{"id":350,"date":"2004-10-03T23:48:39","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2009-02-01T23:49:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T14:49:53","slug":"one-night-in-bangkok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"One night in Bangkok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the cheesiest title for a blog post, ever, but true. We were actually only there for one night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday Sept 29<\/strong>: Arrived in Bangkok at dawn. Took a taxi to our hotel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhw.com\/property.aspx?num_rooms=1&amp;num_guests=1&amp;propertyid=268\" target=\"_blank\">Sukhotai<\/a>. The hotel was great- not only is it one of the best-designed hotels I have ever seen, with amazing facilities and restaurants, the service was incredible. Quite a change from London. The hotel kindly let us check in 9 hours early (and also agreed to let us have a late check out too), I spent the time in the bath, and then took my newspapers outside where I sat by the pool, ate, drank, swam, read and slept like there was no tomorrow.<br \/>\nThe next thing I remember was Taka waking me up at 12:30 telling me that we were meeting Chico at 13:00. We spent the rest of the afternoon being showed around shops, visiting showrooms and meeting designers.<br \/>\nWent to &#8220;Anna&#8217;s Caf\u00e9&#8221; for dinner. An interesting combination of genuine Thai food followed by Italian coffees and English desserts. We then went to the most amazing bar I have ever been too. Ever. A bar on the top of a 64 storey building. ON THE TOP. No roof. Only a one-metre high glass handrail between you and the pavement. I have never thought of myself as being acrophobic, but this bar was actually kind of unsettling. Very international, well-heeled crowd too. I felt right at home.<\/p>\n<p>to be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the cheesiest title for a blog post, ever, but true. We were actually only there for one night. Wednesday Sept 29: Arrived in Bangkok at dawn. Took a taxi to our hotel, the Sukhotai. The hotel was great- not only is it one of the best-designed hotels I have ever seen, with amazing facilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-bangkok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}