Moving in Thailand

[Bears]

Hello, we are planning on moving from Chiang Mai to Rayong in mid June. I would like any advice on renting a truck to move our personal things with a motorbike. No furniture to speak of, but many boxes. Any advice would be appreciated or contacts of anyone who rents truck. Thanks

[jackdd]

When we moved from Udon Thani to Chiang Mai i figured out the cheapest option was to put everything in boxes and send it using Kerry Express (about 420 THB for 25kg, something like 50 THB extra per box if they pick it up at your home)

I drove the bike, so no idea how much it costs, but afaik sending a small bike at the post office costs something like 2k THB.

 

The only alternative price wise would be to rent a pickup one way and drive it down yourself, but this will probably not be cheaper (unless you have tons of stuff)

If you want to pay somebody to drive your stuff down there with a pickup that's about 1700km, just the cost for fuel and car alone will be about 10k THB, so i expect you would have to pay at least 15k THB for this.

[Bears]

7 minutes ago, jackdd said:

When we moved from Udon Thani to Chiang Mai i figured out the cheapest option was to put everything in boxes and send it using Kerry Express (about 420 THB for 25kg, something like 50 THB extra per box if they pick it up at your home)

I drove the bike, so no idea how much it costs, but afaik sending a small bike at the post office costs something like 2k THB.

 

The only alternative price wise would be to rent a pickup one way and drive it down yourself, but this will probably not be cheaper (unless you have tons of stuff)

If you want to pay somebody to drive your stuff down there with a pickup that's about 1700km, just the cost for fuel and car alone will be about 10k THB, so i expect you would have to pay at least 15k THB for this.

That sounds pretty good. I suppose I would have to buy the boxes, have some plastic boxes from our move up here 3½ years ago. I also have a big bike which I intend to ride it down there so I either ship the small bike as you suggested or on a rented pickup truck. Thanks for the ideas. I'll definitely look into Kerry Express.