Call it 'business class'

Yep, daggy enough to take my own pic with champagne!

I've never been on a business trip for now.  I guess that's becoz I work in the public system for and really don't have to drum up any 'business'.


For 6 months this year, I am/was lucky enough to have a part-time job in private sector doing something that can be loosely called 'research'.  It's this job which sent me on my only business trip - to Thailand.  I went business class, dressed, regardless, in my vintage t-shirt and black hoodie. Like the poor kid I actually am.


Here are some pics of the amazing hotel my colleague and I stayed in at our own expense, prior to the work-bit.  It was called the Aetas Hotel and was in Bangkok itself.  Such a lovely hotel with awesome stuff like a massage and daily cocktail (woohoo!) thrown in.  New, clean and bright.  Free wi-fi and some Macs available for guest use in the lobby too. Loved it.

The porn-style bathroom at Aetas - you can look into the main room from your bathtub... or vice versa, I suppose!  This bathroom style was also in the second hotel.

Dunno why I thought the bathroom counter also deserved a pic.  But there you go.

I wish you could see the giant showerhead here.  There were 2 showerheads - one giant one that would pour enough water to engulf you.  Heaven! 

The hotel I was in for work was, although technically 5 star, run down and over-priced.  There was no free wi-fi.  Internet connections were available for a rather hefty sum.  I also had a view of the ___airport on-ramp___.  Yes, the one vehicles drive on to drop passengers at the departures area.  EWWWWWWW.  Twice the price for rooms per night too, apparently.  Can anyone say "rip-off"?


Finally, I have to rant/rave about the flights.  I'm a cheap, cheap human being.  I've never even looked up the price of business class flights so this was an amazing experience.  I was on Cathay Pacific airlines, in one of the individual booth/bed things which fully reclines.  They try to feed you constantly in business class too.


I love my food but in 8 hours, I got 4 meals.  I had to refuse some of the last one.  It was beef noodles - think abt it ppl, I would never EVER ordinarily refuse beef noodles.  Sigh.  


Funny observation:  In economy, the pre-landing stuff is easy.  Your seats only ever tipped 3 inches backwards.  In business, there's a lot of shuffling around before landing.  You have to entangle yourself from your laz-y-boy type seat... and the big blankie/doona they gave you... and your wraparound headphones... and the table cloth (no shit) you probably left on your lap becoz, wtf, you had a table cloth and a cloth napkin to contend with.

Welcome to my pod.  

Yeah, I'm a hick.  Whatever yo!   I'll probably never get to do this again.  Might as well revel in every second of how 'the other half' live. 


;)