Ok, so i just got to the airport here in Hawaii. I'm on my way to Thailand. I can
enter Thailand. If you haven't watched my last video where i went through a bunch of struggles
trying to get approved to enter the country of Thailand you should watch that video. I actually
got approved only a few hours ago so i'm here at the airport getting ready to go check into my
flight so this video is going to be kind of crazy so my first flight is to japan and i originally
booked the flight thinking it was a seven hour layover but it's actually a 17 hour layover
check them out i'm outside i'll take this thing off so it's a 17 hour layover in japan
that's kind of crazy then after that i jump on another flight to thailand then i go through
everything you need to go through to get into the country of thailand hopefully all my paperwork is
in order then my hotel will pick me up at the airport take me over to my quarantine hotel
and get me all checked in there and i'll show you my room but that's going to be the adventure
today made it through all of the things i needed to do to check in with the airline it actually
went pretty easy much easier than i thought i was really organized though so i kind of helped then i
went through security easy day because i got tsa pre the airline i'm flying on i'm flying premium
so i have access to their lounge but their lounge is closed due to covid
but they made a deal with united and i can go use united's lounge and united lounge is like
one of the better ones anyway in this airport so it actually kind of worked out so
that's where i'm headed now i actually have two hours before they board my flight so
we're gonna head over to the lounge so what i love about airport lounges is they always have food
this one has a decent selection mostly hawaiian style stuff so let me grab a seat here real quick
and i think i'm gonna grab the mango noodles and some mango chips and salsa all right let's head
over to my flight and get to japan i love japanese airlines they're so efficient the flight was
virtually empty this was a 747 there were maybe 70 or 80 of us on the flight i was in premium economy
and there's only three of us there so it was a really relaxing eight-hour flight we landed in
japan and i headed in for my 17-hour layover okay it's nice and quiet here i arrived in japan and
it's dead i have a 17 hour layover when i i mentioned that earlier but when i bought
the ticket i thought it was a seven hour layover i'm usually pretty good at like
having you know keeping myself um you know getting the most efficient flight
i don't know it must have been a deal or something but yeah so i have a 17 hour
layover so i'm gonna go try to check into the transit hotel which they have in here
no
okay so that's a total fail the transit hotel appears to be closed which really sucks i'm
going to go see if i can find another one i really don't want to sleep on a floor tonight
okay so no transit hotels are open because of covid i do have priority pass lounge access i
also get access with my my airline ticket as well however it's the 14th in the evening my flight is
not until the 15th in the morning and you can't use lounges except for on the day of your flight
so i'm hoping they let me use it at midnight i probably should ask them that can i come back
at midnight so it's about 6 00 pm here in japan so i have another at least six hours till then
and it's like 11 p.m where i flew from so i'm pretty tired but luckily you know it's japan so
everything is super super nice and i'm basically the only person at the airport
right now so kind of have the whole place to myself just me and like five security guards
it's like um almost four in the morning
i've been bouncing from area to area here in the airport trying to get a little bit of sleep um i
found out that i can get into the lounge at 5 a.m so my flight boards at 10 20 so i'll have a good
five hours inside the lounge which hopefully will be a little bit more comfortable than
these seats
ah all right i'm gonna try to find another place to lay down for a
minute i feel like i'm in one of those night at the museum moments i found this
massage chair it's 200 yen i don't know what that is in us dollar but it's totally worth it
finally 5 a.m hit i headed over to the lounge luckily they had a shower which was awesome
after eight hours of flying and 12 hours of sleeping in the airport okay got a shower
room which is awesome i don't know if you can see this but it's pretty amazing at the typical
japanese toilet here with all the whiz bangs
a really nice shower area this is why i'm such a huge proponent of credit card point systems
because you get access to different lounges this is a priority pass lounge so it's the a a lounge
in tokyo airport it's pretty awesome i'll show you around the lounge in a minute after i take
a shower most airport lounges overseas are pretty amazing but japanese airport lounges are usually
next level they have showers like i showed you earlier they have these cool little booths that
you can hang out in i did for like five hours and they had these japanese style appetizers
that were awesome so i just relaxed here until it was time to go catch my flight to bangkok
this is kind of crazy nobody is going to thailand nobody but me and like 10 other people
just like my flight from honolulu to bangkok not having any people on the flight made it pretty
relaxing the flight attendants took care of us because there was about as many flight attendants
as people on board and six hours later i was in bangkok and ready to go through the administrative
nightmare that is bangkok immigration so i didn't really know what to expect when i landed in
bangkok i watched a lot of youtubers who had went through this immigration process during quarantine
and i saw all these blue chairs in the video and in most cases it was or at least it seemed like
it was a nightmare in my case it went really quick they looked at my paperwork they said okay you're
good to go and then they lined me up outside and shoved me inside my private vehicle to my hotel
okay so uh in the van headed towards my hotel it wasn't too bad
so
okay thank you
okay that was so weird i'm just going up to room 902 the doors open
ready for me that was check in i don't know how much of that you got but yeah it was really odd so
okay a couple things i want to point out on the way to my room so if you look at the floor
you'll see it looks kind of like wood but it's really plastic i'm assuming there's some carpet
underneath here this stuff runs all the way to my room as well you'll notice this guy here
he's got this orange spray bottle he's spraying disinfectant on the floor so with the disinfectant
and the plastic it's slippery everywhere but you know they're trying to be extra careful i get it
a little room tour the biggest reason i got this room is it's all windows here so
i can at least kind of feel like i'm outside if you've been watching me for a while you know i
love studio apartments so that's what i wanted i wanted a studio apartment with one wall of all
windows so i had plenty of sun shining in on me so i could get through this 14 days and that's what
i ended up with here a studio apartment with a big giant window and it came with a small refrigerator
some water some snacks a bunch of coffee and tea inside here we've got some chocolate some pepsi
and seven up i'm sure i'll drink that even though i'm trying to break my soda habit but i don't
think they re refill that thing so i should be good to go there's a little desk area behind here
and then when you make your way towards the front door there's a closet here to the right
it's plenty big for you know two weeks that's great there's lots of extra towels and a
bathrobe and all that kind of stuff in here as well and then behind me here is the bathroom
it's a pretty nice bathroom it's better than most thai bathrooms because they have the shower not
on top of the toilet which is great i i prefer that and it's got the typical thai bum gun to
the left there i don't know if you can see that plenty of toilet paper obviously yeah there's the
bum gun and a nice little shower you can actually adjust that shower head and it makes kind of
a rainfall shower so perfect for me there's a little bench in here too but i think it's the
wrong way it should be on the other side doesn't help being right up against the shower like that
and then got a bunch of toiletries and all that stuff that i'll need to survive for um 14 days
yeah so that's the apartment if you enjoyed this video enjoyed me heading here to thailand make
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