This would be so much better if we were sleeping with eachother
We're staying at Chaw Ka Cher Tropicana Resort, which caters to honeymoon couples and rich Scandanavians (with dreadful children). A LITTLE on the pricey side but necessary in order to stay on Ko Lanta over the New Year.
Also necessary in order to stay on Ko Lanta over the New Year was a 'compulsory New Year dinner' to the tune of BHT1500 (AUD45, GBP22). To give you some perspective, your average meal in Thailand will cost you BHT150 - BHT250 (less than BHT100 if you have the pad thai and a pineapple juice). So we figured, 'yay, we'll be able to drink the other BHT1200' since alcohol is ridiculously overpriced in Thailand.
Not so.
Our compulsory dinner was a boarding school servings style buffet and included one glass of medium range Argentinian wine. The other BHT1200 went towards 4 hours of traditional Thai dancing and music. Think of the bagpipes playing gregorian chant and you have traditional Thai music. The dancing may not have been so bad, had it not been performed by 10 year olds and was a little out of time. Plus, in 4 hours you can only do so many moves in sparkley costumes.
We finished our glass of wine and ended up watching Home and Away in Thai. Sneaking out proved too difficult because the Maitre D' kept coming around to check we were having a good time and was there anything else we might like (although not from the bar, unless we'd like to pay for it).
Happy New Year anyone!
Also necessary in order to stay on Ko Lanta over the New Year was a 'compulsory New Year dinner' to the tune of BHT1500 (AUD45, GBP22). To give you some perspective, your average meal in Thailand will cost you BHT150 - BHT250 (less than BHT100 if you have the pad thai and a pineapple juice). So we figured, 'yay, we'll be able to drink the other BHT1200' since alcohol is ridiculously overpriced in Thailand.
Not so.
Our compulsory dinner was a boarding school servings style buffet and included one glass of medium range Argentinian wine. The other BHT1200 went towards 4 hours of traditional Thai dancing and music. Think of the bagpipes playing gregorian chant and you have traditional Thai music. The dancing may not have been so bad, had it not been performed by 10 year olds and was a little out of time. Plus, in 4 hours you can only do so many moves in sparkley costumes.
We finished our glass of wine and ended up watching Home and Away in Thai. Sneaking out proved too difficult because the Maitre D' kept coming around to check we were having a good time and was there anything else we might like (although not from the bar, unless we'd like to pay for it).
Happy New Year anyone!
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