Bangkok

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Bangkok, Without the Rookie Mistakes We landed in Bangkok at midnight in April, took the first taxi we saw, and spent 45 sweaty minutes crawling through traffic while the meter sat suspiciously off. A guy at the hostel just laughed: “April? You came in the hottest month, and you skipped the train.” He wasn’t wrong on either count. The next morning we discovered the Airport Rail Link, the air-conditioned Skytrain, and the river boats — and the city instantly got easier and cheaper. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Why Bangkok Is One of the Best Budget Destinations on Earth I landed in Bangkok on a tight three-week Asia budget and booked what I thought was a reasonable mid-priced hotel near Sukhumvit. Thirty minutes later I found out a friend had stayed a few BTS stops further out for exactly half the price, in a cleaner room, with a pool. Bangkok is like that. The best budget hotels in Bangkok are genuinely excellent — not “fine for the money” but actually good — and the gap between smart and uninformed choices is wider here than almost anywhere else in the world. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from London to Bangkok, Starting at £370 Return I almost booked the wrong ticket. There it was, glowing on my screen one drizzly September afternoon: a Xiamen Air return for £370, the cheapest London to Bangkok fare I’d ever seen. My thumb was over the button. Then I noticed the bag allowance and the layover, did the maths, and quietly closed the tab. I’ll tell you what I booked instead in a minute, because it taught me everything about this route. ...