Why I Choose Vietnam Over Thailand & Bali | The Real Southeast Asia Gem!

Why I Choose Vietnam Over Thailand & Bali | The Real Southeast Asia Gem!

Hello ladies and gentlemen. Hello guys. I’m in Hushimi Min City, Saigon. Welcome to another video. Lovely video from Vietnam, guys. So, uh I had a really lovely time in Kunda. It was a really lovely island. Teeny tiny. Uh it was lovely, guys. I really like that my trip was very short because first two days it was raining so I got a little bit panic. I thought it’s going to a storm and all this drama that happening in Vietnam and everywhere else in Southeast Asia. There’s a lot of a storm happening here. So I thought to myself, okay, let me leave. Uh but if I knew that I’m going to meet the girl and also if I knew that the weather is going to change probably I was staying few more days. Anyways guys I’m in Hushimi Min City. I’m here for past I would say four days. I find unbelievable hotel guys. Uh M village ML has lot of location everywhere. Last time I was in district three and it was noisy, but this time I did a little bit of research about this hotel. It was very quiet. My first room it was one bedroomedroom apartment. And here you have a teeny tiny kitchen and everything else. I’ll show you guys the room and I’ll give you guys the price. So, it was one bedroom, really big. big. I mean like I had a separate bedroom and obviously a little bit larger than what I have right now, but I had a small windows. So I wasn’t getting natural lights and also it was a little bit noisy because it was next to the receptionist area. So I asked the manager so she moved me to the end of the hallway because there’s lot of Korean Chinese here. So these guys coming back at 2:00 in the morning and they do laundry because on M village hotels mostly you have a free laundry. You can do your own laundry. Some of them they have a swimming pool, some of them don’t. Again depends on the location. Some of them they have a pool table. But this place is just I did lot of research to find somewhere quiet. There is no bar, no restaurants, nothing that makes noise. There’s lot of restaurant and cafe around here but absolutely quiet. So if you’re looking because finding the quiet hotel in Hushim city that’s a huge huge task guys. So if you are sensitive with the noise if you want to have a peaceful night you know like it is a hard job really hard job. So, thanks God I find this place and she moved me to the uh stadium apartment. I’ll show you guys the apartment. It is like two years old. It is a new building. Everything, furniture and everything spotless, clean. Crew is really friendly. The manager, staff, everybody lovely, lovely, kind, very, very helpful. That’s why I’m saying Vietnam is completely different than Indonesia or Thailand. You don’t see that kindness. What I’m experiencing here unbelievable guys. When I arrived this time from Kundal. So seems to me all the airport now pushing grabs to really like outside of the airport or like it is getting very complicated. I guess lot of local taxi company complaining about grabb and all these apps that picking up customers from the airport. So now I guess they’re pushing them here and there. So I couldn’t find the goddamn grab. So it just sent me to the different location and I was tired and the reason that I get really frustrated in this situation because of my suitcase. So if I have a backpack I don’t mind. Like like if you have a backpack guys, you just life is much much easier when you’re traveling. You can jump on the bike. But when you have a heavy goddamn suitcase like mine that is almost 30 kg, you don’t know how your life can get miserable when you stuck in the airport and you cannot find a grab location. So it’s just getting complicated. Somebody says grab location is this. Somebody says on the parking lots. I said what the [ __ ] I’m gonna leave the airport. I’m just going to exit the airport and and order the the grab. So, I went outside of the airport. Now, I’m next to the highway and when I’m trying to get the grab, it says this is a wrong grab location. What the hell? Like, I’m outside of the [ __ ] airport. So, it was a nightmare. But I’m just talking about the kindness of Vietnamese people. people in Vietnam I hope stays the same way because you don’t see this kindness in Indonesia or Thailand. Absolutely not. Especially Thailand is just like be honest with you. I don’t plan to go back to Thailand anytime soon because every time that I’m thinking about the difference of level of service that you getting in Vietnam and how people welcoming now the tourist and compared to Thailand in Thailand let me tell you guys Thailand is land of a scam now Thailand is just like you are a ATM machine you’re not human as a tourist as a foreigner you’re not human you are a TM M machine and there is absolutely no kindness left in Thailand. Absolutely not. But guess what guys? Now I’m struggling next to the highway. I don’t know what to do with the goddamn heavy luggage. So I saw one man. He he was exercising. I said, “Sir, do you speak English?” He said, “No, a little bit.” I said, “Well, why I cannot get the grab here because I’m stuck here and it says this address is wrong. what I’m doing wrong. And he said to me, “Let me find a taxi for you.” So, apparently there’s another uh uh electric car that now I uploaded. I don’t remember the name. There’s a blue cars that all of them same and all of them blue. That’s another app that he had. He said, “Let me try this one.” And he tried it and he got the taxi for me. Guess what, guys? I swear to God he waited because taxi took a little bit of time because around airport is just something going