Bel Aire Princess Hotel Bangkok

Saturday 15 March Met Linda at airport - I had already booked into our hotel - Bel Aire Princess. What a hotel - Linda sure knows how to pick them. Taxi ride back to hotel - even Linda said hotel was fabaroonie. Complementary drink in bar after we had unpacked. Oh my Linda has brought half her wardrobe - flip-flops/shoes/handbags/jewellery (all matching of course). Quarter length trousers, shorts, jeans of varying colours, matching tops. Couple of dresses, two jackets, spangly cardigans, hair...

Easy trip in on Saturday from Saigon. The airport there is like a lot of new international airports - efficient but with very little to keep you amused in the international terminal. Got through immigration very fast at the new Bangkok airport - I have not been here before other than in transit. I was met as planned and as it was 10.30 had a very good trip to the hotel. Five lane highway with NO SCOOTERS! I had also forgotten that in Thailand they drive one the left (wonder what happens when ...

Hotel is lovely so glad we had pre-booked. You can tell its in a slightly more up market area. The sad thing is you see an awful lot of white men with Thai girls and its easy to guess whats going on yuck! Thailand is much cleaner than India! On arriving we immediately missed all the dust! Its a bit like Malaysia but seems cleaner and tidier. Had my first green curry, my mouth was on fire! But it was good! Slept for most of the day too, so didn't do much.

Today saw the Grand Palace which is amazing the colour and decor is incredible. Then took a boat trip for 1 hour which was fun, whizzed past some of the more important sites in Thailand such as the Royal barge musuem, ah well time is limited and we must update our travel blogs! ;o) Also so the big red swing thing, definitely missing a tour guide and the rough guide but hey, we are here for 3 days have to travel light and so we are managing with what we can! Booked our transport to Cambodia to...

Today was a bit frustrating, we decided it would be a cheaper option to get the Cambodian Visa from the actual Embassy. The tour operators were charging about 1,000 baht each visa. But honeslty I would now recommend that people do that. As to start with the address of the Cambodian embassy had changed from the one given in the rough guide, although the people were very friendly at the old address and gave us a map to the new location (Now 518/4 Pracha Uthit Rd, SOI Ramkamhang 39, Wangthongla,...

Bangkok is so much cleaner than I thought and compared to india and even Malaysia, it is more developed and has found its feet as a tourist destination. But I did not want to come to Thailand. I have an adversion to things that the average person thinks are great. Bangkok is very westernised. In older times, invading armies would rape, pillage and burn, and nowadays the same things happens by companies setting up Pizza Huts, sex tourism, boots and italian restaurants. Its the same reason that...

All the anticipation is finally over and today was the day we start our worldwide journey. Our first stop was in Sydney for a quick change over. Its true what they say about Sydney, the weather is terrible. It was blowy, and the rain tumbled down. Wasn't too sure how the take off would be, or even if we would be taking off. Bangkok was getting closer. Three movies, a couple of drinks later, we were already in the decent upon arrival to Bangkok. The new airport in Bangkok is massive, and those...

Can anyone say massive room with 2 king beds to yourself?

I sent a entry yesterday but I'm not sure that it registered. This is so easy to join but a pain to negotiate! Any way for those who don't know one of our cases never arived - so no shoes, no toiletbags, no jewellery (Mary's!), no chargers or link cables but it arrived safely yesterday evening so panic over. We've had agreat time here and have seen and done a fair bit. 1st day we took a boat up the very very busy river and saw the fusion of east and west, ancient and new in all its glory. Sha...

Said goodbye to all the staff. Taxi on time to take us directly to our new hotel in Bangkok. After an uneventful journey for 3 hours we arrived and after a few u-turns found our hotel, which was situated in the Egyptian area of Bangkok. Nice hotel and nice room. Walked around the local area and then back to pool at hotel and to text our Thai friends "Pom" and "Boong" who we originally met in Laos, when we were all trying to go tubing in Vang Vieng. We just kept bumping into them all day in di...