Glad we took photos!

Days 46 to 47 - Saint Pierre (Reunion) to Bangkok (Thailand) to Patong (Phuket)

Day 46

Our flight to Bangkok wasn't until 8pm, we had originally planned to check out around 2pm but once again we had to change our plans because of our Airbnb host and ended up meeting them at 12.

We drove back to Saint Gilles for lunch as we wanted to return after our first visit and had a nice lunch near the water.

Then it was back to the airport to return the hire car, strangely with this company we had to clean the car before returning it, the only other time we had to do that was in Albania! It was a relief to hand the car back, especially with some of the cheap local providers. In this case they found issues with the car but fortunately we had photos from when we picked it up so were able to provide the issue wasn't caused by us.

Day 47

Our overnight flight was uneventful and we arrived into Bangkok around 7am the next day. After collecting our luggage and passing through customs we went to the domestic terminal for our flight to Phuket. 

We had allowed some time between landing and our flight in case of our plane being delayed, so we had a long time to wait. We went to the Thai Airways office at 7.30am to see if we could change to a flight earlier than our scheduled one at 11.30am, but no places were available so we cooled our heels for a few hours until we eventually took off just after 12pm.

We took a Grab from the airport to our hotel, which has a great view of the Patong bay and a nice little plunge pool.