Miguel Cruz wrote in message ...
Tchiowa wrote:
Miguel Cruz wrote:
Tchiowa wrote:
???? Notice that he said Bangkok, not some smaller city. A fairly
cheap tourist hotel in Bangkok is $50. Luxury hotels are over $100 a
night in Bangkok.

At the moment I'm staying in the Grace Hotel on Sukhimvit Soi 3 for 930 baht
per night (about US$23). It's very clean and well-maintained, well located
(5 minutes' walk to skytrain), probably what I'd call a 3-star. I cannot
imagine what I could get for more money that would be worth the additional
expense.

I didn't say that the the additional expense would be worth it. For
some people it is, for others it isn't.

But your note said that anything over $25 a night is "serious luxury"
and that makes no sense. The Nana is more than that and it's anything
but "serious luxury". You won't get into anything that you could call
"luxury" below $100/night.

To elaborate, my 930 baht hotel room had a pool (ok, the pool wasn't in the
room), concierge services, a TV with about 40 satellite and cable channels
from Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, spotlessly-clean room, nice view of
the city, one double bed and one twin, three chairs, a desk and a table, a
spacious closet, modem port, and so on.

All of which means nothing. A spotlessly clean room with tile floors,
leaky walls, window air-conditioning, etc. is not a "luxurious" as a
spotlessly clean room with plush carpeting, central air, good
insulation between rooms, etc.

To me that seems more than adequate for a "tourist" and really quite
adequate for most other travelers as well unless they had particular special
needs (I would have been happier with in-room broadband, for instance).

"Adequate"? Maybe for some. (I've been to the Grace. Never stayed
there but been inside. "Adequate would be the highest praise you could
give it.)

A week ago I was in a very high-calibre hotel (the MiCasa Suites in Phnom
Penh) that cost substantially more. Aside from the provision of a full
kitchen, though, everything else additionally provided there was luxury.

You have a different definition of "luxury" than I do. And I suspect a
different definition than "the average tourist" (whoever that might
be).

From a backpackers point of view, the Grace hotel is "adequate", as
you describe. From the average tourist's point of view it is less than
average. Even Motel 6 in the US offers much nicer facilities than the
Grace.