{"id":735,"date":"2008-06-21T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-21T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2008-06-23T04:17:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T10:17:20","slug":"bangkok-home-base-for-the-next-8-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/bangkok-home-base-for-the-next-8-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok, Home Base for the Next 8 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"736\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/bangkok-home-base-for-the-next-8-days\/2008-06-21_bangkok_room\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_bangkok_room.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,283\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1214065510&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2008-06-21_bangkok_room\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_bangkok_room.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_bangkok_room.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-736\" title=\"2008-06-21_bangkok_room\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_bangkok_room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>We&#8217;re staying at the beautiful <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shangri-la.com\/en\/property\/bangkok\/shangrila\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Shangri-La Hotel<\/em><\/a><em> in downtown Bangkok. We usually get to stay at pretty nice places, but this is exceptionally good. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The flight was pretty uneventful other then being slightly delayed. We had a nice transport from the airport. It&#8217;s not often that 5 people get a full sized 40 person bus for their own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_img_0364.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"737\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/bangkok-home-base-for-the-next-8-days\/2008-06-21_img_0364\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_img_0364.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,325\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot G9&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1214060943&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;7.4&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.05&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2008-06-21_img_0364\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_img_0364.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_img_0364.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-737\" title=\"2008-06-21_img_0364\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-21_img_0364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re staying at the beautiful Shangri-La Hotel in downtown Bangkok. We usually get to stay at pretty nice places, but this is exceptionally good. The flight was pretty uneventful other then being slightly delayed. We had a nice transport from the airport. It&#8217;s not often that 5 people get a full sized 40 person bus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[47,44,387],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-bangkok","tag-thailand","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-bR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":681,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/taxing-to-the-gate-in-bangkok\/","url_meta":{"origin":735,"position":0},"title":"Taxing to the gate in Bangkok.","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"June 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Taxing to the gate in Bangkok.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photo Post&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photo Post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/category\/photo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-17_img_0328.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-17_img_0328.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/2008-06-17_img_0328.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":731,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/21\/on-the-way-to-bangkok\/","url_meta":{"origin":735,"position":1},"title":"On the way to Bangkok","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"June 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Break out the computers, it's nerd time! A little free internet while waiting for our flight to board. We're at the airport and checked in (after another hassle over having \"too many bags\"). Our flight leaves in about an hour or so. 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