CNX July 20-22
Jun 19, 2003 | 3:58 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 1,502
CNX July 20-22
I'll be in Chiang Mai, Thailand July 20-22. Would like to catch up with any other FTers in town.
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Latitudes.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
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Latitudes.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
Jul 6, 2003 | 11:28 am
#5
Join Date: Mar 2001
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by dallasflyer:
I will be in BKK from the 9th through the 15th of July. If anyone is around give me an email.
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I will be in BKK from the 9th through the 15th of July. If anyone is around give me an email.
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YGM!
Jul 6, 2003 | 3:33 pm
#6
Join Date: Aug 2000
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I'm overnighting in BKK on the 11th night if anyone is interested in meeting up. Staying out by the airport at the Comfort Suites - I don't have the energy to schlep my way back-and-forth to town, but I can always do that for a FT meeting! 
Jul 6, 2003 | 10:12 pm
#7
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: 3A - most likey <> BKK <--> EZE; TACA 3A nobody, but GP million miler; Hilton Gold sometimes. Successfully divorced from CO PLAT.
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Dan, be sure to check out The Antique House Restaurant I or II while in CNX. The atmosphere is quite nice in an old, huge historic house with unique local, live music at No. I. I can vouch for the excellent food there. However, I've heard that II is even better than I. I just kept returning to I! 
Check either out if you've time. The Antique house is no more than a 15 minute walk from The Night Bazar and/or The Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel - which is the ideal and prolly the best place to stay in CNX IMHO - although I did not stay there. The CMP has a very nice bkfst4free. If you only want to spend 750 Baht per nite there is Peoples Place, a little local hotel 1/2 block from the CMP. Very basic but clean and OK with A/C, but without bkfst for that rate. But you can walk to the CMP for bkfst. The airport in BKK is the best place to book the CMPH, comes to about 1/2 of walk up rates. Excellent food at the AH and so very, very cheap. I think I spent about $6 on most visits, perhaps about $12 when I went 'all out.'
BTW, I do not like the Westin Chiang Mai as it has a very old looking, dreary, dark lobby, and it's off the beaten path from the Night Bazar. It is located next to a filthy, smelly River.
You'll have a great time. I love CNX! I could live there, easily!
[This message has been edited by tvl4free (edited 07-06-2003).]
Check either out if you've time. The Antique house is no more than a 15 minute walk from The Night Bazar and/or The Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel - which is the ideal and prolly the best place to stay in CNX IMHO - although I did not stay there. The CMP has a very nice bkfst4free. If you only want to spend 750 Baht per nite there is Peoples Place, a little local hotel 1/2 block from the CMP. Very basic but clean and OK with A/C, but without bkfst for that rate. But you can walk to the CMP for bkfst. The airport in BKK is the best place to book the CMPH, comes to about 1/2 of walk up rates. Excellent food at the AH and so very, very cheap. I think I spent about $6 on most visits, perhaps about $12 when I went 'all out.' BTW, I do not like the Westin Chiang Mai as it has a very old looking, dreary, dark lobby, and it's off the beaten path from the Night Bazar. It is located next to a filthy, smelly River.
You'll have a great time. I love CNX! I could live there, easily!
[This message has been edited by tvl4free (edited 07-06-2003).]