2006 Bangkok Reports

[QUOTE=Crypton]You can get them in any pharmacy on Suk. I suggest price comparison, however. The names to ask for are Penegra, Caverta and Kamagra (among others) if you are looking for generic V. Last June I bought 4x100 mg Penegra in one shop for 400 B and another shop was selling the same for 800 B![/QUOTE]

The last year or two I have been getting genuine Cialis in Saigon and generic (brand name Apcalis - from India) from the pharmacies on Sukhumvit in Bangkok.
I use 1/3 of a pill at a time.
It seems to me that the last lot of Apcalis (August) was not as effective.

[QUOTE=Jaimito Cartero]I fly 100-150k internationally a year, and rarely get searched. I can think of one time in the last 3 years, and that's because I had 3 huge checked bags (full of Thai stuff). I do think that Thailand sets off a bell or two. I even expect to be searched when I come back and have transited Amsterdam, Thailand, Indonesia and the like, but doesn't seem to make a difference yet.

When I've brought back 30-40 DVDs in the past, I put them in a medium sized camera bag (in an inside pocket) that I hand carry, and never been searched. I believe you can bring back 1 "suspect" DVD, but they may make you toss the rest. I never get the big boxed kind anymore, but just the ones in a little sleeve.[/QUOTE]


to Jaimito

I travel to Asia and China for business from the US 5 times a yr , US custom
is cracking down on copy dvd about 10 month ago mainly the movie is current showing in US cinema I was check 2 month ago coming back to san
francisco ,The agent ask me do I bring any software and dvd back luckly the
dvd that I have is chinese movie and I take out of the package ,I am not going to take any more chance there is alway first time getting caught.


fast eddie 48

I was at Fortune the other day and the DVD selection was very poor in comparison with the past. Anybody been to Pantip lately?

I think it is probably safer to shrink and burn copies of the DVDs onto a hard drive rather than to bring back the actual copies- this lightens your load as well. You can shrink them with DVD Shrink and watch them off your drive with the VLC Player, which are both freeware.

[QUOTE=Sanook D]I was at Fortune the other day and the DVD selection was very poor in comparison with the past. Anybody been to Pantip lately?
I think it is probably safer to shrink and burn copies of the DVDs onto a hard drive rather than to bring back the actual copies- this lightens your load as well. You can shrink them with DVD Shrink and watch them off your drive with the VLC Player, which are both freeware.[/QUOTE]I have been to Phanthip just about 6 weeks ago.

KB (Kaek & Bow) VDO has always been reliable for me but you need to buy the true DVD 9 (dual layer) with 9 on the silver sticker (not the fake DVD 9s)to be sure of quality, which is slightly more expensive (200 Baht). If I ask about DVD5, they will tell me if its not good quality since they have to keep some very recent stuff filmed off the screen to compete with other shops with just released movie titles.
PM me I will give the phone number for this little shop.

Please note that it is getting tougher these days for them to get good quality copies before the release of the movie to DVD.

The movie studios have woken up and are very careful with their product.

Where is the best place in Bangkok to find a P4P girl who will stay all night? That used to be easy years ago, but now it is almost all short time there. Some of the girls in Bangkok now promise all night but just say that and leave after short time. Any recommendations or tips? Estimate of the cost?

[QUOTE=Henry R]Where is the best place in Bangkok to find a P4P girl who will stay all night? That used to be easy years ago, but now it is almost all short time there. Some of the girls in Bangkok now promise all night but just say that and leave after short time. Any recommendations or tips? Estimate of the cost?[/QUOTE]
Henry,

Thai girls are in general not that reliable for staying long time. It usually depends on who they live with and have they got valid excuses for not going home, and family committments for next day are a factor also.

Definitely there is a modern trend towards ST. But if the price is right, plenty of girls still interested in LT.

You need to build a collection of phone numbers of regular reliable girls, who you know won't dissappoint. This takes time and you need a special Thai SIM card to use to call these girls. Not your regular number.

Next thing, you don't want to agree to an all night price and then have the girl run off. She might be no good, and you might not want all night after all.

Try to get the girl not too late, so that if she runs off, you still have a chance to get another one.

Make sure that you negotiate a short time price first. Then you can negotiate a special price for all night. If the price is good this helps encourage the girl. Of course its important that she likes you as well.

