The third day, is our flight to Bangkok (by Tiger Airways).
After breakfast, the instant noodle we bought the day before, we packed up our stuff,check out from the hostel and headed to the airport for the flight to Bangkok. At check in counter, is where the first "accident" happens, which is.... Naomi's luggage is overweight, we didnt purchased any check in baggage because we didn't think it would be overweighted (and it succesfully passed the airport baggage check in in Indonesia) thankfully the lady at the check in counter allowed some of the stuff to be stuffed to my bag just so its not overweighted anymore, because if it is overweight we have to pay about 30 SGD for the excess baggage. Actually Tiger Airways hand carry luggage allowance is heavier then AirAsia's, they allowed 10 kg hand luggage while AirAsia only allowed 7 kg, how is it passed the aiport in Indonesia, no one knows. We decided to leave some of our stuff at the airport left luggage service, so we would not have the same trouble when flying back to Singapore from Bangkok. The flight to Bangkok is about 2 hours.
Arrived at Svarnabhumi airport, at the immigration queue don't forget to take the TRUE simcard, it is free, contains 7 baht inside, where you can top it up if you want to use it more. Before we take the airport link to city, we eat first at Subway, in my opinion, the healthiest fastfood ever existed. This is because the airport link token machine only take 100 baht bill, so in order to change it we decided to have lunch and use the change. There are two airport link connecting Svarnabhumi and the city, The Express Line and the City Line, we take the City Line because it will make a stop at Ratchaparop station, near our hotel. The last stop for airport link is Phaya Thai station. It cost about 40 baht per person from airport to out station.
When we alight at the Ratchaparop station we got confused again because the hotel is nowhere to be found, we booked a room at Baiyoke Sky hotel, this is supposed to be the tallest hotel in Bangkok, so i think it will be easy to find because when it is tall it is easily seen. So we ask the officer at the station, and apparently his English are not so good, so we just pointed the hotel picture we have at the booking form, and he smiles and just walk a little to the wall, and pointed at the building. Apparently because it is too close and too big so we can not see it. And yes it was very close, only about 5 minutes walk from the airport link station.
The hotel check in was a breeze, the minute we walk in there are already a hotel officer who pointed us to the lift and said, lobby, 18th floor, and he pressed the elevator floor button. It only takes about 5 minutes to check in, our room is at the 44th floor. Yes, this hotel is not for those who are afraid of heights, its lowest room are at 22nd floor. The room is very spacious, even the bathroom is larger than our hostel at Singapore. There we tried to contact our Thailand friend, Pucci. We promised to meet up at Thaksin Station, and then go to Asiatique Riverfront together.
To go Thaksin Station, our way is Phaya Thai - Siam - Thaksin station. Apparently, the ticket machine at Phaya Thai station (not the airport link one) only takes coins, so if you dont have any, change it at the ticket office booth near the machines. Here the station tickets are not tokens anymore, it is like a card, you out it inside a machine when you entered the station, take it back, and when you exited the station you put it back inside again. After we met with Pucci, we go to Central Pier, to take the shuttle boat to Asiatique, and it is free, so there are people lining up for it, we waited about 15 minutes. Asiatique basicly an open air riverfront mall. There are ferris wheel there, and also Calypso show too. There we have our dinner, the original Tom Yum from Thailand. And thank you very much Pucci for the treats, if you ever come to Indonesia we will treat you back. After that, we go walking around Asiatique and as the clock almost reaches 11 pm we decided to call the night.
- Next is Bangkok day 2, Madame Tussaud Museum and River cruise -
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