In this short letter, we present an explicit upper bound for the optimal value of a bidimensional optimal stopping problem Eis a geometric Brownian motion coupled with an arbitrary diffusion process y(.), θ (., .) and c(.) are given positive, continuous functions and β > 0 is a fixed constant. The present result is derived from a corresponding Lagrangian dual problem, and using a recent result of Makasu (Seq Anal 27:435-440, 2008). Examples are given to illustrate our main result.