Westin Bangkok

Will be going to Bangkok from 6/5/2011 until 13/5/2011. Will be posting some photos after the trip. ...

Arrived into Bangkok at 3am and collected our luggage and passed through immigration and customs before taking our airport transfer to our hotel, Westin Grande Sukhumvit. Checked into our room and went straight to bed to get a few hours of rest so as ...

It seems appropriate that we would end our trip in Bangkok. Our last 36 hours in Bangkok were spent shopping (Jim Thompson house = fantastic), eating (Baan Khanitha, and an excellent French restaurant off Patpong), drinking (as usual, our friend George ...

We fly back into Bangkok from the small, beach-hut airport at Koh Samui. By the way, if you ever get a chance to fly Thai Airlines, do so. The seats and legroom are more generous than most and the service is first class. They give all the women an ...

... ...no I have to get it! Let's hope and dream then! You never know! Over the past 3 days in Bangkok I pass by some old places: Dusit Thani, Westin, Ambassador, Nana station and finally Central World...   Ok one more thing I have to do in this year ...

... and coconut soup); Lemongrass...the best starter ever (minced chicken with ginger in various leaves)and a delicious Penang curry; The Westin, Banyan Tree - amazing views over the city in their Vertigo open air restaurant; Cabbages and Condoms (yes, you ...

... had we just taken a meter taxi, but the fare was still very reasonable, as with just about everything in Bangkok. We made our way quickly to the Westin, where we checked-in and entered our room. The room was very nice, well done and renovated, complete ...

... and arrived back in Bangkok. After roughing it for the past two months, we were ecstatic to be staying at the luzurious Westin Grande in Bangkok. Ironically, it was the cheapest hotel we stayed at in all of SE Asia as we redeemed some of our frequent ...

I have traveled to Bangkok a number of times, both on golf trips and general weekends away. There are many tourist things to do here, such as the temples, a boat trip on the river and the weekend market, but I have done them all before and so I wasn't ...

Slept in until 9am and then had breakfast at the hotel before setting out to the tailor we went to on our last visit to Bangkok, Siam Emporium. The shop had moved and we left the business card at home but we knew what SkyTrain stop it was near. Took ...

... names.  The BB Building (as the sign read in highly-stylized Western letters -- nobody except the Westin's wise concierge had ever heard of the Bangkok Business Building as such) was about one block from where I had started my rain-soaked ...

... day I may get it...no I have to get it! Let's hope and dream then! You never know! Over the past 3 days in Bangkok I pass by Westin hotel and I remember a guy that my company invited, comes to my room in the bathrobe, yeah it was funny? Where is he ...

... 12 final contestants to over 50 health and tourist establishments, ranging from hospitals and clinics to spas in six destinations: Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Pattaya, Samui and Hua Hin. Furthermore, the 12 Finalists will get to experience a variety of ...

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch Randy Pausch is now dead.  He passed away a few weeks ago and this fact was reportedly widely by the media as he had become very well known through events covered by this book. He had been diagnosed with ...

The Melancholy Death Of Oyster Boy & Other Short Stories by Tim Burton The HMV store in Hong Kong have a small book section.  They seem to fill it with those books that are considered the "cool reads" at any given time.  A couple of ...

After reading The Last Lecture (see other entry) I tried to recollect my childhood dreams.  Here is what I came up with: Achieved: Earn a good living (I am an accountant) Live in my own detached house (for about 3 months in 2001) Live in ...

... Southeast Asia, we decided that we owed it to ourselves to take a long, relaxing break. Since early March, we've been to Bangkok and Chiang Mai in Thailand, then to Luang Prabang and Phonsavan in Laos, and finished up with a cross-country tour of ...

... nbsp;    Buy alcoholic drinks at the family mart, cheapest place. Flew from Luxor to Cairo to get a flight to Bangkok before a 3 hour layover to Phuket. Arrived at 4pm and went straight to the pool for a much earned relaxing last few days ...