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Tony_Balony
Joined: 12 Apr 2007
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| oh, I want to stay at the Malaysia Hotel |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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Honey Hotel - Get off the Skytrain at Asoke (Sukhumvit). Find Robinsons' Dept. Store walk, about about 150 meters down Soi 19. Pool and breakfast. Great staff, clean and safe. Book early. Often full. 850 - 1200 Baht.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g293916-d633092-Reviews-Honey_Hotel-Bangkok.html
[email protected] email them here for a reservation.
Kao San Road -  The worst place to stay in BKK. Loserville Central. No offense T.B., but KSR is full of the worst kind of backpackers. Cheap, loud and drugged up. |
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Nicolia
Joined: 09 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun May 13, 2007 6:42 pm Post subject: Thailand - accommodation |
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Hi Richard,
I recommend the Reflections hotel in Bangkok. Do a yahoo search for reflections rooms bangkok. All rooms are individually designed and dead funky... Bright, colorful and nice relaxed feel... Nick www.cafenicolia.com |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon May 14, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject: Re: Thailand - accommodation |
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| Nicolia wrote: |
Hi Richard,
I recommend the Reflections hotel in Bangkok. Do a yahoo search for reflections rooms bangkok. All rooms are individually designed and dead funky... Bright, colorful and nice relaxed feel... Nick www.cafenicolia.com |
...umm...I'm not the OP, but your cafe looks nice. I hope your business is successful! Good luck to you and your wife! |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Chef School
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Richard Krainium wrote: |
Honey Hotel - Get off the Skytrain at Asoke (Sukhumvit). Find Robinsons' Dept. Store walk, about about 150 meters down Soi 19. Pool and breakfast. Great staff, clean and safe. Book early. Often full. 850 - 1200 Baht.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g293916-d633092-Reviews-Honey_Hotel-Bangkok.html
[email protected] email them here for a reservation.
Kao San Road - The worst place to stay in BKK. Loserville Central. No offense T.B., but KSR is full of the worst kind of backpackers. Cheap, loud and drugged up. |
Honey Hotel is for prostitutes and their customers.
You are over-generalizing KSR. It's a very cool place. Maybe you just don't know where to go around there or where to stay.
I liked Thai Cozy House. It's quiet, the breakfast is great, the restaurant is good, the staff are super nice and helpful, and I get a good night's rest with a friendly good morning. Any small complaint you make is taken seriously. They keep a tight place. |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Honey Hotel is for prostitutes and their customers. |
To the OP. Don't listen to this guy. The Honey Hotel is close to the Skytrain, (which is what you're looking for) and is a family oriented establishment.
When my wife and I go to BKK, we stay there as do many other families. I'm not going say there aren't any hookers there, though. It doesn't have any more hookers than any other Sukumvit hotel, probably less.
Yea, KSR is a very cool place, if you're into dope, Teva's and tie-dye. No hookers on KSR? Probably cause it's full of dirty hippies with no money!  |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Chef School
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:08 am Post subject: |
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| Richard Krainium wrote: |
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| Honey Hotel is for prostitutes and their customers. |
To the OP. Don't listen to this guy. The Honey Hotel is close to the Skytrain, (which is what you're looking for) and is a family oriented establishment.
When my wife and I go to BKK, we stay there as do many other families. I'm not going say there aren't any hookers there, though. It doesn't have any more hookers than any other Sukumvit hotel, probably less.
Yea, KSR is a very cool place, if you're into dope, Teva's and tie-dye. No hookers on KSR? Probably cause it's full of dirty hippies with no money! |
You advised the OP to stay at a very questionable hotel (to say the least) and in a prostitute ridden area of BKK. Then you refer him to a site that has this review about the place:
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Reserved a room for 27& 28th January directly with Honey Reservation desk. When I arrived they told me the reservation had been cancelled !
(the staff were unable to give me an explanation)
I can only assume that they overbook the rooms to ensure full occupancy.
+++++++++DO NOT RELY ON A RESERVATION+++++++++++
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Yeah, I don't know anything about Bangkok. I only live there. I've only spent about five months traveling all over the city. I've only stayed in about 25 hotels throughout Bangkok. |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I don't know anything about Bangkok. I only live there. I've only spent about five months traveling all over the city. I've only stayed in about 25 hotels throughout Bangkok. |
Wikipedia has this to say about KSR:
Khaosan road or Khao San road (Thai: ถนนข้าวสาร) is a short road in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located in the Banglamphu neighborhood (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north from the Grand Palace with Wat Phra Kaew. It has developed over the years into probably the most profound worldwide example of a "backpackers' ghetto", with relatively cheap accommodation compared to other areas of central Bangkok.
If you've stayed all over BKK, can't you recommend someplace better than KSR? The OP said he wants to stay close to the Skytrain. Why don't you provide a link and a review of someplace instead of just opening your yap. KSR is for first-timers that have no clue.
