A hotel on the main street in Chinatown. The colours used are somewhat OTT, but the location is great for the Old Town and the Chinatown restaurants and markets; about equidistant from the river boat pier at Ratchawong and the MRT at Hua Lamphong.

479 Thanon Yaowarat. Nearest MRT is Hua Lamphong, but taxi from the airport was 450 baht (7 pounds) in Nov 07.

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I recently spent three of the craziest days fishing I have ever experienced.

Bungsamran Fishing Resort is the only place I know where you can catch a 40lb fish a cast!

They now also provide fully catered facilities, air conditioned bungalows, restuarants, shops and cafe.

My tip is to visit before demand pushes the prices up.

www.fishingthailandfishing.com

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We stayed in Silom and found it central to the Skytrain. It was so easy to get to Patpong and all other areas and the locals are really friendly.

For fair skinned girls it would be advisable to take a sun brolly. We found it near impossible to get one in Bangkok but the heat makes it hard to cope with if you don't have one.

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This is a new hotel on Sukhumvit 6 Rd, near the nana skytrain station. The rooms are equipped to 5* standard at 3* prices. Prices are around £35 per room per night. Thoroughly recommended. I have also stayed at the Landmark hotel nearby and the rooms there are nowhere near as good, yet they'll charge you over £100 per night.

21 Soi Jaisaman, Sukhumvit 6 Rd.
Klongtoey
Bangkok 10110
Thailand

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Brand new holiday three-bedroom teak wood home in Bangkok Taling Chan district.

Around are traditional houses with orchards, gardens, peace and clean air.

Suit family with children and animals as the place is safe and has a terrace under the elevated on stilts house.

A much better option of staying in Bangkok than the town centre, with its noise, pollution, traffic jams and crowds of tourists.

In a Taling Chan home-stay you will immerse yourself in a traditional lifestyle and learn a little bit about Thai culture and customs. Walks through the fruit orchards and flower groves make a very challenging experience.

You can feel here like living in a traditional thai village - yet five minutes walk is 7/11 shop, cash machine and a daily street market. A short ride there is a famous traditional thai floating market in Taling Chan by the Chakphra Canal.

There are several nice homestays in that area - old thai teak wood houses on stilts just overlooking slowly moving canals. You are in the middle of verdant and vast, lush gardens.

There is nothing comparable to it in the whole of Thailand - a dream student home stay or a holiday accommodation.

172/9 m 11 Kanchanapisek
Salathammasop
Thawi Wattana
Bangkok 10160

Caretaker - Mr Nan +66 896619266, fax +6628063629
Owner/Booking - +44 7957473617
It's by Thanon Wongwan Rob Nok (Outer Western Ring Road)and by the Klong Bang Tal - 5 minutes drive to Southern Bus Terminal (towards Kanchanaburi, Cha Am, Hua Hin, Phuket, Krabi and Malaysia) on Thonburi & 15 minutes to Chao Phraya River, Khaosan Rd, the Old King's Palace & the Wat Pho. Air con Bus 516 from Khaosan Rd/Kings Palace area (25 minutes), bus 127 from PATA department store (15 minutes). There is also a frequent direct air con bus 556 to Suvarnabhumi Airport (1h).

check it out on google maps:
www.aardvarkmap.net/mape/AUN57CEM
lat=13.79381307 latitude
lon=100.408499781 longitude

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This is the friendliest place I stayed when out in Asia. The staff are lovely & the place has got a great atmosphere. Some of the rooms are a touch gloomy (without windows) & it's not the cheapest (about 900bht for a double room), but it's right by the national stadium sky train stop. I go there everytime I'm in Bangkok, but if you don't call to book you probably won't get a room, which tells you everything you need to know I think.

www.wendyguesthouse.com
Soi Kasemsan1, Rama1 Road,
Tel: (+662) 214 1149

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The best hotel I have ever stayed in. It is total luxury, but expect to pay for it, not European prices, but still not cheap.

bangkok.peninsula.com/

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Excellent location and good value for money.
With the exception of the concierge who gave ridiculous prices for taxi and tickets to Thai boxing

2 Soi 5 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110; tel: 66 (0) 2255-2930; www.amari.com/boulevard

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Cheap, clean, hotel located close to backpacker amenities. I paid 175 baht for a single fan room - pretty reasonable for the Khao San Road area of Bangkok. To say the room was Spartan would be an overstatement, but it and the shared bathrooms were clean and perfectly adequate for a short stay on a budget.

It's slightly away from Khao San Road so a bit quieter than some of the other hotels but still convieniently close to the action.

Behind the wat (temple) opposite the tourist police station at the non-Burger King end of the Khao San Road.

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I stayed at Ibrik River resort, a three room hotel just across the water from the grand palace, top place.

www.ibrikresort.com/river/index.html

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The ancient capital of Siam, it's the same distance north of the airport as Bangkok is south.It is everthing Bangkok is not - rural, relaxing, peaceful, hassle-free and the only choice if you have small kids. You can even breath the air.

Once there, choose from a range of lovely, cheap family run guesthouses within walking distance of the crumbling golden wats, some over 1000 years old, that dot the canal girt plain. Built by the Khmers and destroyed by the Burmese only a couple of centuries ago, they make an ethereal sight as the dawn lights the mist through the banyans.

