Tuesday
27th /Wednesday 28th October
Dubai/Thailand
We
knew today was going to be along one so we had another later start
with coffee and croissants in our room. We had to check out by
12:00pm, which was a shame) but the hotel has a very niffty
hospitality lounge were we could leave our stuff for the day.
We
took the monorail onto The Palm proper. This crazy man made island
in the shape of a palm is wacky but seems to work. There is plenty
of work still to be done but it's alive and living with residents
now. Then it was back to the beach and another 3 hours in the water
park. (We're suckers for water sports:)
The
Atlantis has lived up to everything we had hoped it would. It really
is a destination in itself and quite enticing. We could have stayed
longer in this crazy place. It's one of those rare destinations that
truly caters for both kids and adults.
We'll
make the next 22 hours quick. 7:00pm – taxi to airport. 10:30pm
flight to Mumbi. Fabulous plane, private cubicals, totally flat bed
and big TV, nice food and booze...we had a ball...did not sleep a
wink because of all the toys to play with. 3:00am Whisked off the
plane by security people to the Business lounge. 5:00am politely
escorted back by security to another plane for flight to Bangkok.
(there is definitely something to be said about BC). Tragedy – only
standard business class seats, that were not totally flat. Ugh, but
we napped and survived. 11:00am arrive in Bangkok. 1:30pm Flight to
Krabi Island. 5:00pm arrive in our suite at the hotel. Bloody
exhausted!
Have
immediately fallen in love with Krabi, the venue and the view.
Beautiful hotel with a private beach overlooking the bay. Our room
has a great balcony with an outdoor two- man spa (actually, you
could squeeze another two in there), day bed, bla bla bla, you get
the picture.... overlooking the beach and ocean....ahhhh. A quick
dinner in one of the restaurants...(cheap and delicious...we love
Thailand and realise were a definitely not in Europe anymore when the
bill arrives) and then crashed.