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:30 am Post subject: Re: suk11 |
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I agree with Vicissitude
And I have been to Bkk 22 times since 1990 (last trip Jan 2007) |
So Matthew Polly is right eh? Bkk is where WTO protesters go to vacation...
http://www.slate.com/id/2163104/entry/2163105/ |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:42 am Post subject: |
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1000 Baht = 30.581 USD
You can easily find a hotel for half that price in Bangkok. |
yeah but I don't like kao san road any more than I like itaewon |
I agree with the OP! Maybe there are better places than Sukumvit, too. Someone please enlighten us? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:43 am Post subject: |
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Wikipedia has this to say about KSR:
Khaosan road or Khao San road (Thai: ถนนข้าวสาร) is a short road in central Bangkok, Thailand. It is located in the Banglamphu neighborhood (Phra Nakhon district) about 1 km north from the Grand Palace with Wat Phra Kaew. It has developed over the years into probably the most profound worldwide example of a "backpackers' ghetto", with relatively cheap accommodation compared to other areas of central Bangkok.
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KSR is my least favorite place I have ever traveled to. The vibe was just weird.. So hosilte, with a thin layer of Peace!Dude! Other areas of Thailand are lovely, though.
The article I posted above describes KSR perfectly:
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In the beginning there was Jon Stewart irony, and it was good. And then there was Steven Colbert meta-irony, and it was better. But then I discovered meta-meta-irony, and it scared me straight.
In a tiny bookstore on Khao San Road, Thailand, with a bottle of duty-free Jack Daniel's in one hand and a copy of Alex Garland's The Beach (with Leo DiCaprio on the cover) in the other, I was looking through the window at the most dense, most multiethnic, most unwashed group of truth-seeking wanderers I'd ever encountered in one locale, when I made the mistake of cracking open the book and reading its opening: "The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Khao San Road. Khao San Road was backpacker land. � Khao San Road is a decompression chamber."
Khao San Road is only a decompression chamber if you are ascending from Laos or Vietnam. I had descended from Midtown Manhattan, and Khao San Road was giving me the bends. I wanted to shout, "Get a job." Then I remembered that travel journalism isn't exactly coal mining, and I exhaled nitrogen and whiskey as I merged with the never-ending party.
Khao San Road is where WTO protesters go to vacation. It is a collection of cheap hostels, Internet cafes, semi-legit massage parlors, disreputable travel agents, nightclubs, and endless stalls manned by Thai merchants willing to cater to the desires of the First World's spiritually confused, culturally eclectic youths. And what do they want? Primarily, tattoos, henna, and dreadlocks. As I walked past a Thai grandmother braiding Bob Marley hair into a twentysomething Japanese head while a Thai man was needling Superman's symbol onto his shoulder, I thought: If this is where peace, love, and understanding lead, then let's give war a chance.
My morning was spent blearily drinking with a table full of Australians on multiyear walkabouts. This inevitably led to a heated argument about whether Foster-drinking, g'day-mate, crocodile-hunting Australia actually exists or is simply a myth invented by pommy descendants too embarrassed to admit that they'd been banished and never found a home to call their own. As the debate raged on, I found myself significantly outnumbered and decided that I should probably start exploring the city. |
http://www.slate.com/id/2163104/entry/2163105/ |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| KSR is my least favorite place I have ever traveled to. The vibe was just weird.. So hosilte, with a thin layer of Peace!Dude! Other areas of Thailand are lovely, though. |
Thank you. Agreed. Stayed there once. Didn't know any better. Have been to BKK more than a dozen times since. I like the Sukumvit area for it's location and easy transportation, ie. busses, taxis, skytrain and now, the subway.
Like I said, if someone can tell me a better area to stay, I'm all ears. |
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Vicissitude
Joined: 27 Feb 2007
Location: Chef School
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 10:03 am Post subject: |
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If you've stayed all over BKK, can't you recommend someplace better than KSR? The OP said he wants to stay close to the Skytrain. Why don't you provide a link and a review of someplace instead of just opening your yap. KSR is for first-timers that have no clue. |
Scroll up and you'll see that I wrote this:
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| Suk11 is good but you will need to book ahead of time as they often fill up fast. |
Also, the OP can see that Dave's has a Thailand forum where there is a Master Index of accomodations and whole host of useful information for tourists. Click over there. |
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Richard Krainium
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Vicissitude wrote: |
Scroll up and you'll see that I wrote this:
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| Suk11 is good but you will need to book ahead of time as they often fill up fast. |
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An excellent recommendation for the OP, I'm sure. |
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chris_J2
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: From Brisbane, Au.
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| Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject: Suk11 |
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BJWD
I was agreeing with Vicissitude on the exchange rate, & I haven't stayed at KSR Road since 1997, only Suk11. (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, & 2007.) Ask Anil. He runs the place. The free inclusive breakfast & coffee there sold me. No interest in the girlybar scene either. I often use KSR to get cheap airline tickets / visas to Nepal, Vietnam, China, Laos, Cambodia, India etc. But there are a couple of places near Suk11 that can arrange flight tickets to Hong Kong & other places.
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