Southeast Asia's cheapest holiday destination

For those of our readers who still take holidays, we conducted a poll last week to find out which Southeast Asian destination offers the best value -- because a bankers' ransom is not what it used to be.

The overwhelming verdict of our readers is that Indonesia is the cheapest place to go this summer, followed by Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia, in that order. Despite our readers' increasingly eccentric voting patterns, Indonesia seems a reasonable choice.

A cursory glance at Mandarin Oriental's rack rates shows a deluxe room in August costs $345 a night in Bangkok, which would get you a club room in Manila -- plus change for a...