Any recommendations of hotels in the Baht 1,000 range where no problems/fees with joiners.

I seem to recall Montri Hotel being mentioned somewhere. Any views

Thanks in advance

Also anywhere in Chiangmai to recommend for traditional Christmas Lunch.

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I always stay in Lotos PangSuan in de luxe room for about 23 euro--never problems with taking boy to room because the lobby is very big--never would stay in gay lotoshotel because it is shit overpriced. Lotos PangSuan is near House of male and connected with big shopping centre.

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Try taking a look at PJ's Place, it's just across the road from Chiang Mai Orchid and House of Male. 1500 Baht a night less 10% discount and includes airport transfers, full English breakfast, free internet and they welcome joiners. Their web site is at PJ's Place and they've had lots of good reviews.

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I have had friends stay at The Montri Hotel, and they haven't had any problems with "joiners".

Seven Suns Guesthouse will probably have a Christmas lunch, with possibly quite a few gay guests -
http://www.sevensuns.net/

The Sheraton Hotel usually has a good buffet dinner Christmas Night - I don't know about a lunch - phone 053275300.

The Novotel Hotel also has a good Christmas buffet - 053 225500-4,225505. as does the Amari Rincome Hotel. The La Gritta Italian Restaurant, in the Amari has an excellent Christmas dinner - http://www.amari.com/rincome.

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what about the suriwongse hotel? Any problems with joiners. Its near the night bazaar. I recalled someone mentioned this hotel sometime ago.

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I have a friend who stays at the Suriwongse Hotel, and he tells me that there is:-

"Absolutely NO problem at all. they are very polite and discrete"

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Any experiences of Pornping Tower Hotel? Any problems with joiners?

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The Chiangmai Gate hotel (use to be named the Chatree) is very gay friendly and has a great pool. Also had a good buffet breakfast but since I have not been to Chiang Mai in a long time I can not say they still serve it. When the Ole Macho bar was in business its location was a plus but it is a little out of the way for everything else tho catching a tuk tuk is very easy. The rooms in the newer part are nice and have plenty of hot water. The older section is used manily for trekers but are still very clean and affordable.

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I am about to book Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel. Can Wow Pow or someone else confirm that there is no problem with joiners. Also how far to walk to Night Bazar bars?

Many thanks

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Soho 20/3 Huay Keaw Rd. is a nice and cozy place like Darling at 49/21 Huay Keaw Rd.

The difference between Soho and Darling is that the owner at Soho doesn’t really socialize, whereas Khun Lucas at Darling is the center of the bar, at his table you can get all the updates you need on just about everything.

And of course he has a wineimport and therefore some of the best wines you can imagine, at least in Northern Thailand.

The owner at Soho rent two very nice rooms out on a day to day base. It’s a standard room and a suite and they cost around 600 and 900 baht.

Also at Huay Keaw Rd road you can find the Amari Ringcome hotel, it’s old but very well kept, with tennis court and pool. You can get rates there under 2.000 baht for a superior room.

Chiang Mais fast growing night spot is Nimmanhaemin Road, it is a road crossing Huay Kaew Road just at the Amari Ringcome Hotel. Here you will among many find an excellent new thai restaurant Rooms, always many gays there.

Regarding Montri, it’s a fine basic hotel with an ambiance, it’s an old and friendly familyhotel, and everything is kept in a very good condition. And the rate should be around 700 a night. Very fast laundry service.

Just opposite you have a new coffeeshop Black Canyon and next to it a local Thai-Chinese breakfast and lunch restaurant with very nice food. They have a stand outside with fresh juice and Mango Sticky rice.

Also close by is “The House” at 199 Moonmuang Road, an old colonial house and probably Chiang Mais best restaurant cozy cozy and fantastic fusion food.

If you look at www.chiangdao.com you can find a lot of info about hotels and everything else in Northern Thailand.

Cheers Toidi

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And of course when in CM take the trip to Chiang Dao Nest its out of this world:

Garden of Eden


Published on Apr 24, 2004


A stone’s throw from Doi Luang Chiang Dao is one of the Chiang Mai area’s best kept secrets: the Chiang Dao Nest

The husband-and-wife team of Stuart and Wicha Cavaliero – he from Britain, she from Thailand – have opened a charming little guesthouse and restaurant in Chiang Dao surrounded by lush, unspoilt nature.

Chiang Dao is near Doi Luang Chiang Dao, Thailand’s third-highest mountain, and about an hour's drive from Chiang Mai, making it a great escape from the city's oppressive heat. Evening temperatures in Chiang Dao are especially comfortable this time of year.

Chiang Dao Nest's cluster of 11 little bungalows is split between two sites about 1.5 kilometres from Chiang Dao Caves. They are basic, unpretentious and very clean; all sleep two people and are built in the shadow of the mountain.

The Chiang Dao Nest Mini-Resort is quiet and peaceful, the kind of place where guests can sit and read for days.

Between meals, of course. Food is the main attraction, for Wicha is a trained chef who studied and worked in a top-end fusion restaurant in the UK for more than four years before returning to her native country in 2002.

Wicha's cooking is a veritable “Babette's Feast”. She uses local produce from hilltribe farmers to make her own pates, cheeses, cakes and breads, and creates exquisite three-course dinners for less than Bt500. Her menu changes nightly.

Main dishes might include duck's leg with caramelised mango and thyme, buffalo fillet with beet puree and baby onions in red-wine sauce and grilled fish fillet with baby potatoes, gazpacho dressing and fresh parmesan shavings. For dessert are such gastronomic treats as fresh strawberry sorbet, coconut creme brulee and baked American cheesecake with mango coulis.

Guests are drawn to the Chiang Dao Nest by Wicha's kitchen magic and Stuart's guided trekking tours up Doi Luang Chiang Dao, with its summit at 2,245 metres. As a result, the Nest is attracting an increasing number of foreign visitors, as well as expatriates from Chiang Mai, who stealthily pass on word about the place like Masonic members sharing a secret handshake.

For more information, visit www.chiangdao.com, a comprehensive website with all sorts of details about this little resort as well as the town of Chiang Dao.

Pim Kemasingki

The Nation

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