TCDC — Attraction in Chiang Mai Province

Great place to study or get some work done. They have a big selection of books on everything design related. There are lots of seat and it's open and bright and they have air purifiers as well. Staff is great and very helpful and friendly.

The main negative about TCDC is that for some reason they open very late at 10:30am. It would be great if they opened a bit earlier since many people want to start studying or working in the morning. So opening at 9am or even 9:30am would be great. Also the seats are not very comfortable and barely have any back support, which is a bit strange for a place that is literally set up for people to come and study/read/work for...

if you are visiting for the first time, don't forget your passport or copy of it unless you remember the number of it. first time when i got there i couldn't get in cause i didn't know about it.T.T i ended up staying at the first floor cafe- which has friendly staff , nice matcha coffee and a cute cat you can pat. the membership is 600 for a year and if you had already visited they will deduct the amount. staff were super nice and they really have great collections of design books, magazines and even some movies. if you're staying in CM for a long time, membership would be totally worth it since chiang mai is lacking decent...

Great quiet space to work and study from. Really like it.

Just keep in mind they use Fortinet to intercept all network traffic on their network. So its actually less privacy than being on a work network.

With SSL interception as they have set up, they can technically see: All URLs you visit (even HTTPS) The full content of web pages Any data you submit through web forms, including passwords The content of any web-based communications

Whether they do or not, I don't know. So I just use a hotspot here. They could make this clearer - I think most people don't...