Category: Thailand

  • Bangkok Guesthouse Review: HI-Sukhumvit

    Hostelling International Sukhumvit is one of the hostels in Bangkok getting high ratings from travelers who have stayed there. I’ve stayed there twice in 2009, and it’s getting high rating from me as well. Watch out for this sign on Soi 38 The Sukhumvit area is called the embassy row — almost all of the…

  • Bangkok Guesthouse Review: Shambara Boutique Hostel

    I’ve no trips until the end of the month, so in order to have something to blog about, I’ll be writing reviews of accommodations, airlines and services that I’ve used in my travels last year. I figured now’s the time to do it, as people are making plans for their trips in the coming months.…

  • Travel Budget: Bangkok and Penang

    You know I’m out of topics to blog about when I start posting my travel budget. This one is from my one-week trip to Thailand and Malaysia at the beginning of the month. The main purpose of the trip was for the tennis, but we ended up dollie shopping in Bangkok instead. I extended my…

  • 11:48am, Suvarnabhumi Airport

    I’m sitting here at Mango Tree at the Bangkok Airport, waiting for the overpriced Thai food that I ordered. Cheap food at Suvarnabhumi meant fast food, and I’m in no mood for Burger King today. Pretty but overpriced airport food I am leaving Bangkok today, alone once more. The girls took the red eye flight…

  • Bangkok pwns us. And we loved it.

    Bangkok is evil. This is my third time in Thailand and I still can’t seem to leave unscathed. My wallet cries every time. We love our toys so much, we take them with us when we travel. That’s my Sayuri and Caine with Cla‘s Addie and Baby Treeson and Rotch‘s Makoto. Mind you, Bangkok isn’t…

  • Travel Expenses: Bangkok part 2

    Continuing on with my post-trip series, here’s my travel expenses for Bangkok, Thailand. Like the previous post-trip accounting posts, this only include the land transfer coming into the country. Also, I did not include the costs for the doll things I hoarded in BKK. For five days and four nights in a major city, this…

  • Day 18: Getting out of Thailand

    I am writing this from within my sleeping berth inside train 35 — the international express train from Bangkok to Butterworth. We pulled out of Bangkok just a couple of minutes past 2:45pm, its scheduled departure time. Estimated time of arrival is 12:55pm, Malaysian time. My THB 135 meal at MBK Food Court

  • Day 17: Getting too comfortable in Bangkok

    Bangkok is starting to become all too familiar now, and I can tell because aside from memorizing the BTS stations (and the train announcement spiel for each station), I’m not taking as much picture as I used to.

  • Day 16: Malling in Bangkok

    I slept late again, but luckily, this time I woke up late. I got up at 10am, and hurried to get ready to go out. I left the hostel past 11:30, and was at MBK yet again for brunch at 12 noon. Yes, I know, MBK again. But the food center is really nice, and…