f&*$'n bangkok

To quote my dear friend as we walked out of the 3rd guesthouse we had been devastatingly disappointed with. Standing, sweating with our baggage pulling on our sunburnt skin as our stomachs rumbling, she yelled out her curse and shook her fist. (Well, something like that.) Sarah remembers the days of Vietnam when we were wondering around Hanoi and a guesthouse owner signaled to us to check out his place. Cynical, we agreed to follow him, only to be offered a room with cathedral ceilings, tv, aircon and a balcony for only 5$ a night. But Vietnam this is not.

To come back from Ko Chang we paid 700 baht to take a minibus from our hotel to Khosan Road. We decided to stay there instead of Siam Square because it had a much more interesting feel to it. But finding cool accommodations at a nice price seemed to be a much more challenging endeavor than we originally thought. The first place we decided to look at a room took us up to the fifth floor, without an elevator only to find a room with a window, a ceiling fan and a bed. Yeehaw…but we thought we could do better. But 4 guesthouses later – and one of them was only 200 baht (7$) but the door didn’t even fully open – well the sanity left and craziness began to take over.

But luckily for us, just when we were about to go bananas we decided to stop in one more place before we called it quits. Here is where we are – Ben’s House. The cute little Thai woman showed us the room on the first floor. Its cool! Its like a tiny townhouse, bathroom and fridge downstairs with the bed and a tv upstairs. Nice! 800 baht – a little more than we wanted to pay, maybe $12 a person. But when she brought us free mango, we knew we made the right choice.

The next adventure – more food!