Hotel In Chiang Mai

[FiFtHeLeMeNt]

Hi everyone;

I am traveling to chiang Mai tomorrow from pai. Can anyone recommend a good and reasonable price 4 or 5 star hotel there?

Also do u think it is better to book online or just walk in and get a room by myself? I just checked some deals in agoda and I was wondering if it is possible to get a better price if I contact the hotel directly. I don't know how much agoda charges hotels for online booking and listing. Do u have any idea?

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[WinnieTheKhwai]

NEVER EVER walk into a 4-5 star hotel without a booking; you'll get the rack rate which is 'insulting' as a best-case scenario.

Go to Agoda.com and book something. EVEN if you're too late to book on Agoda.com then walk into any travel agent and let them make the booking; that will ALSO be cheaper than walking in. The owner of several hotel chains in Thailand told me not too long ago: "Nobody pays the rack rate. The rack rate is for people who get dragged in at 3am by some hooker and need a room on the spot. Everyone else knows to make a booking." I had wondered for years why hotels do this to customers who walk in directly, without a middle-man.. The above was the answer. I still think it's insulting, but it's the way it is.

Anyway, book for example this one: http://www.agoda.com..._mai_hotel.html

Central, quiet, old-city location, easy to walk places. And kind of a smaller scale Boutique Hotel which is all the rage.