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Our flight this morning is at 9.45am so we got everything ready and were downstairs for 7.00am when the hotel start to serve breakfast. We had a taxi booked for 7.30am to the airport. When at the airport we checked in and so far we have done quite well to sit next to each other on every flight but our luck ran out on this one. It wasn't so bad James was sat right behind me and it was only an hours flight. When we arrived in Bangkok we got our bags and set off for the train station which is attached to the airport. We had worked out that we could get a train so far into Bangkok then would probably have to get a taxi a reasonably short journey. The train tickets were 10p each so this was definitely going to be a cheaper way of doing things. Whilst on a packed train (a mixture of locals and travellers) with every five minutes someone walking up and down the aisles selling something, James said there was a train station near to our hotel so we could get off earlier but he wasn't sure if this train stopped there or not. So it was only a thought, it came to the point where that stop would be next if it all. We sat there, the train stopped, it had no signs though all we had was google maps. James threw my bag at me and we got off, the train had started moving again by the time we got to a doorway but not very fast. It felt so wrong, no one else had got off, the train station was just a couple of platforms with shack type buildings backed onto them. James said if he was right then we were only a five minute walk, we walked to the end of the platform, over two roads and there our hotel was. James was brilliant! So our journey cost us a total of 20p to get from airport to hotel. After checking in we chilled for a little while, the room has a pc (with the monitor being the giant tv in the room) so James got on with emptying his photographs from his phone to make space for more. We thought for the rest of the afternoon we would go and visit the shopping centre called MBK. We had a bit of a list of things we needed, when we got there the place was enormous, the biggest shopping centre I've ever been to. It was seven floors filled with a mixture of proper shops and stalls. We found just about everything we wanted plus we had a meal at a place called 5th avenue. As you entered you collected a card, you had a limit of 1000 baht. Then there were different food stalls where you could choose your meal, they gave you a waiting time and you got your food. We hadn't realised we'd spent so long here at MBK, there was so much to look at, it was 9pm before we left. We got a taxi back to the hotel and James started organising the photos, trying to get some albums sorted for Facebook of trip so far.
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