Comments on: $0.62 A Night: When Your Dorm Ends Up Being A Squat

By: The Overstay – Bangkok’s Whore House Turned Guest House

The Overstay – Bangkok’s Whore House Turned Guest House — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:34:38 +0000

[...] The Overstay’s owner, reached out to us after writing about his accommodation in our piece $0.62 A Night: When Your Dorm Ends Up Being A Squat. It seemed like a fair shake to interview him about a space that defies categorization, a sort of [...]

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By: Tom Gates

Tom Gates — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:48:01 +0000

Yuval – I’m glad to hear that things are different at The Overstay. I just emailed family@theoverstay.com to see if you’d like to provide new pictures and do an interview about the property.

Santiago – You seem surprised that articles have a shelf life on the internet. It’s comments that keep things up to date, not the original piece. Imagine how much worse things would be if a review to this tune had been published in a guidebook, which aren’t edited again for years in some case.

Tom

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By: Santiago

Santiago — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:36:06 +0000

COMPLETELY OUT-OF-DATE.
When does spin become mistruth?
Maybe when 4 photographs are atleast 8 months old and yet there is no mention of the last time you were actually there letting readers assume it was as recent as when you wrote your review.
Or maybe when out 6 floors/rooftop, tons of rooms, there are only 4 pictures to be had…and 2 of them are of the 3rd floor (which today has been completely remodeled.)
Maybe.
There have been major overhauls since these pictures were taken and those quoted travellers passed by. I wouldn’t expect you to know just how much its evolved because of how long it’s been since you were actually there. This must be noted my friend. (9/18/09) why not give people a heads up on your time-lapse.
Running water- check Clean sheets- check (washer machine available, nice eh?
Reception check ups- check
Free Internet- check Mosquitos- c’mon people, it’s THAILAND! ; )
That toilet- uncheck Occasional crazy cats- umm, can I still say “Duh”?
Cinema room and rooms with fans & visual motifs, huge variety of played music/ themed parties…. oh wait- that’s not mentioned.
http://www.theoverstay.com/ Travellers looking for an alternative to khao san… watch out for this article.
It’s a spin ball (only a matter of it being completely OUT-OF-DATE and posing as something as recent as September- GEESH!)

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By: Yuval

Yuval — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:31:00 +0000

Hello, i m the founder of the Overstay, I found your site by chance. I would like to take my right to answer after all the bad things you said about the overstay. First off i’d like to say that you obviously didn’t click with the place, and it happens but your whole article is misguidded. Rome wasn’t build in a day and so was not the overstay but you seem to take pleasure in showing only the bad side of the place where are the photos of the paintings, the bar, the chilled roof top, people awake and having a good time ? We have plenty of good toilet and clean showers. One more precision the people that you see sleeping on the floor are couchsurfers that we let stay for free in the house so they can travel longer we do not charge them. We are not a guest house as it says on hostel world we are closer to a squat than anything else (1st line) if you want to travel and see interesting thing don’t come to bitch because it s not what you expected, i hope you ll spend more creative time writing and not bitching

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By: Alouise

Alouise — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:53:16 +0000

What I found was kinda interesting was how there was no pictures/reviews in regards to the hostel. I know there are a lot of people who are against planning anything trip, but sometimes it’s a good idea to do a little research before booking a hostel. And I think it’s obvious to go to more than just the booking site, which will more than likely show the accommodation is a favorable light. But to play devil advocate you can’t trust every review good or bad review of some place online. But in any case I have to hope that people who pay 0 to 62cents a night would have an idea of what they’re getting themselves into. I can do hostels, but I don’t think I could do that.

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By: eileen

eileen — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:37:28 +0000

I love the tent that someone set up, to establish his/her space. I’d never stay in a place like this willingly, but would enjoy reading a few tales from the place. From the comfort of, you know, furniture.

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By: AdventureRob

AdventureRob — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:47:55 +0000

It is not $0.62 to stay, that’s just the booking price, if you turn up it is free, they offer a free language course it says on their website too, I considered going there to save some money but never got round to it in the end, don’t think I’d want to leave my stuff there overnight that’s for sure.

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By: chris.

chris. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:28:59 +0000

what a bizarre find! i am completely repulsed, and yet somehow wildly intrigued. from the pictures here it just looks like a squat house, or a punk house, so the idea that people are being charged to stay in it is flatly absurd, which makes me even more intrigued. i may have to stop by for a drink the next time i’m in bangkok, but as for staying there, i had enough of drunken artist squats in my teens.

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By: Julie

Julie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:17:32 +0000

Wow.
Remind me not to take any travel advice from Juanluckey.

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By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:55:57 +0000

You get what you pay for, obviously, but I think LP takes the biggest hit on this.

“Would Lonely Planet list The Overstay if they sent someone to see it?” Surely not.

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