chiang mai - /trv/

Anonymous01/20/26, 07:49No.2856440Chiang Mai

Would you recommend it?

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Anon01/20/26, 08:14No.2856448

If you love hanging with the most bottom barrel backpacker dregs in a boring-ass city, sure. Go for it. If you're after nature, there are better towns and cities in North and NE Thailand.

Anon01/21/26, 07:18No.2856685

It was once an expat hub, but died maybe 10 years ago. So the infrastructure is all there but the vibe is long gone. It's just dregs. There's one bar for bikers. At least it was there where I was there last.

Anon01/21/26, 20:35No.2856795

I was there in 2015 and then again after covid, its changed a lot, Pai is the new CM

Anon01/24/26, 06:31No.2857375

Definitely go in burning season

Anon01/24/26, 09:36No.2857405

Depends on what you’re after. I don’t party. I wanted to ride my motorbike in the mountains, eat cheap delicious food, train Muay Thai then come back to a swimming pool, a beer and a cutie from Brazil/Spain/wherever happens to be passing through ‘finding herself’ that I’m banging.

Anon01/25/26, 01:36No.2857566

Hotel prices have gone up a lot there. Hardly anything under $20/night anymore. CM is on every two-week Thailand vacationer's bucket list, so there's an endless stream of white mutts passing through. English is much more widely spoken in CM than in other provincial centers of northern Thailand. The city is quite sprawling and not ideal to explore on foot, especially in hot season. This time of year it's very comfortable, but everything nature is still so fkn far from the city center.

Anon01/25/26, 02:34No.2857577

I was there 18 years ago >Stayed at a funky old 80s "resort" that seemed to be a regular for brits >Would walk half hour distance into town past roosters crowing in little farms >Hippie bookshop, local noodle soup restaurants >Tuktuk to forest cave monastery >Didn't bother with the night market but there was a weekend day market on a street closed to traffic for the day There were a few fancy resorts but only one modern shopping centre which had a Japanese restaurant, bookstore, and a few tech shops. But i overheard conversations about people building resorts / golf resorts? out of town. A big hotel (Hyatt type) was starting being built. That was then.