Bangkok Hotels

Many budget travelers looking for affordable accommodation, and not everyone wants in a typical backpacker hostel on Khao San Road, as shown also in the cult film “The Beach”. The good news is that the cheap hotels for the equivalent of EUR 14-35 per night are still available. They are called Embassy, Federal, Florida, Grace, Liberty, Honeywell, Manhattan, Miami, and the Prince of the Rex Group comprises hotels also included. Most of these hotels were built along Sukhumvit Road and New Petchburi Road, Bangkok. They all originated in the ’60s, when American GI’s to recover from the Vietnam War were flown to Bangkok. Many hotels have survived the rapid changes of Bangkok in the following decades, almost unscathed and are now in retro-style, is still as popular as ever.
During the Vietnam War from 1962 to 1976 she operated in Thailand, the Americans never forgotten R & R program, which can be roughly translated as rest and recreation. The need for accommodation was great and the gap was quickly closed by Bangkok resourceful businessmen.
The concept of the hotel was always the same, cheap rooms, a swimming facility, a coffee shop with simple Thai dishes in addition to “American fried rice” and the slightly sleazy atmosphere rounded off the range.
The concept of constant owe any of the hotels the tour company “Tommy’s Tours” and his owner Thawee Chulasap, a former top lieutenant general of the Thai armed forces, who monopolized the lucrative source of income through the GI’s.
At that time, the rooms cost just EUR by 3.5 and 24 hour service was guaranteed. Hotels such as the Miami, under the former contract with Tommy’s Tours, had 123 rooms, which were occupied almost every night. The cost for the construction of the hotel were paid in 4 years.

R & R has been translated by the soldiers, but rather with love and booze and even Bangkok and throughout Thailand since satisfied the requirements of the GI’s.

After the adoption room they went into the entertainment center on the New Petchaburi Road, took the girl and came back to the hotel. They stayed 5-6 days in the rooms. Shopping or sightseeing at that time were not yet on the program.
Approx. 50 000 girls were in Bangkok alone to care for troops, according to official estimates were available, and thousands of villages from this new source of revenue.
After the Americans left Thailand in 1976, many Thais were unemployed and some moved on into the emerging entertainment district of Patpong. The New Petchaburi Road was now deserted by the former 30 hotels and is now only left the Prince, which defies a bit lonely between abandoned buildings and unused land over time.

To substitute for the GI’s to bring into the country, the Thai government also intervened and declared the year 1979, tourism year.
The Japanese and the Germans came in ever greater numbers, especially “Diethelm Tours” in Bangkok German brought in the 70s and 80s in the former GI hotels.
The charter flights were full and Neckermann in Germany managed to get a name, because even today we speak of “Necker men” when media denounce sex tourism.
The Grace Hotel is now home to visitors from the Middle East, a preferred location in “Little Saudi”, Sukhumvit Soi 3′s, as locals have dubbed the area.
The Rex Hotel, near the Sukhumvit Thonglor district, in turn, is popular with Japanese tourists. Also, since it has only a complete shift from American to German, then Dutch and Japanese tourists now given.
Even the Prince Hotel has reasonable hope of much better times, when the end of this year, a new rail line connects the part Suvarabhumi international airport with the Makkasan junction, planned new buildings fill the gaps and breathe new life into this area again.
The Miami Hotel will soon pass from father to son, and here are no major changes planned.
Retro-style is total demand, and at 14-35 EUR per night and so much history can all look with confidence to the future.