Lai-Thai Guest House โรงแรมลายไทยเกสท์เฮาส์

5 Ben F (Kiko) - 3 months ago

This review is specifically for the Red Jazz room.

This live music is performed by some of the most passionate jazz fans.
Their infectiously happy and devoted approach to their love of jazz will have you smiling away and enjoying their music.
It's a very small venue, but if you're into live music, in my eyes you won't find a more wholesome and entertaining expirence.

5 Michael MacLeod - 2 months ago

Clean rooms. Good price. Nice pool. Walking distance to markets in the old city. Staff is very friendly. This was my second time staying here and would do it again.

5 Ann von Brandis - 5 months ago

Lai-Thai Guesthouse is amazing. Nothing lavish but comfortable and clean with accommodating and friendly staff, especially the young guy at the reception. Centrally located and affordable. I would definitely recommend this to anyone wishing to visit Chiang Mai. It is also close to the Saturday Night Walking Market which is just down the street and worth visiting. To Lai-Thai Guesthouse, 10 out of 10. You are all amazing.

5 Ales Stor - 3 years ago

We love it. And are kinda litlebit sentimental as our daughter learn to swim here. :)
It's a bit old but infrastructure and furniture is still holding fine as all is made of massive wood and is being well maintained. O, it seems they are just renovating one wing of the building!
The location is great, on the city ring, relatively close to one of best and busiest evening markets in town. Your kids will love the big pool when you come back from your daily trip.

1 pioruns - 4 years ago

Oh my God don't even think about booking this place. Staff is extremely rude and not helpful. Hotel will charge you for everything. All around the town, laundry cost 40B/kg. But not here. In this guest house, they charge 25B for one piece of long sleeve shirt, 10B for pants, 35B for jeans... Have look at photo I attached, there is Laundry Service Rate. That would cost you couple of hundred Baht just to have your clothes washed.
Also. They remind, do not leave anything valuable in your room. Like they knew behaviour of their employees. There is no safe box in your room of course (I had deluxe room, the best one). They charge you 20Baht per day to use their safe box downstairs.
There is also warnings for extra charge if you leave stains or marks on bedding or towels. And actually first thing I had massive stain on the bedding, and I had to argue with reception staff to have it replaced because I am not being scammed later to pay for it.
That's not end of their greediness, I could go on and on, about minibar in the fridge without any information about price, I even ask in reception they told me menu is in the room and it could never be found, and so on.

My deluxe room was definitely below average for Thai hotel , with ancient AC unit, mosquito nets and privacy shades instead of windows. All traffic from the road I could hear all night. There was no spare sockets for charging your phone. There was no boiling water available so I couldn't even make my own coffee. For price of best "deluxe" room you get just average room with ancient noisy AC, shower and WC, no breakfast, no kettle in the room, no sockets on the walls, no proper windows just mosquito nets and shades so you hear busy road outside. They give you no spare towel if you go to the pool. Just greedy and crazy.

Avoid this place, you will find dozens of better places at same or better price.

3 Robert Szakal - 2 years ago

I needed to check in early in the morning as I just got off a very long flight. They accommodated my needs. I did not know what the upgraded room was so I chose the standard. It was very old. Clean enough but seriously old. The outdoor eating and drinking areas are nice.
Honestly I would not return as there are so many other options.

4 Dave Teaches to Travel - 2 years ago

The room we got was ok aside from the bed. It is made of some sort of squishy material that was kind of like harder memory foam. With that and the creaky frame, it made a lot of noise if you were moving around in bed. The bathroom was Thai style, so wet floors after a shower.
The food is good, and reasonably priced. The portions for the farang food are closer to those in the west and combined with the reasonable price make for good value in my opinion.
The location is great. Walking distance to the gate and old town. The courtyard when you walk in is nice and big, and plenty of seating in the outdoor seating area. The pool is smallish but adequate, and they have all-day free luggage storage as well.
I would definitely come back again as it represents a good value for the money. I would recommend paying the little bit extra to get a private bathroom, unless you're on a budget.