What's up with Dayli?

[heybruce]

Does anyone know what is going on with Dayli, the restaurant/bar on Nimmanhamin soi 11?  It has been closed for at least two weeks.  It still has its sign up and doesn't appear to be being prepared for a permanent shutdown.  Is this a temporary thing, or has Dayli gone the same way as Blar Blar Bar and many others in the Nimman area?

 

I also noticed the corner bar on Nimmanhamin and soi 9 has closed.  Not a big loss, it was popular primarily for location, but it always seemed to do a good business.   I assume an increase in rent ran it off, much like OMG.  The tragic process of making Nimmanhamin expensive and boring continues.

[worgeordie]

My daughter works at a hotel along there and she says its

quite now,with a few restaurants and bars closing down.

maybe the Chinese hoards have moved on to new places.

regards worgeordie

[heybruce]

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

My daughter works at a hotel along there and she says its

quite now,with a few restaurants and bars closing down.

maybe the Chinese hoards have moved on to new places.

regards worgeordie

Thanks.  Hopefully the owners decided this is a good time to take a holiday.  There is roadwork going on there (sewer maintenance/upgrades I think), and things are a little slow this time of year.

 

I'm not a regular there, but like having it as an option.  The food is good and the prices fair. 

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

My daughter works at a hotel along there and she says its
quite now,with a few restaurants and bars closing down.
maybe the Chinese hoards have moved on to new places.
regards worgeordie

The “hoards” never went to Nimman pubs they follow flags and Mobile discount coupons to Yellow signs, overpriced seafood tourists traps and Buffets. The remaining pubs in that area half-empty and dogged by the early closing rules.

Somebody will just open a larger one. Do Thai investors do ANY kind of market research? Somebody spent a mint on the Japan Village thing that predictably failed．

[elektrified]

Although I don't know Dayli, there are a couple of very uninformed answers here. The Nimmanhaemin area is not dead and most certainly not void of Chinese tourists. The Chinese that "follow flags and Mobile discount coupons to Yellow signs, overpriced seafood tourists traps and Buffets" is practically a thing of the past - or at least a minority of Chinese tourism. There are 20ish-30ish Chinese independent travelers now that outspend Western tourist by at least double, if not more. They must account for 40% of all the trade along Nimmanhaemin and its sois. Khun Tan's businesses that occupy 3 corners are booming!

[heybruce]

2 hours ago, elektrified said:

Although I don't know Dayli, there are a couple of very uninformed answers here. The Nimmanhaemin area is not dead and most certainly not void of Chinese tourists. The Chinese that "follow flags and Mobile discount coupons to Yellow signs, overpriced seafood tourists traps and Buffets" is practically a thing of the past - or at least a minority of Chinese tourism. There are 20ish-30ish Chinese independent travelers now that outspend Western tourist by at least double, if not more. They must account for 40% of all the trade along Nimmanhaemin and its sois. Khun Tan's businesses that occupy 3 corners are booming!

Not dead but certainly dying.  Blar Blar, Monkey Club, OMG, Lism, Neighborhood and others are gone, nothing of note has replaced them.  The college students have gone elsewhere also, leaving tourists who are there because their guidebooks tell them it is a trendy area.  Maybe the shops are doing ok, but the nightlife is close to nonexistent.

[MaeJoMTB]

Chinese don't do nightlife.

[chingmai331]

Well, not 'nightlife' as you know it but with 1,325,378,982 chinese people, they must do something at night.

[elektrified]

10 hours ago, heybruce said:

Not dead but certainly dying.  Blar Blar, Monkey Club, OMG, Lism, Neighborhood and others are gone, nothing of note has replaced them.  The college students have gone elsewhere also, leaving tourists who are there because their guidebooks tell them it is a trendy area.  Maybe the shops are doing ok, but the nightlife is close to nonexistent.

I wonder where the college students have gone?

 

But yes, shops, hotels, restaurants, guest houses - all booming.

[MaeJoMTB]

2 hours ago, chingmai331 said:

Well, not 'nightlife' as you know it but with 1,325,378,982 chinese people, they must do something at night.

Usually sitting outside the front of their house with a fire and gambling at Mahjong.

(from what I've seen in China)

[MaeJoMTB]

55 minutes ago, elektrified said:

I wonder where the college students have gone?

