As ever and always, Marc found us some wonderful places to stay on this trip!
We start off just outside Chiang Mai for a couple of nights, at Baansuwanburi, which should do nicely to ease us out of the strangeness of the long journey:
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From there we'll stay in Chiang Mai at the Maladee Rendezvous Hotel for five nights:
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| TripAdvisor || Hotel |
Our next stop will be in Chiang Khan, for five nights at the Riverside Pool Villa. We'll have the whole villa to ourselves, with a pool around on the other side:
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A short drive away, we'll be in Pak Chom for two nights, at the Mekong Villas, a new spot along the Mekong River for us:
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As we make our way south, to the coast, we'll stop for a night at the Banbua Grand Udon, in Udon Thani, where we are staying primarily because of the great restaurants.
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Then we get to Trat, where we'll stay overnight before catching a ferry the next morning. We stayed at this little boutique hotel before, the Rimklong Boutique Hotel. It's convenient, and it's near the market, too.
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Every trip, we have to take at least one boat ride in one form or another -- often a ferry, as it is here. We'll take the ferry out to Koh Kood, where we'll hide out at the Hideout for five nights, the last big stay of our trip.
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From there we head to Bangkok for our last night-ish, where we'll stay at The Quarter Ladprao, not our usual kind of hotel but it serves several purposes.
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| [Hotel | TripAdvisor] |
