Hi,
Just back from my BKK trip yesterday night.
Stay at Bangkok City Inn(2 stars hotel), located behind Big C Chitlom,in between rows of shophouses, quite near from BTS station Chitlom(ard 5-10min walk), room is ok though abit dusty, got bathtub. I booked from directrooms.com @$33/night but there is some cork up when i arrived, they say they dun have my reservations, as it's after office hours and they can't locate the agent, they'll still give us a room and let us know the next day. I think they had settled the problems, cause they didn't mention anything after that.
Dun expect anything of their free breakfast, didn't even get a chance to step into the restaurant, so small and so many having ppl having breakfast, still alot waiting at the lobby. Eventually we had our breakfast along the street everyday, cheap and tasty, 20-30baht can fill your stomach already. we had tried alot of street foods, the best is the minced meat omelette with rice(only 15baht),fried meat slice(20baht) is nice and fried banana and sesame ball(10baht each type), missed the food so much now, had put on quite alot of weight though... Hee.........
Upon checking out, something make me very pissed off, they say we took 1 Singha beer from the fridge the day before we checked out and asked us to pay 55baht. My husband and i dun drink beer and all the while the beer and other drinks is inside the fridge, we refused to pay up though it's very small amount. Having counter check several time with their housekeeping dept, they say the housekeeping dept will bear for the mistake they made.
Overall the stay is ok, value for money, just dun expect too much and you will enjoy the stay. Taxi driver dun know the place, if you want i had their address in Thai, can email to anyone who interested.
Near the hotel there is a bridge, cross over, across the road and you reach Pratunam center, cross the overhead bridge in front of it, you reach Pratunam market in no time. Cheap bargains and lots of clothing wholesale there. We even met baby elephant near the bridge, bought the sugar cane from the owner @ 3packets 50bahts and feed the baby elephant, it bowed at us after the feast, so adorable, a pity we didn't bring the camera out that evening.