This Is A New One For Me

[mark lamai]

sheez i've stayed in heaps of cheap hotels,

now in Pattaya for 6 days at 500B a night,

today management says they will charge an extra 50B a day coz i have a computer and an iron in my room.

how small can you get,

never before had anything like this.

haven't figured the actual cost,

i reckong ironing a shirt a day and running a laptop (well 3 actually but mostly asleep),

would cost 10B a day max.

shame i have to move coz i just found a wi-fi i can hitch a ride on from my room.

a unit is around 3 baht yes? is 1 unit = i kilowatt/hour?

[onethailand]

Which hotel?

I agree - pretty shameful.

[Naam]

watch out! the management might assume you have showers and add a water surcharge

[ignis]

1x laptop bet there would have been no problem…

Sorry cannot understand why anyone would leave 1 or 3 laptops on show, no matter how cheap or expensive a hotel was.

When I used to visit here or anywhere, the travel kettle + travel iron + laptop + Camera if not taking with me were locked in my suitcase.. no one could steel them, or report them as in the room

[chicowoodduck]

500THB per night for a room is cheap, but the extra charges seem out of line and I'd be making one to the front desk and asking what gives?

[PhilHarries]

The guesthouse I use in Pattaya charges 500 Baht per night and I don't think they even check on your electrical accessories. But I must admit a laptop computer comes in about 113th on my list of things to take on a holiday to Pattaya let alone three. Other types of laptops are freely available for rent locally but even then three would be a bit of a handfull.

btw pubs in the UK have started putting up signs "We do not recharge mobile phones" so maybe the idea started there.

[LaoPo]

Christmas/High Season....Hotel at Baht 500/night and complaining; that's Xmas joke #1 :D

Happy Xmas

LaoPo

[Flash500]

I did stay one hotel in Pattaya where I asked for an iron and they said no because it uses electricity ...and heres me thinking you just wind it up and off it goes.

BTW why do you need an iron in Pattaya?....like a few creases make any difference

Edited December 22, 2007 by Flash500

[zorro1]

sheez i've stayed in heaps of cheap hotels,

now in Pattaya for 6 days at 500B a night,

today management says they will charge an extra 50B a day coz i have a computer and an iron in my room.

how small can you get,

never before had anything like this.

haven't figured the actual cost,

i reckong ironing a shirt a day and running a laptop (well 3 actually but mostly asleep),

would cost 10B a day max.

shame i have to move coz i just found a wi-fi i can hitch a ride on from my room.

a unit is around 3 baht yes? is 1 unit = i kilowatt/hour?

how small ? your actually leaving over 50 bht? I suppose if you dine on cheese sandwiches and leo beer at 7/11 its probably worth the effort

Edited December 22, 2007 by zorro1

[KireB]

sheez i've stayed in heaps of cheap hotels,

now in Pattaya for 6 days at 500B a night,

today management says they will charge an extra 50B a day coz i have a computer and an iron in my room.

how small can you get,

never before had anything like this.

haven't figured the actual cost,

i reckong ironing a shirt a day and running a laptop (well 3 actually but mostly asleep),

would cost 10B a day max.

shame i have to move coz i just found a wi-fi i can hitch a ride on from my room.

a unit is around 3 baht yes? is 1 unit = i kilowatt/hour?

how small ? your actually leaving over 50 bht? I suppose if you dine on cheese sandwiches and leo beer at 7/11 its probably worth the effort

Nver heard about principle?

Once had a beautiful 3000 baht bungalow near cha-am. When I checked out I was charged for orange-juice from the minibar, which I never touched. Never to return! It's not about money, but about not feeling cheated!

Seems logical, not?

[mark lamai]

its called P.N. Inn. in a soi that goes from 2nd road to walking street.

well, its an individual's choice , yes, to travel any way they want.

iron - when i wash a shirt, much nicer to iron it, quicker and easier than using a laundry.

excess computers - not by choice, by neccessity. running video edit and encoding, mac and pc, 2TB of storage as well.

of course its not the 50 baht per se, just the bad attitude reaching the tipping point.

point of posting was that i had never encountered a surcharge ever before,

i hope it doesn't catch on.

and the typical lack of thought and logic about what the cost might really be and that they will lose x amount of revenue because of a stupid idea,

(yes, i know they don't care).

[naka]

Mark.

Might I suggest you ask the Hotel to warm the catheter before they insert it in you.

Naka.