Bangkok Trip 2010 - All Aboard!!!

by - July 06, 2010

I'll try to make this as short as possible because I'm not up to writing a very detailed travel blog today. I just feel that I need to get this out of my system so I can move to writing other things. Haha. So...

Unlike my Hongkong trip last January, this was the first time I stepped on Thailand. It was also the first time that I went with just one other person - KC. Usually, when I go on out-of-the-country trips with friends, the headcount at the minimum is 5. Anyhoo, since our flight was scheduled at 9:30 pm on Inauguration Day, KC and I decided to meet at the north MRT station at 3:30pm so we'll have ample time to get to the airport on the other side of the city just in case it's traffic. If no cabbie will take us, we have the option to ride the MRT. Wais!

We got to the NAIA Terminal 3 in about 45 minutes. So we had like more than 4 hours to kill, which was fine with both of us because we needed to change our money to Baht at the airport and we had no idea where it is. So, while waiting for our gate to open, KC and I ate at Yellow cab. At almost 100 pesos a slice, it looked pathetically small next to the humongous slice of yummy pizza from S&R.

We killed more time by walking around the shops and then had some money exchanged to Baht at the currency exchange counter near the international terminal fee booth (rate was at Php1.70 = THB1). After than, we decided to check-in our bags and then wait for boarding time at the gate, and maybe catch a bit of sleep. But since we still have a bit of time to kill, we decided to get some coffee at Bo's Coffee near our gate. Perfect!

At boarding, as expected, everyone stood to line up even if the ground stewardess announced the seat numbers that needed to board first. Guess, everyone can't wait to get their butts on the plane. Inside the plane, I was surprised to find the space between the rows was so small it was impossible to recline the seats without making the person at the back of your seat feel even more uncomfortable. You can't even pass by to go to the toilet! WTF??!!! I don't remember my flight to HK being this sucky.

But even at that situation, KC and I found something to laugh at. The whole cabin was filling up with fog, like a fog machine feeding a stage with smoke. We found it so hilarious and a bit weird that we took pics just to be able to laugh about it again afterward. We concocted all sorts of stories to go with the fog and I'm guessing, since we were the only ones who found it funny, the other passengers thought we were smacked in the head or something.

here's proof of cebupac's fog machine

Everything went back to normal after take-off, thank God! And I was even able to take a snapshot of Manila from the air. It was a pretty sight. Clear enough for the lights to be caught by my measly point-and-shoot camera.


We arrived at the Suvarnabhumi (pronounced as Suwanapoom) Airport just before midnight Thailand time. I was excited to be there for the first time, and thinking of the adventures I was about to embark on. Yahooo! Of course, we just had to laugh at some really unusual things in the airport, like this really big toilet sign that's like 2 feet square.


After breezing through immigration, getting our luggage, and filling our pockets with every map and brochure we could find at the airport, we headed out the doors and rode our taxi to the hotel. We paid THB400 up to our hotel in Sukhumvit. We arrived before 2am and our friendly receptionist Ornitcha (something like that) welcomed us with a smile and great news that we have been upgraded from Standard room to Superior room and she gave us access to the WiFi and our welcome drink coupon, which we can claim anytime.



The room we got was on the 2nd floor (Rm 216) and very near the WiFi router, cool! Inside it was spacious and very clean. The mini-bar and fridge was fully stocked and the cable channels were actually in English (in HK we couldn't watch anything decent)! The bed was already calling to me, so after I settled in, I took a shower. After about an hour, it was lights out. Zzz...

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