Musical Rooms

After our first night in the Orchid at about $50...we were ready to seek out some of the cheaper accommodations we had been reading about. Just as a lead-in...the currency in Thailand is the baht, and 35 bahts equal one US dollar.

So we found another hotel relatively close to where we knew our school to be and we moved all of our bags over the next day. This hotel was called the New Mitripap, in Chiang Mai's chinatown district. And the rooms here were much more spartan and functional...for only 330 baht a night. (You read that right.) And the only reason we spent 330 was because they were out of the non-AC rooms, which only cost 230 baht a night. Cheap.

Rooms had aircon, TV, hot water (although we didn't figure out how to work it until our second day!), and locks on the doors. Rooms didn't have screens on the windows, or walls that kept out the neighbor we had who apparently is a long-time resident and likes to listen to his TV at the top-most volume with many people in his room with him late into the night.

We explored the city. We explored the food. We found our school, and checked out some guesthouses and hotels nearer to it. We decided to move to another hotel closer to the school-literally right across the street. The tourist high season starts at the beginning of December, and almost all the places we talked to are raising their prices then. But the Inspire House gave us a deal, and so we are staying here for the moment in room 415. We have some pics-but since the laptop cord broke about five minutes after we got it back, still haven't been able to upload to flickr. Soon.
More posts soon.