We stayed at New Siam II- a clean, cheap hotel with a decent room and a swimming pool (we didn’t use). It was about a 5min walk from Ko San road – a tourist trap with trinkets and overpriced food.
Finding train tickets to Southern Thailand proved to be relatively difficult, due to tuktuk drivers who refused to take us to the train station, fake TAT travel agents who lied and said all the tickets were sold out, and to everyone else we asked who said it was “Buddha’s day” and the train station was closed. Several hundred bhat later and a lot of frustrated sighs, we found our way to the train station via metered cab and found an honest travel agent that planned the rest of our transportation for us.
With tickets in hand we went back to our hotel, treated ourselves to a meal of fried rice in a pineapple, and prepared ourselves for some of the most beautiful beaches in the world.
*We also visited Wat Pho while we were in Bangkok – massively ornate and beautiful.
Vann in a Tuktuk!
Stupas at Wat Pho
Why were they trying to discourage you from going to the train station?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad the rest of the trip was so wonderful!