(Please note! I'm not speaking well in english so please be patient :)
Twenty-two hours journey passed in no time...
Ha ha, and so seriously that this journey was ordeal. To put it mildly.
Paris aerial view looks good, no matter how much the plane swings during turbulence. At this point, we should get thanks from LOT airline for saving his few disposable bags hidden in the seat pocket.
The truth is that it really was not even what to bring up after a modest meal, how our beloved national carrier gave to us :)
Charles de Gaulle Airport is huge - we drove 30 minutes by bus between the terminals before we got out of the terminal 1 to terminal 2A.
Everytime, when the bus stood at the entrance to any of the terminal, the driver behind the wheel rotates and looked at us with hope that we want to leave a bus. And then we call to him: "Deux A". I wonder if he even understood in French.
A little worried about this trip - because I never flew by plane with connecting flights - in this case we had two connecting route, in Paris and in Hong Kong.
After arriving by bus to the terminal 2A, we got to the position of airline and after standing in the queue got all boarding passes.
At this point, once it became clear that our Polish agent did not book our seats on the plane, we got seats in the middle row (sucks!). Around us, as far as you can see, everywhere Asian people. All flight attendants was beautiful and meals on board was great. It was a Cathay Pacific plane.
After several hours of flying and a few meals caught up with us the curse of Pol Pot (popular travel sickness ;) Toilets on Hong Kong airport are awesome - in my opinion.
Airport in Bangkok is the pinnacle of modernity, glass, marble, aluminum ... and there is the forest ... A very much forest. In my country is sentence: "Shall never bring a tree to a forest". My beloved "tree" is sitting by my side in front of computer in local internet cafe and I admire local "trees" strolling down the street.
We flew to the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. We did the baht currency exchange (we took American Express traveler's checks). A lot of it was not necessary because in our country we made reservations for most hotels in Thailand (http://www.sawadee.com/) and Cambodia (http://www.directrooms.com/). Also made reservations for local flights (http://www.airasia.com/).
For booking I recommend using prepaid cards (e-cards) - after returning to our country, data of our credit card was leaked and someone bought AirAsia flight ticket from Chiang Mai to Bangkok -
I made "Charge Back" procedure in my bank and cash was returned to me. The only place where our data could leak was: AirAsia, Sawadee.com and directrooms.com. So be carefull.
We come out from the airport and trying to find a taxi stand. At least we see a desk with employees filling receipts for taxi drivers. We give them a voucher to our hotel in Bangkok and they are writing in Thai on the ticket address at which the driver should take us. Quickly they put us to taxi and set off. I am very surprised that it went so smoothly and that there were no any problems - why so naive am I. After driving a few kilometers the driver begins to inquire us about where is our hotel exactly. At this point it makes me a little weak. I'm taking the map of Bangkok and begin to explain to him - but it's hard to get along with because he knows english but rather hearsay.
In case of problems with the taxi driver and finding the hotel I would advise not to wait but immediately turn your mobile phone in a taxi and immediately call the front desk of hotel asking for an explanation route to cabbie.
The fare from the airport to Hotel costs us 400THB (about 13USD) including fees for the highway.
Unpack your luggage, take a shower and we go on tour - is at 1pm local time and in front of us a lot to see. I have jetlag as hell, but we do not know about it yet - we'll find out what it is for just a few hours.
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