Spending Money

[Don one]

Hi all

Very quick question. I will be going to Bangkok in February for fifteen nights. Hotel is payed for. I will be just there to have fun. Is 12000 baht a day enough spending money?

 

Don

[pkspeaker]

ah yea.. i wish i had 12000 a day to spend!

[Crossy]

About 270 Quid a day should get you a REALLY good time

 

[Mitkof Island]

Are you joking ? The Thais will love you as they drain every last baht out of your pocket. You are what they call a two week millionare. Do you plan to flash your money around? Your the type of guy i tend to keep a safe distance from.

[Rdrokit]

Depends on how many girls you hire and how much booze you drink.

[optad]

serious thread? 

 

Or nice opening for the lasciviousness of the bangers we remember....

[chiang mai]

Be sure to buy a 5 day BTS tourist pass, it'll make your money go further.

[Mitkof Island]

7 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

Be sure to buy a 5 day BTS tourist pass, it'll make your money go further.

If he is going to blow that much money in a day i doubt he will need a BTS pass.

[impulse]

If the hotel's already been paid for, and it includes the free breakfast, you should be able to get by on 12,000 a day if you skimp a little on lunch.

[Rdrokit]

5 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

If he is going to blow that much money in a day i doubt he will need a BTS pass.

Better than sitting in hotel room when he runs out of money

[Rdrokit]

All joking aside I know guys who spend 10,000 a night on Walking street.

[chiang mai]

7 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

If he is going to blow that much money in a day i doubt he will need a BTS pass.

 

You don't do satire, do you!

[RaggaTwin]

My wife spends 12k before I've got up in the morning. 

[Don Mega]

3 minutes ago, Rdrokit said:

All joking aside I know guys who spend 10,000 a night on Walking street.

 

 

Very easy to do and used to do it myself often a few years back.

[zorro1]

It's not enough. You will need at least double that if your going to dine at 5 star hotel and have go go girl threesomes from baccara soi cowboy every night . Even double won't be enough!

[pattayalover]

12000 is what I spend in a month, well I live in Thailand full time. so probably I have a better life than the usual tourist who has an office job in farangistan .

[Mitkof Island]

14 minutes ago, Rdrokit said:

All joking aside I know guys who spend 10,000 a night on Walking street.

On what ? Booze and bar girls. What a waste !

[Don Mega]

Just now, Mitkof Island said:

I could,nt spend that much in a day if i tried. There is a point where your just wasting money. Or just plain showing off.

 

easily done and in my opinion having fun is not a waste of money however the Thailand nightlife bores me these days so those big nights are very few and far between.

[chiang mai]

16 minutes ago, Mitkof Island said:

On what ? Booze and bar girls. What a waste !

 

Not at all. Work your butt off for 40+ weeks of the year and then come to Thailand and enjoy yourself for a couple of weeks, money is no expense. It's a very reasonable and therapeutic thing to do.

[impulse]

32 minutes ago, Rdrokit said:

All joking aside I know guys who spend 10,000 a night on Walking street.

 

Yeah, but if you do that 15 days in a row, they'll have to send someone to your hotel room with a gurney to haul you to Swampy for your return flight.

[Don Mega]

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

Yeah, but if you do that 15 days in a row, they'll have to send someone to your hotel room with a gurney to haul you to Swampy for your return flight.

A few beers and a few lady drinks, pay bar fine and take girl long time there wont be much left out of 10k, hardly haul someone to swampy on a gurney territory.

[RaggaTwin]

1 minute ago, Don Mega said:

A few beers and a few lady drinks, pay bar fine and take girl long time there wont be much left out of 10k, hardly haul someone to swampy on a gurney territory.

 

Have to agree.  12k a day is hardly living the dream in LOS. 

 

I like to eat well and easily spend 2k on lunch.

[Wilted Flower of Scotland]

I'd up your budget to USD just to be on the safe side!

[jadee]

26 minutes ago, RaggaTwin said:

 

Have to agree.  12k a day is hardly living the dream in LOS. 

 

I like to eat well and easily spend 2k on lunch.

Wow! What do you buy for lunch? 

[impulse]

34 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

A few beers and a few lady drinks, pay bar fine and take girl long time there wont be much left out of 10k, hardly haul someone to swampy on a gurney territory.

 

Giving a kid a fistful of $20 bills to walk into a candy store doesn't have to end up in a tummy ache.

 

But if I were a betting man...  I'd be buying the Pepto Bismol.

[RaggaTwin]

59 minutes ago, jadee said:

Wow! What do you buy for lunch? 

 

Good food and drink, my friend.  As long as I can afford it then it will continue.

[Craig krup]

12000 baht a day is basically a Thai version of Brewster's Millions. You have to (consciously or sub-consciously) choose things because they're expensive. Nobody can actually spend that amount of money shlepping through the day and genuinely doing what they want to do. A group of paratroopers who've spent 3 months in Norway in winter and have gone to Thailand to thaw out* - and who were known to be big drinkers - wouldn't blow through 12,000 baht a day. 

 

 

 

 

[*One of my pals and his chums!]

[SinKhaPoChin]

i just check my books - all my meals last month add up nicely to very close 12,000. And some of them were delivered by foodpanda.


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[zorro1]

Most expats spend about 12k a month in Chang mai.
What a strange world we live in

[chiang mai]

2 hours ago, zorro1 said:

Most expats spend about 12k a month in Chang mai.
What a strange world we live in

 

I think you'll find the average is around 55k a month.