In today's video i'm gonna show you my hotel here
in Chiang Mai's old city for the next month so let's go
what is going on youtube greetings from old city chiang mai why am i in a temple complex here
well it's because my apartment is actually right next door to this place and i figured
i'd share this beautiful little temple area that i'm right next to here in the old city so if you
if you've been following me you know that for the last month or so actually last two months
i've been in the neiman area which is the real trendy hipster type of area but i've taken you
on tours of the old city which is you know a 12th 13th century city you can see here behind me let's
see yeah you can see this like old ancient temple ruin behind me and i'll show you a really really
old wooden temple in a second but i wanted to live down here in the old city i love the hipster area
i love all the coffee shops but the old city's got a different vibe it's got a lot of temples
i mentioned that the city of chiang mai has like 700 temples or something like that well 300 of
them are here in the old city and this is one of the complexes like i mentioned it's right next
door to where i'm living right now so i wanted to show you this so this all wooden building here is
one of the oldest temples and it's not as ornate as some of the other ones here in chiang mai but
uh i think it's even better but let me show you always take your shoes off or you go into a temple
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that's pretty awesome and i'm right next door that's my apartment building or my hotel building
right there right next door so i can walk over here anytime i want and just hang out in
this little old ancient 800 year old temple it's pretty amazing so this is my condo building here
i keep saying condo but it's really a hotel and you'll see that when we get inside that it's i
mean it's a hotel room so like i mentioned before if you watch my old videos old city is surrounded
by a moat and walls when you look at a map you can make that out pretty easily so you kind of get
an idea of where i'm at i'm in the heart of the old city this little area right here this little
intersection right now if you've been to chiang mai you probably recognize this this is where
the night market is on sundays so that's my building right there i'm actually in that unit
actually one down i'm in that unit right there and so i can see the sunday night market
outside my window at night so it's really really like one of those unique things to chiang mai
there's nightmare a lot of night markets but not the size of the one down here in chiang mai
let's go in and check out my apartment all right so you'll see right here they got the
room for rent daily weekly monthly with co-working space it's also a restaurant
if you follow my instagram you've seen me eat in here you've seen my pineapple rice
but they have all kinds of things here a bunch of teas coffees anything you
can think of so it's really cool actually having that in the building that i live in
really cool vibe but yeah so one of the things i really like about this area like you can see
this little restaurant here but there are little restaurants everywhere little mom and pop type
places coffee shops restaurants the only thing about this hotel is there's no uh elevator which
is fine i'm only on the third floor so it's not too bad it's early in the morning here so
i don't want to be too loud second floor and i am on the third floor place is super clean
the hosts are awesome i mean they're the people who own the place are just really
nice and friendly but i'm right down here so let's go check out my apartment
all right so i've already actually spent the night in here because i wanted to make sure that
everything was good before i said oh i like this place or i don't like this place it is a hotel
so they actually clean it every day so it just got cleaned that's why i'm
shooting this video now um so it looks like i just moved in but i really did
and i slept here last night all right so you walk through the door and you have the bathroom
all right so typical typical bathroom type stuff here got the toilet here nice and clean you've
got the bum gun i know everyone loves the bum gun and then this is kind of a traditional tie setup
where just about everything can be wet makes it really easy for them to clean let's see so
comes with soap which is great you don't have to get don't have to buy any soap
and then this is typical in thailand uh this controls the heat of the water that comes out
and it's flash heated so it's instant hot water so you have as much hot water as you want for someone
like me that loves taking showers that's great so just your typical bathroom and this probably won't
work for a lot of people for a month but this is the little closet area and as a moreno wool guy
it's fine shorts and pants there shirts there everything's good i'm on i'm in a corner unit
so i actually have two windows which is great i love a lot of light i actually requested that
so ac up here so we're on the third floor i slept in here last night i didn't have any issue with
the noise there's double pane windows on that side and then this side is also uh like a really thick
plexiglass so i didn't really hear anything but i sleep like really well so really deep so that
kind of stuff doesn't really bother me you can see there's a little uh a little buddhist altar right
there but we're right in the heart of old town so here's the bed it was comfy last night they've
already replaced the towels they do that every day i'm not i'm gonna tell them not to do that but
since it's a hotel comes with two waters a day which is great so i don't have to pay for water
although water here is cheap the tv stations there's a bunch of english stations on here
mostly thai but a few english a very small refrigerator which isn't gonna work for some
people but it works for me this can be used as a desk area obviously you have a little
safe here um i mean it can be removed so it's not exactly the safest thing but i mean if you want to
put some valuables in there i guess that would work and you got this little sitting area here
i'll probably move one of these tables over there one of these two end tables i'll probably
move right over here so i can you know just chill there because it's actually pretty cool
a pretty cool little chill chair here but yeah so this is the room let's go back and
give you the quick run around so i'm going to be in here a month so we'll see how that works out
but plenty of light which is what's important to me gets really cold from the ac so how much did
this place cost so i actually showed this on a v an airbnb video that i did i showed like you can
get really affordable places and i highlighted this place and it was 170 bucks on airbnb
well somebody booked it that's what always happens to me if i put it on on my video without booking
it myself somebody books it and i've seen a bunch of westerners in here so i'm thinking
one of them saw my video we'll see maybe someone will recognize them like oh i took your advice so
i ended up so i couldn't book it on there i ended up booking this on a goda and i got it for 310
for the month but that includes cleaning service every single day there's no electricity costs
you can run the ac as much as you want um there's you know i'm right in the heart of
you know old town look at that i mean it's just i mean i'm literally right in the heart right
next door i showed you the uh the temple you've got all the restaurants right here that road i
passed with all the restaurants is right there so literally everything is at your fingertips for
300 a month which is what about ten dollars a day including electricity water maid service every day
so for me not a big deal i could have got it for 170 but then you had to pay electricity
uh probably would have been a little bit more expensive probably would have been somewhere
around 2 20 to probably 270 but it is what it is still i think it's a pretty good bargain what do
you think do you think could you live here for a month in this little place right here in the heart
of everything again i say this all the time i don't live in my apartments i live out of them so
it's not you know i don't feel cramped or anything like that especially when you have two windows
but what do you think could you live here for a month two months three months a week let me
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