Have any OTHER members stayed @ Mosaik recently ? Obviously we have the comments below, which do not need to be repeated. However, additional independent reviews from members are always welcome.
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Thank you for offering to advise.
1 Did you have any problems with noise during your stay ? I like to be asleep between midnight and 1:00 am.
2 Is any particular part of the complex better for noise ?
3 I've read about firm mattresses previously. Is that the case ? Do they have any softer mattresses or toppers available upon request ? I've always found Thai mattresses to be on the firm side.
4 Any other points to watch out for ?
I'm thinking about staying there soon too... wondering if it's walking distance to sunee or boyztown, and how far walk from each?
Definitely. About 5 minutes from Sunnee & 10 minutes from Boyztown. [Whilst I've not yet stayed at Mosaik, I have stayed in area]
Quest 1 is difficult to answer because it's just your luck in any hotel/apartment who happens to be in the rooms around you. Personally noise has never been a problem for me at Mosaik. But it is Pattaya, and it is a party city which closes between 3am -6am.
Quest 2. Again difficult to answer. The main building units A, B and C are on the 2nd Day/Night soi along from TukCom and tends to be very quiet late at night. I think likewise for block E further down the soi. There is a plusher, quieter block F which faces onto Soi 1 Day/Night opposite the hotel there. The rooms are huge in block F and beautifully furnished but the problem isn't getting to sleep at 12/1am. It is being wakened 5-6-7am by the huge tour buses parking in front of the hotel and the security guys who park them and blow whistles for ages at a time.....
Quest 3. There are 3 levels of rooms. Standard (basic) Deluxe (nice furnishings but medium size)and Prestige much bigger rooms and more comfortable. The room I usually book is a Prestige which come with new beds (2-3 year)and comfortable mattresses, I think some may even have built on topper. But I don't know if these beds are installed in all rooms. So you really need to ask these same questions when contacting them about dates/costs.
Quest 4. I don't know your budget or how long you are planning to stay but would avoid Block E, which have the standard rooms which are quite basic. Block A, B or C would be best. Then you have room size. Studio or 1 bed. We prefer the Prestige Studios because they are big rooms, but 1 beds deluxe are rooms very spacious. Can expect leather sofa, 2 leather easy chairs, dining table/chairs, coffee table, TV/Tv unit with DVD, wardrobe, room safe, kitchen area and shower room/toilet. I think you can get nightly rate with daily room cleaning/towels cahnge just like a hotel, but I've never done that at Mosaik, as always stay here 10-12 nights and just take a weekly rate plus electric/water charges and cleaning extra as required as you would do with an apartment rather than hotel room.
Blocks A/B/C and F have lifts. Block E does not. Also there is no reception at each block, only at the main office which closes at about 6pm, while there are security guys 24/7 you need to be careful who you take back to your room as there is no I.D. check.
The first time you stay at Mosaik it can be quite complicated having to choose between the different room sizes, then room qualities, then if you need/want balcony, then where room is situated as Mosaik has a lot of property around Day/Night Soi 1 and 2. Then weekly or daily rate, then low season or high season. Give me an idea of room type (Studio/1 bed) and approx. sq/m size and for how long you plan to stay and i'll try point you in right direction.
While it is closer to Sunee which is an easy walk,(5 mins?) boyztown is walkable too (10 mins?), but as the baht buses pass the top of the Mosaik Soi where tuk Com is, you can catch one easily/regularly for Bt10 to boyztown. I walk to both. Usually Sunee first early on, then from there to boyztown. Personally regard walking to either as a non-issue. But even in Mosaik which has a lift I use the stairs.
New Alan has covered everything you need to know and more. I'm currently in Mosaik ( F block - ha sounds more like a prison !) and I'm sleeping like a baby. Mind you also not going to bed until 5am so I guess that helps ! But I'm confident even if you were turning in at midnight or world be the same.
This time I'm facing into the boutique hotel and right above the buses which I was most pissed off about but actually it's fine - I'm also fearing half deaf as I get older it seems which also helps. The rooms have black out curtains fitted and the problem for me is remembering to wake up before 2pm / 3pm usually I sleep so well here.
