Maria Reiljan

We are now back in Bangkok. This time we chose a hotel near the sky and airport train station. We got to our hotel room, and it had two beds. Had a similar problem in Chiang Mai, but then we could push them together. By this time, I was rather fed up, because our booking clearly showed a different and better room with one bed. So, I went to the reception and showed our booking and told it doesn't match. They had clearly tried.to downgrade our room. Got some apologies and another room, more like the one we had booked. Morning came and we had noticed problems with broken lights and faulty tv in our room. That didn't matter too much but then, when we wanted to leave our things to the safe, it didn't work. Maintenance came, changed our safe TWICE and still didn't get it to work. The reception suggested a new room for us. We said that this room has also the other problems, but if they can fix then, we don't need to change. Naja, we took our expensive things with us and when we got back, we got a new room, with nicer view, otherwize the same. Aaand the safe didn't work again. We told it straightaway, but the maid couldn't fix it either. So we just decided to leave it the way it is....
The Sunday we spent at the Chatuchak market, which is the biggest in Thailand. Yeah, gotta say, the night markets in Chiang Mai were better and had more interesting selection of things. But we got almost everything, we needed. Maria spent the day going in and out of toilets at the market and avoiding food smell, because she had caught the same diarrhoea that Hannes had couple of weeks ago. Well, you gotta have it at least once in Thailand, don't you!
In the afternoon we go back to our hotel and after changing the rooms, checked out the hotel pool on the roof. Nice! And for a long time there was nobody around. The view was marvellous and water was way too warm.
Hannes wanted to still do sth in the evening so he dragged us both to the cinema here. I agreed to do it, because it was a huge cinema and we were going to watch Thor. The shopping centre was huge, cinema could easily fit 300+ people in one hall (there were about 15 halls). In the beginning they showed trailers for other movies and advertisements, was really funny to hear stuff inbetween said in English with heavy Thai accents. Also, I made joke in the beginning that we probably will have a short clip to honour the king and yes, there was one! No joking here!
After the movie finished, we had to find our way out of the 9th floor of the massive shopping centre. There were almost no signs, everything had closed down and people were building stuff in the dark place. Took us a bit, couple of rude security guards and theb we finay got out, caught the last train back to the hotel and left the train station with staff waiting for us to go past them so that they could close the gates. It was midnight. Strange experience!Read more