Friday 8th June
We’re back in Bangkok and
halfway home, we had a good flight from Copenhagen, took off on time and landed
half an hour early. The SAS service is
good but their business class lounge and the food on the plane was not
exciting, in fact if you arrived at their lounge to catch a late flight about
all that was offering was some fruit and cheese and biscuits, all the other
food disappeared very early.
Arriving at passport control at
Bangkok we were confronted with a queue as long as that at security in Oslo and
resigned ourselves for an hour’s wait but we were directed to the Priority
Gate, being over 70 has some advantages.
The result was we were in our room at the hotel, compliments of SAS,
within an hour of landing. A quick swim
to refresh ourselves and we now have an eight hour wait till we depart for
Melbourne.
We are now in Royal Thai lounge
after our stay at the hotel, nothing like a short sleep, a shower and fresh
clothes to prepare for the next leg home.
From the hotel we could see the airport terminal about 300 m away and
could have walked there across the car parks but the hotel shuttle bus must
have covered 3km on the road to drop us.
Once again our age gained us a
quick trip to passport control and on to security and into the giant duty free shopping
mall, when I went to buy a bottle of Scotch to take home I was informed it
wouldn’t get through security in Australia.
I wonder if that’s if you fly into Sydney and transfer to a domestic flight.
Thai and SAS code share the
flight to Melbourne but there isn’t any comparison with their lounges and
facilities and perhaps SAS could learn a lot from Thai when it comes to
customer service, it also applies to on-board their flights.
Next stop Melbourne
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