Bangkok hostel offers guests prison experience

**OhOh** · 19-08-2017, 12:08 PM

Bangkok hostel offers guests prison experience - Global Times

"With its narrow rooms, metal bars and bunk beds, Bangkok's first prison-themed hostel promises the look and feel of a real jail in the bustling Thai capital.

The Sook Station hostel in Bangkok's Udom Suk neighborhood offers guests pin-striped pyjamas for 700 baht ($21) and a wall with a height chart where they can have their mugshots taken.

The nine-room hostel is the first foray into the hospitality industry for Sittichai Chaivoraprug, 55, and his wife, 49-year-old Piyanat Teekavanich, after careers in the technology sector.

They were inspired by a shared love of travel and the 1994 prison escape film The Shawshank Redemption, starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.

The hostel's design includes black-out doors and windows in two rooms to create the feeling of being in solitary confinement. Showers are located on a caged-in rooftop.

For guests who may feel a sense of claustrophobia, seven rooms have a small balcony.

Thailand expects to welcome almost 35 million foreign tourists - nearly half the country's population - in 2017. Many of them visit or transit through Bangkok, a regional travel hub.

Sook Station charges between 790 to 1,630 baht a night for the prison-themed experience.

"People love it or hate it," Sittichai said, adding that most bookings have come by word of mouth.

Some guests like Yui, a 42-year-old hotel worker, are repeat customers.

"I feel it's a real prison because when I arrived it was dark," Yui said. Now on her third stay, she said its style and friendly staff "feels like home."

https://www.booking.com/hotel/th/soo...al&type=total&
Anybody stayed there yet?

**Wilsonandson** · 19-08-2017, 12:32 PM

**harrybarracuda** · 19-08-2017, 12:47 PM

The Atlanta has been doing a prison experience for years.

The Atlanta also does not welcome undomesticated people – the sort of people who do not know how to sit on a chair or at table, who do not know how to behave, and whose appearance and manners are so disgraceful as to bring disrepute upon their own countrymen. Their presence puts other people off. These undomesticated people should stay home lest the Thais take one look at them and say, "Mother, father no teach", which is one of the most opprobrious reflections that can be made about a person in the Thai idiom.

**Klondyke** · 19-08-2017, 01:32 PM

Where in Thai prisons they have beds?

**snakeeyes** · 19-08-2017, 01:35 PM

Oh oh , Oh no I did this article 5 years ago ,well it seems like 5 years ,

**harrybarracuda** · 19-08-2017, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Oh oh , Oh no I did this article 5 years ago ,well it seems like 5 years ,

When you say "I did", I assume you mean "I cut and pasted and tried to pretend I wrote it".

**snakeeyes** · 19-08-2017, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by snakeeyes

Oh oh , Oh no I did this article 5 years ago ,well it seems like 5 years ,

When you say "I did", I assume you mean "I cut and pasted and tried to pretend I wrote it".

Harry Harry FFS you're a crying old git , I " ALWAYS " put the link at the bottom of every article , Thank you for your concern ,

**flyfisher davis** · 20-08-2017, 05:47 PM

Small things amuse small minds...Who's brilliant fucking idea was this, and how much did they get paid.....? I want that position. I have hundreds of stupid ideas...!

**DJ Pat** · 20-08-2017, 06:28 PM

What are the meals?

Canned fish and crap rice
Fish heads and greens soup, tough stalks included
Tough mama noodles rehydrated in tepid water

**Warwick** · 21-08-2017, 08:26 AM

35 people to a room?

**OhOh** · 21-08-2017, 01:37 PM

My apologies for posting again. I've only just been released.

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