{"id":1136,"date":"2014-12-21T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2014-12-21T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T07:05:14","slug":"arrival-southern-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"Our Arrival to Southern Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1137\" src=\"http:\/\/theagostins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy-922x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Ooops!\" width=\"800\" height=\"889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy-922x1024.jpg 922w, https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy-270x300.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy-768x853.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/P1030359-copy.jpg 1283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well we had our first significant travel logistics ooops. We flew from Chiang Mai down to the beaches in Southern Thailand. We found a cheap flight into Phuket, but Alvin and Jennifer were going to Krabi, so we really wanted to just get to Krabi. We thought, no problem, it\u2019s just a 2 hour ferry ride from Phuket to Krabi\u2026 a few minor details we overlooked.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That\u2019s the time it would actually take, yes, BUT all ferries make it a day long trip with a stop on Koh Phi Phi for 5-6+ hours.<\/li>\n<li>That means that the ferries really only run in the morning<\/li>\n<li>Also buses only run mid morning<\/li>\n<li>Our flight landed in Phuket at midnight<\/li>\n<li>The Phuket airport is in. the. middle. of. nowhere. \u2013 an hour and half cab ride into the town of Phuket. An expensive cab ride. And the bus to town quits running at 8pm.<\/li>\n<li>The bus to Krabi leaves from in town, not out by the airport.<\/li>\n<li>The Phuket airport shuts down at midnight and kicks everyone out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So basically our options were, sleep outside of the airport until the morning (not really an option, there was no where to sleep), cab ride to Phuket (expensive), or cab ride to Krabi (slightly more expensive, but at least at our destination).<\/p>\n<p>We did the cab ride to Krabi, and arrived at 2:30am. We tried to book a room online en route \u2013 when we got there we looked for the place for about 40 minutes. It was a little guest house. Everything was shut down. Our sweet cab driver was so nice and got our and helped us walk up and down the street searching for our place, asking the 7\/11 clerk, more searching, trying to call. Finally Rick walked really far down this alley and found our place. It\u2019s now after 3:00am\u2026 and there\u2019s no one to be found. The front of the guest house is this sorta open courtyard, there\u2019s one leather-ish couch.<\/p>\n<p>So I pull out my camping air pad (thanks, IMM!) and hunker down on the ground, and Rick takes his spot on the couch. And we slept semi-peacefully amidst the mosquitos and cats. Until 6:30am when the front desk lady found us and woke us up yelling \u201cNo! No! No! You can\u2019t do this. You can\u2019t sleep here!\u201d we tried to explain what happened, but really she didn\u2019t care, she kinda shoved us into an empty room and told us to sleep there. Heck yea! Free night\u2019s stay!<\/p>\n<p>sort of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well we had our first significant travel logistics ooops. We flew from Chiang Mai down to the beaches in Southern Thailand. We found a cheap flight into Phuket, but Alvin and Jennifer were going to Krabi, so we really wanted to just get to Krabi. We thought, no problem, it\u2019s just a 2 hour ferry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[18,49,28,6,33,99,53,9,11],"class_list":["post-1136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thailand","tag-airports","tag-boats","tag-bus-rides","tag-flight","tag-horrible","tag-krabi","tag-thailand","tag-tickets","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickagostin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}