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Blinkman987 posted:Edit: How did you structure your day with the ziplining? Did you spend two days around those temples, then? Yes, the temples warrant 1.5 days at the minimum, so it worked out. If you have a pass, the ziplining people will deduct it from the price. I didn't use any tour companies for anything. Paying a tuktuk driver $15 for a day was good enough for me. I live in India, so touts in Vietnam/Cambodia didn't bother me.
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If any of you guys are in Bangkok over a weekend I really recommend the Talad Rot Fai night market, it's a five minute walk from the most northerly sky train stop and is awesome. I'd say aim to arrive around 7-8pm. It's aimed towards younger Thais so all the clothes and stalls are great. I picked up a tshirt for 60 baht and a nice shirt for 100 baht. No haggling as its not really aimed at tourists, I only saw one other whitey when I was there on Sunday night. There are also lots of great food stalls and lots of cool bars. It did make me remember how Thais really struggle to get their head around solo travellers some times. Lots of "why you alone!?" "Where you family!?" "Where your girlfriend". Haha. I'm gonna check it out again next time I'm in Bangkok for sure.
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There are a couple of Talad Rod Fais, did you go to Srinakarin or Ratchada? Maybe the JJ market at Chatuchak/Mo Chit?
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Ah yeah, the original Talaat Rot Fai behind Suan Rot Fai (behind Chatuchak) was closed and forced to move. I think it's in Bang Na now? Can't recall. In the year or so since about 4-5 similar markets have showed up, including Gypsy Market and JJ Green (near where the old talaat rot fai was). They're also holding like monthly combo market events in random places where everyone gets together in like an underpass or something strange. If you like those retro/vintage markets you'll have plenty to do these days, believe me. Food trucks, also finally big in the last couple of years. Next stop, twerking!
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I think from what I understand the old one moved to (sp maybe) Srinakarin out north of Bang Na.
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Chantilly Say posted:I think from what I understand the old one moved to (sp maybe) Srinakarin out north of Bang Na. Is that the "train market"?
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Ted Ed Fred posted:If any of you guys are in Bangkok over a weekend I really recommend the Talad Rot Fai night market, it's a five minute walk from the most northerly sky train stop and is awesome. I'd say aim to arrive around 7-8pm. It's aimed towards younger Thais so all the clothes and stalls are great. I picked up a tshirt for 60 baht and a nice shirt for 100 baht. No haggling as its not really aimed at tourists, I only saw one other whitey when I was there on Sunday night. There are also lots of great food stalls and lots of cool bars. It did make me remember how Thais really struggle to get their head around solo travellers some times. Lots of "why you alone!?" "Where you family!?" "Where your girlfriend". Haha. There's a popular Thai joke / saying that goes something like travel alone and get your head cut off, travel with a friend and die together. Lotta Thai jokes involve abrupt death. ReindeerF posted:Ah yeah, the original Talaat Rot Fai behind Suan Rot Fai (behind Chatuchak) was closed and forced to move. I think it's in Bang Na now? Can't recall. In the year or so since about 4-5 similar markets have showed up, including Gypsy Market and JJ Green (near where the old talaat rot fai was). They're also holding like monthly combo market events in random places where everyone gets together in like an underpass or something strange. If you like those retro/vintage markets you'll have plenty to do these days, believe me. Food trucks, also finally big in the last couple of years. Thai ppl not made to twerk sorry Thailand
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Atlas Hugged posted:Is that the "train market"? Isn't the train market Maeklong? Is there another? "THE" train market, king of da trains For really reals though, the other train market is in Nong Bon close to Bang Na Shammypants fucked around with this message at 04:13 on Oct 27, 2015 |
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/Jatujak+Green+ That's where the one I went to was, behind Chatuchak as reindeer says. I thought it was the train market, but I must have read some old information before I went. Because I just found another Facebook page https://m.facebook.com/pages/Railway-Train-Night-Market-Talad-Rot-Fai/309788802433922 showing a different location entirely. I guess that means I have a choice of markets at least!
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A video for anyone heading to Bangkok and want to try some of the street food egg noodles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXqWHNpMQ5o
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Oh hey I've watched that guys videos before. He's a little creepy but he cooks Thai enough for me.
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I have to take the shuttle from BKK to DMK early in the morning. Flight lands in BKK at 7:15 AM, flight leaves DMK at 2:50 PM. Any suggestions of what I should do around the area? I figure I'll lock up my bag somewhere at BKK, do things for 3 hours or so, get back for the 11:20 shuttle and take that to DMK. Slightly riskier than hanging around the DMK area, but I assume it's also in some boring suburb like most budget airline airports.
