Having stayed at "Sundance Guesthouse" on Street #172 I can inly say good words about it. Fantastic digs for $20 US per night, definitely best bang for the buck. Sitting streetside as Black Sabbath, watching a Fench 20-something tourist trying to pull a very pretty French girl as I wait for my bus to Bangkok.
The border crossing at Poi Pet is only open 730AM to 5PM so that when i wake at 730AM I will have been sleeping on the bus all night. As described in earlier entries it is a "Hotel Bus," own double bed, flat screen TV, fridge, but only a curtain around my "room." It has 2 drivers and an attendant and is just what I needed cause I hate that fucken drive. I loved it before Cambodia shut down passenger trains in 2007. At that point I could take a train from the far shore of the Lake and get off in Poi Pet, cross, take a tuk tuk 4 klicks to the Thai station in Ayan and ride all the way to Bangkok.
Now, after crossing, I have to walk to a Thai van that picks us all up for the mimd numbing ride to G-d's armpit in SE Asia, Khao San Road. What a scumbag Disney-type amusement park it has turned into. It amazes me that kids still buy drugs on that terrible street. Only 80 meters long. All ”manner of Thai citizens try to sell all manner of illicit drugs. If someone is foolish enough to buy or really even examines the offered drugs, then BOOM, a cop on a scooter zooms up literally seconds later and makes an arrest. A gramme of Ice ends up costing a few thousand US dollars.
The border crossing at Poi Pet is only open 730AM to 5PM so that when i wake at 730AM I will have been sleeping on the bus all night. As described in earlier entries it is a "Hotel Bus," own double bed, flat screen TV, fridge, but only a curtain around my "room." It has 2 drivers and an attendant and is just what I needed cause I hate that fucken drive. I loved it before Cambodia shut down passenger trains in 2007. At that point I could take a train from the far shore of the Lake and get off in Poi Pet, cross, take a tuk tuk 4 klicks to the Thai station in Ayan and ride all the way to Bangkok.
Now, after crossing, I have to walk to a Thai van that picks us all up for the mimd numbing ride to G-d's armpit in SE Asia, Khao San Road. What a scumbag Disney-type amusement park it has turned into. It amazes me that kids still buy drugs on that terrible street. Only 80 meters long. All ”manner of Thai citizens try to sell all manner of illicit drugs. If someone is foolish enough to buy or really even examines the offered drugs, then BOOM, a cop on a scooter zooms up literally seconds later and makes an arrest. A gramme of Ice ends up costing a few thousand US dollars.