day three in bangkok we had a little bit of a slow start this morning because
last night we were at the world's largest market the Chatuchak market
which was awesome we walked around it for about six hours and long into the night
today starts a massive travel day we're trying to get up north in thailand and go to chiang rai
we heard that it's a bit cheaper if you go to the bus station and buy your tickets there so we don't
actually have anything booked at this stage but i have high hopes so we'll see how we go i guess
we did manage to get the late check out for no extra charge but it's only one o'clock
and all the buses leave tonight at about five or seven so we're still gonna have to kill a little
bit of time luckily this hotel seems like it has a bar restaurant sort of area so we're
gonna try and park up there and just be behind our laptops for a while until they kick us out i guess
thank you bye we killed a few hours behind our laptops in the
hotel lobby but now we're getting a little bit anxious about whether or not we'll get
bus tickets so we want to get there now yeah we need to get on that bus
now we're gonna try and find what's gonna be the best price to get us all the way up north
oh it's done it's sold out okay
so it's one and one
thank you so much there's a little bit touch and go there because the first two places we
went to we actually had sold out for the night we ended up booking a bus which looks like the
seating chart is one and one which i've not seen online before so i'm super excited now because one
i already slept with the train so it's going to be interesting yeah i don't i
don't know what to expect and hopefully we'll sleep pretty well so now we've got what five
nine four four hours to kill in the bus terminal
so
so we just got on the bus and this is absolutely insane like we thought it's only two seats in the
aisle and this honestly looks and feels like a business class airline seat there's this
sweet little like bus attendant i guess like a flight attendant we've got a bottle of water a
cozy blanket we've got a screen with movies tv shows games all that fun stuff because all these
buttons as well that i assume will do the recline the little reading lights also have like obviously
the standard lights and the air control but it's really cool in here as well which i'm glad that
i've given up the blanket because i do get cold at night i also think that there's a toilet maybe
actually a fair bit better than i expected and it was actually cheaper to book at the
station so we thought online it was about 45 australian dollars
here we're going to be about 35 so we saved about 10 bucks pretty good discount
hmm
the bus seems like it was designed by someone who really wanted to make a cool bus
but it's never actually ridden in one anyone over five foot two is struggling in those seats
it's like the seats is wide like really wide but it's bad because you just knock about
everywhere there's no nothing to hold you in place and you can put your leg rest out
but it just goes into the back of the seat in front of me so you can't actually stretch
your legs out on the foot rest you kind of put your knees up around your ears
i haven't slept much at all
we get free food i have no idea what i'm eating but it tastes okay
they can go and drop you there
are you going around there as well that would be amazing yeah because it's very
difficult to go there you have to call a taxi and they will charge you very expensive
thank you very much
probably not the smartest decision we've ever made but a lovely man that was on the
same bus as us dropped us in at the hotel so we just saved like 100 baht
on getting a taxi no one's here yet i think we have to keep some time until reception
opens at 7 30. yeah yeah um it's six o'clock now so it's not too long i think we'll just
relax and then probably when we if we can check in that early just go to sleep