Movin' on Down

Trip Start Nov 03, 2005
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Trip End Dec 07, 2005


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Monday, November 7, 2005

Goodbye Sheraton Penthouse, Hello Park Hotel Cockroach Plaza. We decided to hang around town and wait for the crew to arrive on Wednesday. After all, the Lumpster must be near shopping. Used to be you would endure a taxi ride through Bangkok's fuming gridlock to move across town. Today it was hop on the river ferry, down one stop to the Skytrain station, change trains at Siam Square and off at Nana station and a few steps to the hotel. Fast, cheap and air-con.

While every other tourist around here is getting a massage (of some sort), I podded off to check out the Bumrungrad Hospital. The place is incredible. Huge. Mobbed. Clean and shiny. If you didn't know, you would think you had just entered a resort hotel.

And it's true... there is a starbucks in the lobby.
200 entry
200 entry

I was directed to admitting then usurered to a clerk and had a quote for an anterior cervical fusion of C 4,5,6 in less than ten minutes. It would have taken me that much time to get through the telephone tree to a human with IHC at home.

I'm impressed.

Oh yeah, they want $22,150, or 886,000 baht.

The massage would be cheaper.
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sofiej
sofiej on Nov 7, 2005 at 12:28PM

Hi!
I'm still having a really hard time recognising you without the mustache and your Speedos. Is it really you???
Sofie

armstrongcw
armstrongcw on Nov 7, 2005 at 02:55PM

Cleanliness is next to Budda?
I particularly like the tooth picks. And they already unwrap them for you. How handy.

lauriea
lauriea on Nov 7, 2005 at 03:59PM

vacation surgery
let us know if you have the surgery so we can send flowers!

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