Cigars & Tobacco

[farangconnection]

Can anyone on the forum tell me a cigar and tobacco wholesaler/shop/store in Korat or Buriram. We have nothing here in Surin. I have tried e-mailing the importers, but as they're Thai they don't answer e-mails.

[chuck6660]

Can anyone on the forum tell me a cigar and tobacco wholesaler/shop/store in Korat or Buriram. We have nothing here in Surin. I have tried e-mailing the importers, but as they're Thai they don't answer e-mails.

I think you are going to have a hard time finding "decent" cigars in Buriram or Korat. My in-laws tried for two days to find cigars in Buriram for me...no luck. on the way to Bangkok we stopped at a department store in Korat, still no luck! Lucky for me I order on-line and bring two humidors with me when I come to Buriram.

My brother-in-law swears that you can buy cigars in Buriram...he just couldn't find the place! You may have to order from Bangkok and find a way to get them to you in Issan.

Good Luck!

[farangconnection]

Can anyone on the forum tell me a cigar and tobacco wholesaler/shop/store in Korat or Buriram. We have nothing here in Surin. I have tried e-mailing the importers, but as they're Thai they don't answer e-mails.

I think you are going to have a hard time finding "decent" cigars in Buriram or Korat. My in-laws tried for two days to find cigars in Buriram for me...no luck. on the way to Bangkok we stopped at a department store in Korat, still no luck! Lucky for me I order on-line and bring two humidors with me when I come to Buriram.

My brother-in-law swears that you can buy cigars in Buriram...he just couldn't find the place! You may have to order from Bangkok and find a way to get them to you in Issan.

Good Luck!

It's just that we DO sell them. Of course we get ours from Pattaya, and this time time we ran out very quick. I was hoping there was somewhere in between to get them. Anyway you know where to come in Surin now when I get my stocks up.

[remil]

Can anyone on the forum tell me a cigar and tobacco wholesaler/shop/store in Korat or Buriram. We have nothing here in Surin. I have tried e-mailing the importers, but as they're Thai they don't answer e-mails.

Im trying to get rid of over 40 cigars. I also have a humidifier cigar box with a beautiful design from Perdomo. Please contact me at 0877922583 if you are interested. Unfortunately I live in Bangkok. Let me know if you come this way.

Otherwise try Pacific cigars thailand. They only sell Cuban. not sure about there prices.

[bartomeer]

In korat I don't know. The gourmetmarket at Paragon and Emporium (Bangkok) they have a reasonable range.

http://www.gourmetmarketthailand.com/en/sh...gguide/wine.php

Why you not ask the streetgirls around the station in Surin if you " can smoke cigar"? I' sure the can help you

[Dave the Dude]

Why you not ask the streetgirls around the station in Surin if you " can smoke cigar"? I' sure the can help you

Most of them are men

[Prajak]

If you ever visit Udon Thani, at the Thanon Phosri there is a major liquor store (beers and wines and stronger stuff) and they have a good choice of Dutch and German sigars and pipe tabacco from Sweden and the UK. Closed Sunday and major Thai and Chinese hollidays....

In Bangkok, between Sukh 2 and 4, there is a big Khaa Yaa close to soi 4 and the petrol station and they have/had tabacco and sigars too. Pipes also. In the B Post there is often a wineshop publishing with wines and sigars too.

[maxjay]

Your best bet would be to bring some from your home country next time you visit.

Or, have a friend bring you some when they visit or order online and have them delivered to your friend to bring, or mail to you here in Thailand.

Don't have the on-line cigar company send them to you here in Thailand. A friend's cigar order from a on-line cigar distributor got hung up in customs and by the time he got them they had dried out.

I have a friend of mine from Holland bring me Dutch cigars from the Duty Free at Amsterdam Airport.

I have another friend from the U.K., who, when he visits usually transits in Switzerland and gets me cigars from the Airport Duty Free there.

The liquor store here in Udon that was mentioned has a decent selection but, it is an open air shop and I think the cigars aren't properly stored, IMO.

In fact, I'm not that comfortable with buying any cigars here in Thailand. I've seen too many shops display cigars in their windows with the sun beating down on them .

