>>2856440
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.

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.

>>2856440
I was there in 2015 and then again after covid, its changed a lot, Pai is the new CM

>>2856440
Definitely go in burning season

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.

>>2856448
>better towns and cities
Please name a few for me to stay in

>>2857541
>wants us to leak our hang out spots so he can fill them with his selfie stick faggot vacays

nah fuck off, stay in your containment zone

>>2857553
Naa nigga, but okay I will just go explore the north and see what I find and I will also gatekeep the spots

>>2856440
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.

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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.

>>2856795
Pai has fucking fallen. Filled with Russians and Israelis. It's over.