When I was in Bangkok last month I thought about the hotel I had stayed at during my first visit there 20 years ago. I wondered if I was saying in the same building. The surroundings were familiar and there were also some things that looked the same.

The staircase in the lobby of the hotel got me thinking about the hotel from long ago.

I found a picture that I took 20 years ago and there was a big staircase, but it looked different. There was a big lobby like the one this time, but it looked very different that in the the old picture. Definitely now the same, or remodeled from long ago.

I also found a picture of the outside of the hotel from 2003 and it looked much different. I then decided to see if I could find the The Grand Hotel, Bangkok from back then and visit it again.

I found the hotel that I staid in then and found that it was abandoned and that the lower levels had been stripped of the cladding. From what I could find it is undergoing a renovation and will be re-purposed some time in the future.

The hotel building still looms over the area and will most like look very nice again when it is in use again. Perhaps I will see it again someday, but not 20 more years from now during a work trip.

Perhaps I will just take a look at it sometime in the near future using Google Maps to see if it has changed.

Steven