Recently, a bunch of 7 adventurous people decided to take a toll on Hatyai, Thailand ; one of the most visited state in the world.
Ticket from Kl Sentral, taking ETS back and forth including hotel accommodation costed RM199 per person. The ETS is really clean, beautiful and looks super new. The seats were comfortable and we had like a canteen offering a couple of popular dishes in the train from Padang Besar to KL. The ETS brought us to Padang Besar, from which we caught another train to Hatyai after surpassing the immigration. The train ticket from Padang Besar to Hatyai costed RM10 per person. The journey from KL sentral to Padang Besar was 5 hours whereas thereafter it was about half an hour to Hatyai terminal.
Upon arriving in Hatyai, we took a tuktuk to our hotel. This ride costed us 30thb per person. Just in case you’re wondering the conversion rate, at the point of our travel, just divide the Baht by 8 to get the value in RM. This ride was for about an hour.
The tuktuk ride had been roller coaster like for us. We used the tuktuk for all 3 days in the stroke of heat, breeze of wind and splash of rain. It was fun, real fun.
We booked our hotel in P.S. Resort. The room was very decent for the price. Spacious, air conditioned and equipped with heater.
We were drenched out on the first day with the long hours in the train. There was this mall called Big C within walking distance from our hotel. Big C was of utmost use to us from getting daily needs and emergency food supplies and even the clothes there were not too bad in price.
Day 2:
We wanted to sightsee the town of Songkhla and do lots of shopping thereafter. We had lunch in one of the popular Halal seafood restaurant by Samila Beach. Trust me, the food was fingerlicking good. The portion was enormous and the price was very cheap. It was a very nice atmosphere there, with romantic old English songs playing lightly in the background and letting the wind of the beach to lock you in its breeze.
Unfortunately it rained and we could not enjoy the beach tour. As all of us wanted a massage badly, we shot to the town of Hatyai again. This may sound a bit crazy, traveling all the way to songkhla and hitting back to Hatyai, but it was because we were spontaneous and did not have specific places to go. We also had communication problem with the driver as he spoke very little English.
Lee Garden Plaza is exactly like Bukit Bintang. I did foot and shoulder massage for 250thb and pedicure for 100thb 😱. If I were to be working here, this routine is mandatory every week for me. It’s so damn cheap! We then went around walking outside the mall and got all eyes for the clothes. I had a budget to purchase clothes below 300thb. I shopped till I dropped definitely and would collect more money just to shop here again.
That night was a crazy fun filled night. We bought lots of beer and wine from Big C and chilled in the hotel room.
Day 3:
We could not do much on this day as we had to rush to Padang Besar to catch the ETS to Kl Sentral at 6pm. After checking out, we just rented the tuktuk for 1000thb overall from our hotel all the way to Padang Besar. From there we had our lunch, walked around a little bit and boarded the ETS back home.
It was a first time for me to travel with most of them in this bunch and I did not feel like I am meeting them for the first time at all. It was my first trip to Thailand and in fact the last time I went out of Malaysia was in 2008.
To simply sum it, Awesome, Best, Memorable 💛
Till we meet again, sawadeekha 🙏
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