Thread: Descriptions of what 4,000 baht through 60,000 baht gets you in Bangkok.

4,000 Baht Per Month or Less - For 4,000 baht per month, approximately $120, there are varies options for renting an apartment in Bangkok, Thailand.

Between 2,500-4,000 baht per month ($75-$120) will rent you a one room 'apartment' in a Thai-style building. The buildings are usually clean and well taken care of, and some have security too. However, your 'apartment' will be a one-room box with a Thai-style bathroom. A Thai-style bathroom is one where the shower head isn't separated from the rest of the bathroom so it wets the entire bathroom, including toilet and sink, when you shower under it and you'll be paddling for a couple of hours afterwards every time you go into the bathroom, until the water has time to drain. (Personally, I couldn't live with a Thai-style bathroom for longer than a couple of days, but a lot of westerners in Bangkok do). The room will also usually have a refrigerator but no cooking facilities. You'll have to do what the Thais do and buy a small gas grill (like a camping stove), which they use to cook outside on the balcony. These rooms are available in either downtown Bangkok or out in the suburbs. The further into the suburbs you get, the cheaper the price. These always come fully furnished.

4,000 baht per month can also get you a 4-room townhouse in what the Thais call a 'moobaan', a sub-division, if you're willing to live out in the boonies, a long way from downtown Bangkok. These are unfurnished though, usually, so you'll have to spend a few hundred or a few thousand dollars outfitting the place - which is fine, if you plan on being in Bangkok permanently.


5,000-12,000 Baht Per Month - For 5,000-12,000 baht per month ($150-$360), you're looking at a much nicer lifestyle. Depending on the area you live in, you can rent either a one or two bedroom apartment, with kitchen and usually western-style bathroom. 5,000 baht per month will get you a one bedroom apartment at the far end of the sky train, around 20 minutes from downtown Bangkok. 12,000 will get you a one to two bedroom apartment in a lovely building, five minutes from the end of the sky train route, with a kitchen, western style bathroom and probably swimming pool and gym. These are all in the suburbs though, as there's very little in this price range in downtown Bangkok, unless again, you want a one-room box.

I pay 11,000 baht a month ($327) and have a large one-bedroom apartment in a serviced apartment building in the north of Bangkok, five minutes by taxi from the sky train. This means, it comes with cable TV, twice weekly maid service, and security. A serviced apartment of this caliber in downtown Bangkok though would be between 25,000-30,000 baht a month ($750-$900), so you can see the difference in rent, depending on location.

5,000-11,000 baht per month will also rent you a larger town house in the suburbs of Bangkok and, for around 11,000, some of them are furnished also.

13,000-22,000 Baht Per Month - Now you're really getting into the 'nice' apartment range. For between 13,000-22,000 baht per month ($385-$660), you can move into a one bedroom apartment in downtown Bangkok, close to all the shopping malls, upscale restaurants and bars, as well as next to the sky train or underground lines. 22,000 baht may even get you a two-bedroom apartment, if you look carefully enough. These will all be in western-style buildings with nice bathrooms, kitchen facilities and laundry facilities, as well as cable TV and internet access.

23,000-40,000 Baht Per Month - 23,000-40,000 baht per month ($686-$1,195) is getting into the truly luxurious realm with enormous western-style apartment buildings right in the center of downtown Bangkok. These apartment buildings have upscale restaurants, nice shops, travel agents, gyms, swimming pools and are ideally located for anywhere you want to go. The apartments themselves are large, fashionably decorated and furnished and often with stupendous views.

Above 40,000 Baht Per Month - If you can afford above 40,000 baht per month ($1,200 and up), you're really going to be living in style and, above 60,000 baht rental fee per month, you're living in a two to three bedroom penthouse-style apartment with every luxury known to man. In fact, on 60,000 and above, you will really be living like a king.

Originally Posted by LDMA

Sorry, but what's the problem here AO....that looks like useful content to me. Thanks for that Yukonkid (is perhaps what you meant AO?!)

Thank You.

(I don't read every post. Had someone read my first post and then decide not to read it again, the above information would have been lost to them, hence I decide it was important enough for its own heading/post)

Originally Posted by aging one

the kids overslept today

mine as well
but I had a nice birthday party last night with the inlaw family

I been searching the net for apartments in Thailand for about a month.

This, for me, was very useful.