During mid semester break recently, me and my colleagues from department of economics visited Bangkok for our leisure trip. We went there from 12th April until 17th April. The decision to go to Bangkok was set just a month before the trip as the department members choose Bangkok as our destination.
The task to book flight and hotel is given to our travel sifu Cikgu Hasan. We booked flight and hotel using AirAsia Go and the price is RM520+ for return flight ticket and hotel for 4 nights. If you want to go to Bangkok, make sure your hotel is near to any BTS or MRT station because it is easier for you to go here and there by train. In our case, we stayed at Nantra De Comfort Hotel in Thonglor, Sukhumvit. The distance to Thonglor BTS Station is about 700 meters.
I'm the one who set up the itinerary for the trip based on my previous experience in Bangkok. So I set the itinerary that suit our budget and visit as many places as we can in 4 days. The date that we choose is Thai New Year or Sonkran, so the price is little bit expensive at that time. But, this is the only time that we have, so we proceed and hoping everything will be fine.
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| Getting the taxi at DMK |
We arrive at KLIA2 around 2 pm and the departure time is tentatively at 5 pm. But the flight delay by 1 hour, so we depart around 6 pm and we arrive at Don Mueang International Airport (DMK) around 7 pm local Thai time. At DMK, you can choose whether to use a chartered taxi or metered taxi. To save cost, we opt to use metered taxi but we need to queue before we get the taxi. So for 13 of us, we need 4 taxis. The price is around 250 to 350 baht (including airport charge) depending on driving style and traffic. For my taxi, I need to pay 340 baht that day. We arrived at hotel around 9 pm, check in and go out for dinner.
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| Fresh fruits |
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| Arab Street at night |
We go to Arab Street for dinner since we can easily find halal food here and for sure it is open until midnight. We took BTS to Nana Station and this is the nearest station to Arab Street. So anytime if you go to Bangkok, and do not know where to get halal food, this is the place. The price of the food is quite expensive but it is reasonable at this area. I ate seafood fried rice and coconut juice for 220 Baht, around RM 25. After dinner, we walked about 4.3 KM to hotel because the train station is already closed ha ha. Tired. Sleep.
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| Fresh juice |
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| Alhamdulillah |