Speak to Nop in reception, he's a nice guy and will answer all of your questions.
Thank you for the guidance.
I'm going for the Junior suite, since these look spacious and are within my normal price range.
How are the blocks arranged ?
I cannot find a floor plan, but something on the same side as the Flamingo & the Blue House sounds like a good idea, since I know that soi is quiet & it's away from all the buses. Also, I suppose the room should be cooler.
I also read a trip advisor report referring to noisy aircon on the 5th floor, so would something on the 3rd or 4th floors be optimum ?
Lifts do not matter much to me.
I lived in Mosaic when it first openned, actually watched it being built at that time the immediate area had many gay bars and Sunee was thriving, fast forward 10-11 years no bars are left in the immediate area and Sunee is all but finished.
A german Klaus owned Mosaic and it was quite nice, Klaus died and eventually it changed hands, it is showing signs of its age. The area also has changed and caters to many middle easterners as does Mosaic. If you plan to spend most of your time in Boystown or Jomtien Complex surely there are better options.
I watched it being transformed from the old Boys Studio 'Hotel' to Mosaik Apartments from my Flamingo Hotel room balcony too. So what? I didn't stay at either Flamingo or Mosaik because of any bars in the immediate area, I stayed there because they were excellent places to base a trip and both Boyztown and Sunee are very near, easily walkable. What does it matter that there are no bars in the Day/Night area?
And how would you know what the impact of age had been on Mosaik if you last stayed there 10-11 years ago? The room(s) I prefer there have shown little sign of age, in fact new bedding/mattresses and furniture have been installed. Every property shows 'some' sign of age if it's 10-11 years older! but it looks pretty much as it did all those years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manforallseasons
Utter rubbish, you've been saying this for a decade now and sunee has yet to 'finish'. When GoodBoys, One Bar, Blue Chilli, Sky Bar, Double Shot, Elephant Plaza, Ting Tong Red (now expanding!), Ouds Caf, Forest Bar, Nice Boys, Powre Boys, Diamond Bar, Euro Boys bar, Winner Gogo, Eros Gogo, Rainbow Bar, Green Chair Bar all suddenly CLOSE then come back and let us know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manforallseasons
I visited sunee at some point every night last trip June/July and had a great time every night enjoying entertainment and fun, games of snooker, relaxing no-attitude environment with plenty of available lads in the bars. It seems you've been stuck in Pattaya for far too long and the area may have become 'too familiar' and stale for you, or you may have become stale. But for me the 2 weeks at a time visits, returning home and going to other places in between, it's still a joy to visit and will be in the near future.
I see goji has asked what your 'better options' would be since you have suggested 'surely' there are, but you failed to mention any......with specifics like where, names of establishments with similar room sizes, amenities and price points. Crass generalisations mean nothing without some detail (places?) and (current?) experiences of 'options' rather than 10 year old non-reviews.
Omg:eek: Your not a Racist are you ...to be politically correct dear , its Middle Eastern challenged!
Have you tried Baan Dok Mai at the back of Tuk Com ?http://www.baandm.com
Mickyboy (Sweetheart) wrote:
"Omg Your not a Racist are you ...to be politically correct dear , its Middle Eastern challenged!"
Middle eastern challenged would mean lacking in middle eastern-ness as in intellectually challenged meaning a little dim witted.
Newalaan I wish you could expand your posts. I looked at 3 rooms a month ago at Mosaic. For those that only visit Pattaya the hotels in and around Jomtien Complex offer the newest and best accomadations, as for Sunee knock yourself out.🤣
If I understand what was current procedure and not changed in the last few months, you request for your room to be serviced. If you do not ask your room to be serviced ,it is left untouched.
Baa Dok Mai is half the price of Mosaik so where is the apples for apples comparison.
In addition there are lifts in Mosaik compared that awful staircase at BDM and not somebody to carry your bags for you.
