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This thread was inspired by a description of a hotel in a book I am reading which reminded me of the "best hotel in the world I have ever stayed at".
My hotel is in Phuket, Thailand. We went to Bangkok in around 1991 for my brother's weddings and then joined him and my ex SIL on their honeymoon. They already had a kid or two ... we weren't invading their privacy.
There were my parents, my brother and ex SIL, my other brother and his ex floozy, 3 or 4 kids, and me and my ex. The others had all booked into the same rather modest hotel, but me and the ex got a lucky bargain with the airline and for something like ten dollars a day we stayed at this 5 star resort.
Pools, restaurants, bars, the sea ... Thai masseuses and elephant rides on the beach ... local markets in the hotel grounds ...
Because our hotel was nicer than theirs, the rest of our family made it HQ. The kids would play in the (smaller) pool, and the adults would hang out drinking beer and watching the kids and planning the day. We'd walk into town and check out the shops and buy beer for $1 a can (the hotel charged $5).
In the evenings we'd go check out the bars. We usually settled for the Kangaroo Bar, and we played Connect 4 and Jengha with the staff.
One of the best things was the room. It was enormous. The bath was about the size of our bathroom, and the balcony was bigger than my unit. We could sit on the balcony and watch the people, the biggest pool and the sea.
But, the absolutely BEST THING about this hotel was their breakfast. For $14 you could get a full cooked breakfast (bacon, sausages, eggs, tomatoes etc), rolls and pastries, and an enormous fruit basket ... and the juice of your choice (tomato) and the hot beverage of your choice (mine was hot chocolate). All cooked beautifully and presented magnificently.
On rotation - IGA had Drumstick 4 pack for $2.99 last week!
