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Bangkok Airport Hotels: Floral Shire Resort and Novatel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel

Bangkok Airport Hotels: Floral Shire Resort and Novatel Suvarnabhumi Airport Hotel

The Suvarnabhumi Airport is a long ways east of Bangkok proper. It takes well in excess of and hour to transit between the two by taxi. So, if you just have an overnight layover, and don’t want to spend hours in a taxi, you are stuck with the limited hotel options near the airport. That was our situation the night […]

Chivapuri Resort, Ko Chang, Thailand

Chivapuri Resort, Ko Chang, Thailand

This resort is located on the southern end of Ko Chang, just a bit east of the town of Ban Bang Bao; and can be reached by walking down the beach, or by driving down a half-mile or so of sandy and muddy lane that serves as the hotel’s driveway. The accommodations are contained in a handful of buildings – […]

Kasemsarn Hotel, Chanthaburi, Thailand

Kasemsarn Hotel, Chanthaburi, Thailand

The Kasemsarn Hotel is located in central Chanthaburi. The building has three floors, with the lobby and restaurant on the first floor. We got a deluxe room for 1380 baht a night. The room had a queen sized bed, bathroom with shower and Western toilet, air conditioning, and small refrigerator. It was clean and reasonably sized. There was a little […]

Bailan Beach Resort, Ko Chang, Thailand

Bailan Beach Resort, Ko Chang, Thailand

This place is located at Bailan Beach, on the southwestern coast of Ko Chang island. The complex consists of numerous individual bungalows, an open-air reception building, an open-air dining area, and a pool. The grounds are on the waterfront. We stayed in a Superior bungalow, which is the upper tier of their accommodations. It had a double bed, bathroom with […]

Laithong Hotel, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Laithong Hotel, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

The Laithong Hotel is located in the eastern part of Ubon. It’s a no-kidding hotel operation in a multi-room, multi-story building. It has decent reviews in Agoda and TripAdvisor – better than most in Ubon. It’s expensive at 1800 baht a night for their “deluxe” room, which is a basic hotel room with a Western bathroom. The room also has […]

Mut Mee Guesthouse, Nong Khia, Thailand

Mut Mee Guesthouse, Nong Khia, Thailand

The Mut Mee is an “our pick” in the Lonely Planet guide. After looking at a couple of other places in Nong Khia, we would agree that this might be the best thing going in this town. The Mut Mee is a compound of buildings of varying design and construction, located on the Mekhong River. It’s definitely a place catering […]

Pullman Hotel, Khon Khaen, Thailand

Pullman Hotel, Khon Khaen, Thailand

The Pullman Hotel is an upper-end hotel for this part of Thailand. Anyone who has stayed in a Marriott in a major US city would be familiar. The accommodations were on par with four-star standards. So, if you are willing to shell out more money than you would for most any other hotel outside of Bangkok, you at least won’t […]

Ubon Buri Hotel and Resort, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Ubon Buri Hotel and Resort, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

We reserved a bungalow at the Ubon Buri Hotel and Resort after cross-referencing recommendations on Agoda, TripAdvisor, and Lonely Planet. It proved itself to be an over-priced disappointment. The hotel is located south of the city proper, about a kilometer south of the river. To its east is a building supply operation whose warehouses are immense. To its south is […]

Baansuanrimnam Resort and Restaurant, Khong Chiam, Thailand

Baansuanrimnam Resort and Restaurant, Khong Chiam, Thailand

We ended up staying here after four or five hours of checking every accommodation we could find in and around Khong Chiam. There are lots of hotel and guesthouse operations in the small town of Khong Chiam, ranging from rickety shacks at an asking price of 500 baht a night, to the Tohsang resort with prices in the thousands of […]

Surin Majestic Hotel, Surin, Thailand

Surin Majestic Hotel, Surin, Thailand

We stayed at this hotel after a long day of driving, and just wanted some place to stop for the night. Whether it is a good or bad selection for Surin is not something to which we can speak, as we didn’t search further. The hotel complex consists of a main, five-story building comtaining the lobby and rooms; a pool […]

Surie Guesthouse, Prasat, Thailand

Surie Guesthouse, Prasat, Thailand

This guesthouse operation is located a couple kilometers northwest of Prasat on route 3011. It consists of ten stand-alone bungalows, and a common a restaurant building with open-air dining. All the bungalows are the same size and construction, the only difference being that half have an interior-accessed bathroom, and the other half having an exterior-accessed bathroom. We stayed in a […]

Baanrimtaling Hotel, Chiang Khong, Thailand

Baanrimtaling Hotel, Chiang Khong, Thailand

This guesthouse is located on the south end of town. The place is of wood construction on an embankment, so there are three levels to the facility with rooms stuffed into it in varied arrangements. We got a room with a great view of the Mekong River. There was the room proper, an attached bathroom with shower stall and Western […]

