My May 08 Trip, KL - Bangkok (2nd day)

Hoooaahhmm..... I'm still sleepy but got to wake up a bit early, coz our flight to Bangkok is at 10.40 AM.

1. Transport to Airport
Our plan is to take taxi from Anjung KL to KL Sentral (estimation RM 15) and take KLIA Express to KLIA (RM 35) and take the shuttle bus from KLIA to LCCT (RM 1.5). But when we got a taxi (although in the morning we only waited for about 3 minutes to get a cab) he offered us RM 70 to get to LCCT, and after counting that it would be a bit cheaper and less hassle we took his offer.
Oh yeah... taxi in KL is just crazy... NEVER charged us by the meter, you have to bargain first for the rate ( so you have to know the market price), this happened every time we used taxi when we were there, except when we used the taxi ticket at KL Sentral.


2. LCCT Airport
After done with check in, baggage and asking a zipped plastic bag for liquid in my hand carry baggage, we still have time for breakfast. After looking around at "Asian Kitchen" we chose (coin flipped) McD.



Knowing that the flight would be longer than KL-Jakarta flight, I pulled out my book, wallet (to buy in flight drink), camera & mint candy from my bag. Me & Srie felt that the flight to Bangkok uses a bigger airplane, this flight is also on time, we arrived at around 11.45 Bangkok time.
After landing I have to put back all my stuff into my bag, which takes some time and we became the last 3 people on board, I tried to take Srie's picture and the stewardess clapped her hand and said "come...come.. come... No.. No.. No... you can't do this miss, you could be considered as a hijacker"
Me & Srie looked at each other constantly & laughed.... "hahaha.... us??? highjacker??? gosh...."

"Highjacker pic"

Well... we guess it's better than one of our friend who was twice thought as TKW (women who worked abroad as domestic help), when she arrived at Jakarta airport & she was already dragged to the way to the special TKW airport (at least we were said as we COULD BE considered but not ALREADY considered as our friend were, pls keep in mind that it's NOT about comparing highjacker to domestic help but about could and already) ;D

3. Suvarnabhumi airport


Suvarnabhumi airport is big and very modern style, when we land and look from the airplane window it looks like rows of snail shells. Arrival hall is at the 2nd floor, bought local mobile card at the same floor too, it costs THB 199 for THB 100 credit. Then we went downstairs to go to the airport shuttle bus stand (near entrance 8) which passes Asia Hotel (route AE4), we already bought the ticket at the airplane for THB 150.





Though the girl at the bus stand told us that restaurants are at 3rd floor, when we saw a food court near the bus stand (Magic Food Court)we got in, looks like most of the airport employee are eating at this food court, which is a good sign for me coz it means it's not touristy. And it really was a good choice, very cheap and very very delicious food (the best tasting food we had in Bangkok), I had pork leg stew with rice and deep fried papaya salad plus mineral water only cost me THB 80 (around USD 3), this food court used the coupon system just like the most food court system in
Bangkok.

4. Transport from airport

We told the bus driver assistant our destination is Asia hotel, so they would tell us when to get down. The bus itself is quite ok, as they provide a special space for luggage, AC is working and it's almost empty so very convenient.
But when we got down from the bus, we got the shock of our live, as we just come to know that the hotel is at the opposite side of the road where we get down from the bus, and when we ask a guy on how to go to Asia Hotel he showed us to go up the stairs to the BTS Station, which is quite something (Pls keep in mind that we are carrying a 15kg luggage and backpack each!!!!) - ohhh... and he showed us the stairs with a grinning face... I just want to give him a knock on his head for the mocking grin. Thankfully I saw somebody crossed the road about 50 meters back at the cross road, so we cross there and walked to the hotel.

our room at Asia Hotel

5. Walking around Bangkok
The plan for today was walk to Pratunam market, look around Siam square and watch the Calypso Cabaret at our hotel. But we can't do all that coz it's vesak day so they are not performing for today and tomorrow, plus it's raining after we checked in, so we just took our time to be lazy in the room and chose to just walked around Central World Plaza (this has a connecting door to the Chitlom BTS station) which used to be the World Trade Center, a very impressive high end mall, made it a bit hard for us to find a food court or restaurant which fits for a budget traveler like us :P
I have heard about "The Loft" but after seeing it, it's just too touristy for us, so we looked around and found a place to eat (but too bad the food is not that good, the food is just too hot). We did a little shopping at Boots pharmacy, and I'm just in love with Boots product of Vanilla Cocoa (the body lotion just made my body smell like chocolate cookies)