I thought we should start a thread of places to avoid and have it stickyed or its own section on the forum, here is my experience of hotel named Jasmine Mansion.

Another board member and I reserved a 2 rooms for Jasmine Mansion for 1 months of stay costing nearly 20,000 baht. The pics on his website are very misleading making the rooms look much larger than they are. It is suppose to be non-smoking hotel upstairs from what I understand and my room stunk of smoke, the bathroom would not drain, water pressure non-exisitant and a bug problem.

We mentioned our displeasure to the owner and he said he would correct the issue 2 days latter still nothing was done, so after staying 3 days, we went to the owner and asked for a refund. I told him he could charge us the normal daily rate, keep the 1,000 baht desposit, and to just return us the balance. He told us no and basicly to go f**k ourselves. The room was so bad I coud'nt take it anymore, Jeff and I found much better place to stay for 8,000 less a month.

I highly recommend this place, about 46 square meter, full fridge, dvd, microwave, balcony, wifi-internet. for 12,000 baht amonth including electric. located on Soi LK Metro next door to Lolitas. The place name is Memories Go-Go. The noise from the gogo can not be heard and there is another enterence to avoid the gogo all togehter, The owner and his wife are very nice.

Anyway, unless you like to get f*****d by a con-artist and be over charged I would avoid Jasmine Mansion on soi bukow or however you spell it all together.

Im completely suprised by this given Kevin, the owner of Jasmine Mansion is the complete opposite to the person you have just described. I know deadman, who always stays there could vouch for this place. I stayed there, and Im a fussy f****r, no problems at all, if anything, service was beyond what I expected.

I'll add my view-

Stayed there over the X-mas period for about 17days in total. On the the last day (after checking out) I needed to use the internet to check what work had sent me for the flight details, they had sent some reservations for a hotel in Dubai so I had to print it out. Asked and was told it was fine.

Once completed I was told I owed approx 100baht - thats for 3mins internet usage and one A4print.

Not on my list of places to stay again.

Otherwise it was an ok place, stayed in alot better for the same/less price

also a bit surprised! i admit the price is a bit more than what i think it should be but personally never had any problems! i found kevin & his wife very accommodating! regarding the internet, its about 1bht per minute!

I posted this on talk, but as this topic is also on here

Violatedm3 ,Sorry to hear you had such poor a experience .

I have stayed at Jasmine Mansion and for 700baht a night found it an ideal for the budget conscious traveler and good value for money.

Yes the rooms aren't huge , but they are not prison cells, I have stayed in five star motels where the rooms are no bigger, and I don't think the rooms are misrepresented on the website.

I normally like to stay in more luxurious hotels but was unable to find suitable accommodation last high season so I stayed at Jasmine Mansion, I did a lot of research into the hotel and there is a number of reviews on the hotel section on this board and many members speak highly of their experiences here.

The water pressure was mentioned by others who had stayed there as the only problem, however I didn't experience this problem.

The owner is a BM on here "Cookie"(Kevin Meacher) and many Board Members who have stayed at JM speak highly of him and his wife.

It is disappointing to hear you were unable to get back a refund for the unused portion of your stay though.

Sorry you had a bad experience mate, I think it pays to read reviews first before making a booking.

Do you have booking detail for this apartment?

Deadman, I downloaded yer Pattaya music and it's good, listening to it now! The music, a few bottles of beer and surfing all the Pattaya websites is all that keeps me going until my next trip in July

If you are asking about where I am staying now, its the Memories A Go-Go, on Soi Lk-Metro, next door to Lolitas. Owner's name is Gordon.

I did research Jasmine Mansions online (2 different boards) & found only positive comments.
I have never been there but i am booked to stay soon... due to the previous good PR i read, i would still try the place & i will update this thread after my experience...

I know the OP has given his honest opinion ,
but the title shit list gets, may make some feel you may have an agenda .
would this post be more beneficial in the hotel section as a review ,

Joe

I have no agenda other than I a bit pissed with my experience dealing with Kevin and his Hotel. If anyone was to ask me about his hotel I would say avoid it just my personal experience. Also to inform other BM's what to expect if you stay there and want to check out early you will not get any sort of refund. On top of that if you used any part of the mini-bar and you check out early you will not get credited for that either he will take it out of the deposit, total bullshit.

So make your choice. Also I was hopeing that this thread could cover anything that put somone off, be it a bar, or whatever.