As mentioned in the post Choosing Thailand Hotels for Songkran I had 6 different hotels in Bangkok that I short listed, 3 in the Siam area and 3 in the Sukhumvit area. Today’s post will take a closer look at the second hotel on my short list from the Pratunam/Siam area – the Pathumwan Princess [...]

Ok, following up on my post Choosing Thailand Hotels for Songkran here’s the first of the hotels that I investigated. I am going to simply go through all the hotels first and let you know what I found and then finally will give you my choices for each location – Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. [...]

So, Golf and I are planning our next trip to Thailand for Songkran 2009 and I’ve been doing lots of research on hotels in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Phuket. You know there are hundreds of hotels in each of the three locations ranging in price from $10 to over $1000 per night! While it can [...]

I know many of you have probably watched this weeks financial news with a sinking feeling in your stomach. The good news is that Thailand is still there and it’s just as cheap as ever. In fact, for us Americans it looks like the dollar has rebounded a bit against the baht so your trip [...]

I found this really cool list over at What Is Matt and I wanted to bring everyones attention to it. Basically it’s a Top 100 Thailand blogs list which I think is a really cool idea.  So cool in fact that I have actually been creating a site with a very similar list (more to come [...]

Photo by akeyser on Flickr I book in at Bangkok airport, sat waiting for my flight home and engage in a conversation with an Englishman. He was happily married to a Thai and had been for some 10 years he lived in the North of Thailand. He was now returning to work in England. After much [...]

Any of you planning on visiting Bangkok in the future will be very interested in the comment left on the post Patpong Road and Patpong Bars today. Seems that Mike Jenkins from Mikes Place Patpong 2 is offering a 50% discount on drinks if you mention reading the post when you’re there. Here’s the [...]

Photo by Franco Folini on Flickr I have my coffee and Saow talks to me. She had left school at 11 to work in the rice fields with her mother. she had an arranged marriage when she was 16 to a whiskey drinking Thai who would beat her when he was drunk. When she was pregnant [...]

Photo by Chris Robinson on Flickr We left Buddha and returned to her brother’s house. I had something to eat. The family began to gather round and look at me. Talking between themselves I have no idea what is being said. After a while she says to me whatever you do , do not hold my [...]

Photo by Adrian Whelan on Flickr Last September I went on holiday to Thailand. I arrived in Bangkok, booked into The Park Hotel for the night. Went to the Local travel agent at the end of the street told her I would like to see Thailand and I have three weeks to do it, what do [...]