Just catch a train in the opposite direction from the front of the airport. On arrival, a tuk-tuk will take you round to the hotels on the opposite side of the river for a few baht.

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An oasis of calm just off the Sukhumvit Road and minutes from a monorail station where you can hop onto the Skytrain and glide effortlessly above ground level chaos towards the mighty Chao Phraya River
before boarding one of the many river ferries to take you to the sights.

From the hotel's pool and breezy restaurant/bar on the seventh floor you get a sense of what Bangkok is about.

It is set in a garden of peace and tranquillity, shadowed by cloud-touching skyscrapers, lavish Buddhist
temples and gleaming shopping malls. It seems to float above the traffic jams, the crush of people and foodstalls below, but is high enough not to be veiled in fumes.

Arriving straight off an overnight flight the delightful reception staff, face cloths and fruit punch are a refreshing welcome to the country.

The supermarket food bar directly opposite the hotel can be thoroughly recommended and watching your steaming
sweet and sour dish being prepared makes it all the more tasty.

For dessert take a walk around the fruit section and gawp in wonderment at the shapes and colours of the tropical produce. Then select a “pick and mix™” bag of the most exotic and outrageous stuff you see - cheap and healthy.

2 Soi 5 Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok 10110; www.amari.com/boulevard; Tel: 66 (0) 2255-2930

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Bangkok has a huge amount of hotel accommodation, at all levels.

Rather than settling for a travel-agent 'package', consider the following options:

1) Use an internet resource, such as Expedia.com, for a flight and hotel deal. These can be extremely good value.

2) Consider booking your flight on the internet and using an internet hotel provider for the hotel.

3) Think about booking the first night's stay in Bangkok and then finding your own accommodation, at a cheaper rate, in the city itself. Don't be afraid to barter for a rate.

4) Rather than automatically booking a room with a hotel chain, consider a small, one-off, boutique hotel: the Tartawan Place, in Surawongse Road, is an excellent example: beautiful rooms and suites for about £35-£45.

Finally, remember that hotels, on their web pages, often have a 'special internet rate', which may be very much under the regular rack rate.

www.tarntawan.com/

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If you are in Bangkok for two or three days there is no better place to stay than the Shangri-La. It's right on the river, so there is always something going on.

The transport links are also excellent - Saphan Taksin Skytrain terminal is next door and there's a riverboat station nearby, from where you can get straight to the main temples, the grand palace, Wat Arun and Wat Po.

Take a riverside room in the main building and book through the hotel website as there are usually good value packages.

89 Soi Wat Suan Plu, New Road, Bangrak, 10500; Tel: (66 2) 236 7777; www.shangri-la.com/bangkok/shangri-la/en/index.aspx

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There's a great selection of restaurants here; Vietnamese, Japanese, Isaan (north-eastern Thai food), Western at Tee Sud Isaan (if you don't get insulted by Doug the drunken American co-owner) and a good quality (if a touch pricey) Thai restaurant called Baan Ajarn's at the lower end of the street. You can also find some reasonably priced hotels/apartments down the street.

Get off the Skytrain at Victory Monument and walk away from the monument, it's the first left.

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This is a great guesthouse, only a few minutes walk from the bustle of Khao San Road, but in a very quiet street. It has a lovely pool, with a very mellow cafe next to it, and really friendly and helpful staff. About 800 baht a night for a double, air-conditioned room.

Prah Athit Road, near the Khao San Road.

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Conde Nast have named their "best new hotels in the World for 2006" (May 2006 - US Edition). Fortunately, for those of us who don't have 800USD to blow on a hotel room, CN were sweet enough to include a few recommendations that may just be within our reach, including the Old Bangkok Inn.

607 Pra Sumen Road, Pra Nakhon, Bangkok;
tel: +662 629 1787;
email: info@oldbangkokinn.com;
www.oldbangkokinn.com;
Browse the full list at www.concierge.com/bestof/hotlist/2006/asia

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A lovely boutique hotel quite close to the old part of the city and in walking distance of Khao San Road. It is run by a mother and son team who are welcoming and attentive. Together they have created an oasis of calm in this hot, frenetic city.

The rooms are beautiful and themed. We stayed in the lemongrass room, which had furniture made from reclaimed wood. The hotel even has a green policy.

The homemade breakfasts include Thai porridge and the most amazing array of fresh fruit you can imagine.

Room prices are good compared to bigger hotels and breakfast and all refreshments are included.

On our last night, Joey (the son) even gave us a lift to his favourite restaurant where we had an amazing meal.

Rajadamnern Avenue, 609 Phra Sumen Road, Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, 10200

Tel: 02-6291785-7 ext. 0
www.oldbangkokinn.com

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Good value (2400 baht for a double room with breakfast) and good location, close to the Skytrain and lots of restaurants. Nice rooms, good pool and decent breakfast.

7 Soi Pipat (Silom 3), Silom Road, Bangrak
www.silom-serene.com

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The Atlanta is a fantastic budget hotel with a swimming pool, great restaurant and incredibly friendly and helpful staff. It has many claims to fame including having had Louis Armstrong and the king of Thailand playing jazz there together.

We'd happily go back there tomorrow.

78 soi 2 Thanon Sukhumvit near the Ploen Chit Skytrain;
www.theatlantahotel.bizland.com/index.html

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