Thailand with a Tiger

It certainly was going to be a long day. A departure from Perth at 2135 to Singapore meant that we would land around 0300 and be stuck in an airport that wouldn't be open for another few hours. Whilst sitting at Perth International Airport sitting Absolut Pear on ice, little did I know of the pain that Robin and I would need to endure on the five-and-a-half hour Tiger Airways flight.


The plane was old. It was cramped. But the drinks were cheap. This plane had about 10 rows of passengers too many. It was chockers. What can one expect for a $150 flight to Singapore? Apart from tiny plane being extremely old and uncomfortable (clapped out is a suitable word for it), we landed at Changi at 3am and had to wait another three hours before anything other than McDonalds was open. You have never seen such a massive airport so very cold and empty.


After our non-bacon bacon and egg McMuffins, we headed over tothe Koi ponds for an hour to watch the fish and relax after the flight. When 6am came, we walked to the shopping districts and checked out the Formula One displays (it was the weekend of the Singapore F1 Grand Prix).
There were still two more flights to go, but this time in "normal" planes with service and leg room! The flights were only a couple of hours and the hard part was out of the way. We continued our next sectors with Bangkok Airways.

We landed in Ko Samui in the early afternoon and took advantage of the fine weather and walked down Lamai Beach for the rest of the day. We walked a few kilometres down the coast and back again to crash out in our lovely bungalow.