I arrived back in Bangkok from Pattaya on Sunday evening, ready to work in the office on Monday. I'm staying at Novotel Bangkok Platinum Pratunam this week, a new area for me.
The hotel has a rooftop bar called View Rooftop Bar so after I unpacked I went there for a drink. It's on level 9 next to the pool so not really the rooftop but it's nice...
I then had a walk around the local area and got some food at an outdoor food court.
The next morning I got up and walked to the office which is very close...
This is the lobby. The building is largely vacant.
The Novotel is on the right of this below pic. I am right near Central World where I stayed once before. And the Grand Hyatt is not far and where I stayed the very first time I came to Bangkok in 2016.
I walk to the office via that elevated walkway you can see. This is the view from the boardroom...
Walking back to the hotel over the khlong...
One day I went to the food court at Big C, a mall nearby. A bit of a convoluted process when you had to go to one place and put cash on a plastic card and then present it to the guy cooking your lunch. This is what I had which was very tasty and so cheap (A$3.30)...
In the lobby of the hotel...
Another night I went with a colleague to Firefly, a very nice bar at the Kempinski Hotel...
Walking over the khlong another day, looking the other way...
Another night I went back to View with a colleague and had some very nice cocktails...
The drinks had great names...
On Thursday morning, I worked from the hotel and then headed to the airport. I wanted to try the Airport Rail Link (ARL) as Bangkok traffic can be awful. I was able to walk about 15 minutes to the station (Ratchapraop) which meant I didn't have to connect via a Skytrain station.
This is a Bangkok view from the station...
The train came on time and took 24 minutes to the airport. The airport station is in the basement of the airport so I just had to take several escalators up to get to the Departure gate.
It was very quick through immigration with the automated gates. I wanted to try the Qatar Lounge but it wasn't open (I was very early) so I went to the Cathay one which I had been top before and the food is always good at a Cathay lounge. I had dim sum and chicken rice for lunch.
I always have the beef fillet so had a change and tried the chicken...
Slept on the flight after watching several episodes of Tulsa King which I am enjoying. Landed in Sydney at 8am about half an hour late due to traffic. Things have improved at Sydney and I was through very quickly and into an Uber.
Great trip.
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