When I landed in Delhi my main pack was following me, and would have just landed in Bangkok from LAX. This meant that I had to stick around for a while to wait for it to catch up with me. Thai airlines had been great about it and agreed to give me $75 for the trouble. It worked out great in my 19 hours in Bangkok since I never had to worry about a large pack. I had arranged a pick up from the airport and they took me to my guesthouse in Paraganj, where I got a great room with no windows and a fan. This seemed to work out great since there was no noise from outside, and the heat didn't get to come in either, although it was pretty hot! A good deal ... read more

My 19 hour stop in Bangkok was great - I slept a lot on the plane from Denver, so took a bus in to Khao San Road as my cousin Jon recommended. At 3am things were fairly quiet but I met a couple of British people (Welsh and Scottish) took some tea in a bar, and then slept for a few hours in a hotel there. The next day I took a look at the Royal Palace, a 60 ft long Golden Buddha (Wat Po), and the Golden Mound with a lovely Austrian couple before having a great lunch and then heading back to the airport. It was just as well that I left a lot of time to catch my flight to Delhi because the traffic was terrible since there was some foriegn royalty landing ... read more