Thai'm Ready!

This will be the first trip since I was a child where I'm actually going to get some sleep before I go. A little less than 5 hours, but sleep is sleep.

My bags are packed, and light as a feather I may add, and I'm just R-E-A-D-Y. I booked my last hotel this evening [a last night stay in Bangkok after Malaysia before heading back to London] and I'm just about ready to call it a day. The bubble bath is running and I'm getting ready to start reading my [been on the shelf for too long] E. Lynn Harris book 'Not A Day Goes By.' Thanks MzInspiredMind81. [In Purple just for you.]

I'm nervous, yet excited. I've travelled by myself before to Dallas 2 years ago, but this is the furthest I've been by myself for close to a 2 week period. The weather at the moment looks crap. It's rainy season so rain and thunderstorms galore, but still hot n humid in the 80-90 degree range. It doesn't matter though as I'm going to make the most of it, and come rain or shine take in as much as Thailand and Malaysia as humanly possible. Plus I'm being a real diva and staying at the fancy places like the Le Fenix, The Langham and The Ritz Carlton so that's an added bonus having a plush hotel to come back to after a day of just getting dirty like a backpacker.

I'll be blogging as I go. Internet cafés are rife in Southeast Asia so I won't have a problem getting access to the www. Plus as well as any pictures I take, it'll be the first where I'll be able to savour the memories of the who's, what's, where's, when's and how's of this trip right here.

So it's off to Bangkok, then Koh Lanta an island off the coast of Krabi, then Malaysia, back to Bangkok, then home to London via Bahrain.

S-H-I-T, I hope I don't oversleep. I'm setting 4 alarms!!

The Bucket List #21

Me and my sister have been conditioned from a very early age to enjoy the best if you can afford it, and make no apologies for doing so.

I have never camped, stayed in a tent, or a hut, and I may not ever do that. I think I could but I don't want to right about now. Plus I don't sleep on the floor at home and refuse to pay to do so somewhere else in the world.

There is some real travel snobbery I've experienced when it comes to accommodation and it usually comes from the campers, those that like to rough it. Somehow if you stay in a hotel, you aren't really experiencing the country compared to those that literally like to get dirty and camp out in the woods. So they say. Whatever, I could care lesser than I do already.

Listen, I can climb a mountain, go across country in a jeep, wander through the rain forests and get bitten by any and everything, venture into local villages, eat and buy from the locals…but come night time I want to collect my key from reception, take a nice hot shower, order room service, and watch CNN or a pay per view movie. The difference between my holiday and theirs is where we lay our heads at night.

Every travel experience is a personal one and I'm not about to feel bad for my choices. A holiday for me is about relaxation and doing as little as possible whilst experiencing the most that you can, hence another bucket list entry being knocked off...

#21 Stay at the Ritz

It's booked and paid for and I'm going. On my Malaysia trip I'll be staying there in Kuala Lumpur. Every guest is entitled to 24 hours butler service and I'm going to enjoy it and bask in it in 26 days time.

And why not. Isn't that what life is all about?

Throw Malaysia in the Mix & Call It a Day!

Maybe leaving a majority of booking everything till the last minute was supposed to happen for a reason.

I was looking at a map of Thailand online this morning and noticed just how close the distance was to Malaysia. Now in the far east Malaysia is definitely on my list of places to go in the world. So I decided about 20 minutes ago, to just go. Do a 2 in 1. And why not?

So I went onto Air Asia and checked out the prices to all of my domestic flights just to see if they had gone up some, as there has been financial crisis, after financial crisis and for all I knew since I last checked back in July, did the airline even exist anymore? Hey stranger things have happened in recent weeks.

So once I hit Bangkok and stay there for 3 nights, I'm flying to Krabi and travelling to Koh Lanta by road and sea.

I'm going to switch it up from here and travel from Krabi to Kuala Lumpur and from Kuala Lumpur back to Bangkok to spend the last night there before catching my early flight back to London via Bahrain.

It was lucky I was sitting down because I'm used to cheap flights to Europe for a penny plus tax, but still I was amazed at the one way price from Kuala Lumpur back to Bangkok [the longest leg at that] £12 ($21)

EXCUSE ME!!

It costs £8 at peak time to get a one day travel card to zone 1 in London. So for £4 more my black ass can fly from Malaysia back to Thailand. Shoot you don't have to tell me twice.

SOLD TO THE LEGGY SISTAH IN THE BACK WITH A PENCHANT FOR TRAVELLING!!

Now I have to order a Lonely Planet guide for Malaysia and see what I want to do whilst I'm there.

Excited is not even the word.

Bangkok to Krabi 1320 THB* (£21.55)
Krabi to Kuala Lumpar 705 THB* (£11.51)
Kuala Lumpar to Bangkok 75 MYR** (£12.08)
*THB Thai Baht
**MYR Malaysian Ringet