I'm paying 353 baht or $10.63 per night for a room in OYO 117 King One apartments about 4 km from BKK and 800 meters from Lat Krabang Road. It's got 24 hour reception, a fridge, desk, TV, closet, balcony with hot and cold showers, powerful A/C, minimal traffic noise (for some rooms), plenty of cheap food options nearby, etc. The place isn't spotless and the bed isn't plush, but I'm digging it. Open-air shower kicks ass. Being a farang, sometimes I want to take a piss with my shoes or socks on and not get them wet or track dirt all over the floor. The nearest SRT station, Soi Wat Lan Boon, has no ticket booth and only a few trains a day running along the East Line (heads to the Cambodian border from Bangkok); the airport rail doesn't stop here.
Good luck getting around using the Thai Smile buses; supposedly 517 runs all the way to Mochit 2 from here if you want to take a van out of the city, and 92 connects you to the Lat Krabang Railway station. Probably better just to use the moto taxi guys at the corner to get to Ban Thap Chang metro station when you want to go to the city. People 'round here are friendly and happy to do business with a foreigner, as there aren't many of us around this part of the city outskirts. Some of the back streets look pretty rough, with numerous cottage industries leaving piles of garbage in swampy waste lots. Most people speak some degree of English as well; I have not had to use Google Translate at all in the past three days. There's even a random girlie bar plopped down all by itself out on Lat Krabang Road; I saw the women looking very bored with no customers while taking an incel walk around midnight last night.
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