Bye Bye Phuket

Now was our time we had to say goodbye to Phuket, Alex and Mark and welcome ourselves into Bangkok. We woke up fairly early so we can get some chores done. Alex and Mark went to go rent the Bean

for one more day while Jourdan, Carley and I packed up our stuff and did whatever other miscellaneous things we could do to throw under category "productivity". We all did make sure that we hit up the continental breakfast at our new hotel. We compared this breakfast at Karon Beach to the breakfast we had at Patong beach and of course the Patong beach won, not saying that Karon beach had a bad breakfast, theirs was still a 4 star in my book but Patong hotel breakfast was pretty much just unbelievable (like this whole trip).
We made sure that we got our plane tickets at an appropriate time so we would get to experience Bangkok and enjoy our last day in Phuket together. I think we left Phuket around 4:30 to make it to the airport for our departure at 6pm or something like that. Once we got done with all of our important things we spent some of our last couple hours at Patong beach because Alex and Mark needed to scope out some cheaper hotels for some of their last days in Phuket. They did talk about just sleeping in the Bean but I really don't think that happened : ). While we were in Patong we walked down the "hip strip" one last time with the beach being our final destination. We decided to spend a few hours here before we had to get on the plane and since we were going to be here for awhile we just rented some chairs that were in a row all together. They were 100 Baht each (ish) which means that they were a little more than 2 bucks each. Also, included in the $2 you pay for the beach chair you get an umbrella and unlimited speed service of anything you want. Pretty much you can put up your arm to snap your fingers and before you even snap you will have any service brought right to you, at your convenience. You will not even have to get up from your seat to get anything. When I say speed service of any kind I mean it. You can get a hot dog, popsicle, drink of choice, manicure, pedicure, facial, massage, jewelry, clothes of any sort, a degree from any college of your choice and if you need a fake id- you got it! This did make me consider dropping out of college and just paying this dude 500 baht ($15 Australian dollars) to get any degree of my choice. I mean. . . Why spend hours upon hours studying and learning when you can just go to Thailand and get a degree for 15 dollars? If only I would have known this 4 years ago! Anyways I decided to pass up that "opportunity" and go with a 150 Baht ($4.50 Australian dollars) Pedicure instead. This was way more worth it because I got a Pedicure, on the beach, in Thailand, while soaking up the sun, with a free flower included, all for under 5 bucks!

The flower alone in America would have been 5 bucks! So unfortunately, that was enough of a screaming deal for me that I had to go with it and skip the diploma from Harvard University. I think this choice was to my best interest.
After we spent a few hours at the beach we had to pack up our things and leave to the airport. Our personal GPS (Alex) brought us all the way there without getting lost. His brain really is a GPS, I am not even kidding you! So we made it to the airport safe and sound and caught our flight to BANGKOK (yikeess)!
Our plane ride was really short so pretty much we got up in the air, got the thumbs up to unbuckle your seat belt, and turn on your electronics, and go to the bathroom if you wish and then by the time the electronics were turned on and ready to go you could use them for. . . maybe 10 minutes before we heard the "DING" to return to seats and fasten your seat belts. Since we were flying with Thai air we got a snack box but we were too full to eat them. I just read my book during this flight since it would have been a waste of time to do anything else.
Once we landed in Bangkok I would guess it was around 7:00pm and our only goal was to try and figure out where exactly we were going to sleep for the one night we were there. We stopped at the desk and spoke with a lady that gave us some instructions. For some reason we thought it would be appropriate to just make our own plans and not listen to the strict instructions that we got from Alex and Mark. . . This was a bad idea. When they gave us the strict instructions on where to stay we didn't listen to them because we thought we would just write it down before we left, but then we never ended up writing it down so we thought we would figure it out on our own. The lady at the desk recommended we stay at this hotel in the certain area. She said it was an alright area and we wouldn't be bored so that sold us. She showed us pictures of our nice hotel that we would all share in this little booklet thing and so we said, "alright, we'll do it". I asked her if she would let her child stay at this hotel and she said that the only way she would let them stay here is if she was really poor. Her english was not the best so we just decided to go with it since it was for one night only. Split between the 3 of us we each ended up paying $12 each.

The thought of that scared us all but we still went with it. When we were loading the cab I suggested that we actually don't stay here and we call Alex and Mark right away and figure out what we really should do. So we called them at the perfect time because they were waiting for us to call and I told them what happened and Alex pretty much said we were dumb for not listening and making plans before we called them but it was too late. We paid for the hotel already and it was a done deal. So we went on with our lives and I kept saying that we needed to listen to Alex and Mark and just change our plans last minute and call the 12 bucks a loss. We decided nope, we will have the cab driver take us to our hotel and we will enjoy our night in Bangkok.
Once we got to our hotel and saw our room we FINALLY all came to an agreement that we will not stay there and we will go to where Alex and Mark told us to and just deal with the fact that we paid for the room and didn't get it. We didn't even try to get a refund because we knew the answer to that was going to be a big fat NO. Our first sign was that a real man, dressed up just like a woman led us to our room. He could have tricked you if you just glanced but once you heard the vocals it was the real deal. So we got a cab and drove for about 20 minutes until we got dropped off at Khao San road where we now needed to find a different accommodation for the night. Once we got here it was like a whole new world and we found a room for four bucks each! We thought the 12 dollar room was a steal but we found a whole new level. We thought we were going to splurge for our new place and spend more and get nicer but we found an alright place for 4 bucks each so we went with it. Plus we didn't want to waste much time looking for a place because we wanted to explore. We just pushed the two twin size beds together and made it a big king and all shared that. The only problem here was that the town doesn't shut down until around 5am and so we got the luxury of loud music and people all night long. It was right above a restaurant and above one of the busiest streets, Khao San.

We went to this nice bar when we got there and got a few drinks. It was a really cool bar and it was up these stairs and when you got up there you were inside a bar but if you walked to the end where the "wall" was then you could just peak outside and stick your head out and see the street below you. We spotted this bar from the street and we thought we would go check it out. It was a great idea because they had live music and cheap drinks and that's pretty much what we were looking for.

(I had absolutely nothing to do with that bucket drink on the table, just for an FYI, lol).
We stayed here for a while because it was such an awesome bar but then we had to leave because Jourdan was too ancy to stay and she wanted to go to a dancing bar which I could have cared less but it was cool to see I suppose. I could have just stayed at the other bar and walked around the streets for awhile and been fine but we had fun and saw a lot. No ping pong shows though, don't worry. We just looked at all the crazyness going on around us which was the most fun thing for me. I watched some break dancers in the streets and got to practice my Thai language, mostly just "mai ka, mai ka, MAI KA" though.
When we were done exploring we just went to 711 and got a some water bottles since you cant drink the sink water there and then went upstairs to our hotel and went to bed. It was really hard to fall asleep because the street we stayed on was so loud but eventually we did it and slept in till around 11 or something. Since the town doesn't close until so early in the morning things don't open till around 11 or noon again. Some places like 711 just stay open all night I think though. I don't think it got quite until 5 in the morning.
This was our little night adventure in Bangkok but we still have one more day and night to talk about in Bangkok and then I will move on to "Adventures with Shawna".
Read on :)