The Mandarin Hotel in Bangkok

Good Hotel to start your Thailand adventure
Once you get to the Bangkok Airport you should only call for taxi drivers who are prepared to take you with a taxi meter (the trip can be around 1/2 hour to the city center, where the Hotel is located quite central at Rama IV Rd).  Arriving at the [...]

Hostel Mayflower – Puerto Escondido

The party hostel
We stayed three nights and had an awesome time. Its very clean, spacious with good facilities (kitchen, fridge, rooftop floor). It’s perfect to do the “boteillon” before going out — we did drinking games every night with a group up to fifteen people. Maybe a bit too expensive for Puerto and also the [...]

The PocNa Hostel – Isla Mujeres

Good to get to know new people
Very socializing atmosphere in this hostel, once you arrive you will recognize all the good things (Location, volleyball/beach soccer, Beach Bar) easily. But real backpackers beware: there are no kitchen facilities, no fridges, and apparently no food allowed to enter the hostel from outside! Like in most places of [...]

Maya Hostel in Palenque, Mexico

The Good (athmosphere), the Bad (price) and the …Staff
First of all good location close to the ruins (about five hundred meters). Nice atmosphere, nice swimming pool (even if a bit shallow and dirty). But the Hotel is terribly managed. The staff (except the night guard) was unfriendly, and tried to cheat on the room [...]