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Blinkman987 posted:I have to take the shuttle from BKK to DMK early in the morning. Flight lands in BKK at 7:15 AM, flight leaves DMK at 2:50 PM. Any suggestions of what I should do around the area? I figure I'll lock up my bag somewhere at BKK, do things for 3 hours or so, get back for the 11:20 shuttle and take that to DMK. Slightly riskier than hanging around the DMK area, but I assume it's also in some boring suburb like most budget airline airports. Neither airport is particularly near anything. One is on the outskirts of the city in the middle of nowhere and the other is on the edge of the city right next to the middle of nowhere. The time frame you're working with is just enough that you'll be able to get through immigration and actually into the city, but it's entirely possible you won't really have time to do anything of note. You could try taking the ARL into town and taking some photos of things near that, like Victory Monument or the shrine that was recently bombed, but I'd spend the whole time worrying that the ARL was going to be delayed on the way back.
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Doing it in that order is gonna mean backtracking. Flip it--get the shuttle to DMK, check how much time you have, then think about stashing a bag and getting a cab to go check out Chatuchak or get to the BTS and get lunch around Victory.
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Ringo R posted:A video for anyone heading to Bangkok and want to try some of the street food egg noodles. I've been to a few of the places he recommends, his videos are awful, but his eatingthaifood.com blog is pretty good, the map on there is useful. I really want to try this place http://www.eatingthaifood.com/2014/08/soei-restaurant-bangkok/ have any of you guys eaten there, is it as good as he says? The crispy mackerel faces look awesome, I imagine they're like deep fried whitebait on Thai steroids. Ted Ed Fred fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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I'm flying from Dalat to HCMC tomorrow then spending 4 nights there if anyone wants to hang out! Almost done with my travel in Vietnam.Ted Ed Fred posted:I've been to a few of the places he recommends, his videos are awful, but his eatingthaifood.com blog is pretty good, the map on there is useful. And oh hey I'm down to try this when I get into Bangkok next week.
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XyrlocShammypants posted:Isn't the train market Maeklong? Is there another? "THE" train market, king of da trains Random train facts: There are three heavy rail origin stations in Bangkok. Hua Lamphong is the main station, Thonburi (Siriraj) is a smaller station just on the West side of the river next to Siriraj Hospital and the Mahachai Railway originates at its station about ten minutes' walk from Wong Wian Yai BTS (Wong Wian means roundabout and refers to the large roundabout nearby). Thonburi connects to the Southern, Western and Northern lines near Bang Bamru station, but typically only runs commuter lines I think (not sure, check) while Mahachai/Maeklong is a single track line originally built to facilitate trade between the port/fishing cities on the coast down South to Bangkok and back. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 13:54 on Oct 28, 2015 |
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Correct me if I'm wrong I'm just want to make sure I don't waste my time, but I'm in Bangkok monday - thursday and from what I gathered the railway in Maeklong is being renovated so there are no trains running through that market there at the moment right? Wat Arun is being renovated as well. Is it still worth visiting right now? Does anyone know how much a roughly 1 hour khlong tour would set me back and at what piers those can be booked?
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The train market I'm thinking of is in Bangna and the reason I called it "the" train market is because that's just what my friends called it. The reason is because a bunch of the shops are converted rail cars or meant to look like converted rail cars. There are also a bunch of bars and they all have live music, so you have bands that are about 10 meters from one another playing different songs. It's incredibly goddamn annoying.
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Ted Ed Fred posted:
Nice! Definitely would try it out if I make it back. Was just thinking about goong shae nam bplaa the other day and their version looks great.
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I have another dumb question. I'm presuming $50 a day is more than enough in Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam, am I presuming correctly? I travel cheap generally though I would like single rooms instead of hostel dorms this time around.
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Grand Fromage posted:I have another dumb question. I'm presuming $50 a day is more than enough in Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam, am I presuming correctly? I travel cheap generally though I would like single rooms instead of hostel dorms this time around. I did those countries for about $20 a day including visas.
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Grand Fromage posted:I have another dumb question. I'm presuming $50 a day is more than enough in Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam, am I presuming correctly? I travel cheap generally though I would like single rooms instead of hostel dorms this time around. You can find lovely rooms for under 600 baht a day and food will be as cheap as you make it. Your biggest cost is likely to be transport in Bangkok.
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Atlas Hugged posted:You can find lovely rooms for under 600 baht a day and food will be as cheap as you make it. Your biggest cost is likely to be transport in Bangkok. Cheapest room I had in Thailand (Mae Salong) was 50 baht and it still had free Wifi.
