Earlier this month we had a short 5-day family trip to Bangkok, the capital city of Thailand. The last time I was there was in September last year with my mom, my aunt, and Miss Kiki. This time, we had a larger group. Both my parents and my baby sister and her boyfriend went with us. DH stayed home because he already booked a long vacation for our upcoming trip.
In the morning, the 6 of us stuffed ourselves into a Silver Bird and rode to the airport. We flew out of Soekarno Hatta's T3. Unlike when I was going to Singapore with DH, this time we had enough cards to get all of us in to Sapphire Lounge for free.
The Sapphire Lounge is nicer looking than the older lounges in T2, but the food items are about the same. Of course, it is cleaner! They served Ardent Coffee at the coffee bar, so that's a huge improvement. The free bottle of beer is limited to one per person though, in that sense it's not as good.
Even though the lounge offers food, we already had our own pork curly noodles from Pluit that my sister's boyfriend brought for us. Of course we ate the yummy noodles. It was an easy choice!
The lounge offers 5 minutes of free back massage, so Miss Kiki took advantage of it. She didn't look too happy though! Haha...
Finally it was time to board the airplane. Our gate was all the way to the end!
We booked airport transfer from Klook to ride from Don Mueang to the city centre for convenience, as travelling with 6 people and luggages was not easy. Our ride was a 10 seater van and it took us straight to our hotel in Pratunam area.
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| Checking in |
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| Free shuttle service |
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| Decent room |
It was around dinner time that we checked in, so we dropped off our luggages and went straight out to find something to fill our bellies. The destination was Neon Night Market, but we stopped instead for a busy-looking diner on the way there. We think that in Thailand, most Thai food would taste pretty good and that stands true.
With no one hangry, we continued our walk to Neon Market. Grandpa gave Miss Kiki a birthday present in the form of Thai Baht, so she was very excited to go shopping. With her money, she bought a little plush unicorn keychain with her name on it. She also went around to look for a pouch for her money (because of course, she didn't think of bringing her wallet) but didn't find anything she liked enough. Neon Market is not that large, so it was a good size to walk around without getting overwhelmed. There they sell a lot of food, clothes, and other stuff. It has improved since our last visit in September. We finished there and walked back to the hotel.
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| Can you spot her new unicorn? |
On the next day we had breakfast at McDonald's for convenience. It was very busy! From there we took a taxi van to Chatuchak Weekend Market for more shopping. Luckily the weather was friendlier, we didn't get the usual scorching sun of Bangkok. We walked around the market for a while, Miss Kiki was surprisingly agreeable to this shopping. Before, she would complain lots when it comes to market shopping. She bought a unicorn pouch to keep her money in, and she also bought more unicorn pouches as souvenirs for her friends.
At around lunch time we had enough of the market so we took a taxi to our next destination. We couldn't be too picky with the taxi, so the 6 of us sardined ourselves into a small cab to May's Garden House Restaurant (Totoro Restaurant)!
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| Back seat! |
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