$$ guideline??

centre point silom

marriott mayfair

4 pts sheraton

adelphi suites

chateau bangkok

grand president

around $150./ night given Bangkok rate structure? Mayfair looked too expensive. Cannot seem to get in touch with Adelphi (site not working well tonight), but sent email. Awaiting response from Baan Sukhumvit (B&B). Will check into the rest. Again, thanks!

Aloft on sukumvit soi 11 is excellent value http://www.starwoodhotels.com/alofthotels/property/overview/index.html?propertyID=3211

Has anyone stayed here? We do not need a pool.
Baan Sukhumvit Inns
"Bangkok's Finest Boutique Inns"
http://www.baansukhumvit.com

crellston-Aloft looked great, but their site says no availability when we will be there (in Nov.).

I have just booked S31 on Sukhumvit and got a great rate of £60 a night incl wifi and breakfast. looks a great location and a nice Budget option (they are on SLH.com too) i haven't stayed there yet will do early September.

Smeagol-that site looks fabulous. Unfortunately, all booked for our dates. But, I will save for future reference.

Virginiafish,

Highly recommend Moonite Boutique Hotel. I think it will be right in your price range about US$60 per night including free breakfast and Wi-fi. Good location, friendly staff, modern clean rooms.


http://dmbtravelertnt.blogspot.com/2012/07/thailand-moonite-boutique-hotel.html

check this booking site, www.sawwasdee.com Most prices include breakfast plus tax and service. Also take a look at www.agoda.com Note that tax and service add 17.7% so compare apples with apples.

BTW, $150 is not budget in Bangkok. You should be able to get a vey nice place for that price. I expect that anyplace in your price range will have a pool.

Adelphi Suites is my usual 'home away from home' when I'm in Bangkok. BUT, I'm staying at Sheraton Four Points on Sukhumvit soi 15 right now, for 5 nights, as Adelphi was having trouble with their site when I was trying to book my dates! I hope you hear from them by email. Adelphi Suites is a very good place, great location (very close to NANA skytrain station escalator going UP) and the staff is very helpful and kind. Breakfast is included in the price, and is OK. Not a huge variety, but certainly enough to fill up before a day of exploring!

you could stay at tons of places for $150.

use that sawadee site..

ui put in nov 13-16 as examples for 4 guests into the marriott site and mayfair came up at $160 and sathorn vista at $148

I did stay at Baan Sukhumvit, and liked it, although I prefer to stay on the river.

See: http://mytimetotravel.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/by-way-of-bangkok/

Virginia I just saw this add for starwood in Thailand with 50% off if book by August 3. Should be perfect for you:

http://www.starwood-ap.com/redhotdeals2012/en/?EM=DM_TN17048_W1_A1_MX_DISCTVC_AP_EN

Thank you! Working on this in the next day or so, so comments still so helpful.

www.moveandstay.com

I found my second serviced apartment building on their website back around 2004. The first building I stayed at was Chateau de Bangkok which was nice.

After finding the second building, on Move and Stay, I then went to the building and negotiated the price in person and have been happy ever since.

Happy Travels!

A Thai friend is a manager at this building. He contacted me to say that he's moved over to this serviced apartment building. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks nice.

http://www.phacharasuites.com/rooms.htm#onebedroom

Happy Travels!

Guenmai, I stayed there about a year ago. Good value for the price. Think I paid about 2100 baht a night.
Covered pool so the water was frigid. Small gym with free weights ang machines. Breakfast was pretty basic. Interesting location. Soi 6 can be a problem during rush hours but it is just a short walk to the sky train station.

busy checking into all of your great suggestions. if we are only going to be in Bangkok 2 2/3s days, but not at all jet-lagged, where would be the most convenient neighbor to settle?

i always prefer river locations... but they are away from the sights, altghough they can wisk you on river boats to the grand palace, wat arun and other places..

depends on what you want to do.. there is no perfect tourist location in bkk, imo

"around $150./"

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Budget priced hotel for Bangkok is in the $20-$30 price range. Even at $20 you can get a hotel with A/C, private toilet and shower plus TV. At $150 that is closer to luxury for Bangkok.