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Grand Fromage posted:I have another dumb question. I'm presuming $50 a day is more than enough in Thailand/Cambodia/Vietnam, am I presuming correctly? I travel cheap generally though I would like single rooms instead of hostel dorms this time around. Staying in a low end ac room, being reasonably careful with purchases, drinking most days, traveling as often as you wish with some consideration to comfort is about 50 a day in the more expensive parts of those countries. If you're okay with non-ac rooms a bit less, but I almost always felt they were worth it even if I was really only sleeping there, which was usually not the case. raton fucked around with this message at 04:37 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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US$50 is plenty within a backpacker's budget, but not "do whatever you want without watching your budget" plenty. It's about the right amount, I'd say, although you could certainly get by on US$35-40 a day without feeling too broke.kenner116 posted:Cheapest room I had in Thailand (Mae Salong) was 50 baht and it still had free Wifi. Yes, but this is not helpful information when someone is trying to budget. 50 baht doesn't even get you a bed in a dorm room in Bangkok.
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What a 250 baht a night room looks like in BKK, just a fan and cold shower, but it's fine for me. Cockroaches are complimentary.
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Pretty bold move with the backpack actually on that bug nest.
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To me it always seems worth it to fork out an extra $5-10 to stay somewhere nicer than the absolute rock bottom cheapest tier, given the choice. If you want to stay somewhere lovely to get the true SE Asian experience there are plenty of opportunities for that outside the city. In bkk 700-800 baht gets a modern apartment style room near the mrt with a fridge, tv, a/c, wifi and a bed with clean sheets you can actually sleep on.
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Negligent posted:To me it always seems worth it to fork out an extra $5-10 to stay somewhere nicer than the absolute rock bottom cheapest tier, given the choice. otoh you can get a prison room for half Like half price dude HALF :airguitar fury:
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Negligent posted:In bkk 700-800 baht gets a modern apartment style room near the mrt with a fridge, tv, a/c, wifi and a bed with clean sheets you can actually sleep on. That sounds good to me and 700 is apparently what I spend on lovely dorms normally. Do you know any places offhand like that? My biggest travel expense is always food.
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http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g293916-d634596-Reviews-Bhiman_Inn-Bangkok.html Ive also stayed at this place, 1200 baht a night. Aircon, fridge, good location away from KSR, but still close enough if you want to go and have some beers with other backpackers, plus the road it's on has loads of great food stalls on it. Ultimately it doesn't matter where you're staying as long as you're going to be able to enjoy your stay. There's no shame in high end, mid range or low end, as long as you get something out of your trip. Ted Ed Fred fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Oct 30, 2015 |
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Off the tourist trail poo poo is insanely cheap, though that means avoiding the domestic tourist trail too now. I'm staying in what I'm sure was the most tony place in a provincial capital about 50 years ago for 400 Baht a night. This is a step up from the place with the spitoons and the squat toilets, which was 170 a night. I love this poo poo, it's like a glimpse into the past. It's a military town, so the local office supply store still has shitloads of old school typewriters and ribbons and adding machines. I've walked into an episode of Thai Mad Men.
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A friend lives in this part of Ratchada otherwise I never would have discovered it. Ten minutes on the MRT from Asoke interchange. I've stayed at these 2 places for around 700 a night booked online. When I got there I haggled a discount for staying extra days. This was in March so prices may have gone up for high season. http://www.doubleddhouse.com http://spbparadise.com SPB is slightly nicer, modern furnished rooms with flatscreen tv. DD is closer to the MRT station.
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Thanks dudes. I think I'm going to spend most of the trip in Thailand with a few day pop over to Cambodia to see Angkor. The long train trip down to Singapore with stops off in little towns looks neat too.
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ReindeerF posted:Off the tourist trail poo poo is insanely cheap, though that means avoiding the domestic tourist trail too now. I'm staying in what I'm sure was the most tony place in a provincial capital about 50 years ago for 400 Baht a night. This is a step up from the place with the spitoons and the squat toilets, which was 170 a night. I love this poo poo, it's like a glimpse into the past. It's a military town, so the local office supply store still has shitloads of old school typewriters and ribbons and adding machines. I've walked into an episode of Thai Mad Men. Jai Yen Men
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Jesus, 250 baht a day is half a cab ride, why?
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One of the cool things about travelling SE Asia is getting to stay in 4+ star hotels for $20/night once and awhile, but if you do it the whole time you miss out on a lot. Asking other travellers where they stayed was the best resource I found for cheaper places, and a lot of other things. Fuuuuck the more Christmassy it gets here the more I wish I could go back. My godson is just about old enough to be a decent house-sitter, so maybe in the summer I can work something out and just do online work somewhere comfy in Cambodia. Anyone have favourite places in Cambodia to rent a quiet spot with aircon and a nearby hammock? I love Siem Reap, but Battambang and Phnom Penh were lovely and not very far away. Never got to any Thai or Cambodian beaches while I was there last, but I live two minutes from the Pacific here, so it's not really a must for me. Pixelante fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Oct 31, 2015 |
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Puttin SEA on blast, u no longa got that lock on Hitler kids
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Sheep-Goats posted:Puttin SEA on blast, u no longa got that lock on Hitler kids Too soooooon.
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