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Storing luggage for the short term, while travelling Thailand /Aus

  • 10-09-2008 01:39AM
    #1
    cokedrinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭


    Hello, I'm moving to Melbourne for work, but before i settle there I will be checking out Thailand for 2 weeks, and traveling east coast Aus for another ~3/4 weeks.
    I'm bringing an A3 portfolio of my work with me, and i'd rather not be carrying it around while i travel (I want to keep it in pristine condition!). Where could i store such an item in bangkok, and again in sydney? I have nothing at all lined up in Melbourne yet so have nowhere to post it :/

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    Spider_Baby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭Spider_Baby


    Most hostels and guesthouses in Bangkok offer luggage storage BUT be careful!!!
    I left a bag on mine in storage in a guesthouse on Soi Rambuttri (1 min from Kho San Rd) and it was gone when I returned a week later. The owner didnt want to know and neither did the police. I got a police report but was unable to claim anything back from insurance as I had no receipts for everything that was taken.
    It was more sentimental things than valuables though. All my souvenirs from China were in the bag. I was keeping them in Bangkok and was going to post them all home along with anything else i bought before heading to NZ :(

    Can you do that Post Resistance (is that what its called???), where you send it to a Melbourne post office and they keep it there for a certain amount of time. You have to turn up with ID to collect it.

    ...could be an idea..?


  • #3
    cokedrinker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 281 ✭✭cokedrinker


    cheers ill look into that spider - that would be ideal alright


  • #4
    Aurora Borealis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 939 ✭✭✭Aurora Borealis


    God spider that's so sh*t. I know of people who left theirs with travel agents in BK for months with no problems at all. Think I'd be reluctant too though. You can definitely do that postal thing. My Aussie mate used to use it the whole time.


  • #5
    Spider_Baby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭Spider_Baby


    Aurora Borealis wrote: »
    God spider that's so sh*t. I know of people who left theirs with travel agents in BK for months with no problems at all. Think I'd be reluctant too though. You can definitely do that postal thing. My Aussie mate used to use it the whole time.


    Yep, it was pretty sh*t indeed.
    All my souvenirs...guide book for NZ...and all my winter-ish clothes (jeans, jumpers etc which I needed for NZ) were in the bag :(
    It did give me an excuse for a shopping spree once I landed, but I wasnt able to claim anything back from the insurance crowd. Grrrr.

    I think I was just unlucky with the Guesthouse I picked. I'm sure 90% are probably legit.


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