A hundred bucks for a cheap room.
And yeah, it's too hot. It's too hot to wait outside for an Uber.
Call it a day to travel. BKK flight leaves at 9:30 AM, gets in at 7:30 PM. Two days to mall-walk and visit some souks when it cools off. Another day to go to the so-so semi-Louvre. And the big mosque. On average, I'm good for about 10 minutes -if it's a major mosque.
On the way back, maybe I'd book a two nights at the beach. But at quadruple Thai rates for a much less good beach experience.
15 hours to São Paulo, Brazil, BTW. 6 hours further to BKK. Flying from BKK to SP with a short stop over in Dubai is only 24 hours, so I'm rethinking if the juice of laying over is worth the boring-mall squeeze and paying triple for hummus.
The diff between a 15 hour flight and a 24 hour one is basically 1 extra mg of Xanax.
Dating fun facts: 3-5 men for every single woman in Dubai. Mostly, you'll be hooking up with Filipina's. Strong gold digging vibe (per Reddit). The Arab local women bring you into honor-killing territory. I am psyched that I'm not looking.
São Paulo, Brazil is a mecca of big-bottomed, very intellectual women (per my friend). Downside: little English spoken, you must speak Portuguese.