Bangkok Trip 2019

We did not plan much for this trip.
Most important, we wanted to enjoy eat, shop, sleep, and repeat.

My initial plan was to shop for these items:

• sunglasses
• Leather bag
• Outdoor quick dry cloth
• Coin purse as souvenirs
• Cosmetics, especially beauty blender.
• And lots of new clothes

My must eat list, boat noodles, wanton mee, sticky rive mango.  Had it all!

After window shopping on the 1st day, I find that the international brands clothes are not that cheap, after conversions I think I can get a cheaper price in Malaysia.  Blame it on the weak Malaysia Ringgit.  When we were in Bangkok in 2006, the exchange rate was about 100baht equal to RM10, but now 100baht equal to RM14. So much different.

Despite the poor conversion rate, I managed to grab the items below.  I felt like I didn’t shop enough, regretting not buying more clothes, but then again, when I list it down, it looks like quite a long list.

sunglasses - 1
Leather beg - 1
Leather purse - 1
Coin purse and keychains for souvenirs
Skin care - beauty blender, eyebrow pencil, aloe vera gel
Shorts - 1
Top - 1
Dress - 1
Leather sandal -1
Leather belt - 2
Walking shoe - 1
Leather watch strap - 1
Leather cards holder - 1
Hair clip - 1
Cashmere shawl - 1

Most of my shopping was done in Tokyu Department Store, MBK.  I was quite disappointed to find that there’s none Japanese brand handbag in that store. Maybe it was hidden from my eyes 😂

My catch.  Mostly from Tokyu.

Thai brand bags.

Hair clips. Many of hair clips in Tokyu and iSetan are made in Japan.

Sunglasses.

iSetan, Central World.

Our major expenses:

Flights - RM870 per person
Accommodation - RM700 per night
Taxi Airport - hotel - 800baht
Taxi hotel to airport - 500baht

Breakfast at Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok

The breakfast spreads were good, but nothing much to shout about.  Ohh how I miss hotel breakfast in Japan.  There’s always something new and exciting to discover, here we goes about Japan again.

But hey, at less they served bacon! That’s a huge upgrade from we have in Malaysia.

Didn’t take much photos since mostly what we had are similar for the following days.

So, here goes..

On adult plate..

On kids plate..

Yes, they serve Thai curry, steam bun, fruits, and many more common breakfast menu.

Pathumwan Princess Hotel, Bangkok

We had a great stay at this hotel during our trip to Bangkok earlier this month.

We wanted to stay somewhere really close to a mall, not just walking distance kind of close, but linked or connected is we were looking for.  We were aiming for either MBK or Central World.  Unfortunately, hotel in Central World was already fully booked.  For info we only bought our flight tickets and book our hotel 2 days before our travel day.

But we are glad we chose this hotel.  Located right above MBK mall, making shopping so much easy.

Room is spacious, everything looks clean, view were great. Bathroom is big, full sized bathtub, separate wash closet. A huge different from what we had in Japan, I meant the bathroom.  Other than that, Japan trip still sit on top of our list for the best holiday destination so far.

Sorry, you will hear me comparing things with Japan now and then.  Can’t help it, since we have had our 3 consecutive trips to Japan for the pass years.

Wait until I go Europe than only you will see me comparing to Europe standards. hahaha, fingers crossed.

Ok, enough talking, here’s the picca of our room on the 17th floor..

The lobby

The corridor

Spacious room

Big Window

Spacious bathroom

Great view

Phi phi islands tour

We started our journey from Ao Nang jetty.

Chicken Island

 Our 1st stop, Maya bay, 50 minutes speed boat ride from Ao Nang.  This is the highlight of the tour.  A C-shape lagoon with beautiful white sandy beach where Leonardo DiCaprio film the movie 'The Beach'.

A short walk to Loh Sama Bay

 
Loh samah Bay, 5-10 minutes walk from Maya bay.
Worth every steps of the short walk, beautiful and cool shedded area.

From Loh Samah we walked back to again to Maya Bay, tourist are everywhere, everyone busy taking photos.

Eugene & Emmett enjoying the white sandy beach

Then we proceed to Viking cave & Phi Phi Ley.
Viking cave has prehistoric cave paintings and is where the birds-nest are collected.

Phi Phi Ley is a great place for snorkeling and kayaking.

Snorkeling stop #1 in the middle of sea.

We stop at Phi phi Don for 1-hour buffet lunch break; food mostly are spicy.  Food provided are Not child friendly food.

The we went for 2nd round of snorkeling for half an hour.

Me and Eugene, Eugene really enjoy snorkeling here

Last stop, Bamboo island for 1-hour stop.  Beautiful beach for sightseeing and snorkeling.  The sand here in Bamboo Island is extraordinary soft.

Emmett cant get enough of the sand

From Bamboo Island, its a 25 minutes ride back to Ao Nang.

When we reach the shore, a another surprise waiting for we, they are selling our photos on a sand frame for 100 bht each.  Great for rememberance so we bought ours.

I think these photos are exclusive for those touring with Aonang Photo Travel.  The only reason why hubby booked from this agent is because the salesman speak fruent English and explain this in details to him.

The overall service is good except for:

The land transport is a bit too old

Lunch provided is a bit let down

To me, this trip is worth every penny, I'll do it again if I have the opportunity in the future.