Usually we would head off to border bounce through Myanmar (Burma). Perfectly legal, but a horrible journey. However with our return flight in January I calculated that we needed to be out of Thailand for 3 days, or we would have to visa run just before our flight back to the UK in Jan. So, after a bit of researching, I found us some bargain flights to Kuala Lumpur for less than 40 quid return.!
On the 18th, I woke at 3:30am and began preparing. Jen woke at 4:50am with a cup of tea ready. We left Koh Tao just before 6am on the ferry to Surat Thani.
Once we had arrived at the mainland a few hours later, we jumped on a coach to the airport. Another hour later and we were at the airport. Checked in and time to research some activities in KL.
The flight was only an hour and a half. Then it was time to get a taxi to the City Centre (1 hour) and to our room at Fraser Place while Jen watched some Eastenders.
Arriving at our room, pleasantly surprised by its look and location... we took some snaps and went to get some supplies of food and water.
Retiring pretty early, we got up the next day, ready for breakfast and a sweep of the malls for some bits I needed.
Breakfast was pretty dire... Jens poached eggs... well I don't really need to say anything about those..
Then we hit the road, walking from mall to mall, and being fascinated by the poor air quality. The "haze" has been caused by massive forest fires in Indonesia (further South) and has affected a fair section of South East Asia...
We went into several malls, including one with a roller coaster on the 5th floor!!
After we had seen the roller coaster... it was time for The Escape Rooms. We had done an Escape Room in Bangkok... and we signed up for 2 games (big discount)...
Boy did we regret it later... we both got really annoyed and angry at the randomness of the solutions that we were mean't to try and come up with. Some of the locks were not working, leading us to believe we were not solving puzzles correctly.... and on the 2nd game. we buzzed for help after 15 minutes... the guy came in and was confused about how we had entered into another room without finding the right clues... When I explained how we got the 4 digit number to enter the room... he dismissed it as lucky and told us what we had done wrong... Needless to say, Jen and I left there vowing never to go back.!
Thats it for now... We are back at the apartment, getting ready for an evening in ChinaTown, visiting the real old school restaurant (kinda) that we visited on our honeymoon...
2 comments:
Sounds like that taxi bill from the airport may have ben as expensive as the flights.......???
Pretty much!!
xx
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