Laluna Hotel and Resort, Chiang Rai, Thailand

Laluna Hotel and Resort, Chiang Rai, Thailand

We came to this place by way of Agoda.com. We were about to leave Lampang for Chiang Rai, didn’t know where we would stay, and checked the prices and ratings on Agoda.  Laluna came up favorably. It’s reasonably priced by Chiang Ria standards, but expensive by Thailand standards. We paid $60 US (1800 baht) for a room with a king […]

Pai River Corner, Pai, Thailand

Pai River Corner, Pai, Thailand

Pai River Corner is located on the river, in the tourist epicenter of Pai – right by all the restaurants and bars and tattoo parlors and massage joints and trinket shops. That doesn’t mean it’s noisy or lacks a sense of privacy. It just means that it’s located where the tourists are most concentrated. Not necessarily a bad thing in […]

Rai Saeng Arun Hotel, Chiang Khong, Thailand

Rai Saeng Arun Hotel, Chiang Khong, Thailand

This hotel is located 22 kilometers north of the town of Chiang Khong, on the banks of the Mekong River. The hotel grounds straddle the two lane road that parallels the river. The grounds consist of a number of bungalows, a main building that serves as an open-air restaurant and office, a large building right on the river that is […]

Riverside Guest House, Lampang, Thailand

Riverside Guest House, Lampang, Thailand

We stayed here two nights based upon Lonely Planet citing it as perhaps the best option in Lampang. The place is located on the river. It’s a true guesthouse. The owners live on the premises. You rent a room in place that has been divided up into multiple rooms. They offer food at an on-site restaurant. There were several foreigners […]

Fern Resort, Mae Hong Son, Thailand

Fern Resort, Mae Hong Son, Thailand

Fern Resort is located nine kilometers of driving to the south of Mae Hong Son. Other places we have stayed in Thailand had “resort” in the name, but this is the first that came close to actually warranting the word in the way that Americans think of a resort. The place is a complex of upscale bungalows dispersed on well-manicured […]

Hern Tai Resort, Mae La Noi, Thailand

Hern Tai Resort, Mae La Noi, Thailand

This place is located in the small town of Mae La Noi, Mae Hong Son Province, about thirty kilometers north of Mae Sariang in northwestern Thailand. The name says “resort,” but that’s a bit of an overstatement. When I think of a resort, I think of an all-inclusive place with all the amenities to avoid leaving the resort – a […]

Little Eden Guesthouse, Soppong, Thailand

Little Eden Guesthouse, Soppong, Thailand

Little Eden Guesthouse is one of several small hotels/inns that line the area between the roadway and the river in Soppong. All of them seem to cater to English-speaking tourists, even though Soppong itself has nothing remarkable to recommend it as a tourist destination. But it is located in an area riddled with caves, and that is apparently the draw. […]

Riverhouse Hotel, Mae Sariang, Thailand

Riverhouse Hotel, Mae Sariang, Thailand

This place is an “Our Pick” in the Lonely Planet Guide. Maybe they never really stayed here. The place is a combination restaurant and hotel in a single building on the river front; one of several in a row of guest houses. It’s a three story place. There are rooms and an open-air restaurant with a large deck on the […]

Thasongyang Hill Resort, Tha Song Yang, Thailand

Thasongyang Hill Resort, Tha Song Yang, Thailand

Thasongyang Hill Resort is located a couple kilometers north of the town of Tha Song Yang in northern Tak Province. There are multiple rooms and bungalows. We selected an air conditioned bungalow of some 300 square feet, which ran us 500 baht a night in the off season. The bungalow was brown wood inside, with a single window. A bit […]

Ban Thai Guest House, Mae Sot, Thailand

Ban Thai Guest House, Mae Sot, Thailand

The Ban Thai Guest house is a Lonely Planet “Our Pick.” It’s located on the west end of the central town, just off the main drag. This puts it in reasonable walking distance of downtown Mae Sot. Ban Thai is a compound, consisting of a main building that contains rooms, several stand-alone bungalows, an office building, and a maintenance building. […]

Ruean Thai Hotel, New Sukhothai, Thailand

Ruean Thai Hotel, New Sukhothai, Thailand

The Ruean Thai hotel is listed in the Lonely Planet guide as a mid-range hotel. We got a basic room, with king sized bed, for about $40 US a night (off-season rate).  That’s a bit pricey in a location where budget accommodations can be had in the $10 US range. But it’s a nice place, with lots of wood construction, […]

Lop Buri Inn, Lopburi, Thailand

Lop Buri Inn, Lopburi, Thailand

This place is listed as a mid-range option in Lonely Planet. It ran us 908 baht for a “deluxe” room with a queen bed and private bath. It’s located 4 kilometers from the train station, and cost us 150 baht to get between the two on the first day; 200 baht on the second day. There is a breakfast included, […]