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phantomtony
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Need info on the following: The White Orchid Hotel in the Chinatown area.
Has anyone stayed here or know something about this place?
1) The price seems cheap enough via the internet and I believe it also includes breakfast, but is it a nice hotel thats worth the price or a dump? (ex: worn out rooms, lumpy mattress, rooms dark and smelly, etc)
2) food any good?
3) is this place "guest friendly"
4) hotel easy to get to from other areas of BKK?
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Thai Girls : Meet Sexy Thai Girls
Posted on: 1:11 pm on Feb. 22, 2005
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Kaymanx
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White Orchid is a good hotel -- at least, was, 5 years back when I stayed there. Rooms are giant size, you almost feel dwarfed. Fully Carpeted. Nice friendly reception staff. Very good breakfast spread included in the room tariff. The only drawback I found was you had to climb up a long steep stairway from the lobby just to get to the reception! When you are carrying two or three pieces of luggage that can be off-putting. Funnily, I found the staff was very helpful in getting my luggage out of the cab into the lobby but, then on, I had to fend for myself up those steps.
Location is interesting if you are out looking for the Chinese side of Bangkok. Lots of quaint Chinese shops and smiths around and lots of wizened old folk shuffling around the crowded alleys. These expressionless faces could give a misleading impression to the first-time visitor -- as they did to me. But, of course, Bangkok is all about surprises, isn't it ?
I don't think it is too close to any BTS. I do remember reading here much later that the nearest BTS is on the Silom line. Further search on this forum would throw up the actual co-ordinate. Of course, cabs abound here so there is never any hassle getting to other places -- unless you are leaving in the nick of time to the airport, which isn't a smart thing to do if you are staying at the White Orchid. The traffic is so thick you could step out of the hotel into a cab without touching the ground, yet 10 minutes later you would hardly have moved.
Cannot comment on the guest friendliness as I did not have "guests" during my all-too-brief stay at this hotel but I don't think there would be a problem.
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Bangkok Women : Meet Sensual Bangkok Women
Posted on: 5:50 am on Feb. 27, 2005
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