You guys ever heard of a hotel? Got all sorts of posh stuff like lifts and cleaners and bag carryin boys and sum of em even got TVs. Gotta be a miylionaire to stay ther tho.
Heard there's one of them in BKK.
Called the Tarty One or something - could do with a 16 paragraph update on it so we know if (for example) the boiled sweets at the reception desk have changed from strawberry to lemon
Cor. Boiled sweets wots made wiv lemens and strorburrys. Thats ony for peepul thats got ladys mades and genelmen that likes to were soots and kollers to dinner.
Lonely the 'procedure' has changed over the last couple of years to Mosaik now renting rooms on a hotel basis, e.g. nightly rates including daily room cleaning, towel changes, electric/water. All of the Chinese visitors and many of the other nationalities now book there on this basis as Mosaik rooms can be found on hotel search engines like booking.com/Agoda etc.. So the cleaners come round those rooms on a daily basis just like hotels.
Weekly+ renters like some of us here account for a much smaller % of their room take up than previously, that's why they are able to boast up to 90% capacity at certain times of the year. On that basis you still have to request room cleaning if you require it. Some of the room types used by weekly+ renters are not offered to nightly rate customers, but a business has to move with the times or it will go under in the present climate. If Mosaik had to survive on it's previous customer base it most likely wouldn't be here in it's current format.
Not sure where you have gleaned your information but a like-for-like room at Baan Dok Mai is nothing like half the price of Mosaik where Booking.com com advertise a deluxe mosaik room for Bt700 a night on the hotel basis I mentioned previously. Baan Dok Mai equivalent rooms are Bt700-900 depending on season.
When I stayed at Baan Dok Mai the stairs never bothered me, I use stairs at Mosaik as well anyway, and there was always somebody on hand to take luggage up to the room at BDM, however the lift at Mosaik is handy for checking in with luggage.
Rooms and Rates Rooms Type Feb to Nov Dec to Jan Daily Standard B700 B800 Superior B800 B900 Monthly Standard B12,000 Dec to Jan need to book
2 months
The Mosaik rates quoted for a month were 26000 baht for 30 days, I could not copy the above rates from BDM that last line.
where the monthly de lux rate for a superior room is 14000 baht .
I was quoted from the website 1400baht per night.
Th above rates are probably of no interest to Arsenal whose main interest is chasing breakfasts for less than 100 baht.
I note Scottish comment but he did not mention he used to stay in Meredian Hotel. How much more expensive is that above Mosaik?
Are there still ghosts in that hotel or did you fool them when you changed.
Wombles wrote:
" Th above rates are probably of no interest to Arsenal whose main interest is chasing breakfasts for less than 100 baht."
Everything you write is of major interest to everyone Wombat.
Off topic: It took me years to notice the significance of the placement of the comma in "Wombat : an Australian marsupial that eats,roots and leaves." lol
It's an old Aussie joke.
For the uninitiated, "to root" means "to fuck" in Aussie slang.
Well, you are also an old Aussie, as you inadvertently revealed in a post here, so you would also get the joke.
I don't know quite what to make of the above.
Firstly, I have never stayed at Le Meridien Hotel - you should consult my personal historian MiniMee whose purpose in life revolves round trying to keep a record of where I am at any particular time.
However, you may be thinking of the Mercure where I have stayed several times?
There are 2 x Mercure hotels in Pattaya - and I'm referring to the one which is kinda behind the Welcome Plaza. From memory 1500-1600B for a superior room
Secondly, I have absolutely no clue what you mean by "ghosts" or "fooling them"
:stop_mini:
Our Wombles has never been the same since 'Turkeygate" which loosened his already fragile grip on reality.
Now, now, Mr Wombat you know full well that I said LIKE-FOR-LIKE room, and you know BDM is nothing near the 60sqm Mosaik room you have quoted at Bt26,000 to try and fool everyone into believing your BDM statement of half the price of Mosaik is correct. The Mosaik room equivalent to BDM would be the Deluxe at Bt14,000 per month and the BDM room has no kitchen area. That is without taking into consideration the Mosaik rooms are better finished and furnished.
