Bangkok hotels,standard

[Guest taylorsquare]

Im thinking about heading to Bangkok for a week(havent been there for 6 years ) on my last leg of the holidays.

i have had a guy agree to come with me ,not 4 sex,but as a guide.

Well i would like a clean standard room.

last time i stayed at bbb inn but didnt really like it.

i prefer to be around that Grand Palace area or where street trade is.

 

i prefer hotels under 1500 a night.Any places /websites,i plan to leave Wednesday.

I dont know bangkok.

Also i plan to come back to Pattaya for 1 week,so where can I lea leave suitcase

[Guest fountainhall]

The only one I know of near the Grand Palace is the Royal Hotel - but that has been a bit of a dump for years, I believe.

[Guest jtrack33]

But just 300 meters from Royal Hotel is Kao San Road with a whole shitpot load of hotels under Bht1,500. Many are guest houses that wouldn't give a hoot if you entered with a lad or two. There used to be a largish guesthouse/hotel called Khao San Guest House I seem to recall more or less midway down KS Road that had a cute night receptionist who I met on PostJung and had several encounters together.

To get to Silom, just catch bus 15 at the west end of KS Rd for door-to-door travel.

[pong]

living nearby during the Thai dry season myself, I would say mr jtrack is only partly right. Yes, Khaosarn (avoid to stay there-too noisy and dumpy) and the area around (named Banglamphu) have 100s of cheap and notsocheap anymore guesthouses. The really cheap ones (thats NO AC , just a bed and a fan, cost 2/300 THB) will in general NOT allow ANY guests or even Thai persons in.

On the ever increasing number of mid-class (a small, but tidy AC-room, with fridge, TV etc. now often also with WiFi) it varies-some do, others do not. This banning of guests is a particular fenomenon not very common in the rest of Thailand.

Sites like khaosanroad or khaosanroader list a lot of them-but still less as half of what is available.

Very near to the Royal is the BOONSIRI hotel-quite new, Thai style, can be found on most hotelbookingsites and also hostelbookers, has a short-time hotel just across and is 400 mtrs from Saranrom, and just 10 from an awful bunch of extremely annoying katoeys in the evenings, might fit your bill. But DO read reviews on tripadvisor, its noisy.

OR you may avail yourself of other shorttime hotels-they also have separate floors for ''normal'' overnight guests-like the Palace or the nmbrd. hotel behind the Benz showroom on Ratchdamnern where all the buses stop.

If you had simply said what was the negative factor in BBB=it might also have led to better aimed answers.

Also be aware that due to longtime renovation Sanam Luang will be closed as from today on-that means an awful big and howthiswill be still not known shift of stalls, persons, thieves etc. to nearby-to the extent it may also change the Saranrom or canal scene.

Finally: as with nearly all these general questions, a normal guidebook would also have the answers