Bangkok

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Temperature: Around 36 degrees - sweltering heat outside air-con buildings.
September free-and-easy package cost us Singapore $369 inclusive of a day trip to Ayuthaya.
Asia Hotel: Central location, good and convenient, sheltered link to Sky Train.
Mode of transportation within Bangkok: Sky Train (affordable and easy to travel on), Tuk Tuk (relatively safe, very cheap) and taxis (know your destinations in Thai, ask for meter to be on, cheap during off-peak hours)
Wear shoes (no slippers or sandals allowed) and decent clothing or you'll have to go into the Grand Palace wearing rented shoes and clothes.
Make sure you take the guide to the Grand Palace at the entrance because it is really a superb publication that explains succinctly in pictures and diagrams what the Grand Palace is about. Take an extra one for the scrap book.
If you can, go to Ayuthaya on your own (by train) and spend at least two days there and make sure you visit the museums because that's where all the treasures are.

Spend at least a day at the Grand Palace and don't miss the National Museum.

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