If you're already ensconced there, give these rally sites a very wide berth. You can even take a "taxi boat" from Phra Athit pier to piers near the Grand Palace, Wat Po and the National Museum. Don't take the San Saeb Canal boats which run eastward from Wat Saket. Get back to your hotel area by dark and don't wander out to the Democracy Monument area.
* Indonesia hoteliers eye emerging middle class—Hotel News Now
Mobile ownership is “virtually universal” among Indonesian adults, said Kapoor, and Indonesians are far more likely to access the Internet by mobile phones than Filipinos, Malaysians, Singaporeans or Thais.
* Thailand: Data suggests supply/demand mismatch—Hotel News Now
With hotel rates already eroding, Thailand—particularly Bangkok and Phuket—will soon host hundreds of new upscale hotels that won’t match the pocketbooks of the groups flying from Vladivostok and Beijing,
* Bangkok by Night: three lively neighborhoods—TravelAge West
Thais take their food, fun, music, drinking, dancing and conviviality very seriously. Nightlife venues run into the thousands. So don't conclude that the following glimpse of three very different neighborhoods is in any way exhaustive. The surface has been barely nicked. What can be said is that these are three long-running neighborhoods that will deliver sanuk (fun) wanderings and meetings with ordinary, chatty Thai ...
Susan J Cunningham 