Originally Posted by
yosithezet
@IAN-UK what led you to decide to stay near the airport rather than go into the city?
The clincher was keeping options open about an immediate (read next day) connection to Hanoi, or staying a few days in Bangkok. But I think I'd have taken the airport option anyway, because of:
The hope that I'd get to bed earlier, after an unhappy, but cheap journey into Bangkok from Geneva through Beijing;
Avoiding the taxi ride into town in the fragile state induced by that unhappy, but cheap journey. No matter how many times I do it, I still find the taxi drive more stressful than it should be;
Paying a thousand something for sleep-no frills experience instead of five thousand something;
Knowing the next day was a public holiday