Our full itinerary on the way home has 8 flights, with only 2 of those being direct. For nearly every flight we are transferring either through Bangkok or Kuala Lumpur, and between Laos and Bali we wound up with a 22-hour layover in Bangkok. Rather than try to entertain kids in a transit hotel for most of a day, we chose to get cheap room right off the airport rail line in Bangkok and find a few fun things to do. The last time we visited as a family (Christmas 2017) we packed a lot into our 5 days in town, visiting pretty much all of the big temples and major sites (and a handful of smaller weirder ones), so this trip we decided to skip the temples and find some more modern fun.
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| Thailand has the best flavors of, well, everything. |
After checking in and feeding the kids some snacks from 7-11 we took a taxi to Hajime - a robot restaurant in what turned out to be a failed luxury shopping center. The car dealership on the first floor (the only other business in the building that appeared to be operating) had a few million USD worth of sports cars on display, and we were one of only two groups at the restaurant itself. Hajime is a Japanese hot-pot joint whose gimmick is that much of your food is delivered by industrial robots with pasted-on smiley faces wearing samurai armor. They even do a little dance.
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| Different "Target", same font. |
Afterwards we went to Asiatique, a sort of cleaned-up market reminiscent of the Chatuchak market that we visited on the north end of town, but glitzed up (and the insanity dialed down) for tourists.
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| If you have to explicitly state "exotic" steakhouse in Bangkok you are trying too hard |
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| Why rubber duckies? Why not?! |
We strolled around and got treats (one last mango sticky rice!), rode the ferris wheel, and had tiny fish nibble the dead skin off of our feet.
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| Boats! |
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| The Chao Phraya, with old Bangkok waaay in the background |
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| As you can tell from the background reaction, it felt _really_ weird. |
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| Afterwards our feet were so soft and smooth! |
Next time: we finally make it to Bali!
The samarai robot looks like it's wearing boobie tassles... Cool though, my kiddos would LOVE that restaurant
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