When agreeing to a long time, make sure that agree on the minimum finish time as well as minimum number of pops (sex bouts). Some girls will still try to wriggle out of these deals.

Many times I have gone with a girl with no money agreement at all.
They then hope the tip will be as good as their service.

When first talking to a girl, try to ask casual things, but evetually get to casually ask things like: Does she live with mum and dad? or the dreaded Thai boyfriend? (she probably won't be truthful if this is the case). Does she have a young baby, etc.
The answers to some questions may indicate the lack of chances for a LT.

Years ago I had same dilema as yourself.

But now I don't care if I have to sleep alone occasionally.

There are places where you can go to get laid first thing in the morning (my favourite time for sex). if you didn't have an all night gig. Morning bars and also search the Massage thread to find places open very early.

Another approach I have used. Get a ST or two at midnight or so. Then go find another girl but indicate that you don't want sex right away, but want to sleep first. So sex might be in the morning instead. And of course she won't get paid until you have had sex with her in the morning. If you get too horny and can't wait till morning, thats a problem for ensuring the LT. But if you had a good time great

[QUOTE=Henry R]Where is the best place in Bangkok to find a P4P girl who will stay all night? That used to be easy years ago, but now it is almost all short time there. Some of the girls in Bangkok now promise all night but just say that and leave after short time. Any recommendations or tips? Estimate of the cost?[/QUOTE]Henry : you just find them all over, Freelancers, Go Go's, beerbars. Not all wan LT but many do if the price is OK and they have no other ( family ) obligations.

I will be in Thailand for fifteen days in November. The last time I visited, I booked a lady for two days through an escort agency.

The time together was great, and so I contacted her directly this time, and negotiated full time for 3000 baht per day for the entire fifteen days.

Now the question - what do you think the reaction will be if after a period of time I lose interest or she doesn’t keep her part of the bargain, and I ask her to leave? Could this be dangerous or will I just need to deal with a potentially furious lady?

Naturally I will pay her the agreed daily per day fee for the days together plus say an extra day as a tip.

It is difficult to give you a specific place for Long Time. I have got very good long timers in most of the places but it is up to the girls. If the girls feels good with you she will be happy generaly to stay for a night. Gogo girls are asking between 2000 to 4000 bahts for long time.

I have got a marvelous long timer in Patpong for 1500 bahts or Nana (from 2000 to 3000) but gogo Girls are much more interested by Short time.

Bier Garden is a good place for long timers. Of course the quality goes from ugly girls (a lot) to some stunners (who are choosing their customers). Price is between 1500 to 2000 bahts.

Happy hunting. Try to create a good contact with the girls and you will get much more long times.

[QUOTE=Henry R]Where is the best place in Bangkok to find a P4P girl who will stay all night? That used to be easy years ago, but now it is almost all short time there. Some of the girls in Bangkok now promise all night but just say that and leave after short time. Any recommendations or tips? Estimate of the cost?[/QUOTE]

With my 1 time 7 days only visit, I am probably not good for statistics, but I did't have a bad experience for LT. Some of my longtimers have even stayed to late afternoon and more or less went from me directly to work. The one who needed to leave earlier told me before I barfined her for LT, that she had to leave around 8:00h and after our session which she obviously liked, she asked me to announce my 'arrival' 1 day earlier, so that she could arrange accordingly for longer stay. (many have duties in the morning, such as child care etc.).
I issued to large reports from my trip. Someone put it into the reports of distinction. You can read there.

Your milage will vary, but your attitute and the developped harmony between the girl and you plays an important role as Poupard2000 said.

Regarding gogo girls I recommend not to Barfine for LT to early in the day (and this is probably true for all places). If you pick up from later then 22:00h, better 23:00h the girls chance of another session is much lower and statistically should improve the LT success rate. But during your talks for selection, why not to ask her how long she can stay e.g. 'as you would prefer the long time ending with a (late) breakfast together'.

When talking to the girl some time and not just make a 2 minutes decision, her reaction to your talks can indicates a lot.

As said, I was not disappointed regarding LT, so my judgement during selection was obviously not so bad.

Cost: I usually offer between 2000 (FL Beergarden) and 2500 (Gogo) if I am asked - and almost all settle for that immediately. And if the girl ask for 3000 I would offer 2500 + a tip ' depending on both of us'. 4000 would be to much for a girl picked up late in the evening, 23:00h or later. But I am not talking about 5 Star Hotel disco mega stunners here.
1 time I did not do any price discussion upfront, but the girl was so outstanding (she enjoyed it as well and was the drive of a last round 15:00h in the afternoon) that I gave her 3500 Baht in her pocket which she didn't even count when we both left my room around 16:30h!!.

