I’ve been dying to go for ages as well. A few quick tips until I get to the full post — if you want relaxation go during the week, if you want lively go on the weekends when the place is packed with Bangkok locals escaping the city and bikers just passing through for a drink and to gawk. Bring a bottle of wine and watch at least one sunrise and one sunset! And unfortunately, I have to recommend bringing some snacks as we were very disappointed with the food. But overall, I loved it and I’d go again.

It’s a very funky experience 🙂 Not for everyone, but we loved it — I’ll be writing a post on it soon!

Yeah, I can definitely occasionally over-research a trip. I haven’t done it in a while as I’ve been traveling too frequently to be able to enjoy the pre-planning process, but it’s definitely a risk again now that I’ve got so much time between getaways!

That sounds like quite the first trip 🙂 Enjoy, Ian!

Love that hospital too! Have been there many times and had pretty great experiences.

For me personally, I try not to do too much research on specific sites and places in a city or town because I don’t want to ruin it for myself, and also because I’m a notorious planner and not doing proper destination research is my way of trying to break that a little bit.

I love getting to benefit from that beautiful planning impulse — your emails this summer set my heart aflutter with their minute by minute itineraries 🙂