virginiafish

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?

rhkkmk

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

SirHalberd

"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?

virginiafish

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.

virginiafish

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

rayong

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

virginiafish

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

Guenmai

"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!

rayong

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

SirHalberd

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.

Guenmai

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!

roamin

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.

simpsonc510

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!!

Guenmai

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

rayong

I feel the same way about the location as Carol