Bangkok’s best places to stay for all budgets

Bangkok’s best places to stay for all budgets

Bangkok has about 80,300 hotel rooms. You can check-in at any level,from backpacker bunkroom to presidential suite,and your stay never seems long enough.

  • byJohn Borthwick
This new airport is the gateway to Thailand’s emerging beach hotspots
★★★★
Airport reviews

This new airport is the gateway to Thailand’s emerging beach hotspots

This new $62.5 million airport is well designed and well run (with one exception).

  • byJohn Borthwick
Buckle up:10 of the world’s most extreme airport runways

Buckle up:10 of the world’s most extreme airport runways

Some runways require passengers to have nerves of steel as well as a seatbelt when landing.

  • byJohn Borthwick
You’ll need a holiday after tackling Bali’s nightmare airport queues
Opinion
Bali

You’ll need a holiday after tackling Bali’s nightmare airport queues

Planeloads of people all ahead of you in lines,wandering bewildered or hopping from queue to shuffling queue,questioning “Am I in the right line?” Who knows?

  • byJohn Borthwick
Enjoy Thailand’s most-photographed train station while you still can
★★★★½
Train journeys

Enjoy Thailand’s most-photographed train station while you still can

Thailand’s best-loved train station is a classic of South-East Asian railway history,but a huge new one will replace it.

  • byJohn Borthwick
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Fiji’s remote former ‘Cannibal Isles’ are now a snorkelling paradise

Fiji’s remote former ‘Cannibal Isles’ are now a snorkelling paradise

This expedition cruise ventures through islands that were the setting for movies like Cast Away and The Blue Lagoon.

  • byJohn Borthwick
This spacious new Thai station is futuristic and utterly generic
★★★★
Train journeys

This spacious new Thai station is futuristic and utterly generic

Bangkok’s new rail hub is impressive,even if it looks like a modern airport terminal minus the shopping mall.

  • byJohn Borthwick