Tuesday, July 18, 2006
I'm back!
14th July, Day 1
Rather clean feel to it, the budget Terminal
They have a hans over there
Woke up at the break of dawn, 3am, to make it to the airport in time for check in. My first time in the budget terminal, and I think it's pretty decent. Not as spectacular as T1 or T2, but good enough. they even ahve a little shopping area inside the departure hall.
Shopping anyone?
Boarding gate
After checking in, we had to walk to the plane. I could just feel the guards there sniggering at all us budget travellers
Poilice: You'll walk from the Budget terminal to the plane, you poor people who ride budget airlines!
Plane's body. What plane model is it...? A320! i was holding this darn sheet of paper with the plane model and I still asked "What's this plane we're on?"
Window seats next to the wing, I love wing seats.
The sun rose from afar. The bright yellow sun rays peeking through the clouds as we gained an hour travelling to phuket
Sleepy head aka my travel companion Meixian. Waking up at 3am is not really a nice way to start out a holiday.
Getting brighter. Yup, looks like it's going to be bright and sunny in Phuket~!
Passport control! All your passport are belong to them.
Phuket prefers Visa... dang, I brought Mastercard instead. =(
ok, bright sky was a farce, it's pouring like hell in Phuket
Only got worse. *cursesswear*
The van ride to Phuket town with some fellow Singaporeans dropped us off at Patong Beach, by the time the rain had stopped.
Streets of Patong, in search of breakfast.
went down to this shop in the alleys which served really cheap breakfast.
American breakfast. Scrambled Eggs, Sausages, French Toast, Hot chocolate, orange juice all for 85 baht (SGD 4)
A really quaint and cosy little setting
Then we saw this caucasian who looked really cool. Meixian gushing: That ang moh looks really "sei"!
This is the entrance to the hotel that we stayed in. The Tropica Hotel, which costs 1600 baht per night, without breakfast.
The reception desk at the Tropica
Tropica hotel's exterior. It's a bungalow style resort, that's quite nice.
What a mess. Slept the whole afternoon away. Next time, avoid a flight that's before dawn.
The night-lit Patong streets
Some of the bars on Patong
Bangla bar!? lol! The street is called Bangla street.
The street where we had our dinner, Thai style stir fry. Tom Yam soup, green curry chicken and fried morning glory (snigger)
Elvis tribute at the Phuket bar. He's really good, complete with costume, voice and gyrating hips.
---Mood: Sun burnt
Listening to: SMAP - Zutto Zutto
Gavin
pondered @ 00:35
