Not Stuck In Thailand :)
by Sean on Sep.02, 2008, under Thailand
Okay people, you need to start watching the international news, PRONTO. There is a huge situation in Asia that I can’t specifically mention for reasons stated a few posts ago. What I can update you on is that we are back in Bangkok now with a flight on the 5th to China. The flight might be cancelled, though I can’t be sure (not my doing).
Last night we took a bus from Krabi to Surat Thani, got off there and got a different bus up to Bangkok. We had to do this because the main road was closed. During the night, the staff of the bus stole all the money they could find from every passenger. Matt lost 15,000 baht (3,000 RMB, or $500), Nick lost about 10,000 baht (2,000RMB), and Fei lost 6,000 baht (1,500 RMB). Thank god Qi and I didn’t lose anything. I can attribute that to me having my wallet in a side pocket full of change, so any attempt to open the pocket would wake me up (even though this was an afterthought).
So we arrived this morning to our original hotel (which was nice for what we were paying). We found out about the money when we took out the wallets to pay for the room. We tried changing our flights to China for today, but AirAsia was charging 800rmb to do so (and the flight cost us 600rmb to begin with). Not to mention the airport was closed so we would not have been able to go anyways.
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