Pinnacle Hotel in Bangkok

[snotface]

I share Smiles' enthusiasm for the Pinnacle as a conveniently located medium range hotel. Last time I was there about a month ago I thought the breakfast buffet had improved somewhat - better organised with things you want close at hand (like a milk jug next to the tea and coffee facilities) and the grilled tomatoes no longer tasted as if cooked in vinegar. Like frequent I enjoy my silent breakfast. I paid 1140B per night through Jimmy, which struck me as good value. Poor old Jimmy is looking really frail these days. I couldn't even find him to pay for my room for several days and in the end we bumped into each other on Rama IV and made the transaction there, papers, pens and bank notes cascading all over the place.

The coffee shop mentioned by frequent right by the entrance to the hotel on Soi Ngam Dupli is well worth a visit. It's small (hence its name Size S) but does the best coffee I've had in Thailand apart from another small establishment called Ponganes in Chiang Mai. It does a range of sweet snacks to go with the coffee. I visit every afternoon when I'm staying at the Pinnacle and keep telling the owner to move to a new shop called Size L, where I'm sure he'd make his fortune.