Chiang Mai Guest Houses

... cooking classes, hiking trips and river rafting available. Three days that we spent there are not enough. There are many inexpensive guest houses and strangely sometimes I felt like being somewhere in Austria, a lot of wood is used in the construction of ...

... , the area I got dropped off in was named as 'Guest House Area'. Clearly they missed out the words 'F*cking expensive'. Guest houses are all over Chiang Mai, so why is this area mapped? It's funny how difficult it is to find the dorm rooms actually - ...

... Planet guide and finding they were all full we decided to take a taxi to the Khao San area where there are many supposedly cheap guest houses and backpacker places.  So the pink taxi dropped us at Soi Rambutri (not far from Khao San Road) and we ...

... arrived in Chiang Mai about 7am. The Dutch guy and I shared a tuk-tuk ride into the city. The tuk-tuk driver took me to 3 different guest houses only to find them full. I told him to drop me off and I would find one on my own. It was the hardest time ...

... photos'), cheap massages everywhere (total body, head, neck, foot, facials...) street food stalls, friendly helpful people, sweet guest houses, dinner for less then 5$, easy to get around and walkable, much less crazy then Bangkok but still scorching ...

... in a tuk tuk that still moved ridiculously slow. We got to the other side of the city 2 hours later, errrr! Micheal knew some good guest houses so we followed him but a lot of places were full as we arrived so late. We didn't stay in Khoa San Road this ...

... too late to chat. Whilst walking around the city looking at temples we also kept our eyes peeled for any hostels and guest houses with a free room. We stumbled across what appeared to be a backpacker area littered with cafes, tour operators, hostels and ...

... too many Thai people there.  It doesn't really matter.  We thought it was fantastic. After exploring the city of Chiang Mai, we found some great hotel options for our return visit. One thing about traveling, there are constant decisions ...

... set off! Our first day in Chiang Mai was spent exploring temples, browsing the markets and researching trips for the following days. Chiang Mai is the second largest city in Thailand and the markets were really good. We finally settled on a three day ...

... in Chiang Mai Sunday afternoon with Jed and Katie. We weren't staying in the same place this time, so we split off to our guest houses to get set up and relax before meeting up later in the evening to check out some the night sights in the city. Sunday ...

... only 1 hour away from Chiang Mai on the way back he got stung by a bee. Typical walking disaster! We are now back in Chiang Mai unfortunately the others in our group all left the next day to go to their next destinations. None of which were in our ...

... we just bumped along the runway unsteadily until the breaks kicked in and we knew we were safe. We found a lovely guest house in Chiang Mai called the Galare Guest House set on the Ping River with quaint teak-paneled rooms. Service was top notch. We ...

... instinct would be to tell you that it is everything that Bangkok is not but this is not entirely true. Chiang Mai has its load of guest houses, tour operators, night market, other markets, western bars and restaurants where tourists can be together ...

... et suis arrive le lendemain a 10 heures. Arrivee a 10 ou 11h a la gare, plein de pick up attendent pour prendre les gens a des guest houses. Je vois celle de Julie et je decide de suivre les conseils de Babast et Simon. Apres 10 a 15 mins, julie guest ...

... ... it was FANTASTIC... and now Scott has no excuse not to cook me dinner! On the menu was Fried rice, Fried Bananna's, Chiang Mai noodles, Spring rolls and we also did some vegetable carving (which was surprisingly difficult).... now we're off to stroll ...

... on their wooden frogs which make a sound remarkably close to the real thing. The next day we spent wandering around Chiang Mai, loosely following the walking tour from the Lonely Planet guide.  We made sure that we were appropriately dressed in ...

... who pay around $400-500, all in. This is not what a young traveler usually wants. Monthly rates in guest houses sometimes do not include service bills, so allocate another B500 for your water and ...