.......it looked pretty cool :) the flight was very bumpy especially on the way down it was like we were just nose diving down to the airport! We were not impressed it was horrible. However we landed safely and headed to our last hotel with the group...........when we arrived at the hotel we went to our room and it was awful :( it just absolutely stank and there was a cockroach running around :( I knew we were on a budget tour but this was not acceptable we went straight back down to reception and explained and they couldn't even seem to understand the word cockroach ! Anyway we eventually got moved to a much better room, thank god, but in actual fact we just wanted the tour to finish and to go on our own. We went out the hotel to look for the shop bangkok is not what we were expecting we were a little disspointed we weren't near anything and it just seemed like all the other Asian towns we went to. We were to meet the group for dinner later and go to kao San road, the backpacker district, we weren't overly excited but wanted to go to see what it was all about! The restaurant we ate at, (again the tour leaders choice) was just standard, the meals were tiny and pretty expensive, Luke ordered a Pasta and when it came out we thought they were joking he ate in with about 4 spoonfuls! Not what we was expecting, we finished the meal went for one drink with the group and then decided we would look. Around the market and go back to the hotel, we had just basically had enough of being in the group. The market stalls were like all the others we did manage to find me a new hand luggage bag, back at the hotel we packed and got ready for the next part of our tour independently.
We flagged a taxi down the next morning to take us to our next hotel "the rembrandt" we just couldn't wait for some luxury and luxury we got :) we arrived and the concierge desk took care of our luggage we sat and had a complimentary cup of tea while we waited for our room to be ready, it was a lovely hotel. We headed up to our room, we had a big room with a lovely big window and huge bathroom, we had some controls next to the bed controlling the air con, lights and whether we want our room made up or not to be disturbed! It was just what we needed :) we went for a night swim at the rooftop pool and looked at the views :) we were happy and relaxed.
Our time in bangkok basically consisted of shopping, eating and chilling out :) all the things we needed :) we had to find Luke a new bag so looked up online the best place "MBK" center, a huge shopping center with a mix of shops and market stalls....perfect :) we spent a lot of our time here as it was raining and there were thunder storms everyday, we ate a lot of pizza, shopped and went to the cinema! And spent quality time together :) we didn't really do any site seeing, mostly because it was raining heavily everyday, and the sky train did not go to the places we wanted to see so we would have literally got soaked, next time :) Luke found a bag and we haggled the price, it was perfect - backpack on wheels that opens like a suitcase :) he also found some cheap glasses as his broke but these weren't so good ! I got my nails redone.
One evening we went to some Muay Thai boxing at the mbk center it was on for 2 hours and the rain actually held off for the whole time! It was a good event I enjoyed it and it was something Luke wanted to do so we had a good evening there.
Overall our time in bangkok was good we enjoyed it, even with the crowds of people and traffic it was good. We would come back to bangkok defo for the shopping and for all the sight seeing we never got to do, it was so nice being able to plan our days the way we wanted, we enjoyed our group tour but by the time the end came we had had more then enough! Our next chapter was in Phuket and we couldn't wait to get there and relax on the beach something we were craving to do!
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