on everywhere man. I don’t know what is this apps company and seems to me the local taxi is just I guess there’s some drama going on around any airport in Southeast Asia like when the app is just like drama drama drama it’s just like not easy you know so again this this guy accepted so the driver was coming uh another app not the grab I don’t know what is the name that’s just just I guess in uh Vietnam um and starts with X or whatever and all of them blew electrical car so and they was coming but it was late a little bit again that’s because of the drama that goes in airport so they have to go exit and whatever that you have to do so but I was outside the guy was waited with me until the end and told the driver I got the taxi for him I couldn’t understand but I I I I I know why he was waiting. He was just telling the taxi driver that he got the taxi for me. So he was waiting for me like 10 minutes with me. So you won’t see this kind of kindness. Seriously, you won’t see like even here in the hotel. I complain a little bit about the noise that Chinese people doing laundry at 2:00. She transferred me to this room and she said, “I I have one room end of the hallway and I’m sure you’re going to like it.” And I did extend my stay for five days. But you won’t see this kindness in Thailand anymore. In Thailand doesn’t exist or Indonesia. Matter of fact, like in Bali, just the same nightmare. Um even anywhere in Indonesia pretty much there’s no such things as called customer service, but Vietnam is just doing something completely good, man. It’s just like I find the people are very straightforward. They’re not, you know, trying to sugarcoat anything and that’s really match my personality because that’s who I am. And I just really I’m enjoying my time especially the kindness of the people pretty much and be honest with you like when I see kindness always I return the favor. Yesterday there’s a girl that works here as a cash. They do everything here cleaning and the receptionist and everything because it’s a small hotel. So she come up to me very kind, knocking on your door. Your new room is ready. Let me help you. And she’s teeny tiny. And she was grabbing my everything and then she was bringing it to this room. And I had a really nice gift. I bought it for myself, one of these bracelet, really nice one. And I give it to her. And I bought it in uh Daang for roughly I guess 200 uh Vietnamese down. So, it’s just like $10 Canadian and I give it to her and she loves it too much. So, usually if I see something like that, regardless of what, I return the favor because they’re not asking you anything. You know, the difference that piss me off in Thailand and Bali, they demanding, they scam you, they force you. For example, in Bali now, guys, is a nightmare. in body when you get in the grab driver calls you and says I don’t want to pick you up for the amount that you see on the grab you have to pay me more so you see like they demanding more money because they got schmuck lazy corrupt they’re looking for easy money but if Vietnam people are proud and I love it so when you see this kind of people I never ever if I show real kindness, I return the favor. Like there is absolutely no way that I leave them, you know, like without the tips or anything like this. Like for example, I had a cleaner long young lady again, she’s from Myanmar and she was working in Thailand in my hotel in Paya. Again, no demand, no ignorance that you see on Thai people or Indonesian people. these people are genuinely working hard and always I was paying like in one case even she said no no no you give me so much tips and I said no no no you deserve it because that time it was like I’m paying hundred uh uh Thai bot 100 Thai it was like for me I don’t know $5 or whatever Canadian but she said to me no no no you give me few times no thank you she don’t want to accept it but why I was paying her or why I when I see this kind of kindness or genuine people I tip them like seriously like makes me happy when I tip them when I buy them something because they genuinely they don’t want to scam you just they doing their job with lot of uh you know honesty integrity and they are very proud in Vietnam now mostly like that guys people are very friendly there’s no scam there’s no like I’m sure you get scam if you are involved with you know something night life or whatever but in general if you are out of this kind of life because night life you can’t get a scam everywhere man it’s just like uh one thing that I really another thing is guys I used ATM machine three times since I’m here in Vietnam and you don’t know how makes me feel good because there’s a t the ATM machine ATM bank called TP T as in Thomas Pas and Peter Bank that doesn’t have ATM fee for example in Thailand $220 Thai bot just to take your own money from ATM you don’t like that’s why I’m saying stay away from Thailand for now stay away because Thailand needs to wake up and understand how bad that country got in so many aspect in service aspect and the people the way that they treat you. Guys, I’m sure if you watching my video for a while, you know that I’m always overweight in terms of my luggage. This time I went to Kund Kundal, I went there, I came back, no extra charge, no nothing, no drama, this over faith, nothing, sir. