Camping

[normanandwaan]

Hi

Is anyone interested in Camping European Style I am bringing in Camping trailers from UK and talking to Land Owners to establish hook facilities.

Can contact Norman 083017 2781 or email [email protected]

[richard_smith237]

I love camping.... Having just spent a month in the UK I went camping twice with my Wife and Son, also with all my nephews and niece.

However, Thailand is a little different... its HOT !!!...

I couldn't imagine getting any sleep at night... unless we have a portable air-con unit or limit ourselves to December.

With the wide availability of very cheap accommodation (i.e. 400 baht a night) for something reasonable, with air-con, mosquito guards, a private bathroom, bedsheets and towels... camping becomes somewhat unattractive...

[impulse]

With the wide availability of very cheap accommodation (i.e. 400 baht a night) for something reasonable, with air-con, mosquito guards, a private bathroom, bedsheets and towels... camping becomes somewhat unattractive...

I've been watching with fascination Ch4's Amazing Spaces series.

People fix up these tiny little spaces, vehicles and (basically) crates, some of them with the intention to rent them out. I'm gobsmacked at the rent they plan to charge- 90-150 GBP per night. (Sadly, there's not been a follow-up after a year or so to see if they really get those numbers)

I love the OP's concept. But, like you, I suspect that competing with hotels available for $15 a night would take a lot of the fun out of making a go of it.

Still, get a great spot overlooking the beach or on a mountain where hotels can't reach, and I'd be a potential guest at higher $$$- if it's air conditioned with a great view, a hot shower in the morning and reasonable security.

Seems like a pretty good interim use of some space that someone's sitting on waiting (for decades) for the price to go up before they sell it... May even work in downtown Bangkok (or other town) if the OP does his homework.

Edited July 14, 2015 by impulse

[stoneyboy]

I love camping.... Having just spent a month in the UK I went camping twice with my Wife and Son, also with all my nephews and niece.

However, Thailand is a little different... its HOT !!!...

I couldn't imagine getting any sleep at night... unless we have a portable air-con unit or limit ourselves to December.

With the wide availability of very cheap accommodation (i.e. 400 baht a night) for something reasonable, with air-con, mosquito guards, a private bathroom, bedsheets and towels... camping becomes somewhat unattractive...

It's hugely popular up here in Phetchabun with the Thais frequenting Khao Khor,Nam Nao and Phu Tab Berk to name a few.

But it is camping in tents and the elevations and cooler seasons dictate how busy it is.

Likewise lots of these early camping sites are now morphing into resort style set ups instead I suppose as you said it's got to be better what with the bugs and possible high temperatures causing a poor nights sleep.

[phuketrichard]

thais love camping

farangs not so much as hotels are just to cheap and best camping spots are not accessible unless u have ur own transport.which most tourists do not have.

used to see them in the 80's in Koh Samet but not any since

[simon43]

Maybe my post should be in the construction forum...

Due to high occupancy rates, (who says Phuket has no tourists?!), I'm expanding my little Bed & Breakfast in north Phuket - this is what I'm using for my new guest accommodation:

These are Sioux Indian tipis, manufactured in the USA for me, complete with silhouette images of dancers from the Ramakien.

These 'tents' are quite large - 18 feet in diameter. This 2-person accommodation is large enough to allow me to include a private bathroom area, aircon, flat-screen TV etc.

The tipis will be located on a prepared platform that has all bathroom plumbing and tent cabling, and located in a corner of my B&B amongst the rubber trees.

Here's the platform being tiled:

AFAIK, this is the first time that Native American Indian tipis will have been used in Thailand. They are used in Japan and Korean resorts, and command a hefty room rate ==> 'glamping' (glamorous camping).

The tipi manufacturer's website is here - www.tipi.com - it has many photos and details of resorts that use their tipis.

[thaibeachlovers]

I love camping.... Having just spent a month in the UK I went camping twice with my Wife and Son, also with all my nephews and niece.

However, Thailand is a little different... its HOT !!!...

I couldn't imagine getting any sleep at night... unless we have a portable air-con unit or limit ourselves to December.

