Best Place To Get A Haircut In Chalong Area?

[JohnNada]

Hi guys,

Would anybody recommend somewhere in the Chalong area to get a decent male haircut? Ideally, I'd like a barber/hairdresser that speaks reasonable English, but I don't want to get ripped off. What should the average cost of a haircut be? I'd like to keep the same hairstyle but just have it trimmed a little bit shorter. If need be, how would I ask for that in Thai?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[Jimi007]

I know there a kind of pricey high end looking place in the Tesco/Swenson Chalong Shopping Center. But I wouldn't ever go there. The same Thai guy has been cutting my hair here in Rawai for seven years. He acts like he doesn't speak English, but I know from others that I referred to him to he does understand a bit. Anyway he charges me ฿100, the same as he now charges Thais and the same I paid him seven years ago! Don't know if you want to make the trip to Rawai to get your haircut though and may charge you a bit more. But that's a ballpark price for a cut and sometimes a shave. Although he has his idea of a proper rather short haircut! Great for this hot weather though.

[lavender19]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

[seabear]

Well, if Jimmy sends you down to Rawai, I can send you north on ChaoFa west.

At one of the traffic lights, there is a huge concrete wine barrel on your right hand side.

About 100 m before is "Ju". She has been cutting my hair for the last 15 years.

It's clean and air conditioned.

She charges me 150.--B.

[Jimi007]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

I guess you must be right... I like to look like a dick. But then again I don't need someone who speaks English to cut my hair. Just a professional who has been doing it all their life... Poor guy sold a few Rai for over 60 million a few years back, but still cuts my hair!

Edited March 23, 2013 by Jimi007

[JohnNada]

Thanks for the advice everyone.

[lavender19]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

I guess you must be right... I like to look like a dick. But then again I don't need someone who speaks English to cut my hair. Just a professional who has been doing it all their life... Poor guy sold a few Rai for over 60 million a few years back, but still cuts my hair!

Angie is Thai.She married a falang. She can speak Thai,English ,German.

[pagallim]

Well, if Jimmy sends you down to Rawai, I can send you north on ChaoFa west.

At one of the traffic lights, there is a huge concrete wine barrel on your right hand side.

About 100 m before is "Ju". She has been cutting my hair for the last 15 years.

It's clean and air conditioned.

She charges me 150.--B.

I can also recommend this place, though her name is 'Yu' (she has very little English, though some of the girls who do nails etc in her shop will translate). The junction traffic lights is Khwang Road.

[stoneyboy]

Or buy a set of hair clippers.

[Phronesis]

I pay 60THB in Thalang. Great barber, takes his time and does a good job. Its so cheap...I often find myself going in for a trim when none is required.

If you use a cheaper barber (or any new one for that matter) don't forget to always check that he changes the razor blade for a new before he shaves the back of your neck and other tidy up spots...

[N47HAN]

60thb for me too nr heroines.

Funny really every now and again i get the cut at some posh place in a mall. 10 times as much. And no different.

[JohnNada]

Tge how to save 25 satang thread has had more re-runs than MASH. honestly if you are that hard up for a buck it might be time to go back home and get a job

I've only had my haircut once here in Chalong, and that was six years ago, the last time I came here to train Muay Thai. All I'm asking is where I can get a decent haircut, and what a reasonable price would be (I can't remember how much I paid last time). I don't need some fancy Toni & Guy hairdo, so why would I want to pay ridiculous amounts of money for a quick trim? It's not that I'm hard up for a buck, it's that I came here to train Muay Thai twice a day, six days a week, not to ,,,, bar girls or to find a Thai bride, so Muay Thai training (and food, motorbike and accommodation) is where most of my budget has to be spent. And considering I'm here for six months (and how weak the £ is compared to last time I was here), at 10,000 baht per month, training is not all that cheap.

Edited March 25, 2013 by LivinginKata

[IrishIvan]

6 haircuts in 6 months will probably set you back around 900 baht. 150 per trim

[JohnNada]

6 haircuts in 6 months will probably set you back around 900 baht. 150 per trim

That's all I wanted to know (+ a decent place to have it done)...

Thanks

[IrishIvan]

At the t intersection at the phuket zoo

[JohnNada]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

The Chalong Wine Connection is on Chaofa West, right? If so, roughly how far from Chalong circle is it?

Thanks

[Jimi007]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

The Chalong Wine Connection is on Chaofa West, right? If so, roughly how far from Chalong circle is it?

Thanks

That's a bit confusing. There is a Wine Connection in the Tesco/Swenson Shopping Center now. But the original Wine Connection is on Chao Fa East on the left about 5 KM? from the circle, according to my wife. I thought it was a bit less.

[LivinginKata]

5 Km from the circle - no way. More like 2 klicks at most.

// I checked with Google Earth ruler 1.0 klicks .

[NamKangMan]

5 Km from the circle - no way. More like 2 klicks at most.

// I checked with Google Earth ruler 1.0 klicks .

The distance may be the same, but the time it takes from A to B has definately changed - if you drive/ride with your safety in mind. That's the traffic now days. Considerably worse.

[Jimi007]

5 Km from the circle - no way. More like 2 klicks at most.

// I checked with Google Earth ruler 1.0 klicks .

I thought one KM too. Then asked my wife since her cousin's house in up in that area. Maybe she was thinking from our house to up there, not from the circle.

[lavender19]

Bit pricey Angie at the place by Wine connection in Chalong, trained in Europe.Speaks excellent English and does a good job.All depends if you want to look like a dick or spend a bit of money.

250 for a good haircut.

The Chalong Wine Connection is on Chaofa West, right? If so, roughly how far from Chalong circle is it?

Thanks

That's a bit confusing. There is a Wine Connection in the Tesco/Swenson Shopping Center now. But the original Wine Connection is on Chao Fa East on the left about 5 KM? from the circle, according to my wife. I thought it was a bit less.

She is by the old wine connection where Woody had his sandwich shop it's about 2 k from circle.