Shanghai Inn Hotel Bangkok

Hello!!! Well we have finally made it on to a speedy computer, sorry we havent been in contact sooner! Right, where do we begin.......at the very beginning! Flight was great, we were like 2 little kids on the plane. We had the choice of moveis, cd's, tv programmes and computer games to keep us entertained and Andy had pressed every button possible in the first 5 minutes whilst we were laughing our heads off!! The people around us were obviously frequent flyers as they looked at us as if we we...

We arrived to Bangkok in a lovely downpour. Found our way to the hotel. Fun hotel! The decor was... umm eye catching. And there was a birdhouse with fake birds in the shower. After showering and vegging for a little while, we decided to take the hotel tuk tuk to the main shopping plaza, catch the sky train from there and go check out the weekend market. What a wonderfully crowded place. The next time I go to Thailand, I am doing all of my shopping there. We wandered aimlessly for about 3 hour...

Amis Anglophones, votre leçon de Français.... Voyage avec Thai Airways, les charmantes hôtesses de cette Compagnie m'ont fait changer le jugement que j'avais sur les Thaïlandaises, il faut dire que je ne connaissais que les charters de programmeuses de Reuters Thaïlande. Arrivée a 5 heures du matin a Bangkok, avec un check in d'hôtel a 14 heures, je peux vous dire que j'ai du traîner un petit peu dans l'aéroport pour passer le temps. J'en ai profité pour réserver un vol et un hôtel pour l'ile...

At last I've managed to get my act together and finish off the final entry. I think I was reluctant to do it because it marks the end of such a great trip. Maybe I could carry it on into an Oz diary as well!!! Bangkok was the last stop on the trek. We left Ko Phi Phi on the 2pm ferry, made our way to Phuket town, ate a beautiful meal for 1euro and jumped on an overnight bus for a 14 spin to Bangkok! To be honest it was probably the most comfortable bus journey we had. There were 24 seats on t...

I fly into Bangkok by cover of night and surface from customs around 5:30am. I grab the bus downtown as the sun rises in east and get a great overview of the city on the way in. The infrastructure is absolutely impressive by any standards. I walk to the hotel via Wat Trimitr which is a nice temple in the middle of China Town. I drop my stuff down at the hotel, which is absolutely amazing, and grab the subway to the Chatuchak weekend market (the subway is free as it is election day). I walk al...

neuer tag, neues hotel und rein ins beschauliche chinaviertel.

Hello friends and family, well after a very long time without any word from the two of us, we've finally done something interesting. Lyndsay and I went to Thailand for Christmas! In Korea, Christmas (along with the new year celebrations, and many other holidays), is celebrated by quietly gathering with one's family and being boring. So with that in mind, an Asiana Airlines Silver Membership (the prestige radiates from the black and white paper card), and a week and a half off work, we decided...

Well, as sad as it was to leave the Shanghai Inn behind, we had a bus to catch to the warm beaches and hot sun of Hua Hin. . . . and what a bus! Mercedes by brand, but with suspension that would embarass Geo manufacturers. Three hours isn't a long trip by Canadian standards, but it's a whole new story wile aboard the 'tooth-chipper.' The scenery along the way is amazing. I'm told that Bangkok is known as the Venice of the East. There are canals running along and perpendicular to the roads fo...

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