Greetings
Always wave to children with catapults
Travelling as a couple
Double rooms cost less per person than single rooms, plus you can share the luggage and chivvy each other long. It felt like people treated us with more respect as a married couple; it's easier to pretend you are married even if you're not and you can make up children for added kudos! Apparently single men get hassled a lot by people offering them prostitutes.Budget
As a very general rule of thumb, $25 per day will feed two people and put a roof over their heads. Country-specific budgets can be found for Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.Hotel / Guest House / Resort
The golden roof implies this is probably a hotel
A. About $20
There's a lot of overlap between the quality of guest houses and hotels. Generally, hotels have toothbrushes in the rooms (to clean your bike with) and are more likely to have HBO on the TV, but we've found that guest house owners are more friendly and eager to help. This is very useful when you need directions to the next town! A resort tends to refer to a single out-of-town establishment rather than a large complex of hotels, in the european sense of the word.