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Hotels will be starting at $40 for 4 star accomodations, usually the View Talay condos in Pattaya are around $60.
However hotels are available in any price range you desire. So say 3 weeks would be around $1200 @ $60.
Food is fairly cheap and most of the time we don't eat anywhere too expensive. Often you can get free breakfast at your hotel if you get up early enough. Generally the food is $4 - 10 a meal for Thai dishes, street food is cheaper. So $25 a day would probably cover food considering you may buy your dates some meals. So 3 weeks about $500 to eat. Also there is usually free food at most of the Volleyball parties.
Booze isn't too bad in Thailand. However the ladyboy bars are charging $5-6 dollars per drink. Normal bars will charge half that price usually depending where you got. Discos and many regular bars have bottle service which is very cheap but ladyboy bars never offer this. We usually offset the more expensive bar drinks with the dirt cheap liquor you can buy at 7-11. Have some drinks before going out and bring our own to the pool and beach etc. You will also be buying ladyboys many drinks so must budget for that. I would say the average drinking man could go through $100 a day on booze on a trip like this. So $2000 for drinking for 3 weeks.
Transportation you probably need $40 to get to and from the airport. Then about $100 for getting from Bangkok to Pattaya and back. Throw in some random taxi rides and other side trips and I would say $300 for 3 weeks.
Ladyboys it would depend on your appetite and intentions. If you plan to stay single the entire trip then it would probably cost more for dates. Generally i will play the field for the first week or two then settle down with one ladyboy for a week or more. A short time session with most ladyboys is $50-100 for about 2 hours or so. Over night will be around $150 - $200. So if you had one short time and an overnight in one day it would be about $250 per day. If i spent a week with a Thai ladyboy I would probably pay them $1500 and this would be for 24 hours a day with them. Then you would buy all their food and probably some clothes and gifts.
So if you played the field for 2 weeks about $3000 for companionship. Then have a girlfriend for 1 week for $2000.
Total $5000 for 3 weeks.
Shopping is very cheap but I would throw in another $1000 or so for shopping and other misc. expenses.
So for maximum enjoyment $10000 would be a good amount for a 3 week trip including accommodations.
However you can have a great time for much less that that but if you party like rockstar that is probably a good number.
You will get 2-3 times the value as you do in Canada generally.
Usually I take $1000 in Canadian Cash that I convert into Thai Baht when I get there because it is cheaper for exchange in Thailand. Some people like to take more cash because this is cheaper than ATMs but I don't like having too much cash lying around myself.
I also take a couple credit cards and multiple bank cards. Cards may sometimes get cut off in Thailand so then if you have more than one you can go online and transfer your money to another card. I usually keep my money in my main account and interac transfer smaller amounts to my other bank account and carry only that card around. Hotels will take credit cards, most other places don't, cash is king. However International transactions on Canadian banks can cost up to $10 in fees but you can take out up to 30000 baht per transaction which is around $1000.
Prepaid credit cards can be cheaper as there is less fees depending how much you pay to load your card. I have a http://paxum.com mastercard.
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