From Dingy World to Deluxe World.
August 20th, 2009
I’m off to Bangkok for the weekend to attend the Australian Society of Travel Writer’s awards night and my accommodation is quite a step up from what I’ve been used to in my recent travels. I’ll be staying at the five-star (and very grand sounding) Centara Grand at Centralworld. Earlier this year I travelled around South East Asia using the original Lonely Planet South East Asia on a shoestring as my guidebook where I mostly stayed in places that would be pushing to get half a star. My room at the Centara Grand has ‘individually controlled air-conditioning, satellite TV programmes, in-house music and multimedia connector for video, camera, MP3, laptop, games, and iPod.’ My room in Peneloken, Bali had ‘old rusty fan (that didn’t work), dog fights right outside my window all night and an army of ants totally covering the squat toilet so you couldn’t get anywhere near it’. I’m guessing I won’t have to fight my way past ants to go for a wee at the Grand Centatra. Here’s a few photo comparisons from my last trip and the Grand Centara…
Foyer – Grand Centara, Bangkok
Foyer – Wisma Delima, Jakarta
Bedroom – Grand Centara, Bangkok
Bedroom – Adi Yasa, Denpasar
Roof top restaurant – Grand Centara, Bangkok
Roof top restaurant – YMCA, Yangon, Burma
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