Miami Hotel Bangkok

... ll cross that bridge when I come to it. I decided to check into a hotel that would hold my suitcase until I returned to Bangkok. The desk clerk at the Miami hotel is a ladyboy, and if I hadn't noticed it, the Lonely Planet entry on the hotel gave it away. ...

... to get her jet lag gone and see some sights before heading to our bat cave in Pattaya. After a 24 hour journey to get to Bangkok, I figured she would be ready to crash out on arrival.  How wrong I was!  Evidently the best cure for jet lag is to ...

Leaving Bali I didn't have a chance to check the address of my hotel in Bangkok or how to get there. I got to the airport in Bali and I went through check in, immigration and security and still no computer to check my hotel address. I was starting to ...

I wanted to see more of Bangkok than the few blocks around my hotel, so I walked down to the concierge and asked him if they had tours or guides. He had a much better idea. For about 700 baht, I could hire a driver for the entire day. Not a bad deal ...

5-26-07 Departure from Bangkok...Bus ride from hell   Jose: Ok, small rant...I've decided that to preserve my sanity and to hopefully make the journal entries better, I've decided to stop putting things in chronological order or even finish one ...

... train from Chaing Mai all the way back to Bangkok which took around 12hours, we finally arrived in Bangkok at 6am. After booking ourselves back into the Miami Hotel, we took a well deserved trip to good old Mcdonald's, thank god for Ronald Mcdonald and a ...

Day one. Arrive.  Head to a local pub and have some beers as we shoot pool with a couple of local girls.  M and Nadia. Head out that evening to Soi Cowboy for some beers and entertainment. Day 2. Blog, eat, birnie to JC's and Mall.  ...

... would have something like this in Thailand. Don't give up, American travellers. We saw and felt nothing was unsafe while in Bangkok. Today has already started with an early (jetlag) wake up and sit by the pool watching it turn dawn. The Rice ...

... mini-van to take all of us Gypsy Burtners and our luggage away from the fray. We dropped Les and Judy off at their hotel in Miami.  They're flying to back to their home in Anchorage, Alaska this morning.   Barrett is really going to miss ...

... still not connected.  It wasn't until about noon before I got back to my normal state of confusion. The bus ride to bangkok was a good way to spend my day since I was barely functional.  In the US, the ticket collector walks down the aisle ...

...  or flowers and things.   3) Where I am staying now Banglapore is the tourist area of Bangkok and feels like Miami with slick clubs nice restaurants and travelers from all over the world all reading there lonely planet guides in every ...

We've arrived in Bangkok, staying in a kitchy hotel.  we're in the pink girly room.  it's fun.  Back to in room wifi and have been able to update the travel blog & check in with the family. Checking out the city today & tomorrow ...

... night one night. It was a club/restuarant similar to those in NYC and Miami where you eat lying on beds of all white. I just now returned to the hotel at 12:00 and I had tons of emails to deal with. I have to go to bed as 7:00 am will come awful ...

... have been changed in weeks. Thats probably enough for the rant. Just realize that I dont like hippies, especially in thailand. Tonight we leave on the overnight train for koh samui. It will be lovely, like a sunset in miami. Im sure those are ...

... god) and try and find our hotel we booked (i made sure i was organised this time!) on our way to the hotel we saw the welsh girls that we met in Bangkok, they were leaving (sad we didn't get to do a night out with them) they had just come from the hotel ...

... only laugh as its a too early for me to Be acting up i we head off down the road and run into some ladies we met in Bangkok( girl who picked up the wrong bag!!) and funny enough they have just checked out of the same hotel we are going in sweet and tell ...

... got to get my errands run the next day in bangkok. we arrived at 6am at the koasan and it was still dark. the thing about bangkok is this: it never changes, and it's the place you're always excited to get to, and even more excited to get out ...

... awesome. I am living in the boonies of a village called Wangnangkeow, which is near Kompangsaen, in the Nakon Pathom province northwest of Bangkok. This family is big. When my host "big brother" came to pick me up, he told me he had ten brothers and ...

... get a lot of reasonably current movies, including all but the last few minutes of The Departed, Miami Vice, and repeated screenings of The Firm. Get into Bangkok about 11 am, with very little sleep. Thursday 1st ...

... an Indian restaurant (the first curry since India) which didn’t agree with me - I was dreading the train journey to Bangkok but luckily I recovered by the afternoon. We had to share a tuk-tuk to the border crossing which was only twenty minutes ...