Phuket to Singapore to HK!

Our alarm woke us up way too early at 5 something in the morning cos Di hadn’t adjusted her phone’s time to local Thai time! Got up around 7am and had a quick breakky before checking out of our wonderful Burasari Resort and catching our pre-booked taxi to Phuket International Airport! We checked in our bags - 3kg overweight cos of AirAsia’s stingy 15kg/person baggage allowance! I only realised after we had paid the excess baggage fee of THB495 that 1.2kg of that overweight baggage was the water I had taken from the resort and packed into our luggage! Darn it! My asianness got the better of me! Airport security about not being able to take water on planes is also to blame!

Anyhow, guzzled down my ice lemon tea I had taken from the resort’s free minibar (hehehe) and then passed through immigration. The flight to Singapore was pretty full but thankfully brief, only taking 1hr 20mins. There we were greeted by Mama Leo, Uncle Hin, Aunty Ge-mite, and James. We checked in our baggage for our Jetstar flight to HK and then went to the airport staff canteen to have some lunch!

Couldn’t decide what to have there so ended up having Chow Kuay Teow and ice tea. We sat around and chatted for an hour or so before Jennifer rocked up with Jeremy! They had dropped by just to say hi! Around 3pm it was time to go to the departure gate so we said farewell!

The flight to HK was uncomfortable due to the dodgy Jetstar seats and took about 3hrs 30mins. We caught the airport express to HK station, then the MTR from Central to Quarry Bay. Harbour Point Hotel was easy to find, being directly opposite the MTR station! We checked in and were given a basic city view smoking room as there were no other rooms available in the hotel. They promised to transfer us to a non-smoking harbour view room tomorrow.

Not being bothered to go too far to find dinner, we resorted to dinner at the nearby Maccas we had spotted on the way to the hotel. After dinner we returned to our hotel to watch some National Geographic Channel and how our planet has been screwed up by human existence! Just a reminder about the fall of man I suppose and how we fail to rule ourselves or the world properly.