The Duty Free shops on the Laos side of the Friendship bridge carries cigars.

[justSumGai]

this brings up a question I always have, they measure cigars allowed in ounces I believe, not by number as with cigarettes. This would vary GREATLY depending on the cigar. I've smoked some that are like small telephone poles, and others that are only twice the size of a cigarettte.

My fav smoke is a rather small Parodi. Can get em 20 packs, 100 cigars. But I got a feeling that would be over an ounce or whatever their limit is.

Got any real idea past the official reg? Anyone had any experience with this?

[farangconnection]

Why you not ask the streetgirls around the station in Surin if you " can smoke cigar"? I' sure the can help you

Most of them are men

They got their own cigars.

[Dave the Dude]

Your best bet would be to bring some from your home country next time you visit.

Or, have a friend bring you some when they visit or order online and have them delivered to your friend to bring, or mail to you here in Thailand.

Hi Maxjay

You will see from the OP's name that its an establishment here in Surin and a forum sponsor, so he is unlikely to have time to visit his home-country whilst running a bar 24/7.

He might however, have a friend or 3 from the UK who might be willing to carry some in (with the usual oxo cubes)

Dave

[maxjay]

Your best bet would be to bring some from your home country next time you visit.

Or, have a friend bring you some when they visit or order online and have them delivered to your friend to bring, or mail to you here in Thailand.

Hi Maxjay

You will see from the OP's name that its an establishment here in Surin and a forum sponsor, so he is unlikely to have time to visit his home-country whilst running a bar 24/7.

He might however, have a friend or 3 from the UK who might be willing to carry some in (with the usual oxo cubes)

Dave

Well then, I would suggest having an assortment of cigars sent to a friend in the U.K. to be either hand delivered to you, or, repacked/relabeled to be mailed to you here in Thailand via government postal service to government postal service.

I have smoked this particular brands for years:

http://www.mikescigars.com/SearchCategory....old%20fashioned

They are "seconds" of well known cigar brands from Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

For those that do not know..."seconds" contain the exact same tobacco as "firsts" only there may be a slight flaw in the wrapper, etc., except they are a third of the price or less. And they come in bundles...no fancy boxes. They are seconds of Macanudo, Partagas, Punch, etc.

I do not know if http://www.mikescigars.com/ ships to the U.K.

Edited May 10, 2009 by maxjay

[Prajak]

Maxjay, I visit the Udon shop for years and usually buy the dutch or german corona's and they are packed, individually, in plastic and so is the box. The dutch wild sigars and the expensive dutch wild havana's are not packed in plastic but the box is and the sigars are always in good shape. I never had any complaint about them. The pipe tobacco is high quality. And tell me please, which Thai shop is not "open air" ??

[maxjay]

That is good to know Prajak.

I've also been a customer of the shop for a few years, although I patronize the shop for it's good value on spirits, not the cigars.

It does get awfully hot in there but, if you say it doesn't affect the quality of the cigars...I'll take your word on it.

Luckily for me, I will continue to get my cigars from the U.S. and from my friends who bring them to me from Europe (see my first post on this thread). Much cheaper and no exorbitant Thai duty.

However, if the need/time ever does arise, I'll buy my smokes at the shop on Posri Rd. After all..."any port in a storm".

[Ken]

this brings up a question I always have, they measure cigars allowed in ounces I believe, not by number as with cigarettes. This would vary GREATLY depending on the cigar. I've smoked some that are like small telephone poles, and others that are only twice the size of a cigarettte.

My fav smoke is a rather small Parodi. Can get em 20 packs, 100 cigars. But I got a feeling that would be over an ounce or whatever their limit is.

Got any real idea past the official reg? Anyone had any experience with this?

I have friends and family who send me "care packages" of Parodi Cigars, several times a year. They send 10 packs at a time (50 cigars, which I believe is the customs limit). They send them via USPS. They list the contents as 50 cigars, gift, and a value of 0 (zero). I have never had a problem receiving them at the Korat Post Office P. O. Box which I maintain, and I have never had to pay any duty.