Monday, July 26, 2010

Trip to Thailand - July 12-23, 2010

The McVeigh family had a wonderful time in Thailand.  We had a few bumps (like getting kicked out of our first tuk-tuk and booking a hotel ACROSS from the beach) but we went with and it all turned out wonderfully.
Bangkok
We absolutely LOVED our hotel in Bangkok.  If you are ever in Bangkok, stay at the Chatrium on the river.  We just hopped on the river taxi and visited all the popular sites like the Grand Palace and Wat Arun.  The food was so good in the hotel restaurant that we ate 6 of the 7 meals there.
One of the 2 pics from the entire holiday with the four of us


The Tuk-Tuk story 
We arrived at the pier for the Grand Palace and were told by 2 separate people that the Grand Palace was closed for the morning.  The 2nd person was a tuk-tuk driver who offered to take us to see other sights around Bangkok for 80 bahts.  What a deal!!  Ok, let's hop in and see some of Bangkok.  He took us to the Wat Inthara Wihan (pictured above and below)