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Back to Bangkok for the third time to go to the Vietnamese embassy to get our visa's and to catch a flight to Cambodia. We stayed last night in some hotel near the embassy and tonight we are staying at the Lebua State Tower from Hangover 2! This place is one of the poshest hotels in Bangkok and we rock up at 11am both dressed scruffily in Chang (Thai beer) t-shirts with our huge backpacks on basically looking like a couple of homeless alcoholics! We thought they would take one look at us and politely insist there has been a problem with our booking and direct us to the Holiday Inn across the road but the staff were great. Although we did get some very strange looks from our more up market fellow patrons. As Anna enjoyed the luxury of the room poor me was despatched on the back of a tuk-tuk across the city to the Vietnamese embassy to collect our visa's. The reason for staying here was to go to the skybar from the film for a drink but after having read the hotel information we discovered there was a dress code which involved no shorts or no flip flops......ooh ooh! The only pair of jeans i brought with me are jammed in the bottom of my bag and haven't seen the light of day since the trip to the Grand Palace during our first stay in Bangkok about a month ago and don't get me started on my filthy converse trainers! Two hours later after practically willing the creases out of my jeans and me and Anna taking turns scrubbing my converse ever so slightly cleaner with the complementary toothbrushes i am halfway presentable. Anna on the other hand pulls a dress out of her bag slips that on with a pair of sandals and is ready to go! Who says men have it easier?!? We get a lift to the roof and step outside to the rooftop bar. The view is amazing and am looking forward to tucking into a pint whilst admiring it when disaster strikes, the wind picks up drastically and it starts to rain pretty heavily! We are ushered in doors and the outside bar is closed.......gutted! We decide to order a drink in the meantime in the hope that the weather will ease off and we can get back outside. $20 f#cking dollars for a pint of Heineken!!! Its ok its a magic pint it keeps topping itself up.......on no thats my tears at having to pay so much falling into the glass! We take our time with our drinks but the weather gets worse so once we finish we decide to go as people are still looking at me strangely for sobbing at the bar after ordering the first round!I get my own back in the morning at breakfast when i ravish their buffet and get escorted from the restaurant when trying to load my 12th plate screaming 'but it says all you can eat!!!' Ok thats maybe an exageration but i did eat alot!
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