You also knew I was referring to the hotel-basis (nightly) at Mosaik which is clearly not half the cost at BDM, it's the same. Now we have established that the BDM monthly rate is also nowhere near half the rate of Mosaik, nor does the BDM have a kitchen area or lift. 12k/14.5k versus 14k...the same also.
You lost me a little with your explanation but it seems to be you are insinuating BDM superior room is equivalent to Mosaik Junior Suite....don't make me laugh, both BDM rooms are equivalent only to Mosaik Deluxe, I am being generous by including the BDM standard as a like-for-like equivalent. As I say you also know perfectly well none of the BDM rooms are anywhere near the 60sqm Mosaik Suites.
I dont like the shower pressure at the Baan dok mai nor the Wi Fi which worked intermittently
Everyone probaly knows that the Baan Dok Mai was sold a few years ago and has changed dramatically!
It is now owned and run singlehandedly by a friendly Australian guy .
No more Cafe downstairs, not that I ate at the bloody thing anyway .
There is no reception desk after hours so can be a positive or negative depending the way you look at it.
For those who are physically challenged unfortunately it is stairway challenging!
If you book thru the hotel apps you can get rates as low as 600 baht a night .
This is very important.
No bars means no parties carrying on until 6:00 am, which means it's a perfect location for hotels, as I can expect to sleep.
And I can still walk to Boyztown or Sunnee in less than 10 minutes.
Also, I can take morning coffee at Gafae or Starbucks in Tuk Com.
So after that, all I need t do is find the best hotel in the area that still comes in at 1500 baht give or take a little.
Baan Dok Mai never came up to my expectations. Flamingo just about made it, but I hope Mosaik will be better,
Mercure [ of course]was the place where you thought people from Boyztown had followed you back to your hotel. Maybe it was on Neals ratbag site, but I am sure there is a copy around with more detail.
1500/1600 at Mercure is a good price . do you still return there each trip?
No - last time my m8 and I reverted to booking the Welcome Plaza (which is the first hotel we ever stayed in in Pattaya) because we noticed on their website that they had finally refurbished (at least some of)the rooms.
The issue that we had had previously was poor state of decor, leaky bathtubs with dangerously wet floors.
Glad to report that although my m8 became seriously ill and had to cancel his trip, I found the rooms were improved at (from memory) around 1300B per night for sea view - but the hotel itself had been deserted by both staff and customers. Was like staying in an empty building - and I'm used to low-season.
The Mercure "incident" my BF and I later deduced was down to a Thai guest in an adjacent room who had nodded to us going in and out over previous days.
We think he must have either passed or heard BF and I returning from BT in the small hours and then rang from his room to ours to proposition BF (in Thai).
Since BF is Vietnamese and speaks very little Thai it both puzzled and alarmed us both that the phone should ring almost as soon as we arrived back, with a guy gibbering down the line in Thai.
It was years later that BF finally admitted to me that the (very) little of the conversation he understood involved a sum of money and finally 2+2=4
I pass the Mercure regularly and there can be up to 6 tour buses in the car park. It now appears to be attracting the tour groups. I won't mention the nationality in case it offends the sainted Oliver.
Tour groups never bother me as they have all fucked off for the day by the time I surface at 12 noon.
All you need is a quiet facing room or good glazing IMHO
You're quite right about the cleaners banging on the door and letting themselves in etc as that used to drive me insane - however the simple fix for that ( and one which the cleaners Joe fully understand means don't bother me) is to put the chain on your door before bed as this denies them entry.
I have still heard them doing the "clean loom" shouting thing at several doors this trip but I think from previous trips they know not to bother me until asked for now and actually this trip for the first time ever I've opened my door each morning to a plastic bag containing fresh towels, a toilet roll and two bottles of water which is great. Then I just let them to clean / change bed as I require.
Is it not sufficient to put a "Do Not Disturb" sign on your door ? Even if it's home made. The moment they start ignoring that, then a word with the management has to be justified.