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But in Thailand, last time when I was in Patea, guys, I went to the airport near Paya and absolutely I got scammed with the Bangkok Airways with a few attendants there. They are rude, absolutely racist, completely corrupt, and they demand me to pay $50 Canadian for 34 kg extra for the ticket that was cost $54 Canadian. That’s why I’m saying stay away from Thailand. Stay away from places like Bali because these kind of places is just like nightmare now. nightmare like you don’t get any service. They demand more money because they got lazy. They want easy money and they think tourists and the foreigners making money easy way. They think like because the money that in your pocket has more value than their money. So they are demanding that money from you with absolutely not doing anything for you. just the demanding why you are here for example and you have to pay me more. So that’s why I’m saying it’s just like seriously stay away from Thailand or Bali this kind of places. Sometimes I have to go because I’m so-called YouTuber but based on what I saw in Bali guys is just bunch of white dudes and white girls that 90% doing absolutely nothing. absolutely [ __ ] off. This is the people that they pretending Bali is the space for them or spot for them to run their business. There is no business. Most of the guys are going to the so-called co-working area and watching poor and the girls in La La Land. Most of them yoga all of them beautiful for example Russian girls or so many other girls lot of African girls doing prostitution that’s the source of income for them or I heard even some of the Chinese girls because when you go into this guest house in Bali you see ton of girls alone one month two month three months staying there and all of them welldressed no job no nothing so those guys doing the prostitution and some of the girls coming to find a sugar daddy, you know, because all the guys that pretending they have money, they don’t have job, they don’t have no money, they working some sort of with daddy’s money or mommy’s money or the credit card. So what I find in Bali 90% of these white people that there absolutely 90% is white. I’m not saying all these white dudes that there, but there’s a lot of white people that that is just these young people absolutely doing nothing. So don’t listen to this fake and stuff that they pretending you’re influencer. All of them influencers. All of them making money online, but guess what guys, it’s just a nonsense [ __ ] And all of them pretending to be something else. For example, you know, there is a difference between the success and the fake success. For example, I believe in my life in Canada because of I worked very hard. I got some sort of success in my life. I did the right investment. I worked very hard and I can say, you know, I was successful. That’s why I can live this life and I can afford to pay this. It is not easy to travel for three four years without you know not working. So obviously I can’t say it’s success. I’m not I don’t think I’m very successful individual in my life but I had some sort of in success in my life. So I can’t be somehow semi-retired in this age because some people they need to work up to 70 80 years old. But if somebody asks me how’s your YouTube channel do, you know what always I said like sometimes when I’m giving somebody my YouTube channel because they see me with the camera and people say, “Oh, what is your YouTube channel?” I said, “Well, I’m a very small YouTuber and I have like thousand subscriber, you know, like even I’m almost 2,000.” But I said thousand because I cannot pretend that I’m a big YouTuber because the reality I’m not. The reality I’m not. But why I’m saying this? When you see this white girls or white boys in Bali, they pretend they’re doing business and they talk about it the way that how they doing big things. For example, I was sitting in the cafe, guys, and I come across one German guy and he start talking talking nonsense. So, and he’s talking like so big, you know, like we we we going to build a resort in Ubud and I don’t know 20 villas and then yoga and this and that. So, I was thinking to myself, hey dude, like I guess you cannot even spell this stuff. Like this stuff need money and you don’t look like it. So most of these people in La La Land and I believe the most of them lost their mind. You’re going to see lot of people like this in Bali because they are absolutely lost. It’s just the and I saw another guy uh I guess like last year or two years ago in guest house and he was telling me about all the business success that he has in Bali and he was showing me the website and this and that. He’s living in the guest house in the room with no kitchen. So like I was thinking to myself, dude, like are you kidding me? And you telling me like you are almost millionaire. So why you living in the guest house after five years? So yeah, gas house is good for somebody that is staying somewhere for two weeks, three weeks, one weeks, one month. Are you kidding me? Five years in the guest house. So you see that guys is just a fake people that absolutely in the brain convince somehow they convince themsel that they’re doing something with the life but pretty much they’re doing nothing for Bali I guess most of the guys spending in cowworking space watching porn and the girls is just sitting and doing yoga and looking for sugar daddy so don’t believe Bali the hype that you getting Thailand is just finished I I believe nobody wants to go see Thailand anymore. Even I saw a lot of people that for a first time they come to to Southeast Asia and when I’m talking to them and they want to ask me question about Southeast Asia, the first thing that say everybody says don’t go to Thailand. So I pref Thailand is pretty much done uh because of so many things overpriced. I was looking at the Kus Samoi hotel guys. Some of the hotel for one week before New Year advertising up to $7,000 or $10,000. I believe in Thailand people lost their mind. This is my