So we told Julie to keep us posted on her trip as best she could so we could follow her progress. For someone in a stranded situation I would say she did pretty good. We heard from her when she left the hotel and the next thing we knew she was blogging from the Chiang Mai airport lounge using her handy dandy Priority Pass. Remember that is the pass we got with our Hilton American Express cards. Lyn and I…
So today is the day we fly to Vietnam! While we hate to leave Chiang Mai and all of its groovyness we all have never been to Vietnam so we were all super excited to go and meet this new (to us) country. We still had some Priority Pass airport lounge passes to use so we decided to head to the airport around 11. That way we could have a free lunch in the lounge and then catch our flight…
Today we decided to go local by eating every meal from street vendors or little hole in the wall places that only locals ate at. We also planned on touring Temples or Wat’s as they are called here. Around 9 AM we left the hotel and literally walked around the corner and there was a busy market were locals were buying vegetables and meat to cook back home as well as many cooked foods to eat right there. We walked…
Well here we are again waking up in the beautiful town of Chiang Mai. Like I have said earlier we are enjoying temperatures that are at least 10 degrees cooler than last year. This has allowed us to walk just about everywhere which has been wonderful. This morning we headed back to the same breakfast place Cafe de Thaan Aoan. We pretty much had the same fare and it was as delicious as it was yesterday. Remember when I said…
After a good nights sleep we headed out to breakfast at a restaurant near our hotel. This hotel was the same as the one we stayed in last year except this year it was free for all of us due to credit card bonus points.(Yea us!) Nothing like making an inexpensive place even cheaper! The one thing that is nice about not getting breakfast included is it frees you up to try a different places and not get stuck in…
We actually tried to come to Chiang Rai last year to see the White Temple but we were coming from Chiang Mai and the buses were sold out on the day we wanted to go. So we were excited for this morning. The plan was to catch the local bus in all its glory and ride it to the temple at 8:15. We got up in plenty of time to grab a bite to eat and head to the bus…
Today would be a travel day and we are headed to the Kingdom of Thailand. We are flying to Chiang Rai a city in northern Thailand. We met each other for breakfast at 9 and had the same great breakfast we had the day before. I had the usual fair omelette, bacon, hash browns, and a lot of other cool local things thrown in as well. We had planned on getting to the airport early enough to visit the lounge…
So today it would just be the three of us. We met at 8:30 and went to the breakfast buffet at the Hilton. Remember we had reserved these rooms with free Hilton points from the American Express card. Due to Julie’s Gold member status we all received the buffet free as well. There was a crazy amount of food which we got to eat while looking over the pool area. Beautiful!!! Now that we had our belly’s full it was…
So now that Julie is here we are officially Three Miles from Home!!!! Ha Ha. So the plan for today is to meet up at 9 AM and head out on the town. Julie agreed to this time even-though she just arrived around midnight the night before. Tessie, Lyn’s cousin who lives here came to our hotel just before 9 and as promised Julie was up and ready to go! She was in full on vacation mode with no signs…
So we arrived at Kuta beach in time for Lunch. The hotel we were staying at was on the beach but you still had to walk a couple hundred yards to actually get on the beach. The hotel was called Sulis Beach Hotel and it was about $70 a night however it was free to us since we had been busy over the last year accumulating credit card sign hp bonuses. It was really nice room with a roof top…