Bangkok with Kids: Day 1, Ski365

Finally! Finally! Finally! It is finally our turn after seeing who and who, so and so went holiday at where and where. Hohoho. The kids had been looking forward to traveling too. Who doesn't love a holiday?

Our flight to Bangkok was via Scoot. A 2.5 hours flight is definitely tolerable via budget. Our flight was at 8.20am and bcos we had a paika and had requested for mobility assistance, we were denied online check in. We were out of the house at 5.30am. Bye Mochi, see you in 6 days' time. I wonder if Mochi would miss us as much as we would miss him. 

The airport was busy even at 6am. We were denied self check in too and had to join the Q. Bangkok, here we come!

We had to check in the wheelchair and crutches. They then provided the airport wheelchair, which was super bulky. We headed for bfast bcos mummy too cheapo to order inflight meals. Daddy Lim and the kids shouldn't have much to complain bcos bfast was hot and yummy.

We saw sunrise and Nana went crazy, she goes ga-ga over all sun rises and sets. 

The gate opened at 7.20am and we went to the gate early, in case extra checks were needed. We were the 1st to board the plane bcos of the paika. Not bad!

During the earlier live chat with the scoot agent to request for mobility assistance, there was this silly conversation on whether Nana is mobile. Well, not without the crutches and the crutches need to be check in. The agent asked several times, so not mobile? Not at all mobile? Zzzzzz. It turns out, Nana's ankle had improved quite some and she is now able to put some weight on it. Thus, she was able to hop and limp to the seat. 

Why only us? Bcos I paid extra for Daddy Lim to have the extra legspace seat leh. He complained too much le. He had so much space and was a happy man. 

The flight was alright. Zaky downloaded movies on Netflix, Nana was engrossed in her Stephen King book. 

Zaky asked 2x if we had inflight meals, that I eventually offered to buy him an ice cream. Lol. 

We arrived on time and to the Land of Smiles..  and shopping... and good food. Hoho. We took time and waited for the crowd to disperse before disembarking. Daddy Lim was anxious about the huge crowd at immigration. No choice, we have a paika. 

A wheelchair had been arranged for Nana when she disembarked. 

All thanks to her that we actually had express service in clearning the immigration! We didn't have to wait at all and were brought to an empty counter. Happy siol. 

We took a taxi from the airport to our hotel, PP@Rangsit. We were told that it was outside of Bangkok actually. We booked that hotel, as it is near to the Future Park Mall, our only destination for the day. 

The ride took about an hour. It was only after we were on the way that I realise that there was no meter in the taxi. S**t! We ended up paying THB900 and I have no idea if we were conned. Nana said that at least the taxi driver was friendly. Ok lor, we paid for "friendliness and entertainment" that we didn't need. 

Checkin was at 2pm. We left our bags and headed to the Future Park Mall for lunch. We were starving and ended up in a western food restaurant. Right outside the restaurant, some pasar malam stalls were operating. I was very excited. Hoho. We literally kept walking and eating and repeat, both before and after the official lunch. 

We had Thai milk tea, chicken satay, 冰糖 

strawberries and grapes, and the list goes on. 

Nana also bought the elephant pants that she had been eyeing on for months. It is not only her, she came with plenty of requests to also buy for the 3Fs and her friends. 

The reason for visiting the Future Park Mall, and not any other mall, is bcos of this - ski365. 

Yes, Bangkok has a snow simulator and coaches snowboarding/ skilling. I was eager to learn my basics so that I could snowboard with the family in December. We are heading to Japan to snowboard and I gave up on my lessons in Korea 4 years back after a hard fall and hurt my tailbone. 

We booked 4 hours private lessons, costing us THB7,500 (SGD300) back before Nana fractured her ankle. We went ahead with the lessons, and Nana had to wait for us. Fortunately, the book kept her entertained. 

I got pink boots!

But had to change to ugly black ones bcos they were too small and hurt my toes after the 1st hour.

The lesson started from the most basics. How to wear the boots (they were stinko!), the snowboard, move with one foot straped in, balance, etc. We then sat at the bottom of the stimulator and were brought automatically up to the top. That was the easiest part. Lol. 

I was tired 1 hour into our 4 hour lesson. Lol. I took the excuse to entertain Nana and left the boys. I is clever. 

When we came back, the boys were doing some pro looking toe side craving. Backwards ok, don't play, play.

Did we last the full 4 hours? Almost. I got bored after the 2nd hours. I seriously only want to learn the basics. Daddy Lim gave up after the 3rd bcos his toes were hurting. Only Zaky kept going until almost the end. He is good and very yaya about it. He said that he should have trained to be a snowboarder instead. Singapore no snow lor. 

I was very happy to learn how to stand up on the snowboard, I didn't manage to do that in the snow the last time and didnt dare go up the slope. I thought maybe bcos I am now physically stronger. Then Daddy Lim told me that it is actually much more difficult on real snow bcos it is much more slippery and the snow sinks and... never mind. Sob. 

There were plenty of dinner choices and we ended up in the Thai foodcourt bcos the last experience at Platinum Mall was great. This one was lousy. Maybe it was the wrong choices of food. 

On day 1, I basically only remembered to take pictures of the food when they were already in the tummy. 

This was Nana's boot noodles, she said that it was very nice but very spicy. It even burnt her lips that she had to cool down with macha ice cream., coated on her lips. 

We left for the hotel after dinner. Nana had done enough shopping for the day, while the rest of us were tired, especially Zaky. 

Given that the hotel is in some ulu places, I was worried that it would be bad and managed expectations. It wasn't and was quite decent.

As per the last Bangkok trip, we had the display of the day's loot. Nana won totally. 

Mochi got a Starbucks shirt, I bought school socks and the rest of the loots were all Nana's. That probably explained why she was very happy despite all the waiting that she had to do. 

We called the night off early. Zaky took the top deck, while Nana was in the bottom. Daddy Lim and I had the big bed. My only complain? No, not small bath towel (tehy were decent hotel towel sized) but the pillows were damned high. Zaky and I used flat pillow at home and Nana usually doesn't even needed one. 

Good night!

Mummy Lim