalow
Separately, I will write about the bungalow, because in the title of such complex may not be the word “resort”, for example, “Bungalow Hillview “. Although in fact it is the same bungalow resort type
For the whole world, bungalows are straw or very simple. building by the sea. However, in Thailand, bungalows are not called only flimsy huts by the sea, but also capital stone houses. If we talk exactly huts, the price is 300-1500 baht per day, and the closer to the sea, the more expensive, even if it is a specific shack with slits.
Pros: cheap and authentic. The opportunity to be closer to nature romance. Cons: comfort corresponds to the level of housing. Tropical wildlife.
Bungalow in thailand
Apartments
Apartment is an apartment in a condo hotel or condominium. (apartment building). The apartments are suitable for those who prefers urban housing, with a kitchen, as well as with a similarity eurorepair and laminate flooring. Really apartments (they are called and just a condo) more European housing than private homes.
Normal apartments are more expensive than private homes, if we talk about long-term rent – from 20,000 baht per day. Daily, they cost about as much as at home – 1000-3000 baht / day and above. If we talk about pure Thai condo, then away from the sea there options and for 5000 baht per month, but it will be just a little taistal room without a kitchen (in appearance, as a room in an inexpensive hotel).
Pros: the presence of all the amenities of the apartment, its own kitchen. On top floors are rarely some kind of tropical wildlife, sometimes not even there are mosquitoes. Almost always have your own balcony. In good condo There are 1-2 common pools and a gym in the building. With long term can spend your internet channel. Cons: noise from neighbors, common Internet is slow, there is no common green area.
Condominium with apartments in Thailand
A private house
Houses are usually rented for the long term. They always have a kitchen. The price starts from 10,000 baht per month for a simple Thai house. The house is better or closer to the sea 20,000 baht. Houses a little more European plan from 30-40 thousand baht. It’s hard to give a price plug, it all depends on the distance from the sea, area, area, time rent (several months or a year), as well as on how much the house “Thai”. Sometimes houses are called villas, but I don’t know how it is correct. For me, so the villas are the houses of the upper price. segment, with private pools, stuffed with technology, good furniture and cost about 100 thousand baht.
As I wrote above, a complex of several houses, owned by the same owner, can be called a resort (although this not a hotel). In this case, there will already be a common territory (sometimes green, sometimes not), there may be a common pool. The owner often lives right there in one of the houses.
Sometimes houses rent daily, but not monthly. Such offers found on Airbnb. The cost of the order of 1000-3000 baht / day.
Pros: fencing, its territory, sometimes a common pool in complex, familiar neighbors, the opportunity to have a pet, to let a child go for a walk unattended, or to scatter your things on the street. Own parking, the ability to spend your Internet channel with long term. Cons: house on earth is a permanent chance meet in it tropical wildlife. Almost always there is a payment for communal. May be not individual, but shared internet, as in hotels
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House in thailand
Villa
The villa is a luxury accommodation option, a rich house. how it says: every villa is a house, but not every house is a villa. Mansion with full service, security, video surveillance, with its own parking or garage, fully furnished for autonomous residence: kitchen, swimming pool, household appliances, everything. Because of the price for pleasure, the villa is suitable either for wealthy people or for cohabitation of several families. Price starts from 5000 baht per day for a simple small villa and from 50-70 thousand baht per month.
Pros: maximum comfort, beautiful. Cons: essentially only price. There may also be a surcharge for additional services, such as cooking meals by a cook and serving. May add payment of communal. There are chances of snakes and insects, like in any home, which stands on the ground.
Phuket Villa
Business house and townhouse
A business house is a long building under one roof that divided into narrow vertical 2-3-storey units. Such love rent Thai and farang with a small business. On the first floor – business, on the second and third – several rooms and bathrooms for accommodation. As a rule, only surrender for long term. Price from 20 thousand baht per month.
Townhouse – all the same, only without a room for business ground floor. Townhouses can be as detached (one building), and a complex of several buildings with a shared pool, security and fencing.
Pros: a large area for living, own parking or garage. Cons: There is always payment for communal. Most often it is taistal (layout and design). Business houses are usually located right at roads / tracks, which is good for business, but bad for ordinary winterer or tourist.
Townhouses in Thailand
P.S. Names are conditional, as homeowners do not call their hotels, resorts and complexes 
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