Time to start planning vacation 2010!
Jul 14th, 2010 by Alex
Since the local admins can’t seem to find time to actually post anything on their blog (you guys do realize you are supposed to post once and a while right?), I’m back to guest post for another season. After a long stint in laboring in the salt mines, I’m ready for some R&R… unfortunately I have to wait another three months to actually travel. As I started planning my return to the land of smiles, I have noticed that some prices have gone up this year. Barring any last minute issues from the office, I should be arriving in October.
Booking my economy flight on Cathay Pacific from JFK to BKK I paid $1,376.00 – quite a bit more than last year, Cathay did have a slightly less expensive fare, but it was not upgradable with Asiamiles. I’m hoping to upgrade at least one of the long 16 hour legs. I guess the economy (at least for the international air carriers) is actually starting to pick up along with their traffic numbers.
Searching out a hotel, I found two pretty quickly. One is the new Marriott Renaissance Bangkok Ratchaprasong, Of course I’ll have plenty of pictures as soon as I can get them online. Since I can get eight days free with Marriott Points, this was not a real hard choice 
The hotel is located almost at the center of the former “red shirt” protest site. Let’s hope they don’t decide on another months long “party”.
The rest of my time will be spent at Ten Face – it’s a serviced apartment on a little soi behind the main US Embassy compound. They had a sweet pre-paid deal on Agoda for actually less than half their posted going rate, great reviews and one of my local colleagues actually looked at moving into the place a few months ago they liked it so much.
Well, the easy part is done, and paid for. The hard part has just started – the wait…
