Self storage in Bangkok: your unit, your code, your hours
A unit you open yourself, at the hour that suits you, on a city site that does not flood. For the expatriate between two homes, the business with stock it needs to reach, the family whose apartment is smaller than its life. Asia Relocation Thailand runs the site; its crews bring the load in if you would rather not.
Self storage is the storage where you stay in charge: the unit is yours, the code is yours, the hour you turn up is your business. It suits the expatriate whose Sukhumvit condominium is a size smaller than the last one, the company that fetches a box of files on a Tuesday evening, the family waiting for a shipment.
What it asks in return is honesty about the climate. Bangkok's humidity does more damage to stored goods than any burglar: a standard unit is right for furniture and everyday cartons, not for a guitar, a laptop or a box of documents. We say which is which at the survey, and send the sensitive items to a controlled unit.
Asia Relocation Thailand has stored for expatriates and companies since 2011, on a Bangkok site chosen for ground that does not flood, and on five other sites from Chiang Mai to Samui. The crews that move households bring your load in, set it down, and hand you the code.
Your unit and the site around it, and what the other two storage services do
Three ways to store with us; the difference is who opens the door. Here it is you.
Carried by the service
- A unit sized to the load, in a clean, dry, lit building, resizable as the contents change.
- Access on your terms: your own digital code, around the clock, a loading zone at the door, trolleys on site.
- A secured site: CCTV running at all hours, burglar alarms, fire detection, and staff or a concierge during business hours.
- A simple agreement and a monthly invoice showing the unit, the term and the extras you chose.
- Help when you want it: packing materials on request, our crew for the move-in, a corporate account for companies.
The unit size and the figure are confirmed in writing after the survey.
A different service
- Goods the climate would spoil. Electronics, instruments, art, leather, paper: they belong in air-conditioned storage, where we hold the temperature and the humidity for you.
- A load that will travel again. Goods sealed into a wooden crate that can leave the country without being repacked are reinforced crates, a different way of keeping things.
- The move to a new address. Getting a household from one Thai home to another is our moving service in Thailand, and the crew can drop part of the load here on the way.
- Somewhere to live meanwhile. If the furniture is in the unit because the home does not exist yet, temporary housing in Bangkok is the other half of the problem.
All of these run on the same file. Say so in the inquiry.
Four loads we see in the units, and what each one needs
Same unit, same code. What differs is how often the door opens.
The condominium that is a size too small
The most common Bangkok case: a household that arrived with more than a Sukhumvit or Sathorn apartment can hold. Seasonal clothes, spare furniture, sports kit, the boxes never unpacked.
Between two homes
The lease has ended, the next has not begun, or the shipment is still at sea. Everything goes into a unit for a period nobody can fix; the term extends and the unit shrinks once the essentials come out.
Business stock and archives
Office furniture from a downsized floor, samples, event kit, files a company must keep but never look at. Reached on the company's schedule, one invoice a month.
The travelling life
Digital nomads and frequent travellers who keep a base in Thailand without an apartment, and students and young professionals with a room rather than a flat. Small units near the centre, opened at odd hours.
Five steps from the first call to your code
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The consultation
What is going in, for roughly how long, and in which city. From that we propose a unit size and flag anything that belongs in a controlled unit instead.
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The unit
Chosen from the sizes available on the site, and it can change later: larger for a full household, smaller for a few cartons and a bicycle.
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The agreement
A short agreement in plain terms: the unit, the term, the access rules, what may not be stored, the monthly invoice. Signed, and your code is issued.
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The move-in
Yourself, with the trolleys and the loading zone, or our own crew collecting from your home, packing if asked, and placing the load so that what you need first is at the front.
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Access, any time
Your code opens the site and the unit, under CCTV, at any hour. Staff are there in business hours if you need a hand; the rest of the time the site runs itself.
The four people who hold a code with us
The expatriate who arrived with too much
A Bangkok apartment is often smaller than the house left behind. The unit takes what does not fit, visited when the season changes or the guests come.
The family waiting for a shipment or a lease
Between homes, the household in a temporary flat and everything else in a unit for a period nobody can fix. The term extends, the unit shrinks, the family gets on with it.
The company that needs to reach its stock
Files, samples, furniture, event kit: things a business must keep and occasionally fetch. A corporate account, and a code held by whoever needs it.
The nomad, the student, the landlord in works
People who keep a base in Thailand without a flat, young professionals with a room, owners emptying a property before the builders. Small units, short terms, odd hours.
A site in Bangkok that does not flood, and five more
Units in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya, Hua Hin and Koh Samui, each run for the community that lives there.
Bangkok is where most units are taken and where the site matters most: it sits on ground that stays dry in the rainy season, not a detail in this city, and it is reachable from Sukhumvit to Sathorn without crossing the capital.
The other sites follow their cities. Chiang Mai serves retirees, students and remote workers in the north. Phuket and Samui hold the belongings of seasonal residents and the kit of hospitality businesses between seasons. Pattaya and Hua Hin serve their coastal communities and the property managers who look after their homes.
What people ask before taking a unit in Thailand
What makes this self storage rather than a warehouse?
What can we put in a unit in Bangkok?
How secure is the site?
Do I need a climate-controlled unit?
Can you bring the load in for us?
How flexible is the term?
Is there a site outside Bangkok?
How is self storage priced?
Two other ways to store with us
You would rather we kept it for you, at a steady temperature
For the electronics, instruments, paper and wood that Bangkok's humidity spoils: a controlled unit we manage, released on request.
Air-conditioned storage in Thailand →The whole storage service
Self storage, air-conditioned units and reinforced crates in Thailand, and which of the three fits the load you have.
Storage services in Thailand →Tell us what is going in, and we size the unit
A written figure after the survey, your code on signing, and our crew for the move-in if you want it.
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