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[SwissBliss]

Does anyone have some tips regarding reasonably priced transfer from Chiang Mai to Pattaya around Feb. 15/16th instead of one-way pick-up rental? Preferably including ride as passenger or co-driver. Need to move a scooter plus some suitcases, duffel bags and about half a dozen boxes with household stuff. Thanks for any advice or contact info.

[Thongkorn]

Maybe an idea to buy new, i know they will let you put your motor bike on the bus and a few cases, you will have to pay alittel extra. My friend brought a bike,125 on the bus from Phuket to Bangkok and then to Pattaya.

Edited by Thongkorn, 2012-02-02 23:16:56.

[KeyserSoze01]

Just curious, are you moving to Pattaya because the pace of life in CM a little to slow for you?

[jcgodber]

You might consider sending your motorbike and boxes via the Thai postal service EMS .... just a thought

[SwissBliss]

I have been considering the Thai Postal Service for bike and other bags/boxes, but there is nobody at the other end to receive delivery - unless I send it last-minute before hopping on the NCA overnight bus to Pattaya. It's one option. -
To the curious one: Yes, I find CM a little too quiet, but there are other reasons as well... After living 12 years in Miami Beach, I am literally spoiled for colder temperatures during winter months, but I also like Pattaya's location with easy access to BKK airport, to the beaches on Koh Larn and to Cambodia (I love travelling frequently throughout SE Asia), know many people in BKK and Pattaya and was lucky to find a really nice house for rent in a central but very quiet Soi away from nightlife and traffic. That's about it.

[guzzi850m2]

Sometimes expats are looking for sharing a ride from/to the 2 places, in order to share fuel costs but it don't happen every week so I guess you have to be lucky with that one.

Have you asked in CM with taxi drivers and others if such a trip could be arranged and how much?

[JohnGreen]

you could try www.chiangmairemovals.com

[WinnieTheKhwai]

Put the boxes and bags on the NCA bus as cargo (all bus companies will move cargo), put the bike on a train to Don Muang Railway station, then ride it to Pattaya?

That'll be cheap.

I think I'd personally just do a one-way pick-up rental and return it in Pattaya.  Also not too expensive.

[shepsel]

I remember seeing an advertisement in the Chiang Mai Expat Club newsletter about a moving company who does moving within Thailand and packing and shipping for abroad.   You might want to go through the last few newsletters to look for the advertisement.