The Longest Day ever....

Well we made it safe and sound.  A mere 17 hours after leaving the airport we were tucked up into our very comfortable beds.   The flight was pretty good although Qantas/British Airways have a strange seat allocation system.  One seat in row 1, 3 seats in the row behind, and then 2 seated together in the next row but on the other side of the plane.  We reallocated ourselves anyway with out much drama.  Plane food was good, we all had the chicken & polenta and all agreed it was yum.  The only weird thing then was that soon after dinner it was lights out and we were forced into sleep mode at 7.30 pm (Adelaide time).

We arrived at the airport in Bangkok all a little pooped out and were really thrilled to have to stand in a queue for immigration for 45 mins NOT.  We were almost the last ones from our plane to collect our luggage and some nice Thai airport copper was looking after them.

The next adventure was packing the 6 of us, and all of the luggage into a minivan.  Amazingly we did all fit but we were a little nervous about having the unrestrained suitcases joining us in a hurry if he braked too quickly.  Of course Bangkok traffic is always slow and sedate so what were we thinking?   A number of our party had their eyes opened to a new and exciting way of travel.

The last adventure was finding the right reception desk to book into.  This hotel has 4 towers and 3 reception counters.  This is spread over many different levels where you catch one lift up then transfer to another to go down then transfer to yet another to go up again.   Our first solo effort to find our way had us tracking back to our starting point; via the car parking garage complete with rubbish dumpsters.   When we did finally get to the right spot the rooms were pretty nice and definitely new as many of the details you look for were missing, ie tea & coffee. We picked the biggest of the three rooms so that we could get a cot in it - thats exciting just planning for these little things.