Is 250thb fair for haircut?

[Jingthing]

These days still masking vanity isn't there  So I do a local quick 100 one and just let him do whatever after over growing it out.

 

But I've paid 500 here and it was actually much better.

 

Worth it?

 

That's debatable.

[Mickeem]

In Chiang Mai 60B at a barber shop most places have a price list written in Thai .. I let the barber know I can read the correct price and tell him that is what I will pay

 

If the Falang can not read the price list it will be 100B+

 

 

[NoshowJones]

4 hours ago, Will B Good said:

WHAT!!!....Just paid 60 baht......the Thai guy who walked in just before me let me go first, so I paid for his as well.....last of the big spenders.

That's what I pay for my haircut about every 3 months.

[Will B Good]

12 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

That's what I pay for my haircut about every 3 months.

I'm sure it has gone up since last time........price gouging?

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

Take a walk past a bar and listen to how many more of the girls shout out ‘hansum maaaaan’ ????

 

 

They only shout out "hansum maaaan" to the fat bellied, overweight, tattooed, ugly guys. I can say in all honesty that in all the bars I have passed in the 15 years I have been here, nobody has ever shouted that at me.

I have had them jump on my back, thrown their arms around me, tried to escort me in, but never ever had hansum man shouted at me.

[jasonsamui55]

300 is standard for a barber not a salon in Samui and you need to make an appointment in advance otherwise you’ll be sitting and waiting for an hour or two.

 

Try this one for Bangkok. This was for girls but 13000 14 years ago is still crazy. Those are proper western prices!

[sandyf]

4 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

Not scammed, you pay more in a trendy salon (250 thb is fairly cheap for one) then at a cheap barber. Have a look what people pay in the West in a trendy salon. It takes so long as they want to give you "value" for money.  

Quite, and a lot will have to do with the rent.  The village barber here has had a room in his house converted, charges 60 baht for haircut & shave.

We go down to Pattaya fairly regularly and I go to a barbers on Klang, pay 100 baht and I don't think price has changed in the last decade.

[Hans Johnson]

The hair dressers in the malls are normally clean and around 300-400 for shampoo and cut and usually a quality job. As the street barber is cheaper, but be warned the equipment is not sterile or cleaned and you can can get scalp infections. 
 

A relative of my wife came to me complaining that he had red lesions on his scalp and when checking he had herpies and believes it came from the barber he visited. 

[ChrisKC]

My first experience for a trim was in Doi Saket in 2003 at my local barbers - B25. OK was the best I could give it.

 

Having a Hairdresser as a girlfriend and living in a salon, for three years, everything for free. Or was it about B2,000,000?

 

I have spent on a regular basis until 2017, always B100 and always including shampoo and performed by a lady - often very attractive!

 

Since been married now for 4 years, two of which (down to Covid) my wife has cut my hair and a fine job too , the extent to which there is a need to involve her Facebook friends of her continuing handsome man (not my words).

 

I have taught her to ask me when finished...

 

"Anything for the weekend, Sir?"

[Expat68]

Normally for me 100 bhat

[Burma Bill]

Wow!! When I lived in Thailand in rural Isaan, my local barber charged 60 baht which included eyebrow trim and razor cutting to remove excess hairs on ears, nose and back of neck. Also a head and shoulders massage. I always gave him 80 baht.

[starky]

2 hours ago, The Hammer2021 said:

If you have to ask you can't afford  a haircut.

Have you changed your forum name JT?

[rwill]

It depends where you are at and where you go.  I can get my hair cut for 50 baht where I live.  There are barbers here that charge 120 baht too though.

If I go get a cut at a salon with my wife it is much more.

[swm59nj]

250 for a salon is a good price.  I live in Bangkok.  And the lowest price I paid in a Barber shop was 400 and up.  
To each their own.  But unless I had very little hair or just wanted a buzz cut.  I would be skeptical getting a haircut for under 400 in Bangkok.  

[lopburi3]

2 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

That depends where you are... 

 

Most around me charge 200-400 baht (Bangkok)...   there are a few non-AC places deep into the sub-soi which I imagine are cheaper. 

