Bang Bang Bangkok

We flew from cochin international airport to Don Mueang International Airport. Now come the most exciting part “STAMPING ON PASSPORT”. YO!! Finally my passport stopped screaming :P Soon we completed the visa on arrival process where we need to pay 2k baht(4K INR). We collected our baggage and headed towards the city.

Note : 1INR = 0.53 Thai Baht.

We took A1 bus in front of airport and went to Bangkok bus stand directly which charged 30 baht per person. From Bangkok bustand we took direct bus to reach Pattaya. Duration from Bangkok to Pattaya is 3hrs approx. and fare is 130 baht per person.

After reaching pattaya bus stand we took cab direcly to our hotel A One Star. Verify and negotiate your check in times in advance with the hotel if needed.

Highlights of hotel:

1.It is located next to Pattaya beach.

2.It is the most happening place in Pattaya.

3.The hotel has great ambience and well maintained standards.

Website link: http://www.a-onehotel.com/pattaya/

So totally we were happy with our place of choice.

After quick relaxation we headed towards the night life. We have shared autos to travel inside Pattaya and these are known as “TUK-TUK”. We took TUK TUK to reach walking street. It charged us like 30 baht per person. Walking street is must visited place in Pattaya when you are looking for night life. This street is 800 meters long. In one line to describe this place is "A walk for 800 meters can change your perception towards life :P”. We rushed in one pub in walking street which had live music concert going on with descent crowd. It was great to chill out after a long journey.

Its time for some adventure. Coral island is the place where one can do all water sports like parasailing,Sea walk,Speed boat,Banana Boat and also paragliding. We booked a package for island tour for 1800 baht which includes water sports(doesn’t include paragliding) , pick up and drop from hotel including lunch. When you are not looking for water sports still you can make a visit to the coral island for 400 baht which includes pick up and drop from hotel and lunch.

A cab came to pick us from hotel to Pattaya beach from where the boat starts. It took 2minutes to reach the place from our hotel as we say right next to the Pattaya beach.From Pattaya beach the drive to coral island is 27km which takes 45minutes in speed boat. Island is beautiful and well maintained. Interested people can try paragliding in coral island for 2500 baht per person. After spending some good time in island we can return by the same speed boat and on arrival we were directed to a place where we get pretty good indian lunch. Place to make your tummy full.

Day we need to checkout and move to Bangkok. After checkout we planned to cover the rest of the places in Pattaya. We booked a cab to see the local places like crocodile park,floating market and gems gallery. Cab driver charged us 900 baht per person including all the entry tickets.

Million Years Stone Park & Pattaya Crocodile Farm - Too good place where you can find many animals not only crocodiles. You can find giraffe , elephants, tigers, birds and zebra. And yeah as the name says one can find crocodiles everywhere around the park. Collect the route map of the park and follow accordingly which takes 3 hours to roam around. Its not like normal zoo. Can get better experiences with animals when you go around this park. We can feed giraffs , sit next to tiger and make a life time picture out of it :P most importantly crocodile show was amazing. Worth a visit.

Gems Gallery - The place which leaves your mouth open when you go inside. Thailand is a place where you get best rubies in the world. Just go around the museum with a guide. After having a look at the gallery you will end up in the shop where you get nice collection of jewellery. Place to get something for your loved ones <3 and yeah one gets life time warranty and also the certificate for the item you got. Photography is strictly prohibited inside.

The cab driver dropped us back to pattaya bus stand from where we took direct bus to Bangkok with same price 130 baht per person and with in 3hrs we reached Bangkok and took pink color taxi for 100 baht reach our hotel Trinity silom. Just fell in love with this hotel. The way they treated us and the maintenance everything is quite appreciable.

Highlights of Hotel:

5min walk to change nonsi metro station.

2min walk to 7/11 departmental store.

5min walk to Mc Donalds.

Website link: http://www.trinitysilomhotel.com

Day 4

Bangkok is a city with good metro facility. So you just need to carry a route map along with you. We reached chong nonsi metro and took direct metro to national stadium. On reaching the national stadium stop on the right hand side we have --> siam discovery mall --> 6th floor --> Madame tussauds wax museum is located and also siam ocean world. We headed directly to the counter and took tickets which costed us around 1800 baht per person which included madame tussauds wax museum(all wax images of famous personalities) , 4D movie(ICE age) and siam ocean world(underworld aquarium). Make life time pictures with celebrities in madame tussauds. Don’t miss. I repeat DO NOT MISS.

We reached back to hotel by taking metro from national stadium to chong nonsi and got some needy items at 7/11 store. Why not thai massage? Yo we tried it right immediately when this thought shot our brain. It’s pretty good experience. Traditional Thai body massage is of 400 baht per person.

Note: 7/11 departmental stores are situated across the city where you can get all needy items for better price especially water bottles.

Day 5

We want to make this day bit traditional by visiting wat poo temple. We took metro from chong nonsi to saphan Taksin. From there we took boat to the Tien. The total journey was around 50minutes and costed us 70 baht per person. Temple was tooooo good. Calm place. Yo can find big reclining buddha statue and yeah every where you can see buddha statues around the temple surroundings. Entry fee for this Wat poo temple is 100 baht per person.

After a quick look around the temple you find grand palace of Bangkok right opposite to the wat poo temple which is also a quite important place to make a visit. Quick look and move out of the place to explore more. We took boat and went back to the saphan Taksin. From there we took another boat and went to Asiatique. Its more over like shopping at river front with fun activities. Enjoy the city view on giant wheel ride. Walk around buy ice cream make some memories an get back to the boat which drops you back at saphan Taksin. And yeah the boat ride is free for so called foreigners “INDIANS" :P

We took metro back to chong nonsi. Near chong nonsi there is a street market so we went there. It’s time for PING PING Show. So finally spiritual day ended up with some mukthi.

Day 6

Last day in Bangkok. Rainy day. We checked out from hotel and found ourselves on streets. Time for some shopping before we leave :P There is a big weekend market in Bangkok and this is the asias biggest market place. So we made a visit to that place.

Note: Before buying anything show your best in BARGAINING.

So totally it was a fun vacation which left was with hell lots of memories under budget of 50K INR per person. Mission accomplished successfully.