Bangkok Hotels

[QUOTE=NattyBumpo;2043057]You are of course entitled to your opinion and your shopping preferences. All I am trying to say is:

#1 NO hotel booking site has a monopoly on the best rates. There have been times when I found cheaper rates by $20 to $50 per night on competing sites like Expedia & Agoda and other times when I found Booking dot com offering the lowest rate by a similar margin.

#2 Since most of the other hotel booking sites quote rates on a per night basis before taxes & service charges, I find it cumbersome and tedious to make the computation for the Booking dot com rate so I can make an informed comparison. Furthermore, I believe Booking dot com does this on purpose to make comparison shopping harder. They should have a simple tab mechanism to view their quote on a per night basis, but they do not.
[/QUOTE]Thanks, a very interesting post. Things to watch out for.

I was quite surprised recently when tried [URL]Booking.com[/URL] for 2 nights at Hotel X. Price seemed a bit high. I then tried each night independently and the total was somewhat lower. So I ended up making 2 bookings for a saving. Silly but saved a good few dollars.

So the question is why are [URL]Booking.com[/URL] doing this? Do they think that the multi-night booking will not be comparable with other sites, and therefore they can get away with a higher profit margin? I am assuming the problem lies with [URL]Booking.com[/URL], but I guess it could relate to the Hotel policies too.

I used to really like Wotif, since they showed a grid with the per night price on each different night, so that you could choose your dates for Hotels for optimal pricing. They took the feature away, perhaps because it afforded the customer too much opportunity to easily choose the best Hotel and dates combination.

Hello everyone,

Someone know some "decent" short time / hourly hotel in the city center and that is not located in usual Soi (Nana, Cowboy).

Thank you for the info.

[QUOTE=Mita84;2044043]Hello everyone,

Someone know some "decent" short time / hourly hotel in the city center and that is not located in usual Soi (Nana, Cowboy).

Thank you for the info.[/QUOTE]Has been answered plenty of ties before. PB Hotel or Atlas Hotel. Can find on google maps.

No clue what you mean by "City Centre". Phra Nakhorn? Perhaps you mean Wattana hopefully.

I stayed only one time at Ibis Nana. When I found that they block access to to ISG I vowed to never return as there is already too much censorship in the LOS. I believe that Wotif, which used to be my go to booking site, was bought out by Expedia and then was not nearly so useful. I know for sure that [URL]Hotels.com[/URL] is an Expedia company because clerks have mentioned my Expedia booking upon check in, when in fact I used Hotels. I do like [URL]Hotels.com[/URL] because you get 1 free night for every 10 stays if you become a member.

[QUOTE=Crazy4Thai;2044578]I do like [URL]Hotels.com[/URL] because you get 1 free night for every 10 stays if you become a member.[/QUOTE]Free night is limited to $40-50 dollars a night (sometimes less). Not useful if you are paying higher rates to get this.

[QUOTE=Sammon;2044598]Free night is limited to $40-50 dollars a night (sometimes less). Not useful if you are paying higher rates to get this.[/QUOTE]Not true. It's 10% of the amount spent.

From their web site.

[QUOTE]Hotels.com Rewards

How it works

You will collect 1 night for every night you stay at an eligible hotel.
Once you have collected 10 Rewards nights, you'll get 1 free night at an eligible hotel.
The value of your free night is equal to the average rate of the 10 nights you collected to earn it.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Sammon;2044598]Free night is limited to $40-50 dollars a night (sometimes less). Not useful if you are paying higher rates to get this.[/QUOTE]Not true at all. You get 10% of the price of the room (-taxes).

Besides that you could go through cashback sites (if your from the uk) like [URL]quidco.com[/URL] and get a extra 6-12% off (and still the free nights).

What a lot of people don't know / use is their best price policy. If you book your room and see the price cheaper somewhere else they will refund you the difference. ALSO: if at a later moment after you booked you see a cheaper price for the same room they will refund you as well! If you booked a non-refund rate they also give you a refund but then in the form of a voucher for a next booking at any hotel.