Good luck, and report.

Regards

Brain666

[QUOTE=Henry R]Where is the best place in Bangkok to find a P4P girl who will stay all night? That used to be easy years ago, but now it is almost all short time there. Some of the girls in Bangkok now promise all night but just say that and leave after short time. Any recommendations or tips? Estimate of the cost?[/QUOTE]

Try Thermae Coffee Shop/Bar on Sukhumvit Road near Asoke. Go there about 11 pm, the place should be packed with freelance ladies. Many of them have normal daytime jobs, just try to make some extra money in the evening (the semi-pros). There are also some ex-bar girls who are no longer able to work in bars for various reasons, mostly connected with some sort of STD/HIV. So take your time and have a drink, give yourself a chance to take in the scene. Talk to the girls, if you interested in a girl, buy her a drink and talk about the price. Generally speaking, the semi-pros are nicer, shy and friendlier, eager to please. Use your own judgement, keep away from the harden (often older) ex-bar girls. The going rate is about 1500 to 2000 Baht all night. Most of them will want to leave around 7 or 8 in the morning to go to their daytime job. Outside Thermae and in front of Robinson department store/Grand Pacific Hotel there are some girls sitting near the row of phone boxes, walk past them slowly and turn round walk back again, some of them will approach you, or looking at you and smile. If you see anyone you like, then ask her for the price. LT will be 1000-1500 Baht. You need to chose carefully, if have any doubts about the girl, give her a smile walk on.

As far as go go bar goes, if you want LT , go there after 11, by midnight, the girls are more willing to go with you all night, the rates will be 2500-4000 Baht, and can go a lot higher.

Happy hunting.

Hi Mongers,

I was in Bangkok during the first week of August for a conference and some business meetings. Fortunately, the conference was one in which I did not have to think, and the business meetings were a few hours in the afternoon. Two of my Hong Kong friends joined me for the weekend.

Getting out of Don Muang and to my hotel (Suk Soi 20) was a breeze for some odd reason; the total time from the gate to my hotel was forty minutes. Low season? Rainy season? Whatever the reason, I was happy (although the flight was 2.5 hours late out of Hong Kong).

At about 830pm I wandered over to Cowboy where I was to meet some friends. I stumbled across some other friends from California and Maryland who were in for the same conference, meaning that my business community is way too small or Bangkok needs more entertainment areas! We started off at Bacara (I like the PR hostesses outside--barfined one of them about six months ago and she was great, FS with BBBJCIM) and ended up at Dollhouse where I barfined a late 20-something for B2,500 long time. Well, after the preliminaries, the deed and some sleep, she starts complaining at about 3am, so I chuck her out with B2,000.

On Thursday night, I wandered around Cowboy again and popped into Suzy Wong's. For those of you that are planning to visit LOS in the near future, you should have a look. The show has returned to some of its previous glory--let's just say that four women seriously enjoy each other. I barfined a sweetie who turned out to be from Chiang Mai and in Bangkok for three months. She is working at Suzy Wong's because her sister suggested working there. This immediately aroused my interest--any gal who would work in the industry on the advice of her sister would perhaps be interested in having fun together with me and her sister, right? Alas, it was not to be; her sister had "gone off with a customer". Interestingly, some of the other dancers confuse her with her sister and do not realize that there are two sisters working there. Oh well, took her back to the hotel for some fun. She was great, but did the "I have to leave because I need to go school thing" at 5am. Well, that was ok. At least I was able to contribute to her education fund (B600 bar fine and B2,500 long time). Low season and the bar fine in Cowboy goes up. Go figure.

