Nursery In Ao Nang Krabi

[Tinkerbelle84]

Hi everyone,

I have had a successful day nursery in the uk for 5 years, and am a qualified Nursery nurse, qualified to teach children upto the age of 4.

We recently moved to Ao Nang and I am looking into opening a small nursery in the area, as there is an increasing number of expats and thais in the area who require quality childcare.

I have a couple of questions

1) what opening hours would you expect?

2) opening days per week?

3) price you would expect to pay per day or week?

thank you for your help and any comments

xxx

[torrenova]

Though I've known Ao Nang for over 10 years I don't live there; I live in Pattaya so I'll try and answer for prices for here.

Opening hours - would have to be early to cater for the expat crowd with regular jobs and would have to be late for expats with businesses.

Days per week - whilst M-F might cater for the employed expat, those in business would perhaps need 7 days a week.

Price - the most difficult of all to answer. It would depend upon the level of care given, the qualifications of those employed, the location, the facilities, insurance cover, registered as a business, education, languages etc. The list is far too long to work out a price without seeing what is on offer but you're not going to get many thousands of baht a week for sure.

Having a live in with language skills and some qualifications may cost 6-10k per month I think, much less if no qualifications and really employed as a maid come cook come cleaner come child helper.

Perhaps you'd get a couple of hundred baht per day but I don't think you'd get Bt500 per day. What would the carer to child relationship be - too high and you'll get no-one, too low and you'll have to charge too much. The reality is that people who can afford help can afford live ins and you'd need to find people on the cust of that affordability or really sell the product to the more affluent as an additional service worth paying extra for.

Would you like to post your feelings to give us an idea of what you plan and what sort of facilities and rates you think you would be able to offer.