Hotels

After 10 days on the road, I am already feeling the need to settle down in one spot for a while, to have a bit less of a wayfarer mentality. When we traveled in South America for 7 months, we were pretty much on the go the whole time except for when we stayed a week here or there. We agreed that on this trip we would find someplace nice and stay awhile. Last night over a dinner of chili crab, butter prawns and satay in Kuala Lumpur, Jim jokingly said, " let's just stay here until May". Tempting, and we think we could work our way through the menu in just about that amount of time! They make it very easy and attractive to emigrate to Malaysia, we hear. That could be Jim's 4 th retirement.

But wait , I was talking about hotels...we have stayed in a wide range of places on our trip so far and as I write this, we are in a "splurge" hotel with a suite and kitchen facilities that is a bit like an upscale Embassy Suites. Price around 65$ with breakfast, location, near Embassy row. 

View from our window.

And yes, I think I have figured out how to post photos! 

We have stayed in a guesthouse for $15 a night( don't recommend it) and a lovely old guesthouse for about 30$. In Malaysia, you can get a decent hotel for $20 that is clean and basic. In Singapore, a much larger, more expensive city, we stayed in what we call the " hotel of the future" which was newly renovated , small but immaculately clean and modern for around $60. Granted, it was in the middle if the red light district, but the ladies never bothered jim when he was out with me! If they built that kind of hotel in the States, they would be fully booked, especially in major cities.

On a trip of this length, we obviously need to keep costs down so $30 should be about our limit while we are SE Asia. Generally speaking,we no longer want to stay in backpacker hotels, which are at the very budget end of the scale, but who knows, we might try it!