Friday night I played tour guide to three guys from the conference and my two friends from Hong Kong (who had arrived that evening). Off to Patpong and Kings Castle 1. I felt like I needed a bloody tourist guide flag with this bunch! The guys from the conference had not been to LOS in about 10 years and acted like a bunch of pubescent testosterone filled teen-agers! Actually, the scene was quite amusing as they thought the girls were cute and the beer cheap. The girls wanted B2,500 short time (B500 bar fine, B500 for the room upstairs and B1,500 for the girls), but there were no takers. We left King's Castle after an hour and moved on to King's Garden where I had been drinking with the manager and one of the mamas for many years--they know me and leave me alone with my beer. Well, the boys went at it with a vengeance: my two Hong Kong buddies went back to King's Castle 1 to grab some gals (B3,000 long time and B500 bar fine), while the three guys from the conference each took a gal from King's Garden upstairs (B1,500 short time, B500 bar fine and B500 hotel). One of the mamas came back and said she needed B100 for condoms which kind of ticked me off, but I let that one go. Ninety minutes later, I am sipping my beer and talking to mama when the three conference guys stumble back down, all with smiles on their faces and signs on their foreheads that said "Freshly Fucked". Kinda sweet, really. Anyway, we hustle across Silom so that I can throw them into the appropriate meter taxi (Chid Lom? Meter? Ok. Asia Hotel? Meter? Ok. Suk Soi 20? Meter? Ok.) to get them--and me--back to their hotels.

The next morning (Saturday) my two Hong Kong buddies report in about the gals from King's Castle. One had a really great time with a 26 year old with small tits (Miss Small Tits) who lives by herself in her own apartment; in his words "Wow! Professional blow job!". The other one had an ok time with a really cute 22 year old (No. 2) that needed to go home at 5am because she lives with her parents. (Note: We have learned to ask the gals whether they live alone...we have come to the conclusion that we will only take gals long time if they live by themselves!) Anyway, Miss Small Tits would return to the scene later.

Saturday night and off to MBK for shopping and dinner with my Hong Kong buddies. After that, we headed to Nana (the conference guys were massively hung over and needed to be nice to their wives that night :-). We poked our heads in the usual haunts but did not see anything special. (I think that we are spoiled by having KTV fun in China where the girls do not wear bras or panties.) We wander around a bit and one of my buddies had a quite good hamburger at Big Mango. I really like Big Mango as it is like a quiet spot in the madness of Nana! Very relaxing and you can overlook the shenanigans going on below. Leaving Nana about 1130pm, I see a really cute 20-something freelancer and get her phone number for future reference. Then back to Patpong King's Garden to have a last few beers before heading in for the night. My buddies complained that they needed a break from shopping and sex (they had gone for a massage in the afternoon), so I took a 27 year old out of King's Garden (B500 bar fine and B1,500 short time). This gal was good enough to tell me that she had a young son and that she needed to get home to him, so that she only does short time. So we all hop in a taxi back to the hotel and the gal and I have some fun. She liked having her tits squeezed really hard which was interesting. But, and there is always a but, after about 30 minutes of playing around she starts asking,"Are you finish? Can you finish--I need to go home to take care of my baby?". So we finish up, I pay and off she goes. This "I need to go" stuff is really starting to get to me, although I know that I shouldn't complain too much since long time is pretty much hit and miss and, besides, I had to get up early to shove my mother and niece on a flight to Chiang Mai in the morning

Bright and early on Sunday morning at 715am, I trip over to my Mom's hotel (you really didn't think that I would put her up in the same hotel as I, did you?) to chuck her in a taxi to the airport. Taxi. Airport. Meter. Expressway. B60 in tolls. Go. I, of course, stumble back to my hotel, have a beer and go back to sleep! I call one of my Thai friends who had been busy in the week and he says to go to a sauna. So I join him at Mirage Entertainment and pick out a 22 year old ("student" she says) for B1,900. There were three prices in the fishbowl: B1,900, B2,100 and B2,500. I think the sideline was about B2,800 and up, but do not really remember. We arrived at Mirage at about 630pm and the selection was not that good. I was told that the best time is about 4pm to 5pm. As we were leaving at about 8pm, the fishbowl had filled up (evidently with gals that had finished with their earlier customers) and there were about 75 gals on sideline. Anyway, my Hong Kong buddies joined us next door at the Emerald Hotel for the buffet dinner. While the food is not spectacular, it really is not too bad--for B300 (yes, B300) we thought it was a bargain.

After dinner, we headed back to Nana for to have a quick look around, but my Hong Kong buddies had fallen into lust at Kings Castle 1, so off to Patpong we go. One guy picks out Miss Small Tits again, while the other guy eventually picks out No. 9, also 26 years old, kinda cute with a few curves. Me? I was a bit tired out from Mirage and did not see anything interesting, although I tried to steal No. 9 from my friend! We stop in at Crystal Palace at about 115am and get in for last call for alcohol. The lights were coming up when we went in, but the wait staff was happy to provide "one last drink". Then back to the hotel.