opinion. $7,000 or $10,000 for seven nights. This is average hotel. This is not that like sevenst star Dubai hotel guys. This is just the average hotel and they want seven to10,000 or $5,000 for seven nights. So, I’m thinking like, who’s going to fly from Europe or United States or North America or anywhere to pay $7,000 and $2,000 flight tickets to Kusamui and they spend $2 $3,000? The whole vacation is like $15,000 for two people. Are you kidding me? They can go to Mexico or they can go to so many other places and spend like $2,000 for that vacation. I guess Thailand is just lost their mind just like I guess they lost it pretty much in so many aspect and it shows like everything is just keep changing you know closing bank account opening bank account the visa rules every two weeks is getting changed so pretty much is done deal so I pretty much I guess probably Thailand is going to go down for next five six years and maybe they’re going to pick it up if they change everything otherwise nobody going to go because the service that you get in here is just day and night. For example, this is the average hotel and I have my whole kitchen guys here. You won’t get that in Thailand. It just it doesn’t exist. And even if it exists, you have to pay 10 times more than here. So overall in so many aspect, I guess Thailand is just done pretty much in terms of tourism. Even I see a lot of YouTuber that you know two weeks ago, one week ago, they used to make content in Thailand. Now everybody complaining that it’s the Thailand is just getting out of control. So anyways guys, so I’m heading out and I want to show you guys this room. So it is very lovely. So this is my bed guys. First of all, there’s lot of lights. So it’s not dark place because I cannot stay. There’s a mirror here. So I have a dining table here. And also here is a free laundry guys. You do your own laundry. So free washer and free dryer. So uh so this is a kitchen guys. There’s a stove. There’s a microwave there. So this is a kitchen and the big fridge guys. You see that? This is not teeny tiny fridge that you see in Thailand. And you have a basic stuff. You know you have a stove there. Uh, and you have a microwave here and this few pots and pans here. So, if you want to cook for yourself, the water pressure is good. Really clean washroom. So, you see that is a spotless guys. It’s just like clean clean. And there is a some clo clothing uh clothing uh space here. So, I because I I find the washer and dryer here. I washed everything in my suitcase. I washed it everything for past few days. And I have a big window here. So my previous uh my previous room was a little bit bigger than this one. It was actually one bedroom. So uh but it’s okay. This is good enough for me. The the difference is I didn’t have this window, guys. In this one, I have this window. So I really want to get natural lights and I like it. So this is the view. So, you see that guys? It’s just a few rooms, but it’s just so comfortable. So, when I’m going outside, I’ll show you guys the outside, too. It is a cute small hotel with the free laundry. So, you can find M Village everywhere here, but I really recommend here because it’s very quiet. because I was staying in another M village last time when I was here and it was a little bit noisy but here is absolutely quiet. So I hope you guys like this video. So and I’m heading out guys. I’m here next four five days. So hopefully I can make some content in Hushimi Min City. After that I’m going to Wangua. Uh again depends on the weather. Uh because here it was stormy too. Uh two days ago it was really heavy rain. Uh let’s see how everything is going to work out. So I’m going to stay in Wangtoa for four or five days. Again depends. Let’s see how everything is going to work out. And then probably I’m going to come back to Shimin City and then stay for rest of my stay. Again all depends because the reason that I don’t want to move around because of the weather guys. is just like not really nice and I don’t want to stuck in somewhere that is rainy because if you watch the news daang and everything is just like central is just raining and a storm is hitting them so badly. So yeah, this is the situation guys and this is my room again. Oh uh maybe you guys going to ask me how much I’m paying for here. So my cost here is $40 Canadian per night. So, $40 Canadian per night for this. There is a room that a little bit bigger than this. They have a little bit bigger than the the other one. A little bit more. And the one bedroom I was paying like $42 or $43 Canadian. Not that much difference. But they have a room that is deluxe or whatever. That’s like $50 or something, which I don’t need it. This is good enough for me. They do clean up every two days. You see like everything nice and clean and I really like it. It is spotless, clean, smell good. There’s no mold, lot of lights. So, it just like bed is comfortable. Everything is good. And the main thing is air conditioning is not on top of your head. In Thailand, I don’t know who designing it or even in Indonesia, guys. This air conditioning usually on top of your head right there. So you cannot even sleep. But this one is just doesn’t hit my head because that’s the worst thing. Usually I get sick. So this is in the kitchen side. So it is very very comfortable guys. So yeah guys I’m going for a walk. I’m going to take you guys all the way to the district one. So walking from here today is like 50 minutes which I love. I don’t have nothing else to do. And so if you like the video, subscribe, comment, hype the videos, and let’s do this, guys. Cheers.

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