I think I had the best night of sleep that I’ve had so far. We slept at about 11PM yesterday (it must have been the relaxing massage that made me sleepy), and I woke up at 10AM.
We went downstairs to have breakfast, then went to pick up our clean laundry! It was pretty nice having a clean load of laundry for less than $4.50 Canadian. Lisa and I walked back to our room, proceeded to pack up our luggage and then checkout. Checkout was at noon, and they’re serious about this stuff, because our cards to get into our room stopped working at 12PM sharp. Anyhow, Terry and Tammy managed to get late checkout (4PM) and our flight wasn’t till 6:30PM, so we dropped off our suitcases in their room and headed to the pool!
Lisa and I headed to the secondary pool (which is still really big) and hung out with Ron, Tania, Terry, Tammy, Christina, and Jimmy T while Becky, Darren, Henry, and Anthony went for a massage. We hung out poolside till about 3:30 and then went to shower. The weather here has been somewhat odd…. There tends to be one torrential downfall of rain for about 15 minutes per day, then it stops and then the sun returns. This happened while we were in the pool, and it was funny because 2 minutes previous I was dancing in the pool and was joking about how it was a ‘rain dance’. Low and behold, the drops start to fall, and then all of a sudden it’s raining cats and dogs. Anyhow, Terry, Ron and myself decided to perform a ‘sun dance’ and about 10 minutes later the Sun returned.
We checked out at 4PM and gathered in the lobby area of the resort. Here are some photos of Dar, Anth and Henry while we were waiting:
Here are some more photos of our resort:
We left the resort on a a pick up truck with bench seating on the flat bed. All 12 of us were squished into this truck, and Anthony and Henry had to stand on the rear bumper and hang onto the roof rack while we took our 10 minute ride to the Samui airport. Our entire luggage was on the roof of this poor pickup truck as well. Anyhow, we all made it there in once piece thank goodness.
We hung out at the cool outdoor airport and ate at the restaurant (which by the way served very good food). Bangkok airlines are actually quite impressive. I’m impressed by their service, and by their food. They even served a meal on our 45 minute flight from Samui to Bangkok!
Off to the big city of Bangkok!
October 25, 2006 Bangkok
We got into the airport and picked up our luggage. The airport here is new so it’s fairly nice. I have found that hospitality in Thailand has been fairly mediocre at best. The men seem to be more polite and nicer than the women… in Bangkok and in Ko Samui. We’ll see what happens for the rest of the trip, but that has been my initial impression. We took 4 cabs back to the hotel, and entered into the lobby of our hotel. First impression??? It’s an excellent hotel.
We definitely haven’t been traveling cheap in terms of accommodation (getting deals at least), but the hotels have just gotten better and better as the trip has went on. We were then escorted upstairs to the 27th floor for a private check-in. There’s a lounge with free wireless internet access, and magazines etc. We waited around while the guys pulled out their laptops and we checked-in.
We eventually dispersed and went to our rooms. Our room is really nice! Here's some photos:
At about 11PM, most of us (except for Becky who was feeling a little under the weather), met at the lobby and headed out for a meal. We headed West on Silom Road towards Convent Road. On Convent road, there are a bunch of street side stalls that Frommers (travel book) recommended. We ate noodles, fried chicken, tofu, pork skewers… We ate all that for about 150 baht.
We headed back to the hotel and got ready for bed. We're getting up at 7AM tomorrow for breakfast then heading to The Grand Palace... so time for bed! nite!
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