Ban Jaidee Guesthouse

... on were told we had to buy our tickets from the booth. But we got here, and are staying in a lovely little guesthouse called Ban Jaidee. It's spotlessly clean and has about 5 cats who have been keeping us amused. We even managed to find some really ...

Sitting in relative comfort in the lobby of the Ban Jaidee a minus 5 star hotel, I remind myself that it is 2010 not 1980. Travel then really was of the ilk of the Wild West/East. Back then it was no surprise to be shaken down or robbed. Today, many ...

... as they like me, and lets face it, that's understandable. Wayne approached me as I was in the process of purchasing a bus ticket from Ban Phe to Ko Chang. I was quite happy to pay the 300 Baht for the ticket, but Wayne wasn't, reckoning we could get it ...

Have left the Toques behind in a storage locker in Bangkok-they need their own good karma now to ensure that they are still there when we get back in a couple of weeks. We are on our way overland in the direction of Cambodia-meeting a lot of travellers ...

I ditched Sandra and Wayne this morning to make my way back to Trat. The rain was lashing down and the taxi drivers (being the cheeky little bastards that they are) decided to up their rates by 1000%, knowing that people don't really like walking in the ...

Cross the border. That's what we told the lady at the Travel Agent we wanted to do. Cross the border from Thailand into Cambodia. Seemed easy enough. We had researched it, read all about the scams to avoid, and after all we had done it before, though not ...