Who else but me would get off a business class Thai Airways flights and spend the night (what was left of it as we arrived at midnight) in a $12 hotel!  OK you have to be real, you get what you pay for.  Transit Hotel, Mysore Road filled it’s purpose.  We paid for a reasonably quiet & clean room to catch a few winks in before the bus trip to Coorg and that is exactly what we got.  We had taken the airport bus to the stop nearest the bus station (the driver told us where to get off) and got an auto-rickshaw to the hotel.  He asked 300, I offered 120, we settled on 150 and we probably still got ripped off but we were too tired and just wanted to crash out.

It’s the first door on the left, we had to bang on the door and wake up the sleeping receptionist and give him the voucher from Agoda.

Very basic room but it had all the necessities for a stay of 5 hours.  A/C, bathroom, tv (which we didn’t need) and it was clean.

I set my iPhone to wake us up at 5am and we walked across the street to the bus station.

It was pretty quiet and the information booth wasn’t open yet.  I tried to find a direct bus to Coorg but couldn’t find one so took a luxury bus to Mysore instead.  I had been told that Mysore has better connections to Gonikoppal where we would get another bus to our lodge.