Thasongyang Hill Resort is located a couple kilometers north of the town of Tha Song Yang in northern Tak Province.
There are multiple rooms and bungalows. We selected an air conditioned bungalow of some 300 square feet, which ran us 500 baht a night in the off season.
The bungalow was brown wood inside, with a single window. A bit dark.
There was a television and a small fridge. The water closet (bathroom) was a true water closet – toilet, sink, shower all in one space where showering drenched the same floor on which you stood when using the toilet or sink. I hate that kind of arrangement. Yeah, it may be common in much of the world, but I don’t like wading to the toilet in the middle of the night.
Also of note, this place uses the towel concept for bedding. What this means is that a bottom sheet is placed on the mattress, and that the equivalent of large beach blankets are used for coverings – one each person. We first encountered this at the Ban Thai Guest House in Mae Sot. It is not something to which I am accustomed, being a top sheet and blanket trained person; but is is workable.
Oh, and another quirk: toilet paper is in short supply. You can scrounge it up, but it’s apparently not a standard offering.
There were incidents at this place. There was the incident with the wasp hive above the bungalow entrance, the slug incident with the freaky slug in the bungalow, the mosquito incident with the uncovered attic hatch letting mosquitoes pour into the room, the coffee incident with no hot water for advertised morning coffee, the toilet incident with the near-overflowing toilet, and the wi-fi incident with the need to deploy a make-shift wi-fi device.
It’s a reactive place – reacts to wasps, reacts to open attic access, reacts to plumbing issues, reacts to wi-fi access, reacts to coffee, etc.
It does not anticipate things at all.
On the plus side, there is free use of a motorbike. That’s worth five or more bucks a day.
Also on the plus side, the town of Tha Song Yang is kinda nice. Unlike Mae Sot, it’s clean and un-stinky. It’s also small, which is nice.
Finally, there’s a restaurant about a hundred meters north of the hotel that’s run by a pretty nice family that was very accommodating to us.
Given the lack of any other discernible alternative, this is where you will be staying if you stop in Tha Song Yang.
