Long John

Has anybody stayed in the Capella?. I received a poll on the top 100 hotels in the world. Like a lot of these things you can take them with a grain of salt. Supposedly voted on by guests. Capella BKK was on the list. Noticeable was the lack of hotels from the Middle East. One of the only top shelf hotels I have stayed at is the Burg Al Arab in Dubai. Self rated as a seven star. Maybe too old now. Built in the late 90's I think. It was mind blowing.

Yep, the Burg was $1600 AUD per night back in the day, about the year 2000. A meal was $300.00. Crazy shit but had to do it. Each block of about 5 rooms had their own butler. I tried to enter the lift with my golf shoes in a plastic bag. Was told,(in a nice way), that it would not happen. He went and got me a proper carry bag!. The hottest weather I had ever been in and also played golf. Hit 51 degs!!!!!

I dont think it is under exactly the same name but by the layout it is obviously owned by the same people.

What you could see at about 4.00am standing on the corner of Soi 11 is the biggest rat you would ever find!. The one I saw was the size of a smallish cat and had half it's hair missing. Apart from the rat what amazed me was the number of people around at that time of night. Busy as hell. Mind you a lot of them were working girls looking for some income!. I was filling in an hour or so before I got the taxi to the airport to head home.

It was probably the snow on your boots! DB says 19 .05 meters, I say 30.32 , so go for say 25.64 and you should find it!

Just walk from Soi 11 about 30 meters and it is on your left. Has the circular bar in the middle. TV's on the left and right walls. Not quite the stairway to heaven but you climb about 4 steps. Good staff. It is my regular after grabbing a burger just around the corner in Soi 11. They do serve food in there. They have opened another one a bit further on. Not been in there.

Yep, stayed there and it is good.

Looking at a possible trip early next year. Checking on Skyscanner and due to the likelyhood of me moving to Brissie, Eva Air are pretty well priced. $965 AUD Brissie to BKK. Good flight times too. I would like to go on my favorite,Singapore Air but they are another $350.00. I like them because they dont screw me for taking extra luggage. Any one used Eva. I think they are ok?.

I had one, but she gve up during covid and opened up a shop back in her hometown near the Laos border.

Thanks

I checked out the Solitaire. $100.00 AUD for a standard room. $66.00 USD. It is at the end of Soi 11 by the look of it. I guess you would have to ask the girls if they want to trek that far?

Good luck in finding a good bed. Only one that I have found was in Phuket some time ago. I think beds in Thailand are made as a form of torture.

Not at all. The Premier suite which I have booked is more than presentable and the staff I have found to be very friendly. Location is spot on. Great for lb watching from the outside seating area!.

Just looking through some posts from 2013 re hotel costs. The guy stated the room rates for the Grand Business Inn in Soi 11. One that I frequent quite often. He quoted 2500 baht for the Grand Suite. I have been charged 1800 baht for a stay in August!. How is that for deflation?.

Well I am booking my flights. Doing return fron Aussie to BKK. Then return BKK to TAO,(China). Man are our fares exy!. $1300 to BKK with Thai. Now trying to sort out something that hooks up to the Thai flight without too much wait time. As the Thai flight arrives at 6.00am, there is not a lot to choose from until after midday. Think I will go Air Macau which goes via Macau with a 6 hour layover. All the flights to TAO have long layovers. Nothing direct.The fares by that route are anywhere from $660.00 to $1000.00 or more!!!. I will be carrying more than the standard allowable luggage volume. Never had a problem with Thai,(but that may change). Have no idea about the Chinese airlines. They may be more strict. About a week in TAO then back to BKK for a bit of slap and tickle So $2000.00AUD in total at least, depending on the luggage scenario. On my trip in May, I got slugged $500.00 by that tinpot airline in Italy after Etihad charged nothing from Aus to Italy. If the lb's in BKK don't perform after spending that much, they will hear about it!!!

I agree. Great staff, great location. This is the hotel I booked into while my collegue stayed at On 8. Have stayed there a few times. They know me now and really helpful. Not a long walk from CIB!. As you say, the beds are hard. Have just booked the Grand Suite for August, but the beds nearly turned me off. One feature that is good there is the outside eating area with seating facing the road, Great for lb watching. I picked up one from that seating!!!. I checked out other hotels in the area but could not find anything to match the location, value etc. $75.00 AUD a night. That is about my max budget when lb chasing. Can't see the point in paying more. Have not had complaints from the girls. Sorry I did. When my flight time got stuffed up I had to return to the hotel for the night. Just got an elcheapo room. When I arrived back from CIB, with the girl, (starts with L and ends with y), said "oh it only has single beds". Funnily enough it did not matter a few minutes later!!. God she was good!.

Yep, I booked it for a business collegue and I had one about 100 metres away to give me some wiggle room!!!

I think you should be more scared of the trip to the airport by car than any plane trip you might take.

I know it is an old post but if the lb only gets half a fat, is that good?????

Thanks WS

Thanks, will check it out

Thanks. I just could not remember seeing vans as such. If not we may have to take 2 taxis.

I know this post is an older one but the fare at the time you posted was 400 baht. 500 if you booked via the hotel

I arrive in a few weeks and will be travelling with some large items. When in BKK before I have not noticed any van taxis. Are there any around?. Most major cities in Aus have them.

Well, how many times have you scored since you got there??