Monday, 24 September 2012
♥ The BKK trip (13 - 16 sept'12)
Finally I found time to sort and update about the trip...
About 2 weeks ago, (as some may know) I had my first family trip to oversea with my folks and dear sis.. And since bkk is a shopping paradise, it wasn't didi's cup of tea and he would rather stay home and hug his com to sleep.. Anyway, if he were to go, he will probably be wasting the money to be just sleeping in the hotel.. Hahaha..
Back to the trip.. Was really excited with the thoughts of seeing BKK for my first time though the thought of scotching sun and rainy days did scare me a little..
Nothing much to talk about upon our arrival that first night, we just met up with the tour agency people and they had arranged for our transport to the hotel and the rest of the dayssss were free & easy.. The hotel doesn't really fit in with what we saw on their web page, nonetheless, it was still decent..
On the second day, we went straight to the 四面佛 after breakfast for some praying before a short shopping at central world.. After that we hit off to pratunam market and practice our bargaining skill.. Managed to scoff through every corner and stall there with some purchase.. Visited the famous platinum as well, shuffling between zone 1 & 2 but only managed to walk 3 levels before hitting back hotel..
Third day, mummy wasn't feeling comfortable for long walk so we had daddy to accompany her for the day.. They went pratunam market on their own to get some (more) stuff while sis and I venture out to terminal 21 (@asok).. Before heading there, she showed me the short cut route to Siam paragon.. Initial plan was to see the aquarium first but we were too early and the mall wasn't even open.. So we took a train to asok and terminal 21 was just beside the station.. Was too excited about gg T21 that we didn't check the opening hour before setting off and we had to wait for a good 30mins before the mall opens..
Took a leisure walk along the mini market at the road side to kill time and realized that why don't they have a cafe or any drink store for us to chill out like mcd/Starbucks/coffee bean etc.. -_-"
Finally time's up and the gate was open.. Was really impressed cos T21 was really nice and interesting with the concept of airport/travel.. Each level is decorated with theme of different countries like Paris, London, Tokyo, Caribbean etc.. Staff working there also dress up, the information counter has a stewardess, the security guard wearing like a police officer and with a sensor gate, the cleaner some wore like London solider, Japanese etc.. It shop was as interesting as well and we managed to get a few stuff.. Not forgetting Charles & Keith is at terminal 21 as well ;)
Went back to hotel to unload our goods before another round at platinum again.. Before that, we chance upon a big scale shopping area probably of similar size to seoul's dongdaemun... too big that we almost lost our way inside and decided to get out cos the fashion wasnt really fashionable...
Reached platinum, Walking up and down, in and out every corner, every level of the 2 zone.. Totally like a expert and knowing which store at which zone at which level.. Best impression is odee at zone 2 lvl 4, not because the clothes is nice but there's 2 trans creating a lot of attention to the shoppers.. Hahaha... And before the shop closes, we also managed to walk every stores in zone 3..
Settled our dinner with my long waited A&W before heading home..
Last day, all of us sleep a little while longer, had our breakfast later and checkout in the noon with our luggage deposit and head straight to platinum again.. Bringing my folks to get their things and let them shop zone 3 before going to diamond shopping center and shubuya for a different experience but nothing much.. Then we decided to walk back to the hotel to redeem our luggage and wait for our bus to airport..
Upon reaching the airport, it was much earlier than we expect but still proceed to do our check-in and went in to the departure hall to see if there is anything to shop.. Sadly, there wasn't much except the duty free, F&B stores etc.. Not much selection (a small corner of only 1 store) for toys or nice souvenir..
The boarding time on the pass differ from the actual and we wasted about 2 hrs at the boarding gate and about 30mins on the waiting area before boarding the plane.. Anyway, sis and I were too hungry that we give in to that $5 nissim chicken cup noodle.. And I willingly spent another $5 on a ben's & Jerry chocolate chunk in cookies & cream.. Meltzzzz...
Overall, scoot wasn't that bad except that they don't serve plain water and they charge $4 for mineral water.. But they do have water dispenser that allows you to fill water to you bottle.. But I don't understand why they can't just take a cup, fill it with water from the dispenser and give it to me.. *roll eyes* also, in case you want to know, the aircon is super good condition that its you probably will freeze.. I bet it's their gimmick to sell the blanket + eye mask set that cost $22.. Haaaa...