If your passion is travel but your budget squeals like a rubber ducky underfoot every time that you hit the road, then maybe you might want to consider some of the very best cheap Asian Hotels. Really there are a lot of them, but unfortunately trying to find them is like looking for your lost keys, you know they are there somewhere but putting your hands on them is the tough part. All prices are in dollars which are getting to be a luxury item to carry as the dollar continues its steady death defying plummet (hint, hint Mr. President)

Orchidee Guesthouse, Utopia in Sihanoukville Cambodia

Asian Cheap hotels are not supposed to have a pool much less a nice pool that is within a 100 meters of the ocean. Brand new rooms and a cost for most rooms at $20 is a hard deal to pass up. Of course for the really cheap you can go to Utopia which is free, but you will have lots of company close enough to smell the garlic pizza and beer they had for a midnight snack, as that was all they could afford as they kept their travel money stash in dollars, which are losing their value so fast that if you tape them to the back of a moped it will go much faster according to physics, which states for every action there is a equal opposite reaction.

Bright Lotus 2 Phnom Penh Cambodia

Right across the street from the National Art Museum, kitty corner to the Cambodia palace (the place where the king lives) and on the same block as the world famous Foreign Correspondence Club, with air con, refrigerator and a TV that no one watch’s because you are in the best area in Phnom Penh for cruising around. The rooms are $14 to $18 a night USD or Zimbabwe dollars as they have almost reached parity in the local Cambodian markets.

AA Hotel Pattaya Thailand

I just love the pool; no I really love the view from the pool up on the 4 floor. The pool looks out over the Pattaya bay and is very close to Pattaya Walking Street, one of the best places in the world for people watching, as the crowd gets weirder as the night wears on. Around $25 USD but getting more expensive as the dollar continues its steady savings account emptying plummet.

Dai Hong Kim Saigon Vietnam

I really enjoy the city scanning view of Saigon from the 6th and 7th floors. If you can not get a room up high then any of the other hotels in the area will do. The highlight being the great Vietnamese coffee at the sidewalk café’s, affordable for even the poorest travelers carrying dollars, which are getting so light in value that you can use them as floatation devices.

Singapore Cheap Hotels Aljunied Stop on the Singapore subway.

Most people looking for cheap hotels in Singapore usually stay in Little India which is OK, but you get twice as much for half the price if you just go a couple more stops down. Walk out the main entrance at the Aljunied station into the little pocket park, turn right one block, turn left at the stop light, one block to the next stop light turn right again and pick anyone you want. The best street food is here as well as some of the most interesting nightlife in Singapore, at only $25 USD a night what a deal! I suppose to be fair I should mention that it is very close to an adult entertainment area, but hey people that stay in really cheap hotels in Asia have most likely seen this before. The hotels are getting a little more expensive as the value of the US buck, which is starting to look like Jonathan Livingston Seagull wearing his lead helmet on his first day of stunt flying.

Fred Tittle has lived and worked in holiday vacation resorts his entire life, from Lake Geneva’s Playboy Club, as a rock jock for KSPN FM in Aspen Colorado, he became a PADI Pro Scuba Diver in Hawaii, diving on Maui, Kauai, Kona on the big island, and Waikiki on Oahu. He founded EcoSea Dive in Sihanoukville Cambodia He teaches SSI and PADI scuba diving courses and runs liveaboards in the gulf of Thailand and other Asia adventure tours, http://www.ecosea.com

Fred’s new project http://www.CheapCharliesHotels.com where he reviews cheap hotels , budget guesthouses, discount accommodations and cheap international flights, but is really an excuse to go scuba diving on vacation more, Fred is in Phnom Penh trying to figure out where to travel to next in Asia.