Pakdokter had not been to Bangkok for at least 2 years now. After a successful golfing trip to Chiangmai in March this year, the STAROBA Golf Club chose to do a golf tour of Hua Hin this time. The group will come in on Saturday - pakdokter and family decided to come earlier to spend some time in Bangkok first.
The Malaysia Airlines plane was quite full actually - half the passengers looked like they were Australians in transit via Kuala Lumpur. The flight steward mentioned that half the passengers had booked through Thai Airways which has a code-share arrangement with Malaysia Airlines.
We left and arrived on time. The Suvarnabhumi Airport was not too crowded - perhaps a sign of the bad times now in Europe and the USA. Thus clearing the immigration was quite fast. The only big tour groups were of holiday-makers from mainland China and Taiwan.
Pakdokter had booked on-line, a limousine transfer to the hotel, Aloft on Sukhumvit Soi 11 in downtown Bangkok. The hotel was also booked online. The limousine company, " Oriental Escape" had sent a young girl with an Ipad in hand showing pakdokter's name on it. Upon being identified, we were walked to the lane outside the arrival hall where the limousine came to pick us up. And the limousine driver was also a young girl who spoke good English.
The drive to the hotel took about 40 minutes and had it not been for the traffic it would have been faster. Pakdokter noticed that the toll on the airport highway cost about RM30 - that was a lot more expensive than the toll from KL to KLIA.
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