Huge Index furniture store opened

[buksida]

Went to the opening day of the new Index furniture store yesterday. First thing that struck me was the fact that Petchkasem Road had been turned into a car park filled with Bangkok SUV's.

The place is massive, three separate areas and a second floor. It makes all the other furniture stores in town look like garden sheds.

They do have pretty much everything you could ask for in there with the exception of metal potato mashers and separate amplifiers to my disappointment.

The shop is definitely for the Bangkok "showy" people that like to express their overwhelming vanity by buying the most expensive units of everything they can get ... on credit.

Prices are comparable with the UK which, for anyone not from the UK, is shockingly expensive. Quality is debatable, would you pay 14,500 baht for a chipboard table? Even the cushions in there were a grand a piece and the plastic fruit ... I mean where is the demand for plastic fruit unless you're going to build another Index furniture store?

Is this the direction in which Hua Hin is heading?

[lomuamart]

Wot,
No potato mashers. That's a disaster. I'm sick and tired of doing mine with a pestel and mortar!!

[boydiethescot]

When i was living in Hua Hin I found a shop selling potato mashers, the shop is on the same road/soi as All in Hua Hin, but at the other end, on the same side, i think it was the last shop on the soi.

Hope this helps

[Guess]

The Scot is correct regrading potatoe mashers. It is the shop on Sra Song at the junction of Chom Sin. However I believe that they are the plastic variety. Also they are imported from the west so are sold at Western prices.

Lomu is it really you that is getting fed up with the pestle and mortar or your wife. I thought you spent all day supporting an aged PC.

[dr dave soul monsta]

Told you Buksida the had spud bashers there at that shop they aint cheap though

prob cheaper than Index and better quality

index seems to be a expensive version of Argos in the uk

[JimmyGreaves]

Only left 3 weeks ago and it looked far from finished. Tesco opening tomorrow

[sam]

back with you all for new year, how many metal potatoe mashers shall I brng?

[Jaime]

Even the cushions in there were a grand a piece and the plastic fruit ... I mean where is the demand for plastic fruit unless you're going to build another Index furniture store?

Is this the direction in which Hua Hin is heading?

Mrs Jaime went a bundle on the plastic fruit - we now have two bowls full! At least it won't go rotten by the time of our next visit!

She also went a bundle on the cushions - about 400 baht each but still more expensive than I would pay for the same in the UK. As Buksida wrote, most things are at UK prices - some is nice quality like some of the genuine leather suites - but some is very average. We were quoted 2800 baht for framing one of those sequined elephant tapestries but eventually had it done in a little picture framing shop opposite the post office on P'kasem for 500!

Is this the direction in which Hua Hin is headed? Just look around - Index, Irish pubs, Cineplex, Tesco etc. I always thought of Hua Hin as a little BKK by the sea and now it seems to be getting ever more similar.

[Jim]

Apologies for digging up an old topic, but can anyone give some advice on buying furniture. We are in HH for a fortnight in March and the main thing we have to do is buy furniture for the house. What are the views on the best place to do this - we need pretty much everything - sofas, tables, beds, maybe wardrobe and cutlery/crockery/woks. Also, what is the usual sort of delivery time for this type of thing.

Thanks in advance

Jim

and happy to share a beer for all helpful advice when we're over.

[Wesu]

Downstairs, street level, you go near kitchen electric things behind a 1 m wide table there is a sweet thing standing and smiling. I was wearing my fullface helmet, so... haha, anyways, I miss that view.

[Guess]

Apologies for digging up an old topic, but can anyone give some advice on buying furniture. We are in HH for a fortnight in March and the main thing we have to do is buy furniture for the house. What are the views on the best place to do this - we need pretty much everything - sofas, tables, beds, maybe wardrobe and cutlery/crockery/woks. Also, what is the usual sort of delivery time for this type of thing.

Thanks in advance

Jim

and happy to share a beer for all helpful advice when we're over.

The golden words "share a beer " leapt out at me so I have to respond.

If you cross the railway at the main Chom Sin Road Crossing and turn right at the next junction. On your left hand side you can get everything you want at Thai prices.

For electrical goods, zap south on Petchakasem for about two kilometres and look on the left for a ginat warehouse that stocks just aboput everything at the lowest prices available in Hua Hin.

[Limey711]

Checked out the places that guess has suggested and what he has said is true, you can get some good bargains there.

If you are after something more on the western theme, as regards furniture and suite's, there is a place about 3km south of Hua Hin, on the same plot as GDL pool shop, I think it is called WWOL, or something similar, they sell lovely dining room tables and leather suites, but can be a bit pricey. It is run by a Geordie couple, nice people.

[buksida]

Here is their website:

http://worldofluxuryfurniture.com/

Havent been back to Index yet but need to as the missus wants an oven. And now I have my spud masher thanks to Sam its time for some proper grub!

[PeteC]

The shop is definitely for the Bangkok "showy" people that like to express their overwhelming vanity by buying the most expensive units of everything they can get ... on credit. Is this the direction in which Hua Hin is heading?

The Index in pattaya has been open for about 2 years now. Enter at any time of day/night and it is almost empty. Same problem as you now have in HH, too expensive. There is quality in items such as bed sheets, blankets, bath towels etc. They are of the type that will last for years unlike most you find in Tesco etc. I think Index is a 100% Thai owned enterprise therefore there is some national pride in Thai's shopping there. Pete

[Guess]

they sell lovely dining room tables and leather suites,

If you are interested in finding some serious furniture at realistic prices try the one hour trip down to Dan Sing Kon on the Myamar border.

You need to head south to Prachuap and go a litttle way past and u-turn, Then turn left toward the immigration office. Eventually you will reach the border. On the Thai side of the border a whole load of Burmese furniture shops selling all sorts of stuff at well below Hua Hin prices.

Makes a nice day out as well.

No Geordies though.