For those of you planning to book the Oriental Bangkok, we past by this morning while doing the Bangkok food tour and there is a huge construction scene complete with mud, traffic jam, noisy cranes, and drilling machinary just outside the Mandarin Oriental Bangkok ... just in case any of you wanted to know:

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