The next day (Monday), my buddy who had fallen in love with Miss Small Tits' blow jobs looked like he just had his cherry popped, while the other guy said that No. 9 was ok, but she had to go home at 5am. Miss Small Tits said that No. 9 would join us later (yeah, right). We go off to lunch with Miss Small Tits. (No. 9 calls during lunch to cancel her reappearance.) After lunch my buddies and Miss Small Tits go shopping, where my buddy buys her about B1,500 worth of cosmetics. Miss Small Tits eventually heads home to change her clothes and makeup, agreeing to meet my buddies at 6pm. Back at the hotel, yours truly is taking a nap. Let me tell you, getting old isn't easy.

We all meet in the lobby at 7pm and head off to Chinatown for dinner. We end up at Nam Sing Restaurant on Phadungkhao Road on the advice of my two Hong Kong buddies (evidently the restaurant is popular with Hong Kong tourists). The food was ok, not spectacular with the bill coming to B2,240 for the four of us with no drinks (crab, prawns, fish, vegetables and maybe one other dish.) I actually like "T Restaurant" on Rajprarob Road better--my family has been going to T for over 20 years and T's seafood has been consistently good. After dinner, I want to go to Jim Thompson to buy some Thai silk shirts and ties since I need to go back to Bangkok to negotiate some things and wearing suits in Bangkok just really sucks. My old Thai friends had reminded me on this trip that a nice Thai silk shirt with dark slacks was an acceptable equivalent to a coat and tie, depending on the occasion. But, it is 930pm and Jim Thompson closes at 9pm, so we head off to--where else--King's Castle 1 so that Miss Small Tits can show off her new cosmetics to her girlfriends, which she did with in your face flair...kind of neat really. Before entering King's Castle, my buddy and Miss Small Tits go through the main Patpong street market (Silom's stalls are closed because it was Monday) and I plop down on a stool at Muzzik Cafe (facing Patpong) for a beer. While waiting for my buddies, King's Castle 1's No. 2 (from Friday night) walks by with her dinner. She stops for a few seconds to say "hi" and remind me to visit King's Castle! Ok, ok, she actually looks not bad outside of the bar and without my beer goggles--my lust has arisen. My buddies come back from shopping (only a few hundred baht) and we go off to King's Castle 1. Eventually, No. 2 comes over and I just can't resist her CFM looks and barfine her out (agreeing to B3,000 long time to 6am--remember she lives with her parents and left my friend at 5am). The boys eventually get hungry (again) so we go off to King's Garden where I sit with the gals while the boys go get something to eat. While the boys were gone, Miss Small Tits gave a ten minute description to No. 2 of what she had done over the last two days, with the effect that No. 2's eyes were all starry eyed, although I think the starry eyes were from thinking on how to withdraw cash from these three walking ATM's rather than true love.

No. 2 is cute with a nice figure, and we do the shower thing, the drink water thing and then I start fingering her. She complains about my fingernails (which I religiously trim so that I do not have to encounter these complaints), so I stop. I start DATY. After DATY for a few minutes, she wraps her legs around my ears and starts humping my face, but then she stops and says that it hurts because of my stubble (which is not very much as 1/ I'm asian and lack a whole lot of facial hair and 2/ I shave before I go out in the evening so as to avoid these complaints). I decide that the last thing I need is a 22 year old complaining all night, so I ask her to leave. (Hells bells, if I wanted to listen to women complain all night, I would have stayed married.) I give her B2,000 (yeah, I know, too much, but I was paying her to leave, not for services rendered) and showed her the door.

The boys head back to Hong Kong in the morning. In the end, Miss Small Tits was a semi-GFE for my friend, but she kinda screwed it up when she was leaving by asking for an additional B6,000 as a companion for two days (B3,000 per day in addition to the original B3,000 long time. Total B9,000 for three days). Yeah, I know, I know, always agree to the price before hand, but we did not do that and paid the price.