 

I’m happy to pay 300 baht for a 20min wash-cut-wash....  they do a decent enough job.

I don't know where in Bangkok deep sub-soi you travel but here on Chok Chai Road (not a soi) the normal price is about 120 now and they are air conditioned (seems to increase each year or so).  But a simple haircut is not a wash-cut-wash in a normal barbershop.  

[Paradise Pete]

120 baht at Barber B's...

 

[alex8912]

6 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

In Bangkok you can expect to pay up to 400 baht in a proper salon.  Between 100-200 baht in a barbers.

Yes it does vary quite a bit. I just got one at MBK salon style for 250.  I used to pay 280 there but that place was gone now. ( I wasn't here for 2 years ) but I remembered at MBK the higher up the floor the cheaper things are. Second floor salon 500. My fifth floor salon 250.  At home cheapest cut is 500 with a 150 tip so 650.  Here I gave 50 tip so 300 total. I also used to go to Sala Daeng BTS 100 baht basic cut that went to 120 but I think gone now. I think 250 with shampoo, conditioner and cut and blow dry is a great price in BKK. 

[wwest5829]

6 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

A salon cut will indeed cost about that much (or more).  Most male just get a haircut at a barber shop which will be about 60-150 baht and takes about 10-15 minutes.  

Agree. I did, once, pay at a salon. Have gone to the same barber shop for years now. He charges 80 baht so the 100 I pay is, I think, a fair exchange for the trimming. I have joked that I should collect the trimmings and glue them to the back of my head where I have, evidently, been scalped.

[TropicalGuy]

7 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

A salon cut will indeed cost about that much (or more).  Most male just get a haircut at a barber shop which will be about 60-150 baht and takes about 10-15 minutes.  

Ducky Cutz (Phuket) are high end Male Barbers. No Hair Washing or Color like Salon. 200 baht. Salon Same. 500 baht for male hair colour. Basic Barber 80-100 baht. Cut Only.

[ThaiFelix]

7 hours ago, Will B Good said:

WHAT!!!....Just paid 60 baht......the Thai guy who walked in just before me let me go first, so I paid for his as well.....last of the big spenders.

Did you know hes been following you for weeks?  Your notoriety precedes you obviously hahaha!

[ThaiFelix]

I always pay 80 baht including 20 baht tip in local town.  The price in our village is the same at 60 baht but he only sweeps up once a week lol!

 

[digger70]

7 hours ago, nikmar said:

i pay 80 bt and the nice ol' girl who cuts my hair gives me a head / shoulder massage on top.

 

Sorry , I read that wrong at first ,gives me Head---- and shoulder massage 

[norfolkandchance]

1 hour ago, Burma Bill said:

Wow!! When I lived in Thailand in rural Isaan, my local barber charged 60 baht which included eyebrow trim and razor cutting to remove excess hairs on ears, nose and back of neck. Also a head and shoulders massage. I always gave him 80 baht.

Luxury. The Turkish barbers in Saudi used set fire to rolled up newspapers and blow on it to remove  ear and nasal hair.

[Knocker33]

You sure that's all you got ?

[Antiparovian]

8 hours ago, nikmar said:

i pay 80 bt and the nice ol' girl who cuts my hair gives me a head / shoulder massage on top.

 

I first read this as "gives me head"...

[Doctor Tom]

54 posts on the price of a haircut? This forum is getting worse by the week. 

[billd766]

4 hours ago, Mickeem said:

In Chiang Mai 60B at a barber shop most places have a price list written in Thai .. I let the barber know I can read the correct price and tell him that is what I will pay

 

If the Falang can not read the price list it will be 100B+

 

 

In my little corner of rural Thailand the description is written in Thai but the price is in western script.

[timendres]

Here is Thong Lo, normal barbers start at 600, and many are 1,000+.

The exception is the shop just in from Sukhumvit, which is still charging 120.

[bang saen guy]

5 hours ago, EricTh said:

Most barber shops charge 100 baht just for hair cut.

 

More money if you want shampoo as well.

That is what I pay at a salon in Chonburi

[AgMech Cowboy]

With what you've described, no, you did not pay too much.