Bangkok Arrival

30 April / 01 May 2010

Our plane was due to arrive at 11pm on 30 April, but our temporary Visa only allows us to stay for 30 days. We had decided to wait out that hour until after midnight so that we go through Customs on the 1st of May.

Frustratingly after waiting and processing through customs we then found out that the official stamped our passports with the date our plane arrived, not the date we gave him our passport.

While in Bangkok’s air conditioned airport I wondered what the outside temperature was going to be like. Was I going to cope? As it turned out it wasn’t much of a shock, warm, but not uncomfortably so.

At the airport we queued for a taxi, the lady allocating taxi’s specified $500 BHT for the trip to Khaosan Road, we would have preferred to barter as we understood the rides could cost as little as $250 BHT, but we were both somewhat sleepy and in no mood to kick up a fuss.

Comments

  1. Do you think there will be an issue with your visa when you go to leave?