Self storage in Southeast Asia: a unit in the country you will keep coming back to
Of the three ways Asia Relocation stores goods, this is the one you run yourself, and the least portable: a unit you walk into is no use from another country. Right once the country is settled; this page says what to do until it is.
Self storage is the most local of the three storage services, which is why the regional question comes first. A crate or a conditioned unit can be held in one country and delivered in another; a unit you enter yourself cannot. It belongs to the city, even to the side of the city where you live. Take one in a country you then leave, and you own a room behind a door you can no longer reach.
So the first question Asia Relocation asks is not how many cubic metres, but whether the country is settled. If it is, the unit follows the workplace and the home. If not, the goods go into a crate or a conditioned unit with an inventory, and the unit waits for a city. Households arriving in Southeast Asia before their lease meet both cases.
Asia Relocation runs its own storage buildings in Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, and each country opens the door differently: a personal code around the clock, entry on notice, monitored sites with flexible terms. The comparison is below, with the door to each country page.
What a unit gives you in each country, and when another way of storing is the answer
Three ways to store with us across Asia; here, you open the door.
Carried by the service
- A unit sized to the load, in a clean, dry, lit building of our own, resized as the contents change.
- Access on the country's terms: your own code, any hour, in Thailand; opened on notice in the Philippines; secured, monitored sites in Vietnam.
- A site chosen for where you live: the side of the capital, or in the Philippines the island, decides whether a unit gets visited.
- A monitored building: cameras at all hours, alarms, fire detection, dry ground.
- A plain agreement and a monthly invoice: unit, term, the extras you chose; packing materials and our crew for the move-in on request.
Unit size and figure confirmed in writing after the survey, per country, never averaged.
A different service
- Goods that may leave the country. A unit stays put; a sealed crate travels. When the next address is open, reinforced crates are the answer.
- Anything the air would spoil. Electronics, paper, leather, instruments and wine belong in air-conditioned storage, held and listed by us.
- The household being shipped. Goods crossing a border are a moving file, not a unit.
- Cover. A unit is watched, not insured; what is inside is yours to declare.
All of these run on the same file with one coordinator. Say so in the inquiry.
Four loads that take a unit somewhere in the region
The same unit does different work in each country.
The apartment that is a size too small
The bicycles, the second wardrobe, the boxes never unpacked. A unit on your side of the city, in whichever of the three countries you live in.
Between two homes in the same country
A lease that ends before the next starts. The unit holds the household for the gap; our crew moves it in and out if you ask.
Stock, samples and archives
A company that must reach its goods on a working day, in the country where it trades. Access rules in the agreement, the people you name on the list.
The travelling life
Remote workers, students, seasonal residents who leave and come back. Light loads, short terms, the same door each time.
Five steps from the first call to a door that opens, anywhere in Southeast Asia
-
The consultation, and the country question
What is going in, how often you will come for it, where you work and live. If the country is open, we say plainly that a unit is not yet the answer, and what is.
-
The site and the unit
In the country chosen, the site on your side of the city, or your island; then a unit sized to the load, changeable later.
-
The agreement
Unit, term, access rules, what may not be stored, the extras you chose. The figure is written after the survey and holds.
-
The move-in
By you, or by an Asia Relocation crew with packing materials and a collection from your home, in any of the three.
-
Access, and the day you leave the country
The door works as your country page describes. When a posting ends elsewhere in Asia or beyond, the contents are listed and crated by us and cross on their own file; the unit closes.
The four people who hold a unit with us across the region
Each ends up on a country page; Asia Relocation holds the comparison until then.
The expatriate settled in one country
The city is chosen, the home is a size too small, the unit is a room you visit. The country page is the one to read next.
The company trading in two of the three
Stock or archives reached weekly in each country, one agreement form, one contact, the local site chosen for the people who will drive to it.
The household transferred within Southeast Asia
A unit in the country being left, no home yet in the next. The contents are crated for the crossing; a new unit waits for a new city.
The family arriving before its home
Goods landed, lease unsigned. A unit if the city is fixed; a held, listed load if even that is open.
Three countries, three ways into your unit
The comparison no country page can make, with the door to each.
In Thailand, you hold your own digital code and come in around the clock, loading zone at the door, trolleys on site; the capital's site sits on ground that stays dry in the rainy season, and five more follow their communities. In the Philippines, the unit is opened on notice, quickly, for you and the people you name, on two islands with a full site each; the southern city offers conditioned units only, and we say so before the survey.
In Vietnam, the sites are secured and monitored day and night, on flexible terms, and the hard part is the door of your building, not the warehouse: narrow streets and building hours decide the move-in day. What the three share is Asia Relocation's own buildings; what differs is how you get in.
What people ask before taking a unit somewhere in Asia
We do not know which country we will settle in. Should we take a unit?
Is the way I get into my unit the same in all three countries?
Can we move the contents of a unit to another of your countries later?
Which site should we choose inside a country?
What does a unit protect against?
Do you help with the move into the unit?
We are leaving Asia and not sure we will be back. Is a unit right?
How is self storage priced across the region?
The way of storing that travels, and the whole offer
Your next address is still an open question
Goods packed, sealed and listed by us, held in one country and sent to another unopened.
Reinforced crates in Southeast Asia →The whole storage service
Units, conditioned storage and crates across Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, and which one your situation needs.
Storage in Southeast Asia →Tell us what is going in and where you live; we say whether a unit is the answer
Asia Relocation sizes the unit in the country you chose, and holds the goods another way until you have.
Ask for a unit →