Went to Krabi Town on our last night in Krabi!

Krabi Town is about 30 to 40 minutes away from the main Ao Nang Beach (where our accommdations were) so we booked Krabi Shuttle again because we wanted a fast and reliable private transport. 1200 baht (S$47.20) for round-trip!

If you don't want to spend money on private transport, then there's always the local public "buses" called songthaew (read more here and here). It's not really a bus in the conventional sense ah - more like open-air van with two rows of seats facing each other. It's cheaper at 50 baht (S$2.00) per person per trip, but take note the songthaew won't move off until they fill the whole vehicle ok. So kalau you first person to naik then you kena tunggu la sampai cukup quota.

Oh, here's a tip: If you ever need an air-conditioned space and clean toilet while in Krabi Town, exit from the bazaar and turn towards your left (where 7-Eleven is, see picture below) and walk down straight until you see a cafe attached to a hotel. The hotel name is Snoozz Hotel and the cafe name is Cafe Amazon. Saliheen and I discovered it by chance so we took the opportunity to cool down and take toilet breaks in the cafe after making a purchase hehe. Pictures of the cafe here.

The chicken noodle soup and the mini quail eggs are my favourites from the night!!!!! And so damn cheap wtf, 50 baht (S$2.00) for a steaming hot bowl of chicken noodles with soup, 20 baht (S$0.80) to 30 baht (S$1.20) for most of the street food. Lantak sampai perut macam nak meletup, y'all.

Tapi tau tak siapa yang betul betul perut nak meletup malam tu????? Laki aku hahahaha. 

The reason why tak banyak gambar from the night is because Saliheen came down with food poisoning wtf. He broke out in cold sweat half an hour after our massage session and just seconds before we boarded our private shuttle to Krabi Town seh. Nasib baik it didn't come during our massage and scrub session, and nasib baik we were in a private enclosed shuttle seh. Might have been more nauseating for him if we were in a open-air public transport with other people! 

We don't really know for sure what caused his food poisoning but we suspect it might be the soya bean milk he had during breakfast? We shared the same food for every meal; that soya bean milk was the only thing I didn't consume but he did.

But then again, I've always had a stronger tummy than him so it is entirely possible that I consumed the same contaminated food and not be affected la hahaha. There is a reason why my mum calls it my perut besi even though it's lembik and droopy, which are not properties of besi haha! Saliheen also keeps telling everyone I have a filtration system in my perut, which is why my perut has two layers EH JANGAN DENGKI AH

Weekend in Krabi - Flight and Transport

Saliheen has been wanting to go to Thailand over a weekend to tailor more shirts for work so after we came back from Tokyo, that's exactly what we did: Made plans for a weekend in Thailand! He actually wanted to fly over to Bangkok but my family told me they were going to Krabi during the same period so I asked Saliheen if we could go to Krabi and spend some time with them instead. It'll be fun, I said, we get to surprise my dad (who didn't know our plans), we get to go to a beach destination, and oh look, there are tailors in Krabi too!

Whiiiiiiiich explains how we ended up spending the leap year weekend in Krabi. Hehe.

The Flight

My sisters already chose the dates and flights before we decided to tag along so we had to choose the same flight via AirAsia. I wasn't happy with the booking process because the website kept crashing on me wtf but after 2387034 tries, it finally went through! If I ever meet Tony Fernandes, I am giving him a piece of mind about my lousy booking experience >:(

But whatever. It didn't take away the excitement that Saliheen and I felt because my dad didn't know we were tagging along to Krabi, and we had to pretend to send the family off at the departure gates haha! Going through security and boarding was a tricky and heart-thumping affair (kita dah macam penyangak siak, trying to hide our faces all) but we managed well enough for my dad to be genuinely surprised on the flight haha his expression was priceless, you guys!!!!!

If you follow me on Snapchat (I am active there now) you'd have seen how it went down snap by snap, hehe. Although I guess I could also upload a video which my sister recorded from her point of view..............

Check out our pathetic bobbing heads, trying to avoid being spotted by my dad HAHAHAHA

Nice little discovery I made on this flight: me having another similarity with my dad in the form of our love for flight take-off and landing! I saw him peering intensely out of the window during take-off and landing and realized he wears the same fascinated expression as me during the same moments. Ke mana tumpah lauk kalau tak ke nasi (atau meja... atau baju).

Anyway, my thoughts about our AirAsia flights: Seats were ok for a short-haul flight, flight had several short bursts of turbulence, but generally more pleasant than the time I took TigerAir to Jakarta (there was turbulence and taik idong on the window). I might or might not take AirAsia again, depending on whether their website decides to be a bitch next time.

Airport Transfer

I don't know whether it was just the timing that we arrived (2.10pm) but the airport counters were crazy packed by the time we got in line for customs clearance!!! I think it's because of the cramped layout for the arrival counters la. The crowd cleared after awhile and we were out of customs clearance after an hour of waiting.

Booked airport transfer with Krabi Shuttle (as suggested by my sister Farahin) because we wanted the convenience of having transport immediately after we arrived in Krabi. Highly recommended! They were fast and responsive via emails, their vans were decent and their drivers were polite and always on time (We used Krabi Shuttle to go to Krabi Town too). You can pay via credit card online or pay cash on the spot (which we opted for because it gave us a peace of mind)

It cost us 1500 baht (S$58.00) for a round-trip airport transfer on a standard minibus that can accommodate 8 pax. You can use their online booking form here (easy to use) to see their quote for various routes and vehicle types! Oh, I think it took about 40 to 45 minutes to arrive at our accommodation in Ao Nang area from the airport? Definitely less than an hour ah.

Ending this entry with a travel video which my sister shot and edited! We appear sporadically in the video because Saliheen and I stayed in different accommodation from my family and we didn't join them for the water and island-hopping activities during the day (We've done them before when we were in Phuket and didn't want to do them again). But we met for dinners and Krabi Town + I still wanted to post this video because 1) my sister did a lovely video of her birthday trip/our family vacation and it deserves to be watched 2) this is to make up for the lack of pictures in this boring ass entry hahahaha.

Birthday Trip 2016 - Krabi from fazmals on Vimeo.

If you're wondering why Saliheen looks like he is done with the world at 04:43, it's because he came down with food poisoning on our second last day in Krabi HAHAHAHAHA ya ya now kelakar la, can laugh about it all, but at that time, he really looked like he was going through a world crisis k (Shall blog about food in Krabi next)