So basically there is no cheaper / better option then [URL]hotels.com[/URL].

[QUOTE=Sammon;2044598]Free night is limited to $40-50 dollars a night (sometimes less). Not useful if you are paying higher rates to get this.[/QUOTE]Not true Samm.

I have 4 free nights accrued with a total value of $360 usd.

By my reckoning that's close to $90 per night.

I agree with other posters about the virtue of Hotels.com (which is actually Expedia of course).

I used to surf all the sites looking for "best deals" but learned that the easiest and cheapest option is to go with hotels.com

[QUOTE=Crazy4Thai;2044578]I stayed only one time at Ibis Nana. When I found that they block access to to ISG I vowed to never return as there is already too much censorship in the LOS.[/QUOTE]I stayed three nights there last October and I didn't encounter any problems accessing ISG and other websites, has it changed since then?

Last month I stayed two nights in the Red Planet Asoke which is cheaper than the Ibis, great room (for the price) with over the bed fan, aircon and excellent wifi, but despite booking a room for two people, the room they gave me had only one towel, and the palaver it took to get a second towel from the house keeping staff including several handovers between me and the staff on the house phone (to the reception) in the corridor to obtain the second towel killed any desire on my part to bring a girl back to this hotel. Never saw anyone else with a girl either in stark contrast to my stay at the Ibis.

Later in the year I'm staying one night in Bangkok and it will be at the Ibis.

[QUOTE=Ableyone;2045187]I stayed three nights there last October and I didn't encounter any problems accessing ISG and other websites, has it changed since then?

SNIP.[/QUOTE]They must have changed their policy since my stay which was a least a year ago.

There are supposedly 2 counters for luggage drop off zones. Level 2 for arrivals and level 4 for departures.

As I will be departing next day and have to leave early, is it better to drop luggage nearer departure area on level 4 or it doesn't matter.

As I haven't been to the airport is the departure and arrival areas difficult to access easily.

[QUOTE=FastEddie48;2038635]To Gullible.

The best way is the express train to Makasan only take 40 min 120 bht, if you can leave your luggage at the airport only carry enough for one night.

Fast Eddie 48.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Gullible;2046147]There are supposedly 2 counters for luggage drop off zones. Level 2 for arrivals and level 4 for departures.
As I will be departing next day and have to leave early, is it better to drop luggage nearer departure area on level 4 or it doesn't matter.
As I haven't been to the airport is the departure and arrival areas difficult to access easily.[/QUOTE]It doesn't matter. There are elevators and escalators running between all levels.

And by the way: there are no express trains anymore, only commuter trains. It takes about 25 minutes to Makkasan and costs about 40 Baht.

[QUOTE=Gullible;2046147]There are supposedly 2 counters for luggage drop off zones. Level 2 for arrivals and level 4 for departures.

As I will be departing next day and have to leave early, is it better to drop luggage nearer departure area on level 4 or it doesn't matter.

As I haven't been to the airport is the departure and arrival areas difficult to access easily.[/QUOTE]The level 4 departure baggage depot is straight from door #7 at the curb.

Between departure and arrival, I would drop the bagge at departure, so you don't have to move around with luggage when you have to do the check in, ie quicker.

[QUOTE=Crazy4Thai;2045446]They must have changed their policy since my stay which was a least a year ago.[/QUOTE]Can be as simple as who is the internet service provider, which could change. Internet sites available is unlikely to be controlled by the Hotel, I think. It is not exactly something they would spend time worrying about. It's not exactly chewing up bandwidth.

Funny that Thai govt. Shuts off many porn sites yet there are still plenty of alternatives still working.

Respected members,

I am coming to Bangkok after a long time. Unlike my previous stays in sukumvit, my company booked Berkeley hotel in Pratunam.

I am worried if it will allow girls to stay overnight. Tried to contact hotel but no response.

Anybody has any experience to share about this hotel?
Would really appreciate it.

Regards.

Zux.