Review: @Mind Serviced Residence

[Harvey 249]

Here is the hotel's official website: http://www.atmindgroup.com/pattaya/

 

 

I've about completed a two week stay at the @Mind and here are some impressions. As always, YMMV.

 

The facility is relatively new. I'm booked into a one-bedroom unit for which I got a good price on via Agoda. Everything works well and is in good working order. The front desk staff is particularly helpful, cordial, and effective at meeting your stated needs. The women working the front desk all wear that nicely fitted uniform shirt and short skirts that make you want to boff them all. The guys are a hoot. When you stagger in from a short time at nearby Soi 6 or a body massage from nearby Honey 2. Or you bring your lady up to the room, they'll all give you that knowing laugh. They're cool.

 

Moreover, everyone at the desk is pretty discreet. My lady of the past week has not found out about excursions to Soi 6, a daytime short time in my room or body massages from anyone who works here. While that doesn't seem like something to celebrate, at one hotel recently, one of the desk ladies snitched on me with my TG and I got royally busted. I don't want to mention any hotel names or anything -- cough, cough -- Page 10 -- cough, cough.

 

Your visitors must leave their IDs at the front desk.

 

The room comes with its own safe (in a fully-functional walk-in closet). The kitchen area includes a full-sized refrigerator, microwave, booking burner unit and various pots, pans, plates, utensils, etc. A hot water boiler (I think you guys from the UK call it a kettle) rounds out the kitchen. There's a small, four-seat dining room table and a sofa/ottoman in the living room which faces one of two flat screened TVs in the unit. (The other in in front of the bed). It's cooled by two separate AC units, one located in the bedroom and one over the dining room table.

 

The bathroom features (only) a glass-enclosed shower stall with two shower heads.

 

The pool is good, open until pretty late at night. Problem, totally unmanned. So you have to call someone if you want a pool towel and wait for them to come and unlock a towel locker for you There seems to be a sauna in each pool bathroom (the men's is not working now).

 

The workout room is a lot larger than most I've seen in Pattaya. This is open late as well.

 

Rounding out facilities are a little minimart, a massage place next to it who'll give you a good foot massage in their space or come up to give you an outstanding oil/lotion massage in your room (just dial 7) from a pretty, young massage girl -- they're all pretty and youngish compared to most massage places. They'll all offer you a happy ending and are all quite skilled at it. Actually, the massage was really great too. My back felt great afterwards....as did little Harvey.

 

Breakfast came with my Agoda booking. Beware, it'll be a bit odd. If you book and come alone, the hotel will only comp you one free breakfast per day. You're paying for your TG to eat breakfast with you. The food is almost exactly the same, so after about 3 days, you're done with their breakfast and will be going out just for variety.

 

And speaking of going out -- the location. This looks a lot more convenient on Google maps than it works out in real life. Particularly since it backs up Second Road with the ongoing construction, my getting around involves lots of walking, including inhaling all of the dust on the road. It's a bit of a walk to get to Beach road to catch a taxi to WS area, so if you're a fan of the Walking Street scene, do not book here. Quite actually, this place is good if you're a creature of Soi 6, Big C, and the N. Pattaya area. Despite me liking this place, I don't think I'll return only because of location.

 

Finally, the thing that irks me the most about this place is the housekeeping crew. I can count on my room not being attended to until very late -- once as late as 7:00 p.m. And that's with me vacating the room most mornings about 9:30. This is really unacceptable.

 

Okay, while their website has lots of photos, here are some random ones of mine:

 

 

This is the kitchen sink area.

 

 

 

Dining room table and living room area.

 

 

 

 

Essentially the front of the unit. The front door is there, right next to the refrigerator.

 

 

 

A safe is located in the walk-in closet. Always something that I look for (safe, not walk-in closet).

 

 

 

The bedroom includes a small desk, a flat screen TV, and the requisite Pattaya rock-hard king-sized bed. (I actually like a hard bed, IMO sex is better and easier on it).

 

 

 

Desk is kinda small and you get claustrophobic if you have to spend too much time on it working (as I do). I ended up moving my computer to the dining room table and working there.

 

 

 

A couple of photos of the bathroom

Edited October 16, 2014 by Harvey

[firth1974 2,659]

Looks good actually.

 

What kind of price did you end up paying for this?

[Harvey 249]

Paid about $65/night USD. But I booked kinda late. If you plan ahead, you can get a one bedroom unit for in the mid 50s/night USD. Cheaper if you opt out of the daily breakfast.

 

Or you can get regular studio rooms for cheaper as well.

 

Harv

[Evil Penevil 7,628]

Good review. I stayed there about a week last year and liked the @Mind apartments and facilities. I was even considering a long-term stay, but like you, I found the location inconvenient and decided it wasn't for me.

 

Evil

[boob_kook 0]

Any extra charge for multiple joiners (2 ladies)? nicely written review OP

[Harvey 249]

Any extra charge for multiple joiners (2 ladies)? nicely written review OP

 

There was a charge, but I stayed there last year so can't vouch for the second lady charge still being in effect.

 

I think it was 400 or 800 bht. Sorry I can't remember exactly