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arsenal
The salon looks lovely and is populated by young rather attractive guys and gals.
Similar experience in Dawei, Myanmar. I walk past a hairdresser spot several staff I would like to get to know better, so I go in for a shave. It turns out they never shaved a foreigner, probably never shaved anyone. They find a razor (mechanical, knife or blade) and for lack of shaving cream use shampoo. My worst shave ever, not cheap either, and I didn't get to know any of them closer.
But tell us about the cost of a haircut please. Here in Phnom Penh I can get a decent haircut (saloon, aircon) for 1.50 USD and a friend who has been here for longer says the cheapest he found in Phnom Penh was 1.25 USD. One of my aspirations in life is to get a haircut for 1 USD or less.
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christianpfc
One of my aspirations in life is to get a haircut for 1 USD or less.
Well don’t come to the UK then. After shopping around for weeks I had a basic haircut last week and it cost £13 (just under 600 baht) and that was OAP rates. The normal rate here is now £16 (about 750bt).
The next one will be in Thailand at 100 baht...no matter how long off that is!
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Christian, I'm sure those guys who give haircuts out on the streets would charge less than US$1.
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This guy will gladly do it for you for less than a dollar in the cool shade of the trees.
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It costs 20rmb Christian.
We are now having an air raid siren practice. I kid you not. The air raid siren is blaring out all over the city. Do they think it's 1943?
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gerefan2
...I had a basic haircut last week and it cost £13 (just under 600 baht) and that was OAP rates.
When I was studying in England, I remember getting a haircut for 6 GBP. That was in 2008.
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a447
Christian, I'm sure those guys who give haircuts out on the streets would charge less than US$1.
I don't think so. I had a haircut in Thailand by a mobile hairdresser (just a chair for the customer to sit on, a mirror that is hung on a tree, and a bag with his tools, for 50 THB. That was 2013.
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arsenal
It costs 20rmb Christian.
That's 3 USD. Way off my target! Mental note: if/when going to China from Thailand for a longer time, get a haircut in Thailand before.
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christianpfc
That's 3 USD. Way off my target! Mental note: if/when going to China from Thailand for a longer time, get a haircut in Thailand before.
3 USD = 100 Baht which is the typical cost of haircut in Pattaya.
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heh, speaking of haircuts this brought back a memory. This was back in my 20s when I was still good looking. I went for a haircut near the city center of Kuala Lumpur one day, and was pretty much sexually assaulted.
Now if it was a cute gay guy I wouldn't have minded, but unfortunately it was a woman. She kept me in that chair for about an hour, basically gave me a free massage along with the haircut, while constantly telling me to come to her place some day for what she called "enjoys". She'd groan in my ear while whispering, "I like to do it in the backside", and things of that nature.
My god, that was the most horrific haircut of my life.
Back on topic, if I can remember correctly haircuts in Khon Kaen were generally 60 baht, so 80 baht with a tip.
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In 2020 I had a hair cut for 2000 Kyat in Myanmar. At today's exchange rates, it is 84 pence or 38.5 baht.
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matty....u must be a professional victim...or canadian...but there is no way a vagina support system would molest me for an hour....id be out of there within 2 minutes...
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latintopxxx
matty....u must be a professional victim...or canadian...but there is no way a vagina support system would molest me for an hour....id be out of there within 2 minutes...
I don't know, I'm Canadian. We're raised to be polite. :)
Thing is, if she happened to be a cute 20 year old guy, then I'd be all for that. Hell, I'd be paying his boss for him to take the rest of the day off while we got a hotel room together, haha. That unfortunately wasn't the case though.
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francois
3 USD = 100 Baht which is the typical cost of haircut in Pattaya.
The hairdresser I used to frequent before Covid in Bangkok does haircut and shaving for 70 THB. 100 THB are tourist prices.
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goji
In 2020 I had a hair cut for 2000 Kyat in Myanmar. At today's exchange rates, it is 84 pence or 38.5 baht.
A friend recommended India for a haircut for less than 1 USD. I never thought of Myanmar because my stays were all just one week, but next time I will get a haircut in Myanmar!
Addendum: Wait, you mean 0.84 GBP, not 0.84 USD? That's still slightly above my aspiration, but getting closer.
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christianpfc
The hairdresser I used to frequent before Covid in Bangkok does haircut and shaving for 70 THB. 100 THB are tourist prices.
100 Baht may be tourist prices but that is what all the Thai boys I know pay for haircuts in Pattaya.