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[tomster]

A couple of months back I took a drive to Bang Saray to see what everybody was talking about - I kept seeing adverts for new housing estates that looked like the builders had finally started to realise that a home is more than a concrete block with a bit of teak in it and thought that the village itself would be worth a look.

However, I think I may have missed the point somewhere. When I ask people "What is Bang Saray like" the standard response is very nice, but quiet. So I went there thinking beachfront with restaurants and maybe a bar or two but struggled to find even that.

Can someone explain the layout of Bang Saray? I drove through the big archway up on Sukhumvit and then down through the town bit and right onto the beach front, is there any more to it?

Or are there areas around Bang Saray that are the "very nice" bits and I'm missing them? Before I get shot down in flames for asking a simple question all I'm trying to do is to get a better feel for the area surrounding Pattaya, I went up to Silverlake two days ago and really enjoyed it, the road that takes you up there could be in Europe for stretches it's so well maintained.

Tom.

[jori]

Not a lot!

[flyingfox]

Compared to just 2 years ago, BS is rising from the ground in a big way. There's a new and beautiful village opp. the beach and lots more coming. There are a few foreign restaurants and pubs (Chez Jerome, Abbey Road, etc.). If I had a car, I would live there.

[lonewolf99]

flyingfox, on 2010-09-04 15:00:26, said:

Compared to just 2 years ago, BS is rising from the ground in a big way. There's a new and beautiful village opp. the beach and lots more coming. There are a few foreign restaurants and pubs (Chez Jerome, Abbey Road, etc.). If I had a car, I would live there.

Two correct replies and both succint - Not a lot and you need a car.
If it had everything and you did not need a car it would be another Pattaya.
And there aint room for 2 of them on the same bit of coast with the current economic climate.

What I can gather about construction work on these masses of housing / condo developments are that they are purely speculative investments ???

I have a good Thai friend selling units at one particular one in BS ( new acrnonym on T.V.) and she told me that every month the price of the "tiny" 25 square metre apartments goes up 20,000 baht. Forever in the hope that more and more people will keep buying into cardboard models and pie in the sky computer generated cartoons.
People who feel they have missed the boat then get told that they can buy a unit that has already been "sold' previously .

SOOOO if you bought in at 750,000 baht per unit 6 months ago you can now sell it on at the new going rate of 870,000. This goes on and for years and slowly but surely the builders take for ever to actually build the place. Making profits on sales / re-sales and commission.....sometimes abandoning the project totally when interest dries up or actually make a half arsed finish to the building before moving onto their next project...........Now before you shoot me in flames...I am the ultimate cycnic.
And I give not a hoot if you have already bought into one of these schemes. I do not care what other people do with their money or how they invest it.

If any one has the time to go round all the Sois on Pratamnak Hill and have a real close look round the jungle clad lanes - You will see the many "incomplete" building foundations poking up from the ground.

Jomtien and Na Jomtien also have their share of these as well. I won't mention names it will only start a "Bun fight in a PARK".

BS already has its own concrete jungle clad abandonded project 100 yards back from the beach if you care to venture there.....

Edited by lonewolf99, 2010-09-04 16:24:35.

[contemplating]

You should have made a left, instead of a right! I really dont know much about the place, but lived there 25 years ago, seems to have changed a bit since then. I think most of the shops and such are to the left, before you drive into the sea. Will check it out for myself sometime.

[tomster]

lonewolf99, on 2010-09-04 16:19:51, said:

flyingfox, on 2010-09-04 15:00:26, said:

Compared to just 2 years ago, BS is rising from the ground in a big way. There's a new and beautiful village opp. the beach and lots more coming. There are a few foreign restaurants and pubs (Chez Jerome, Abbey Road, etc.). If I had a car, I would live there.

Two correct replies and both succint - Not a lot and you need a car.
If it had everything and you did not need a car it would be another Pattaya.
And there aint room for 2 of them on the same bit of coast with the current economic climate.

What I can gather about construction work on these masses of housing / condo developments are that they are purely speculative investments ???

I have a good Thai friend selling units at one particular one in BS ( new acrnonym on T.V.) and she told me that every month the price of the "tiny" 25 square metre apartments goes up 20,000 baht. Forever in the hope that more and more people will keep buying into cardboard models and pie in the sky computer generated cartoons.
People who feel they have missed the boat then get told that they can buy a unit that has already been "sold' previously .

SOOOO if you bought in at 750,000 baht per unit 6 months ago you can now sell it on at the new going rate of 870,000. This goes on and for years and slowly but surely the builders take for ever to actually build the place. Making profits on sales / re-sales and commission.....sometimes abandoning the project totally when interest dries up or actually make a half arsed finish to the building before moving onto their next project...........Now before you shoot me in flames...I am the ultimate cycnic.
And I give not a hoot if you have already bought into one of these schemes. I do not care what other people do with their money or how they invest it.

If any one has the time to go round all the Sois on Pratamnak Hill and have a real close look round the jungle clad lanes - You will see the many "incomplete" building foundations poking up from the ground.

Jomtien and Na Jomtien also have their share of these as well. I won't metion names it will only start a "Bun fight in a PARK".

BS already has its own concrete jungle clad abandonded project 100 yards back from the beach if you care to venture there.....

So maybe the the building projects that are going up there aren't as nice as the pictures i've seen... doh!

Lol, I keep trying to put off moving to Phuket to get some quality surroundings into my life, but it seems like it's becoming inevitable. However, one last try... I've heard that Bang Saray has a "nice beach". Is this nice in the normal sense of the word, or nice compared to Pattya beach? I drove down through the town and hit some pretty hefty roadworks just before I would have ended up driving into the sea, there I turned right and drove along a beach. Is that the Bang Saray beach that people talk about?

Tom.

[PattayaParent]

tomster, on 2010-09-04 16:30:32, said:

So maybe the the building projects that are going up there aren't as nice as the pictures i've seen... doh!

Lol, I keep trying to put off moving to Phuket to get some quality surroundings into my life, but it seems like it's becoming inevitable. However, one last try... I've heard that Bang Saray has a "nice beach". Is this nice in the normal sense of the word, or nice compared to Pattya beach? I drove down through the town and hit some pretty hefty roadworks just before I would have ended up driving into the sea, there I turned right and drove along a beach. Is that the Bang Saray beach that people talk about?

Tom.

Yes

[contemplating]

there is also beach on the left, but there might not be any beach access there now, I lived on that beach before. Its nice, but very shallow. The area after the beach belongs to the army, so in that way, its not crowded. Walk out on the pier and take a look. You wont see anything from sitting in your car, in the middle of a construction zone. Just take a ride an check it out.