Boxing in phuket

Fleatard is butthurt

 

Mate if u don't mind me asking how much would I need roughly for a few months in Thailand ( flights accom muaythai food and party ) .I was thinking 1 month but any serious advice would be great mate .I would like to bagpack it and learn as much muaythai as possible .

 

Just found this post on google

its a very bad idea to come on your first trip for six months. try one month first and see how badly you get screwed. If your coming here to find yourself your heading in the wrong direction. trust me on this. Just a few warnings which i am sure will go in one ear and out the other. if your coming here looking for the girl of your dreams FORGET IT! if you make no attempt to learn some basic thai and spend your entire time in the tourists areas, you are going to get SCREWED! you like many will end up with no money, no passport, likely in jail, heart broken etc etc etc, etc..... Surviving on a diet like so many of booze, pad thai, banana pancakes and potato chips. My advise is spend your entire free time reading up on every possible scam you can think of. the last thing we need over here is another lost and wasted tourist. i really advise no more than 30 days. you won,t need a visa stamp if you stay under 30 days. Really listen to me or YOU'll BE SORRY! you don,t sound ready for dealing with the real Thailand. like so many here their off in la la land with zero common sense!
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=2118054

 

http://www.squidoo.com/thingsnottodointhailand

 

Totally depends on where you are planning to go and what you are planning to do to be honest mate.

Beach locations like Phuket, Samui, Pattaya will be more expensive, but are geared towards tourists and you will meet a lot of other foreigners there as that's who the gyms (and pretty much everything else) there are aimed at.

Bangkok will have good training and most to do but it's obviously a big thriving Metropolis so you may want to be somewhere quieter.
There are no beaches there etc

Issan will have the best training but it's very basic up there (it's the poor rural part of the country where the best fighters and most hookers come from) and if you don't speak any Thai you will probably struggle a bit.

Obviously the training is better in Bangkok and Issan but the level of training you will get at almost any gym in Thailand will be better than what you'll get at home so i wouldn't worry about that too much

As for the response you got on Lonely Plant, i'd ignore it.
As long as you are not a complete spastic you will have a great time there.

 

Tbh mate I think 1 month would be sound for me because I was in Auckland NZ last year and had to change my flight to a sooner date .I got told £70 before I went then the women at emirates Auckland told me it could be heavy money ( heart dropped ) It took them about half an hour to get it sorted .If that was to happen in a country like thailand it would be shady .1 month roughly £800 return flight , £300 accomodation and say £900 to spend ( total £2000 ) Can you think of a better way mate to last longer , price ?

 

What an utter load of bollox, ignore it.:-(

My first stint was initially for 6 months but stretched into over a decade, but my first 6 months were constantly in the boxing camp. No birds, booze, shopping nada!:shock:

Best thing I ever did. :thumbsup

The trouble you've got at the moment is the Baht to £ rate is basically ****, so if your trying to do it on a shoe sting it's very possible but just a bit harder. When you don't know a place like Thailand you always spend double what you think you would, but don't fret if you travel alone, aren't a nutcase and can handle the occasional lack of luxery it's very easy live cheaply in Thailand. The trouble is where ever you find forigners you find a mix of higher prices so I'd get your feet wet first get in a gym before you start all the fun stuff a la Disney lad for blokes! Beware though, no matter how tight you are or how shrewd you are birds and will sap your money, alot.:yep

My advice would be to focus on one of the things you want to do whether it be birds, backpacking or fighting. If you wanna save money it's fighting first, the fun'll be there waitiing for you when your ready for it. I'd say stay in a gym for as long as possible so you can negotiate a deal on the rate, the longer the less, you'll soak up the training better and you'll get more out of it. If you live like a spartan in the gym and just train and fight you'll save money, so that when that becomes intolerable and you'r gonna explode you can leave the gym for while and do your thing. :devil You have to remember if you stay in a serious gym with a stable of fighters you can't use it as a hotel, it's not fair and they'll kick you out, just leave for a while and you'll be welcomed back.

Anyway, by this time you may have learnt a little Thai, you'll be familiar with real Thai food and customs so you'll be equiped for exploring Thailand and it's many beautiful creatures.:yep As you'll be a bit familiar and have experienced it form a Thai perspective you become harder to rip off, eating becomes easier cos you know what it all is and you may be able to read the natives better after you're intial 3-6 months in a camp.

One thing to be wary of, Medical care can be expensive. If you are living in the gym for a long stint and boxing you are 100% going to need medical care at sometime and that can wipe you out depending on which hospital you go to.

I've sidetracked alot, it's really hard to say, depends where you find yourself and what kind of guy you are, but I'd say if you had £2,000 for 3 months you could be pushing it if some bad stuff happens and something unexpected always happens in Thailand.

Look, many forums will say how cheap it is etc etc. But take it form me with years of experience here, the country quite literally eats money and in increasing measures since all the unrest here. Remeber if you don't know the country at all it is inevitable you'll pay too much for things. I'd say a min of £1,000 a month to be safe and stay away from the birds. May seem alot but that could go pretty easy in the wrong cirumstances, but if you're willing you could top up your dough with a bit of part ime teaching English, money for old rope!

 

Yep, that's BOLLOCKS.

Mishima, you called me a nonce you ****ing ****. Get ****ed, or get banned (again) we all have banter on here, calling someone a nonce is not cool.

 

He's right on all counts.:good

(Good training in the South to not just Issan and BKK!! People always forget the south.)

 

Go on Flea, get in there mate!

 

Thanks man for info :good Quality posts in this thread .So once I get my flight you think £1000 per month to spend should be sound for accom and food etc.

 

He's just sour. I love slanging matches, but calling someone 'Gary Glitter' is too far IMO. I make jokes tongue in cheek, but given our history he's saying that to be harsh.

 

No mate, I'm with you all the way whatever the history.

And you're right the Gary Glitter thing .....:nono

 

I know.....that was Vietnam

EDIT: I'm happy to call it quits with Izmat/Mishima. He's not a bad guy at all, and he posts interesting stuff, we just sit on completely different sides of the fence on everything. I enjoy the banter (and I'm sure he/she does too) and I make Gary Glitter jokes sometimes....but it's not nice the other way round