Friday 6th
Exit Phuket - we are booked on to a 1.40pm flight from Phuket International Airport to Bangkok. Pre-ordered a cab to go to the airport at 11.30am. Paid 500THB. Bad turns up at 11.30am with the wrong room number and no name. We were the only two people in the foyer looking for a cab to go to the airport but he wouldn’t take us without documentation which we didn’t have. Reason isn’t part of their thinking in Pukhet. He lost out on a job, we got another cab for 800THB.
Got to the Airport and Allan had put our ¾ bottle of bourbon in his carry on bag. They took it going through the gate. He should have put in his booked through luggage.
First time ever, we have flown in a plane that was ontime. We taxied out a few minutes before time and lifted off on time. That’s where the good story ended. We got off in Bangkok, got a shuttle to the baggage collection area, that took 10 minutes and the luggage emerged 45 minutes after that. We decided to take the train into Bangkok city - very good but we had to change and get the MRT. Took a ten minute walk to get it. The security scanner at the MRT pulled Wendy over for something in her bag. The security guard was incompetent and disinterested. Eventually made it to Silom district and found our accommodation at the Sunflower Place Guesthouse. It was a nice place in a very seedy area. Went out for dinner in a sleazy back street very near our lodgings. It turned out the area/street is the Gay section of Bangkok. We had the best meal we’d had since leaving Australia.
Saty 7th;
Had a lazy day. Walked to the Sofitel (just down the street) to book into their main restaurant for their seafood buffet that evening. Booked OUT. Bugger. Then went for a nostalgic trip on the MRT and back to the Sunflower. Had another foot massage that evening and another Thai meal off the street. Early night.
Bangkok was only a stepping stone for our travel from Phuket to Cambodia so basically did very little except kill time. On to Cambodia.
