Reddog1

Lookup the Sunflower near Silom. Quiet, cheep, convenient close to BTS. Nice people with breakfast, street food and good coffee nearby (also entertainment if you are interested). About a motel 8 level. Since I found it. I usually stay there on the way to Phuket (15 years of travel). I have a condo in Phuket and have explored BKK a lot over the years. I usually avoid the 4 and 5 star hotels. Because I am often just passing through and not a general tourist. Use Agoda to book the place. There are lots of others near by. The Royal Garden is also nice with a rooftop pool and bigger rooms farther out on the BTS.

Bangkok Bank has a simple online system. But you need to jump through the hoops to set it up. I think I remember setting up my ibanking at the main branch in Bangkok. That is the easy way to operate. They are very helpful there. It is on Silom Rd one block from the Sala Daeng BTS station. I use it all of the time to transfer money back and forth in Thailand. Also to pay bills in Thailand from the USA. And it is easy to transfer from the US to Thailand using a universal bank transfer. (I expect that the same thing works from Germany.) Bangkok Bank can transfer money to other accounts, but you need to go into the bank branch to register people and places to pay. And you can forget to do this when you are in Thailand. The alternative is to have a Thai telephone that works in your home country. Bangkok bank will send codes to this phone to authorize changes to your account. I do not know if ibanking can be setup this way. But you can try by calling them. When you setup your accounts. You should have had a phone number associated with them. (I keep my Thai phone number active by putting 20-100 Baht into the account using ibanking every 6 months) I understand that I can pay a fee to use my phone here in the states. But I have not tried. I am not sure if you can register your phone in your home country with Bangkok Bank. But you can try. For now, I think the best thing is to just send money from Germany into the account you need filled using the universal international transfer system. Then setup Ibanking the next time you are in Bangkok.