After a long flight, I finally made it to Bangkok around 12:00am and while standing in the immigration enterance line I met two other American's traveling to Khoa San Road too, so we decided to share a cab ride there together. By the time we reached this area of Bangkok it was 1:30am and then I started looking around to find a hostel to crash at. It took some looking around because many of them were booked, but I finally found a room at the Chart Guesthouse for 250 Baht ($7). The room was probably one of the smallest rooms with barely enough space to fit the twin sized bed in it! But I was happy just to have a space to sleep in, so I took it. This area is known as the "backpackers strip"
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