Sitting in the car of a mad, tiny Thai lady we tried to absorb everything that we saw - pointing out new and weird cars, giving excited yells whenever we saw a temple or anything “Thai”. And even with all of this happening around us, it still did not fully sink in that we are actually in a different country. It just kind of felt as if we were at some unfamiliar place in our own country - or at least until the Thai lady suddenly starts speaking to us in what sounded like Thai. Steven and I looked at each other with faces that spoke of both confusion and excitement. Confusion – what the heck did she say?! Excitement - whooohooo, we can test our Thai phrases that we studied.
After a wild trip with the maniac Thai lady (skipping the traffic lights, looking in her mirror while talking to us, cutting in front of other cars, going up one way streets to name but a few) she finally dropped us of at the hotel, gave us our luggage and disappeared of into the big city ….
Brian and I went into the hotel and the lady greeted us with a big smile, and the customary “Sawatdee kha” with a nice little “wai”. We then wanted to check into the hotel the lady asked for our names because obviously we made reservations. She checked for our reservations and the dreaded: ‘sir we can’t find u on our list” happened to us. Brian and I looked at one another and the thought: “ *#%@#% is this a scam???? “ crossed our minds for that one second.
Brian checked on his phone to get the number of our Thai-agent. After looking at the email (that we received from our agent) that we showed her, she said ‘’ oh, this is not the right hotel’’ and she gave us directions to the right hotel.
‘Brian and Steven welcome to H-residence Sathorn”. RELIEVE!!! Now we can check in and take a hot shower and reeessstt, but…unfortunately you can only check-in at 2 pm. Not the best news for travelers at 8 am in the morning.
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