I am left to my own devices for the day (Tuesday). I have a business lunch set up and an afternoon meeting, after which I catch up on paperwork in the hotel. At about 730pm, I decide to head back to Jim Thompson to get those shirts and ties that I wanted. I selected one gold shirt and one silver shirt, after the kind sales ladies said that pink shirts were for poofters (I happen to like pink shirts). The sales ladies were very helpful although they declined my repeated offers of marriage; one of the ladies saying that she is already married and the other one just kept on giggling. After Jim Thompson, I stopped in at King's Garden to have a beer and tell the manager and mama that it was my last night in Bangkok, but that I would be back in about 45 days. Mama reminded me to bring her some perfume, which I always do.

I then headed over to Nana to look up the sweet looking 20-something that whose phone number I had collected back on Saturday night. I find her (Gee) in the Nana parking lot and we go across the street for a few drinks and a Big Mango hamburger. Earlier, via SMS, Gee had told me B2,500 long time, but when I told her that I wanted to take her long time, she said that: 1) she had to check with her sister, who she said was "tall and very pretty" and 2) she had never gone long time before since she had only been working for three months. Well, I was ok with both of those, so we go looking for her sister who was testing fragrances by the police booth at the corner of Nana and Suk. We all walk back to the Nana parking lot and after about two minutes the older sister gives me her blessing to go with Gee for B2,500 long time. (BTW--I did not think that the older sister was very pretty.) Anyway, Gee turned out to be really great.

We stopped in at 7-11 for some softdrinks and snacks, and then headed up to my room. Totally unrushed, Gee made for a wonderful experience. I fingered her and DATY to make her come a few times, and then she made sure that I came. I think that her perfect tits help a lot in my evaluation. I hope to see her again before she becomes too jaded about the whole Nana parking lot thing. Boom boom again in the morning and then off to the airport for the flight to Hong Kong.

All in all, better experiences than my last few rushed trips to Bangkok. Gee from Nana parking lot and the Mirage Entertainment "student" were keepers. Miss Small Tits is pleasant company, while the others I would toss back. We probably spent too much time in King's Castle, but I was pretty much on a business trip shepharding my buddies so I didn't mind. I'll probably hit other areas the next time over, although my next trip looks like its going to be a standard 48 hour business stop during the week of Sept 18. Bummer. Other places in Pat Pong that we stopped included Kings Castle 2 (gals not as good looking as KC 1), Camelot (part of Kings group, gals not as good looking as KC 2, we started to see a trend...). In Nana, we stopped for beer at Rainbow 2 and Rainbow 4 but didn't see anything for us, and we also had a quiet beer at Lucky Luke's (about 10pm or so) to watch the traffic go in and out of Nana.

The biggest change over the last five years that I have noticed is that Bangkok is becoming somewhat expensive, say relative to China. It used to be that three days in Bangkok (beer, hotel and air fare) would cost less than one night out in Hong Kong; however, Bangkok is still a fun place and the procedures with the Boys in Brown are a little more straightforward than the Gong An.

Sad to say, we didn't make it to Livingstone's! Sorry, Giotto! Next time!

Happy mongering,
BD

Hi Guys

I will be in Thailand from Dec 26 to Jan 13.

Im trying to plan my stay between BKK and Patong beach & Krabi.

Where do you think i would have more fun over new years?

I'm a 30 year old guy looking for as much hot female fun as possible during my stay.

Is there anything exciting on in either of these areas during new years?

My plan would be to hook up with a hottie a night before and enjoy new years with her BUT do you think Patong or Krabi (by the beach) with a hottie would be best or is BKK more fun over new years?

Cheers

Hello,

Where are some places in Bangkok to find freelancers during the early morning hours (7am - 10am)? The massage shops, beer garden are closed and Suk 7/1 is desolate.

[QUOTE=Fer Sure]Hey,

We can't all do the Eden Club every night while staying at a 5 star. Where's the report "mongering bkk on a budget." From hotels (1k bt); MPs; travel, etc. I know I wouldn't be the only person who would get alot out of this. I want to get the most out of the trip: example, go cheap on hotel and stay out? Or better hotel but less expensive visitors (nah)? And if you're going to have one splurge experience (US$100), what would it be? My trip is scheduled for November.

Thank you.

Fersure[/QUOTE]Hey,

I don't check in often, so hope you check back. See my post from 8-31 for a decent budget experience. .. and why are you staying at a 5-star?

Grab one of those package deals someplace. You can get an 8-day BKK trip with airfare for under $900 (this was from a place called Gate 1 travel)