You could feel the heat as soon as you got off the plane, the airport had no air-conditioning because it was under renovation.
Finally, through to the other side the taxi system you need to press a machine and then it highlights which person it is. The first man tried to put all our luggage in his boot however because my bag was too big he couldn’t close the boot, us begging him to stop he kept trying and trying nearly breaking my bag until we started taking our luggage out, the second man was much more a breeze, it was a maxi taxi and off we went into the city of Bangkok.
The taxi ride only took about 35 minutes to get to the hotel.
We arrived at our hotel, Radisson Blu Plaza and was warmly greeted by the staff. Unfortunately, our rooms weren’t ready, so we had to wait 15 minutes at the bar, time passed, and we we’re given rooms opposite each other which was really convenient.
The rooms we’re amazing, but the bathroom was the standout, marble floors, nice soaking tub, large vanity and a rain shower head, the bathroom of dreams, my room had two single beds and a small seating area with a desk, simple but perfect.
Because it was getting late and we were exhausted from the flight, we headed upstairs to the hotel rooftop bar and had a light dinner, it was pouring rain up there, so we had to sit at the bar, we had some chicken wings and a big plank of individual foods with a mocktail that had way too much syrup in it.
Day 1 of Bangkok
Once everyone woke up, we decided to go out for a walk to see what is in the area around us, not much opens until 10am in Bangkok so we went to Starbucks and had a little breakfast.
I was on a tight schedule because I had a cooking class to get to at 9am so as soon as we finished our breakfast we headed back to the hotel and just relaxed till it was my time to hop in a taxi and go to the school.
The taxi ride from hell.
I hopped in a taxi from the hotel under the impression that the driver knew where we were going because he kept saying yes, I know, so I sat back and relaxed a little bit, but I turned my maps on just in case, at first according to my maps we we’re heading to the right place, eventually somewhere close he took the wrong turn and decided to take me on a detour, then asking for my phone for the directions looking zooming in and out and saying ok I got it, NO HE DID NOT. Time was ticking closer to the time I was meant to be at the cooking school, I was getting really stressed and maybe thinking he was going to just drop me in the middle of nowhere, he then pulled over on the side of the road next to another taxi and he was trying to give him directions, I thought it was good until this other taxi told him the wrong directions too, me knowing somewhat where I was trying to tell him to go the other direction and him not listening or reading the maps properly, I was now getting mad and sick of his little game, we eventually ended up complete opposite area of where I had to go and now he pulled over for a second time outside a local market, I then had a good brainwave and asked him to call the number of the school because it was a local number, he did and I felt a sigh of relief, finally she was telling him exactly where to go. He turned around and headed back to the city and towards the school, the school started at 9:30 it was 9:20 and we we’re still far away, we also hit some heavy traffic every single traffic light. 9:30 rolled around and I was so mad at him for making me late, the girl was still on the phone and telling him exactly where to go. 9:50 we finally made it to the school. I should have paid him less, but it was still only $8.50, and I wanted to be out of the cab.
The cooking school.
I decided to book a school instead of a typical hotel lesson, the place was cute and open aired very Thai style house, we straight away got into learning and the first thing we learnt was how to make coconut milk and cream, then we headed to the garden to get our herbs for what we we’re cooking for the day.
We learnt how to make an egg custard cake first, it was so interesting and hands on by squeezing the egg and coconut milk in your hands, then we made minced pork money bags, they were delicious so much different being fresh, then we learnt to make prawn tom yum soup, the hardest lesson of it all was doing the next course, green curry paste, it was so much chopping, then we made the chicken green curry, that tasted amazing. Once finished we all took some photos and then that was it. The girl convinced me it was easier to take the air-train back to the city and so she dropped us off at the station and these other two tourist helped me get the ticket and on the train, we went, it was super crowded obviously because it was peak hour, eventually after 30 minutes I made it to my stop and headed for my hotel (which I got lost) of course. Once back at the hotel I headed straight for the hotel pool to cool off at this stage it was 35c. After cooling off we relaxed before heading for dinner at a Thai style house, the food we ordered was good, but the setting was an old house with so many antiques and the person behind me kept banging his foot on the ground every couple seconds, it really drove me insane.
We headed back to our hotel after dinner and called it a night.
Day 2
We all woke up and then headed down to the hotel breakfast, I had high expectations but unfortunately, I could barely eat anything, I had cereal first and the milk wasn’t real milk which I had no idea about it was just powder with water, then I had some eggs and bacon and other easy normal items but they weren’t edible or just not what I like. After breakfast we went to Jim Thompson’s House a beautiful Thai style house with other houses that he built it was really beautiful to see and so interesting, we then headed to his gift shop I wanted nearly everything in there, all his designs we’re amazing.B
After the house we headed to the river and go to Jack’s Bar a little tiny shack on the riverfront, a good spot to cool down from a warm morning, we had a couple dishes and they we’re all good but nothing incredible.
After lunch we went back to our hotel and headed to the pool again, and just relaxed before heading out to a Michelin bib restaurant for dinner. We headed to dinner and when we walked in, we we’re so warmly greeted and taken to our table but first we walked through the entire first part of the restaurant which was also a museum, then we walked up stairs and the place was amazing, blonde flooring, open plan dinning, bright, beautiful king like chairs, I could really get used to that. For dinner we had a mixed entre that came with some unusual but delicious foods and for main we ordered a variety of dishes, I ordered massaman curry with ox tongue, we also ordered a sticky rice and a Thai style pork salad and a fish dish, I decided with the ox tongue because I wanted to try something different for once and it sure was different, the taste was very flavoursome but also very unusual at the same time, I was proud I tried something different and I also had the most famous Thai dessert mango with sticky rice.
Day 3 – Departing day
We headed down for breakfast again, but this time I decided on the KISS rule and just had fried eggs on toast, and they were satisfactory.
I had to pack up my room for checkout because I forgot to request a late checkout, so I packed everything and moved it into mum and dads room, at checkout they realised they had been charging all the breakfasts to my room plus more, hmm thanks mum and dad lol.
We decided to head to the shopping centre to buy a couple things and then headed for a walk around the streets before going to an amazing lunch, after that we headed back to the tiny room to relax our afternoon away, I headed to the pool deck again.
We checked out at 6pm and headed to the airport in a nice luxury car, the ride was relaxing and pleasant.
Thank you Thailand.
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