Evergreen Place. Near Asia Hotel where you have Ratchathewi Skytrain stop.
http://www.evergreenplacebangkok.com/rate.php

Pathumwan Princess. Near MBK. Near Skytrain stop.
http://www.bangkok.com/pathumwan/


If $150 is your budget price what is your normal hotel room price?

bob-I appreciate comment about "no perfect tours location". we are struggling in that we have a short stay in Bangkok.

SirHalberd-we assume that $150 for either 2 rooms or an apartment is a reasonable, budget (non-5*) range.

thanks all and please keep suggestions coming, as we have not settled this question.

Thanks for all the help! We (finally) booked the Evergreen Place for now. It can be cancelled, so I will continue the search (maybe).

Evergreen Place looks very nice for the price. Did you get the promotion?

It seems the promotion only goes until Oct. 31. Thx.

"rayong on Jul 20, 12 at 8:30pm
Guenmai, I stayed there about a year ago. Good value for the price. Think I paid about 2100 baht a night.
Covered pool so the water was frigid. Small gym with free weights ang machines. Breakfast was pretty basic. Interesting location. Soi 6 can be a problem during rush hours but it is just a short walk to the sky train station"

It's good to hear from someone who has stayed there. I just contacted my Thai friend, yesterday, about a possible one month stay, and was e-mailed right back. For a one-bedroom, executive, (without breakfast), I can get a rate of about the equivalent of $58.00 a night. Sounds like a deal to me. I'm game. I just need to see how things go, around here, in the coming months as I can't make any commitments this far ahead.

Was there a supermarket nearby and was there a Bangkok Bank nearby? I'm used to staying at Emporium Suites where everything is at my finger tips. But, if I take off for a month or more, my usual apartment at Emporium Suites will cost over 3 times more than an apartment at my Thai friend's building.

I read that the building is only 100 meters from the Nana Skytrain station, so I could just zip to Prom Phong and go to my bank there and also do my grocery shopping at my regular grocery store inside of Emporium Mall. I can make it work, as Tim Gunn would say.

Happy Travels!

There is a supermarket about a five min walk away. Not sure about the bank.

Not far from Nana Skytrain stop is Foodland Supermarket on Soi 5. (Good cheap restaurant in that store open 24 hours, Took Lae Dee Restaurant.)

Tops Supermarket under Robinson Mall.

Villa Market on Soi 11, near side entrance to Ambassador Hotel.

Another supermarket located in basement of mall next to Marriott, Soi 2.

Thanks for the supermarket info. I read earlier, that the Airport Express bus lets out in front of Bangkok Bank on Soi 10. So, that's not so far away. But, I'll probably also end up using my main branch at Prom Phong for doing deposits and some other transactions as they know me in there.

So, now I have gathered the info and just have to wait and see how things go here at home. If I go long on a long term stay, then I'll try out the new place. If I go for short term, then it's back to Emporium Suites.

Happy Travels!

Stayed at Baan Sukhumvit last month at their Soi 20 hotel a round 29 pounds per night for the two of us with a nice breakfast really nice feel to it and very helpful people. Have a look at the one on Soi 18 though a little more expensive but really very nice it was around 32 pounds per night so not a lot of difference for the nicer rooms.
Very close to the skytrain and underground lots to do in the area.

guenmai, I am not so sure you would like the location of the Pachara Suites. Soi 6 is a road that taxi drivers MUST take, if they are taking a fare from soi 4 to, say, the airport. Traffic can get backed up on soi 6 all the way from Sukhumvit, around the L turn, and on to soi 4. I've seen it do this many times. That's a LOT of traffic. And it sits and sits because there is no stop light to get onto Sukhumvit. You have to merge into traffic. At rush hour it can take FOREVER.

I've stayed at what used to be the Sofitel (now Sukhumvit Grande) located almost directly across from Pachara. When I left that hotel I thought to myself that the Sofitel would probably not manage to stay there, even though the hotel is really excellent. IMO the location has serious drawbacks.

Things are not nearly so handy to Pachara as you have to walk up to Sukhumvit and then get across that busy street to go to the market, unless you go from Pachara over to oi 4, cut thru to soi 2, and then do your shopping at the Villa in the basement of the shopping center next door to the J W.

If I personally thought Pachara was a good deal, I would have tried it by now. I just can't get past that location.......

Just my opinion!!

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Happy Travels!