But yes, shops, hotels, restaurants, guest houses - all booming.

They've all gone home, until the start of next term (at least 4 weeks away, maybe 8).

 

Milk Club is busy ........... (not at Niman)

[ChiangMaiLightning2143]

Although I don't know Dayli, there are a couple of very uninformed answers here. The Nimmanhaemin area is not dead and most certainly not void of Chinese tourists. The Chinese that "follow flags and Mobile discount coupons to Yellow signs, overpriced seafood tourists traps and Buffets" is practically a thing of the past - or at least a minority of Chinese tourism. There are 20ish-30ish Chinese independent travelers now that outspend Western tourist by at least double, if not more. They must account for 40% of all the trade along Nimmanhaemin and its sois. Khun Tan's businesses that occupy 3 corners are booming!

Most of them In Chiang Mai are in busses and follow the flag to the predetermined Chinese/nominee owned spots. You might find them as they horde and cut the queue, a charming cultural peculiarity. How much money is left for the Locals really? Thais own 7-11 so they have that. As for out visible “cool and hip” independent young couples and fashionable girls visiting Nimman young people are usually on tighter budgets. They ARE leaving plenty for the songthaew drivers!

With the “How much?” rubbish. Only to be fleeced to go short distances and cause troubles for long time residents.

Perhaps by sheer numbers but until I see some hard evidence I can’t believe Chinese tourists are spending more per person than (the long driven away) European repeat long winter stay tourists and wealthy Japanese. Maya is mostly Thais and expats. Eastin, did they get a hotel license yet? As for the One Nimman development not many shops there really. I looked into the one huge gift shop, one way in one way out took about 10 minutes to escape. One of the worst experiences I have had in this city feeling as a trapped hamster in a spending cage. Nothing anyone but a Chinese tourist would want to buy.

It is true if not for them now there would hardly be any tourists at all.

[heybruce]

5 hours ago, elektrified said:

I wonder where the college students have gone?

 

But yes, shops, hotels, restaurants, guest houses - all booming.

They've dispersed.  A friend of mine used to work at OMG, she told me it is now on Canal Road south of Suthep.  The owner knew how to make a bar popular with young people--music, low prices, pool table and pretties--but she couldn't pay Nimmanhamin rent and keep prices low.  I saw on Facebook that Lism has relocated to the area north of CMU.  There is a popular place called Gate 5 across the street from the golf course near 700 year stadium that I went to--two large tigers and ice for 150 baht, the food looked good, lots of pretties.

 

There are still places out there; young people will find ways to have fun. But I don't know of any location with many choices in walking distance of each other.

[sanemax]

1 minute ago, heybruce said:

They've dispersed.  A friend of mine used to work at OMG, she told me it is now on Canal Road south of Suthep.  The owner knew how to make a bar popular with young people--music, low prices, pool table and pretties--but she couldn't pay Nimmanhamin rent and keep prices low.  I saw on Facebook that Lism has relocated to the area north of CMU.  There is a popular place called Gate 5 across the street from the golf course near 700 year stadium that I went to--two large tigers and ice for 150 baht, the food looked good, lots of pretties.

There are still places out there; young people will find ways to have fun. But I don't know of any location with many choices in walking distance of each other.

How old are you , BTW ?

Are you in the age bracket that these places want to attract ?

I do feel rather out of place , being in establishments full of people alot younger than myself

[sanemax]

6 hours ago, elektrified said:

I wonder where the college students have gone?

Just wondering why so many posters seem so concerned about Students .

Is it a sexual thing ? 

[heybruce]

13 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

Chinese don't do nightlife.

I've seen them out there; always drinking hard, usually loud, but mixed results beyond that.  On one occasion a table full of loud obnoxious drunks, on another two men facing off with broken bottles before the women intervened, and on a third a table full of Chinese who consumed an amazing amount of beer while having a goofy, friendly good time.  I liked that last group best.

5 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

They've all gone home, until the start of next term (at least 4 weeks away, maybe 8).

 

Milk Club is busy ........... (not at Niman)

Milk Club is nice, but kind of a pain in the *ss to get to, and I wasn't impressed with the food.  I like food when I drink.  But it does have the prettiest pretties of any bar I know of.