Thursday, June 19, 2008

Day 4 - To Bangkok!

Woke up early to enjoy our last buffet breakfast at our hotel. =)

Let me introduce some of the food available~
There are always these few chefs who would help us cook our eggs and bacon. You can have it scrambled, omelette or sunshine way.
Bread - plain or wholemeal, waiting for you to bake them. Danish, croissant, hotdog buns, etc.
Porridge - plain, shredded chicken, brown rice, you tiao
Fried rice, noodles, steamed rice, cornflakes, salads, yogurt, halah food is available as well
Soup - Miso, tomato, veggie
Drinks - Coffee, tea, milk, soy bean milk, orange juice, fruit juices etc
Fruits - Watermelon, papayas and pineapples, almost after every meal we will have these fruits.

Quite a wide spread for breakfast yea~

Check out at 11+am. We were charged 20B for removing a mini bar from the room when we didn't!! Angry!

Phuket Airport


















Headed to the airport to wait for our flight to Bangkok at 2+pm. Basically, it don't like an airport. Haha. Maybe we are used to the grand airport we had in Singapore.

Left the airport at 4+ and headed to our hotel - Baiyoke Suite hotel. The taxi ride was 450B (S$). This is ridiculously high compared to the one we took when we go to the airport from our hotel. Shall reveal the price at the later post. Make a guess at the moment. =p

After staying at the luxury Royal Paradise Hotel, we were quite disappointed with the rooms here. But, nevertheless, it is still comfortable to stay in. The location is good too.

Baiyoke Suite hotel


















Each room has 2 compartments, the bedroom and the living room. There was a mini kitchen as well, but you are not allowed to cook anything. Lol.

I think we started out with the night market that is just outside our hotel. But surprisingly, most of the stores start to close at 8+pm. So, we decided to head to Suan Market which only closed at 12am.

Got onto a Tuk Tuk for 4 people and zoomed our way to shopping! haha..

Tuk Tuk


















The ride was super fast with some sudden turns. The four of us were holding on to whatever we can tightly. Another roller coaster ride. Lol. On top of this, we were also worried that the Tuk Tuk will bring us to other places as it is already quite dark at that time. But, lucky for us, we reached our destination shortly. It was overpriced at 120B (S$5) as compared to the metered taxi rides. But, for the excitement, I would say it is worth a try. =p

The Suan Lum market was big, around the size of 2 bugis street. We only managed to finish 1 part of it as we were tired from all the walking and bargaining. Do remember to bargain as the starting prices can be as high as 2 to 3 times the selling prices.
Suan Lum Night Market
















Suan Lum Night Market


















We managed to get metered taxi back to hotel despite the lateness. Those without the meter offered high prices like 400B (S$17) when our meter rides only cost us 50B (S$2).

Do remember to always take meter rides!!

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