With the wide availability of very cheap accommodation (i.e. 400 baht a night) for something reasonable, with air-con, mosquito guards, a private bathroom, bedsheets and towels... camping becomes somewhat unattractive...

Quite right. Couple of weeks ago I had to go stay in an hotel just for the AC as it was too hot for me in our fan room. Can't imagine what sort of sauna a camper would become.

[stoneyboy]

Maybe my post should be in the construction forum...

Due to high occupancy rates, (who says Phuket has no tourists?!), I'm expanding my little Bed & Breakfast in north Phuket - this is what I'm using for my new guest accommodation:

tipi.jpg

These are Sioux Indian tipis, manufactured in the USA for me, complete with silhouette images of dancers from the Ramakien.

These 'tents' are quite large - 18 feet in diameter. This 2-person accommodation is large enough to allow me to include a private bathroom area, aircon, flat-screen TV etc.

The tipis will be located on a prepared platform that has all bathroom plumbing and tent cabling, and located in a corner of my B&B amongst the rubber trees.

Here's the platform being tiled:

teepee1.jpg

AFAIK, this is the first time that Native American Indian tipis will have been used in Thailand. They are used in Japan and Korean resorts, and command a hefty room rate ==> 'glamping' (glamorous camping).

The tipi manufacturer's website is here - www.tipi.com - it has many photos and details of resorts that use their tipis.

Looks great good luck.

[Assurancetourix]

thais love camping

farangs not so much as hotels are just to cheap and best camping spots are not accessible unless u have ur own transport.which most tourists do not have.

used to see them in the 80's in Koh Samet but not any since

Right but 99% of them are at the top of mountains in National parks where you can go with your tent or rent it at the rangers ;

[thaibeachlovers]

I didn't know they existed till I just saw an ad on TV, but you can buy solar powered air conditioners. That would be a game changer for your campers.

[phuketrichard]

I lived in a Tipee back in 1977 winter in aspen;

we had a sleeping loft, wooden floor and a pot belly stove for heat

bathroom outside

It was Liveable but when it snowed heavy we had to cross country ski in.

[simon43]

but when it snowed heavy we had to cross country ski in.

Duh! There goes my business idea. I had not factored in the possibility of snow in Phuket

Back to the drawing board.....

[impulse]

Duh! There goes my business idea. I had not factored in the possibility of snow in Phuket

Back to the drawing board.....

Imagine how much you could charge if you could make it snow on your tipis in Phuket. You'd be booked years in advance.

[fezzy]

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AFAIK, this is the first time that Native American Indian tipis will have been used in Thailand.

Not the first to use tipis in Thailand they are up at Khao Kho already.

[Spaniel]

I was in Khao Yai NP a few days ago and I noticed they have a new area for camper vehicles.

[Lissos]

Camping to 'me' means tents but the definition tends to extend to caravanning, even.

I camp a lot, nearly always 'off' official sites though, doing what some people term 'wild camping, as to me that utilises the potential a tent has, cooking food in a porch on a summit above clouds, watching a sunset. One area I've never bothered with camping though, is South East Asia due to the humidity. I've camped (just. it was none too pleasant) in places around 40 degrees before, but that was in arid countries. When I was anywhere near the sea in such temperatures it was a sleepless night slithering around in my own sweat and drinking like a fish. All the humidity and bugs of a tropical climate I think it would be hell 'unless' more tarp orientated, high ceiling mostly consisting of netting so that there is free air flow.

Tropical designs in Jungle tend to be of that high and wide rain protecting roof and then open at the sides for air flow (netting at night). The teepee design gives the high roof, but to me would block air flow quite a lot at night? A tee pee design largely consisting of netting material would be good during a dry season. On windy hot dry plains in parts of north america, that thick material is ideal for unrelenting sun in the same way beduoin use huge thick black goat hair tents more for the shading effect, but put in the humidity of south east asia?

I suspect that the local use of bamboo during hiistory in the region was for a very good reason, as it can be crafted all sorts of unusual ways for air flow, unlike heavy materials which will probably suffer quickky from humidity and begin to rot or just look manky?

What I do know is that I'd never use my tent in this region, a semi geodesic design great in high winds and lashing rain but would be hell on earth in humid environments.