Thailand

We left for Thailand the morning of New Year's Eve (Feb 17). The roads in Beijing were empty early in the morning with the exception near the airport on the airport expressway. We went through the usual angst of getting boarding passes, all the forms, passport control, security, etc. The flight from Beijing to Bangkok is a little over 5 hours.

We got off to a one hour late start and were a little concerned about our connecting flight to Phuket. The connection was fairly easy as we did not need to go through passport control or pick up our bags like you would in the US. The flight to Phuket is an hour on a 747 if you can imagine that.

We are staying in a section of the island called Laguna Beach. There are a small cluster of hotels that share a water taxi and bus service to connect them. We are staying at the Laguna Beach Resort. We arrived around 5:30 and are happy with it so far. We had a nice dinner at the hotel restaurant Rimatay (Thai Cuisine of all things). It was very nice.