Hotel prices up

[Olddaddy]

I will be in Bangkok March 5 arrival 

Just googled some hotel 🏩

Tartawan 4,000 baht a night 😲😲

[reader]

They must not like you at Tarntawan, @Olddaddy, because I get quote on Agoda of 1,613 for same date.

[Olddaddy]

21 minutes ago, reader said:

They must not like you at Tarntawan, @Olddaddy, because I get quote on Agoda of 1,613 for same date.

Oh really 😂 

Yes that app was Trip . Com ,I use that because I  get "reward coins" every time I use them 

Yes I will have to "app" around ,no use showing loyalty to one company ,not nowadays 😌

[reader]

[PeterRS]

I never - ever - use google for hotel rates. @reader is 100% correct. The rate for 2 nights on agoda is vastly cheaper. Checking 2 nights from March 5 on the agoda site (almost always the cheapest site for Thailand hotels and less than half the rate you quoted), you get a deluxe room for 2 with breakfast at Bt 3,798.92. Surely anyone looking for rooms in Thailand already knows about agoda!

The only thing you have to be careful about with agoda - and some other sites - is that their initially quoted prices usually do not include tax and service charge. The charge above is the price you are quoted just before you make the booking and so tax and service charges are included. But I have noted that you want 2 rooms, so basically double the price. 

On the Trip.com site, they quoted you for 2 rooms. The rate for one room for 2 people with breakfast for 2 nights starting March 5 is - Bt. 4,155. So your google search actually was pretty close if you really want 2 rooms rather than 1.

[Londoner]

A little later in March I'm paying 1600 bht pn , via Agoda. i suspect that OD was being given the price for  a deluxe corner room.  I note also that Agate is back to 1600pn (direct) after charging 1800pn  over the high season. 

( Peter RS and I were posting simultaneously, hence the repetition.)

Regarding Agoda, I've found their prices excellent with the important (for us) exception of those offered for Agate (Jomtien) where booking direct is the best option. 

[reader]

Another key advantage of booking with Agoda is that you can select accommodations for two persons.

This saved me when manager of Siam Heritage hotel on Surawong attempted to charge me joiner’s fee.

i showed him confirmation from Agoda that stated rate included two persons.

[thaiophilus]

7 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

I will be in Bangkok March 5 arrival 

Just googled some hotel 🏩

Tartawan 4,000 baht a night 😲😲

Those quotes are for TWO rooms x 2 nights. Are you sure that's what you meant?

[Olddaddy]

1 hour ago, thaiophilus said:

Those quotes are for TWO rooms x 2 nights. Are you sure that's what you meant?

Your right ,im a goose 🦆 🦆 🤣🤣I only want ONE room 

[floridarob]

14 hours ago, thaiophilus said:

Those quotes are for TWO rooms x 2 nights. Are you sure that's what you meant?

one for each personality?

[PeterRS]

15 hours ago, Olddaddy said:

Your right ,im a goose 🦆 🦆 🤣🤣I only want ONE room 

I think you need an assistant to organise your travel bookings LOL

[Londoner]

I'm not mocking anyone's travel booking mistakes having discovered only yesterday that our booked flight to Chiang Mai in two weeks left two weeks ago. And Bangkok Air isn't cheap. 

[PeterRS]

1 hour ago, Londoner said:

I'm not mocking anyone's travel booking mistakes having discovered only yesterday that our booked flight to Chiang Mai in two weeks left two weeks ago. And Bangkok Air isn't cheap. 

I shouldn't either. Some years ago I was starting from DMK on a round-the-world trip starting with stops in Hong Kong and Tokyo. These were the last days of physical tickets. At the CX check in for its mid-morning flight, I was told the plane was full and I'd be upgraded to first class. Deciding to board the plane early, I was sitting there with a glass of champagne when I thought I'd use the time by changing currencies and getting the HKG hotel voucher from my travel wallet. I looked in my backpack. Not there. I got my trolley bag down from the locker and went through it. Not there. Must have missed it. So I went through them again. Then panic. Definitely not there. And that wallet had some of the various currencies I'd need, all the hotel vouchers and other paraphernalia. It was obvious I had left it at home!

With no one else yet in the cabin, I had to tell the purser that I'd have to get off the aircraft. She could not have been nicer. She had one of the ground crew take me back through Immigration, they re-booked me on the late afternoon flight (but not first class) and kept my suitcase at check-in. On the way home I just could not think where the wallet could be. Once back, there it was sitting on my desk! How I missed it, I still have no idea. Returning to DMK I called a good Thai friend and told him the saga. "I'm really stupid," I told him. "No you're not," he replied. You're just getting old!"

[Pantherz]

5 minutes ago, PeterRS said:

getting the HKG hotel voucher from my travel wallet. I looked in my backpack. Not there.

Was the issue that without the printed voucher you wouldn’t have been able to check in to your hotel in Hong Kong? I remember it being necessary to bring a paper airline ticket to the airport, but not needing to bring a paper voucher to a hotel. 

[PeterRS]

11 minutes ago, Pantherz said:

Was the issue that without the printed voucher you wouldn’t have been able to check in to your hotel in Hong Kong? I remember it being necessary to bring a paper airline ticket to the airport, but not needing to bring a paper voucher to a hotel. 

I'm not certain. I know that in the USA I did need the vouchers. In some countries no. I just liked to have them with my travel papers - in case there was anything that went wrong.

[Min]

On 2/26/2025 at 7:37 AM, floridarob said:

one for each personality?

If that's the case, he would need a whole floor.