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Hi I think that most hotels will accommodate your two children- they are quite young, and hotels often supply fold-up beds for kids.Best is to enquire at a few - email them with you request. In KL, there are many great attractions. The Petronas Towers are a must. The Batu Caves (just outside city) are very old and amazing Hindu caves which are fascinating to visit. LOTS of steps to get up to main cave. A taxi can get you there. Chinatown...

Remember when looking for "cheap", that Bangkok, like many other Asian cities are full of knockoffs. Cheap knockoffs are all over the place. If the price is too good to be true, - it probably is......

What is the address for your hotel? Do you have this hotel name spelled right? Pratunam Princess or is it the Pathumwan Princess? http://pprincess.com/Default.aspx If it is the Pathumwan Princess that hotel is not cheap compared to other places in Thailand, might be kind of tacky to take a bus to that hotel. If your flight lands late at night there is no bus option for you. When you leave the arrivals hall you will be surrounded by touts...

There are no direct flights from Siem Reap to Chiang Mai (at least there were none when we were there in March). You have to go via Bangkok. Siem Reap Airways used to do this link, but they have lost their licence, I believe. We did a three-day trek, but don't have the company we did this with handy. I will look this up later and post.

first of all, id skip osaka since youre going to be in tokyo anyway. and would include definitelly visiting the himeji castle as a half a day trip from kyoto or on the way to hiroshima. you havent mentioned whether you have already bought the japan rail pass (since transportation is quite expensive in japan) so that we would know whether or not transportation is included in the money youre having. so if transportation is already paid for,...

Have you asked the hotel what services they offer? Or if they provide can provide a list of registered and approved child carers? Or are you hoping to recruit some unknown person with an unknown history,via a travel forum? This is a Travel Forum and not an employment agency. Please read the guidelines.

Yes indeed Manfred - I agree totally! Well, in fact I did do just that. Beijing for me this year, and Hong Kong for me in 2011!!!

Hi - there are places that you can camp - mostly in the north - but most are run by some kind of tour or adventure company. There aren't really places or even campgrounds where you could set up a tent (nor would you want to) the way you can in other countries. If that is what you are looking for then there are some really stunning places for trekking/camping.

Thanks for the input!

Vietnam is the greatest resource outside of china for pirated CD DVD and software.. i have entered Vietnam a number of times with my computer, my ipod and my cell phone etc..nothing nothing absolutely nothing.. perhaps there was a time when these things used to happen.. but as countries liberalized, these archaic and impossible to enforce rules were cancelled..