Bangkok

Bangkok Thailand - 21 Dec 2010

Well here we are in a Holiday Inn! I've never stayed in one before. This one is really really big! I booked it months ago when we were only going to be staying here for a couple of nights but with the India fiasco and having to rearrange all our plans we now have a layover of 10 days here before we head down to Krabi for a bit of sunbaking and relaxation before coming back to Oz.

Bangkok seems like a pretty cool place and I'm sure we will be able to amuse ourselves. We took a 8km walk around today just getting a feel for things and we are going to ride the skyway tomorrow and maybe the water bus.

One thing that has me seriously annoyed is they make you pay for Internet here. We just spent a month in Vietnam where every single Hotel we stayed in (none of which cost even half of what this place does) had free wireless internet.

We are talking a dual tower, 27 story Hotel in which the cheapest room is $80 / night and you have to pay to use the Internet. A beer from the minibar costs $10 and they have a wonderful paper foldup map in the room which is yours for a mere $8.

Luckily there is an awesome supermarket across the road so we've stocked the room with good food and drinks at normal human being prices.

I will post some photos when I have some decent ones.