Thailand day 2: from Dubai to Bangkok.

Submitted by maria on Mon, 09/08/2010 - 18:03

It's 00.30 Dubai time, we get off the plane to enter the terminal, a bus approaches us, it's 39 degrees!

 

Dubai Airport

Dubai Airport

 

 

For seven hours we wandered and slept in Dubai International Airport, it's huge. Everything calls our attention, it is carpeted, gardens and a waterfall inside, the imam calling to prayer through the public address system, the smoking room without extractor, prayer rooms, showers, jewelry stores, it's like a small city.

 

Dubai Airport

Dubai Airport

 

 

People of all faiths converge here. The air conditioning is very high and we are cold in the hammocks to sleep.

We had breakfast at the Burger King, then we had a coffee and a doughnut and they cost more than the burger menu.

We boarded the plane again at 7.30 am in Dubai and arrived at 7 pm at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport. We exchanged currency at the airport.

 

Bangkok

Bangkok

 

 

We take a taxi to our accommodation. It is located near the train station by the Chao Phraya River. The atmosphere is cool but the facilities leave a lot to be desired.

We are served by a guy who looks like the prota of Pirates of the Caribbean, they offer us the "love" bungalow next to the river and a double room in an adjacent building.

 

Bangkok

Bangkok

 

 

The water level is scary and it starts raining like the sky is falling. The bungalow, dirty, with a rat as a pet, we complain and they put all four of us in the same room, the bed very hard and with leaks, in short, what a night.

 

 

Flight from Madrid to Bangkok round trip: 750 euros per pax.
Burger King 115 dinars.
Coffee and doughnuts 131 dinars (5 dinars 1 euro).
Taxi from the airport to the hostel: 371 THB.
Accommodation: double room without bathroom for four pax 450 THB.