'Joey's Blog'

Scoot has their weird timing and apparently they gave us 1730 flight. This means half of my Day 1 was gone or probably lazing at Changi airport. So since we reached airport in the afternoon, we decided to venture around the area and Nelly suggested to go to the butterfly park for a short tour.

Spend some time at the butterfly garden – the first of its kind to be featured in an airport – with 47 species, and more than 1000 butterflies roaming around the garden. Yes, you read that right. A butterfly garden within our very own airport.

Butterfly Garden

(T3, Departure Transit Lounge, Level 2)

Step into the world's first Butterfly Garden within an airport at T3's transit area and discover tropical butterflies floating around a lush green garden with bursts of colourful flowers. This is a hot favourite with kids and adults alike. A 6-metre waterfall provides a relaxing backdrop for kids explore the educational corners within the Garden. 

Unlike wild butterflies which are very cautious towards humans, the butterflies here are very accustomed to visitors, and they won’t fly away in fright even if you are close enough to count the spots on their wings. It is quite an amazement to be so “up close and personal” with the butterflies. There are also educational corners and individual enclosures which will give you more insights into the life cycle of a butterfly. And if you are lucky, you will be able to catch the birth of a butterfly as it emerges from the pupa.

We wanted to explore sunflower garden but we run out of time that we even dashed to the boarding counter to get our tickets checked. Everyone in the plane simply stared at us panting and running out of breathe. We were so close to being late. HAHA. First experience you see!



Off to the land of smiles and I dozed off half of my journey. 






After around 2 hours plus of flight. Here we are in Bangkok. Tadaa! Welcome to Bangkok Thailand.

Things to note: Bangkok timing is 1 hour earlier than Singapore. Got our passport chopped and carry on to retrieve our baggage. We finally left the airport around 8pm.



When we arrived, all of us bought data sim cards so that we'll stay contactable at all times via whatsapp. Everyone was dying to have internet signal. World pains of having a smart phone but not being able to access wifi from the airport.

We bought the data sim cards for 299 Baht and it costs like $10 - $12 SGD??? Depending on the exchange rates. The data sim card that we bought as unlimited internet usage so yea, you need not be afraid of losing connection from the world anymore. 

Urbana Langsuan Hotel
55 Langsuan Road, Lumpini, Pathumwan, Wireless / Chidlom, Bangkok, Thailand 10330 

The three girls cabbed to our hotel as its pretty late and we do not want to spend alot of time on travelling. Bargain with the uncle for 450 Baht including their express way fees. You really have to bargain with the driver or else they will chop you like free. On the other hand, Cheng hua accompanied Jensin to his Diamond hotel (apparently we stayed different accomodation with Jensin)
and both of them got conned by paying 600 baht for their journey. The perks of not bargaining with the driver. But actually it all depends if you are lucky to caught a friendly and honest driver.

Cheng Hua booked a 2 bed-room executive for us and it was so afforable enough that I only have to pay $70 for my 3 nights accomodation. On the other hand, I have to share my room with Nelly and her sister. 


 The Urbana Langsuan is located in Langsuan Rd., which is a business district road. There’s a BTS sky train station “Chit Lom” at the intersection with Sukhumvit Rd. (about 10 minutes walking).

You’ll find a few restaurants and lots of other hotels in Langsuan Rd. One of the “entertainment districts” is one stop with the BTS train away. All the famous shopping malls like Central World Plaza and Siam Paragon and Platinum mall are about 15-25 minutes walking time away.
There’s a 7/11 store and a shopping mall between the BTS station and the hotel. Even at late hours you’re still able to buy some cool drinks or a snack.


While waiting to check in, we did what girls love the most. HAHAHA






















 The whole room has a friendly and warm interior. The room was clean. It was very quiet thanks to the high floor. Free WiFi was included in the rate, because we booked online. I had a stable and fast connection.

I haven’t tried the breakfast, because it’s only open until 10am. There’s also a pool, a spa and a gym on the higher floors.







 Sour and spicy salad ( cabbage, squid, prawn, vermicelli noodles)
His thai friends said it was nice but I ate one and pushed the dish away. HAHA, not to my best liking.

 Char Siew Pork rice with Thai sauce.
  Chicken wings which taste exactly like Chomp chomp BBQ chicken



This is what I mentioned. 1 stick for 10 baht. And we lost count on how many sticks that we took, just grabbed a whole and passed it on to the food tender to cook for us.



 

BKK version of fried rice. So yummy! They were too generous for their eggs that I could see the rice totally covered with the eggs yolk. Not to mention that the rice are so soft to chew, it felts like im eating a bowl of porridge. Overall, the best dish that I had.