I remember once wrote several posts about prices in Thailand and they turned out to be quite interesting to people. Really one thing read budgets, the other is to see price tags. In advance before the trip or wintering is very convenient when you can at least approximately calculate how much will it cost a vacation or spending on living a month in the new country. It is especially important to see not just the price, but the photo, so that understand what is behind these numbers. Like, in this cafe is worth 50 baht, and in this 100 baht and immediately from the pictures it is clear whether pay more or not. Agree, it would be convenient?
So one man recently approached me and asked me to make review of his site Globalprice.info, which is dedicated to the subject prices in different countries. Since I understand Thailand the most, it is this section that I will consider and say, as if I did. By the way, I once had an idea to make a similar resource, but as usual, a lot of ideas come, and time (or desire) no. Although, it seems to me, the theme of money has always been and will be interesting to the public.
As I usually estimate prices
In all of my articles, I always write, guys, we spend so much and so much, but not the fact that it suits you, people are all different. True, some individuals still manage to then claim bring, but oh well, that’s their business.
I, when I was preparing for the first wintering, and indeed always, when preparing for other travels, I read reviews from other people. AND since I know my travel format, I compare it with the format of the authors and try not to fall for such verbal characteristics as “budget”. For example, among the bags and their ilk, the budget a hotel in Tae costs $ 50. And for me, budget means – This is $ 10-20. Im inexpensive lunch at a cafe 500 baht, and I 100 baht. It’s me besides, I write that in such reviews you need to look for numbers and descriptions with pictures, everything else will not give any idea, only if you do not know this person personally to draw conclusions.
Therefore, in general, the idea with prices I like. Convenient when all collected on one site, and do not need to climb a huge amount blogs, analyzing various articles, and not always realizing that mean their authors by the words “budget” and “inexpensive.”
Globalprice.info
Project Globalprice.info – information on prices, how do you like the idea?
So what should I do in the future, and what is missing there now.
- Need prices for all regions of Thailand, at least for the most popular, not just Phuket.
- It is necessary to add other items of expenditure, which are missing, for example, the topic of housing is not covered at all.
- I would add a price plug and give a minimal description of how get the minimum price and where the maximum price.
- Complementing the previous paragraph, it would not be bad to introduce such concept of how the average price. For example, if I just go mindlessly in all cafes, the price of Pad Tai will be 150 baht (average price), but if you search, you can find it for 40 baht. And if the cafe surrounded by fountains and all of glass, then most likely it will cost there are 300 baht. The average price of a motorbike is 250 baht, but if you search (spend a couple of hours on your own or find out from those who already found), then you can find for 150. Just add that when long lease (from 3 days), the prices are different at all.
- I would like a more understandable structure to make it easier to find what need some kind of rubricator.
- I would add more photos illustrating this or that nuance. For example, a photo of a macaroni with plastic chairs and a photo of a restaurant. with aquariums, and not just a verbal indication of the price range in depending on the entourage. No photos of taxis, tuk-tuks, motorbikes and so on.
The site is quite new, so you can understand why it is filled still not too good. I personally think that if you continue it develop, fill with information, make it more convenient and interactive, he has a future like a project SOM. Can even try to raise a forum or some kind of discussion on these topics. But it all depends on the goals of the author.
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