Last entry of the blog today. Currently being driven to Colchester from Heathrow airport by Amber's dad. So nice not to have to faff around after collecting our bags.
Yesterday we arranged to keep our hotel room until 4:30pm at no extra cost, which was great as it meant we could spend the morning having a leisurely breakfast and hanging out by the pool.
We had pizza and salad for lunch at Pinocchio's and booked our airport transfer just outside the hotel for 1,100 baht (400 baht cheaper than the hotel).
With our transfer booked we finished off the packing, had one last shower and vacated our lovely room to go and check out, which left us an hour to kill. We sat in the hotel reading room and caught up on our diaries.
The weather has continued to be nice to us. We had sunshine this morning when we were by the pool, then it clouded over as we went to lunch. During lunch it rained really heavily right until we had settled our bill, then it miraculously stopped so we could walk back to the hotel and stay dry.
We left La Flora in our air-conditioned cab under a sky full of dark, brooding rain clouds.
As we got to Phuket, the air had cleared, so we had a very smooth take-off for the first leg of our journey home.
We had 3 hours to kill in Bangkok Suvarnabhumi airport. We spent most of this trying to work out where we were supposed to be going. We must have walked the length of this huge airport twice thanks to incorrect signage.
We raided duty free to top up on sample moisturiser to keep our skin hydrated for the flight and I upset myself by looking in the Rolex shop. The genuine Rolex on which the fake I nearly bought was based was on sale for well over £6,000!!!
So gutted I didn't buy that watch now!
We ate a terrible plate of phad thai in a fast food place. Amber had an argument with a deeply unattractive ladyboy waiter(ess?) over the lack of egg and peanuts. I was more concerned about the lack of flavour...
Eventually we boarded our next plane and took off on the next leg of our journey, which was due to take 11 hours and 45 minutes.
The flight was pretty smooth, but the service was surprisingly poor. They played the same boring opera documentary twice in a row; they ignored my call light for ages (I had a killer headache and wanted some panadol); and Amber had to actually ask them to put the in-flight movie on!
The movie was great though: 'The Next Three Days'. Took the edge off the last couple of hours of the flight.
So, that's it. The end of an amazing holiday. I can't recommend Thailand and Cambodia enough as travelling destinations. As I read through the blog I can't believe the diversity of things we've seen and done this trip!
Can't wait to go back.
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