I’ll be surprised if I slept two hours solidly in the end. There was a lot of noise when I got into bed and it was just so hot, and then I think the noise started again at about 4am. What made my decision about this place originally, apart from the recommendations online, was the fact that they said they had free wifi and free breakfast (a rarity in Thailand it seems, the free breakfast not the wifi) it turns out though that the guesthouse is closing down next month and so have turned off their wifi and the breakfast is a couple of slices of toast which is totally good for me, what wasn’t so great though was the rat that kept coming out to wink at me as I was sitting in the garden. I mean he was kinda cute, if only he wasn’t a rat; it was the way he kept coming out to look at me that was so funny though!
Anyway I’ve already decided this immediate area really isn’t for me, at the end of the little lane is Subway, KFC, Burger King and Macdonalds! Nope definitely not my kinda thing. Thing is capital cities are a nightmare for decent accommodation at a reasonable price and when you’re on your own it suddenly seems like a lot of money. I don’t particularly even want to be in this area but I guess it’s just for one more night then I’m on my way again. When I come back at the end of my trip I’m going to try and find something a little nicer though.
I had a bit of a mad dash around looking for another place to stay because as well as trying to find somewhere else I also need to sort out my onward train and bus travel to Phuket.
Eventually I found a place that I decided to go with and in hindsight I actually have absolutely no idea why! The room was the price of the garden bungalow I had in Sukhothai and I actually think it was smaller than the cells on Alcatraz! But it’s only to sleep right?
From one guesthouse to the other is just under 1 km, which I know is no distance but in this heat…….I really wanted to get a ride as by now it was 12 pm and the hottest time to be carrying two backpacs around Bangkok but none of the tuk tulk drivers wanted to know, they all wanted double what I had paid last night to come from the railway station to here, I knew it shouldn’t cost that much, they just knew they could get a better fare if they hung on for another tourist so once again, this takes me back to a place in Vietnam, I end up walking a ridiculous distance in stupid heat for the sake of a couple of pounds and the principal of the thing.
The room I eventually took, as I say, was little more than the size of the bed with a fan above. I had things to charge up which was at the point I realised there were no sockets in the room. Lots of other similar situations on other trips suddenly come flooding back to me! Apparently I can charge all my things up at reception but after losing my iphone last time there’s no way I’m leaving that there. Bloody hell why didn’t I just stay where I was?! Oh and did I forget to mention the bathroom and shower were on a different floor? L
A double room with a/c and private bathroom was £10 more but after an internal battle on cost and comfort I gave in and asked to move rooms. I had seen one of the double rooms being cleaned and it looked quite nice actually, a million times nicer than the one I was in, which made me want to switch. The room I was given though was barely larger than the one I had come from although it did have a/c and a private bathroom and a TV! The lady at reception even said it had an outside window, yay! But of course no yay, it may be an outside window but 2 inches from the glass is a metal wall! Ok I give up now. It’s one night though, it’s going to cost me more than it should but it’s still only one night then I’m outta here. And besides I still have to sort out tomorrow’s trip south.
For tomorrow, from what I can make out, I need to get to the main train station again to book the ticket. This particular ticket you can’t book online and when I contacted a travel agent in Bangkok via email the other day they said there wasn’t enough time to sort it out!
In the GH though they of course have a travel agent and in the end I paid a little more to have them organise it for me, I’m pretty done with messing about at the moment so that was fine!
So tomorrow I take the 7.30pm sleeper train south to then get an a/c (we’ll see!) bus for 4-6 hours to Phuket.
I must say it’s going to be nice to get out of the city; it’s ridiculously hot here, way too hot for me. I just hope the beach is going to be a little cooler.
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