Bangkok with Kids, Day 3 Part 1, Pattaya Floating Market

Kokotel provides pick and choose bfast! It has a swimming pool but unfortunately no gym. 

While the family was still sleeping, I decided to do my kickboxing hiit. It was so hot and humid. I was dripping sweat despite done this workout so many times. 

My view for my morning workout. 

Nobody was swimming, nobody was working out. There was this Indian dude sleeping on the beach chair. He was there before I did my workout and still there when I left. I duno why. 

I went back to the room and woke the family. Hey! It is bfast time!

For the sake of food, the girl started walking. 

Our morning itinerary was to the Pattaya Floating Market. We don't know how Nana was going to cope but decided to try anyway. I also reminded the boys, that they have to buy new T-shirts or otherwise, they can buy the Kokotel T-shirt. Hoho. 2 designs somemore. 

We had been grabbing everywhere and this was no different. We had pre-purchased the tickets from Klook that comes with the entrance and 20 mins of rowing boat. Who would be rowing the boat? 

The market was starting up and we were already lured by this rib.

We opted for the rowing boat early, hoping to avoid the sun/ heat. 

So who rowed the boat? Nobody.. we got cheated; our boat was motorised. Lol. The floating market was huge. Unlike the Bangkok one, there was rarely any sales on boats. Some of the food vendors were in boats, but docked to land. 

We sailed around the market and brought to see different parts of it, including a moo moo cow. We were trying to figure out if the cow is real and the boatman kindly "rowed" back. The cow responded to his call! Bcos it was fed the next moment. No wonder lah.

We alighted the boat and the kids were lured to feed little goats. 

The weather was so hot that eating an ice cream became a necessity. The kids said that this rolled ice cream is rarely available in Singapore. 

Then to the fish spa. 

The kids were so funny, 又怕痒，又要玩. We left them at the spa and went to explore, looking for Daddy Lim's T-shirt. We didn't find any though and decided that sitting down and drinking coconut was a better choice. This is called a Naked Coconut. Very refreshing. 

The kids decided that the weather was too hot and a 2nd ice cream was justified. This time, they had an expensive but unqiue ice cream. 

It was too early, too hot and we snacked too much to feel hungry. We decided to head back to the hotel for a rest. I so wanted to do massage and the kids were in agreement. We walked to the main road, found lunch at a coffee cafe bcos it was air-conditioned; it was really difficult to find food in our hotel's vicinity. We then headed to the nearest massage place bcos the sun was so hot, like skin burning hot. 

Zaky and I had feet massage while Nana did a head and shoulder massage bcos she is paika. Daddy Lim, who isn't a fan of massage, chose to use the cafe WiFi and aircon to wait for us. 

Shiok sigh..  only Nana complained that her masseur used too much strength and didn't lighten up much despite being asked so. 

We headed back to the hotel and decided to proceed with the 2nd activity only in the early evening, when the sun prepares to knock off. The kids were given the option to swim but nobody was keen. We rested and I happily took a nap. 

Good life.

Mummy Lim

Bangkok with Kids, Day 2 Part 2, Ripleys Believed It of Not!

Our hotel was 30 mins drive away. It was the kind of "the car's aircon felt so good" kind of hot. 

Our hotel, Kokotel was in South Pattaya. I chose this bcos it was near to the activities that we wanted to do, including the beach. However, it was also a short walk over bumpy road to the main road. We have never been to Pattaya, and were surprised to see pubs and bars right on the main road (outside our hotel and many other places) and many of them with sleazy names. Hmmm...

The hotel looked familiar... then we realised that we had stayed in its branch in Pkuket! The room was decent too. It again has a bunk bed and 2 single beds. The only difference was that their pillows were light and fluffy and each bed had 2 pillows somemore. Hoho. I like. 

Our room faced that of the other establishment at super close proximity. The curtain must be drawn or we can see other people's bedroom (vice versa).

We can see the pool too, which was a lot more decent that the earlier hotel's. 

After settling in, Daddy Lim said that we should go look for lunch. Yes, we never go hungry during the trip. Nana ordered a smoothie from a roadside stall and befriended a bird. What a deal. 

