For mid to highend, you can eat at Pub Street- the entire road literally consists of restaurant, bar and pubs offering lots of Western, Thai and even Indian food. Expect to spend about USD5- 7 for dinner (excluding liquor).
So far, the lowest priced in Pub Street area is Angkor Famous restaurant (generally with more people there compared to other restaurant). No guide book wrote about this place but we are quite happy with the place. Gives free pop corn (after you order and wait for the food), free water and free fruits.
Warning- avoid ice as it may cause you stomach problems (it did to me). If you are worried about sensative stomach, then you may not want to have hawker food. Still, I have seen many foreigners having hawker food.
Mandalay Inn is also have good selection of food at reasonable price. For instance, breakfast cost USD1.50 consists of 1. (either scrambled eggs, or tomato ommelet, or two boiled eggs) + 2 long pieces of bread with butter and jam + Tea or Coffee.
To a Westerner, the prizes are cheap but to us Malaysians, because everythin
g is quoted in USD or its equivalent value, one meal can easily cost you between RM10 to RM20, probably slightly lower than the prize of ordering a meal and a cup of coffee from Coffee Bean or Secret Recipe here.

» Light coloured TShirts and lightweight cotton pants.
» T shirts are also sold at very low price. Best place to get them is at the Angkor temple areas- mostly women or small kids will peddle it. Lowest prize offered to us: USD5 for 3 shirts.
» I do not encourage singlets, revealing clothes, shorts – because if you visit temples, it is not so appropriate. Polyester blouses also make the wearer extremely uncomfortable especially if drenched in sweat.

» In Cambodia, you cannot simply ask the driver to be your guide to take you around the temple. Regulations require a guide to be certified (with an id card and generally wears a beige shirt uniform).
» Standard rate: USD20-25.
» How to get a guide: Recommendation from the guest house or at the Tourist Center.
» Word of advice: Insists on a good guide who will give detailed explanation. Make it clear that the services of the guide will be prematurely cut short if the services is not at par. We were not so lucky because we got a guide (recommended by the tuk tuk driver) who doesn’t explain much. He basically just introduced the place. A good guide should come along if you are climbing the temples, explain the history, the story behind the carvings/temple/place, volunteer information without being asked. This is what we have seen other guides doing when we visit the sites in which strongly lacking in our guide. We learnt our lesson and want to make sure you don’t have the same experience.
Guide books Widely Sold in Cambodia

» Lonely Planet photocopied books on Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam & Thailand are sold as low as USD5- 6. Buy from the peddlers in Angkor Wat temples or at Pub Street (town center near Old Market. A number of books are sold by people who were handicapped due to stepping on land mines or war with the Khmers). You may want to consider buying from these group as they badly need the money. But what you see is what you get- imitation are also of low quality as the maps are not clear.
» BTW, when I was at the Women’s Temple, a couple of Thais were trying to sell us the books at USD10- don’t buy from them.
» Another good book (also strongly recommended in most guide books) are Ancient Angkor by Michael Freeman & Claude Jacques- filled with high quality photographs and extensive writings about the history. It is also sold for about USD 5 to 6.
» In most guesthouses/hotels, look out for the free copy of Travel Guides (comes with sponsored advertisements but very detailed maps). You can find places to stay, eat and history of temples from the book.

(Note: The above information is based on my travel there in 2006)

To reach Angkor Wat, we flew from LCCT Terminal in Kuala Lumpur to Siem Reap, Cambodia.

What we did was we got on to the Air Asia plane via the back entrance and sat near the back washroom. When we arrived at the Siem Reap airport, the plane doors could also be opened from both sides, front and back. So we literally need not queue and went out through the back door.

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» Tuk tuk is fun! It is actually a motorbike with a carriage attached to it. 2 persons can comfortably sit in it. Especially when you reach Angkor area, where left and right consists of jungles, the breeze and wonderful scent of the greens are refreshing. Our tuk tuk rental: one day is USD12 per tuk tuk. If you want to visit far temples such as Banteay Srey (Woman’s temple), the driver may double the fare by another USD12 extra because the temple is about 40km from Siem Reap town. If you are only taking the tuk tuk to airport to board a plane, it is USD4.
» If there are many people going, then perhaps can rent car/van/bus.
» Rent a bicycle- only if you are staying longer and know the routes. A fun way to travel- I have seen many tourists (Japanese, Mat sallehs) using bicycle. Rent from the guesthouse: Mountain bike: USD3 per day and normal bicycle: USD2 per day. Suggest you rent mountain bike because the road can be quite sandy and uneven with lots of potholes. Mountain bike got better grip and prevent easy fall. I actually recently a mountain bike and cycled to my heart’s content- alone. Angkor’s road are quite flat so it is quite fun- but try to get back by 6pm because the traffic is very bad with lots of pedestrians, bicycles, motors, lorries in the road during that time- the after work traffic, I guess