Pai Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Well, I think I have found my favorite city in Thailand, and possibly the world. Right now I am in Pai, population 3,000. I arrived here yesterday from Chiang Mai with a friend. We took the public bus to get here and it took about 4 hours. We could have taken a mini-bus that takes a little less time to get here, but the local bus was much more ...

For the first time in Thailand, I took a tourist bus instread of a local bus to get from Chiang Mai to Pai. (It was actually cheaper that way!)...So the mini-bus picked me up, and at the next guesthouse, four of the lowest, most annoying Quebecois got on the bus...every other word out of their mouths was swearing and complaining, very rudely abo...

Today is my fourth and last day in Pai, the quintessential bohemian town with party town accents. The motto here is "Lazy days, crazy nights", exemplified by the fact that the coffee shops don't even open until 9 am. Pai is about 50% farang (Thai slang for white foreigners) and 100% hippie. I get the sense that a lot of the locals arrived here o...

After recovering from my cookery-induced illness in Chiang Mai I was on the first bus back to Pai, along with my friends Becky and Lauren. It's funny how when you're travelling long-term, coming back to a place you've been to just once before feels so comfortable and familiar. I headed over to Ting Tong bar where they are kindly providing me wit...

3rd day of the jeep Tour We went to see a big waterfall near Chiang Rai. It was quite a big, and a few people jumped into the pond. It was too cold for me to jump (the waterfall was so high, that the water generated quite a strong wind at the bottom!). Our next stop was Hot Springs Resort. We dove into a hot pool for 45 minutes. It was nice. In ...

This was probably my favorite place in Thailand! Pai is a small town about a 3 1/2 hour bus ride from Chiang Mai. The drive was through mountainous region and nothing like I had expected. The road was full of switchbacks and the mountains were covered in pine forests. There was a large amount of leaves changing colors too! In town, I rented a mo...

Day 100 if I've counted right - woo hoo! I've only really just noticed that on here where I number the days - but I've certainly noticed the monthly "mini-anniversaries" as they've come around. I'm slightly amazed with all that I've done so far and if my trip were to end now I'd be very thankful for what I've experienced and who I've met. Brrr a...

After leaving the bitter taste in my mouth from seeing what Chiang Mai had become, I took one of the luxuries of tourist hell traps that I enjoy, expensive door to door tourist minivans, to Pai.  On the bus, I met an American from of all places Lincoln, Nebraska.  I've been a lot of places around the world and besides Dano, Mark is the only oth...

This morning I awoke in a bungalow overlooking the Pai River with clouds obscuring the top peaks. After a brief shower, I turned on the morning news on BBC World. This is an unexpected luxury as I managed to strike a deal with the proprieter for a reduced room rate. However, the news was a bit less fortuitous as the leader of the Thai military w...

Pai, beautiful pai a stunning little village with a town feel and whole bunch of friendly people on a mountain in a rain forest, very cultish stuff really. i will stay here and wait for my laos visa then go to chain kong (thai and loas border) what to do in pai? loads of trekking elephants, atv etc, spas or just chill...............