The original plan was to head back to the hotel for a rest after lunch. Nana came without her aircast. She had a slipper on 1 foot and only a sock on the other bcos we only brought 1 slipper for her. Then we realised that we were fairly near to our activity and decided to head direct. 

Mt 1st boo boo of the day was to plan and book tickets for the Magical Ice. I only remembered that Nana may not be able to partake after paying for it. My 2nd boo boo, realised at the door of Ripleys, was that I had booked tickets for 5 pax instead of 4. Zzzzzz. Don't ask me why. 

There were a total of 7 + 1 new activities. We bought the 5 attraction tickets and had to opt for the ones that allowed wheelchair. The haunted adventure was out, so was the new huanted hospital. We joked aboout leaving Nana in her wheelchair when the ghosts chased us. Lol. 

The outside of the attractions was interesting enough. 

The 1st attraction that we went to was the Believe It or Not, with the world's weird facts and artifacts. The tallest man on earth.

Big hand vs mine. 

The heavy helmet for some diving. 

Biggest tyre. 

The weirdest of all must be this. We were all trying to roll our tongue. 

I didn't know Zaky can do this!

There were a lot to see and a long walk. We went to the 2nd attraction, the wax museum. 

Bcos there were staff dressed up as ghosts and zombies to advertise for the haunted attractions and we were scared a couple of times, we were extremely jumpy even at wax figurines. Lol. Nana was like "dont leave me here alone" even when we were a few steps away from her. There was this particular zombie in an electronic wheelchair. I was pushing Nana in her wheelchair towards the zombi, who saw us and in turn chased after us. Lol. Ya, I ran like mad and with Nana in her wheelchair. It was super funny.

We then went for a 4D show after that. It was OK, we were just thrown around in the chair and then had a lot water mist sprayed at us. Lol. 

The next attraction was the Scream and Shoot in the Dark. Only Daddy Lim went with the kids. The ride looks kiddish enough but manned by a clown. Wah lah eh. Each car can take 4 but the kids all chose to squeeze in with Daddy Lim. The seat looked super crowded. Lol. 

Was the ride scary? Daddy Lim and Nana said not but Zaky felt otherwise. At one point of the ride, he gave up the shooting and chose to just grab Daddy Lim's arm instead. Haha. 

I didn't ride with them bcos I wanted to go for the Vault with Zaky. It was one of those laser game. We got a very high score bcos we figured out that we just need to leopard crawl under the laser. 

I got so slow in crawling that I decided that I would be faster if I started rolling and I did. Lol. 

Before we left, Daddy Lim and Zaky went for some mirror maze. We were told that wheelchair was allowed, then at the door, denied again. This happened for almost all of the attractions. Zzzzz. Nana was very affected in the beginning but brightened up as the attractions distracted her. She had enough fun by the end and didn't quite care when she wasn't allowed into the last one. 

I had thought that Ripleys would be a 2 hour at most affair but we ended up spending close to 4 hours. All the while, Nana was without her aircast and had to hobble and walk and climb steps at times. Her ankle started hurting. 

We had intended to go to the Pattaya Night Brazzar, that was supposed to be 12 mins walk away. We took way longer bcos the pavements were so bad. So, so bad. Nana was tumbling in her wheelchair and her wheel got caught so many times in portholes. She must be so lucky not to be thrown off the wheelchair. Our only score? Banana prata! Daddy Lim refused to share this with me the last trip and I have the kids to entertain me this time. Happy!

We arrived at what we think is the Pattaya Night Brazzar and were deeply disappointed. It looked more like a tourist trap than anything. We walked a couple of shop, didn't stay long and decided to find dinner. We were opposite some Central Mall and the aircon looked inviting. There were some food stalls outside of the mall but we didn't eat there. There was a stall selling roasted crocodile meat. 

We eventually settled for another food court. Their food court aren't cheap but offered Thai food. This experience was so much better; we had hot food. 

And mango sticky rice! So much mango! Bcos I was greedy and ordered the big portion and we finished it all. Hoho. 

We took a Grab back to the hotel. It was too treacherous to try to wheel Nana back by foot. 

We were all so tired. Must be the leopard crawling and rolling on that dirty laser quest carpet. Lol. 

Mummy Lim