Sheraton Chiang Mai

... Etter en liten dusjpause på hotellet var det på tide å sjekke ut gatene i selve byen. Nattmarked I 9 tia vandra vi langs elva i Chiang Mai på jakt etter nattmarkedet. Og etter å ha vandret ett stykke ned en mørk gate, subla vi helt tilfeldig over ...

... . We were like lambs to wolves hunting in packs. These 2 lambs with Kelvar armor politely declined. There isn't much of Chiang Mai which is different from the rest of developing asia. Rows of old shophouses. The main public transport in Chiang Mai ...

Full day trip Doi Suthep Gem store Handicrafts Market night market check in Sheraton ...

... , Lumps and I opt to stay for the celebrations and day tripping around here. In retrospect, we now wish we had gone with him. Chiang Mai has become a choking smog pit and we're burning out on the city scene. Its just the hardest thing in the world to ...

... 66. It was so funny partying with the Thai youth! In the end they are not so different from us I guess. Now we're in Chiang Mai, where we spent 3 wonderful days. We arrived here on Monday and had time to explore the city and its numerous Wats. Some of ...

... we were in Ipswich, and that the SE Asian leg of our journey was over. Reaching the unpleasant tourist metropolis of Chiang Mai we witnessed the carnival of huge crowds of 'hill tribe/refugee group' seeking, skimpily dressed Londoners. We also met the ...

... direct flights. We have to transit in Bangkok. We borrowed LP Thailand from the library and made copies of the relevant pages for Chiang Mai. We pack light with an extra bag thrown in just in case we bought too much stuff there. We bought along thin ...

... didn't fly out until 9am so they put us up in a hotel. Well, not just any hotel, they were going to put us up at the Sheraton, but it was full so they put us up at the Ritz Carlton. Holy jeez I've never stayed at a nicer hotel than this place, V and ...

... , one more to go (not counting Boxing Day).  Christmas is a bit of a non-event in Nan.  Further South, in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, we could not escape the fake trees and the incessant Christmas music, but in Nan there was very, very little ...

... the new Skytrain is great, the monorail keeps you well above the grime and fumes below and is very cheap to use. Apparently the mainline trains in Thailand are not so great….I guess we will find out as we try out the 12hr journey up to Chiang Mai! ...

... was much better.  Sioux and Seth arrived around lunch time, after yet another 6 hour delay coming back from Chiang Mai.  The afternoon was rainy but we still managed to be super tourists. Marching around sporting ponchos and ...

October 30, 2009 Chiang Mai - Bangkok (B/D) Early this morning, transfer to the airport, for your flight to Bangkok. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred via coach to the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers 5-star. Rest of the afternoon is ...

... another suitcase to lighten up the load in my one big suitcase....and also give me more room if I see things I would like. In Chiang Mai in a couple of days, we go to handicraft "factories" of various kinds - should be interesting. One of the people on ...

... a bootleg copy of The Hangover 2, for 100 baht or $3.33 US, haha. [Editors note: Uhh so we tried to watch the movie in Chiang Mai, well it was in Japanese or Chinese and subtitled in Thai.. Ripoff..] We did eat at Le Bouchon, the French place and it was ...

... nasty), and was on my way by 2pm, after again fighting with the taxi driver to turn on the meter. I had heard great things about Chiang Mai, so figured that I would be much happier once I got there. I know I missed out on lots of highlights in Bangkok, ...

... class overnight sleeper train to Krabi overnight as planned. But we did manage to secure cheap flights from Krabi -> Chiang Mai via Bangkok with Thai Airways. Pretty pleased with ourselves. After spending much of the morning organising travel on ...

... Norrie's ride)- thanks, Andrew, for picking that up by the way- dammit. Sorry I forgot it. Bought a temp camera for the Chiang Mai venture til then. So... I arrived, eventually, in BKK at around 7am, went through customs, whatever, everything fine, ...