not sure I would help but there is an American guy named JC who does "Retire cheap in Asia' YouTube videos and he lives in Chiang Mai (and Pattaya before that) he talks a lot about accommodation and related stuff so I would have a look as I remember seeing at least one about CM
Samsung phone, Ipad and 2 point and shoot cameras that have 30x zoom, pretty amazing, that you can have a 30x zoom camera these days that can fit into a pocket, I will never travel nor even own a dslr again
just checked my phone and it said its only 75 degrees in Pattaya now 11:20 pm, I don't think it has ever been that cool when I have been there, although it does say its raining too
he was also on this forum always pumping up Obsessions Pattaya, defending it to death and then he just disappeared, but he did upload alot of sexy pics from that, bar