Megan Singleton: BloggerAtLarge.com writer on her experience in Bangkok, Thailand

BloggerAtLarge.com writer Megan Singleton's latest stop is in Bangkok, Thailand, and she's been taking it all in.

Despite the muggy weather, Megan's been able to get around via water taxi, and it's allowed her to take in some shopping and dining - and she's also experienced the Sky Train.

She recapped her experience further here today.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News talks'b.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Coming to us live from Bangkok, Tyland, Megan Singleton and
our travel second.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Good morning, so a decar that was good. That was hello,
back to.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
You, thank you and to you too.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Pretty muggy this.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Morning, Yeah, it's pretty muggy. The windows are foggy on
the outside. It's six forty am. Francesca, I've been warming
up my voice for twenty minutes to talk to you
with a couple of instant nest cafe. But so I
haven't been outside this morning. But the sun is up,
the city's awake, and it is a muggy time of year.
This is about the winter that they call it. They

(00:48):
said your winters, our winters are hotter than your summers,
and they're quite right. It's thirty to thirty three degrees,
but it's that's sort of the temperature year round, GiB
or take three degrees. But it's the humidity that they
get in this rainy season. However, we have not been
impeded by that at all. There's sort of been a
maybe once a day, but not for too long. You know,

(01:10):
you can find a good shopping mall or a good
cocktail bar or something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Duck and so why do you choose to travel at
this time of the year.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
It's much more affordable. So we are staying at the
Shangrila Hotel on the river, the Shall Prayer River in Bangkok.
In I can't remember the prices because we did book
about ten rooms. I'm here on hosting a tour, but
it's really affordable. I feel like it's under five hundred
dollars a night, including the most amazing breakfast. And from
the river, you can take these water taxis. They've got

(01:41):
a complimentary water taxi that takes you across the river
to an amazing shopping mall. You can do a riverboat
cruise dinner, which we did on the first night, which
is just outstanding that it's just such a fun and
busy river. We can sit riverside, we've done that every night,
have a cocktail. We've got the pool right there. So

(02:01):
I totally recommend a riverside hotel in Bangkok. I've stayed
here about four or five times. And when you're in
the city, further into the city it really is a jungle.
But out here on the river, it's a breeze. Yeah,
it feels like the city breeds over here.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Right, So is the river appealing because when you travel
down it's sort of the architecture and things around you
is amazing, or just because it's a bustling place where
there's a.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Lot going on.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Yeah, it's bustling and you can get around on the river,
whereas the streets are jam packed and you can barely
get a tip took through. So on the river you
can scoot down on these water taxis and you can
be across at the mall in five minutes, whereas we
took a train to another mall and that was the
train was good fun. But if you were taking a taxi,
you know you'd be stuck in traffic for an hour. Yes,

(02:49):
we did take the skytrain to Siam Paragon Mall, so
we live opposite right now. We live ipon Siam Mall,
which is six floors and just wonderful. But there's lots
of shopping malls, so the girls are loving the shopping.
But yesterday we went to the rail I don't know
if you've ever seen that where the train comes through
literally on top of the stallholders goods and they have

(03:13):
to pull back their awnings and you stand back slithering
up against the wall to take a photo without being
hit by the train. We did that yesterday. Everyone's got
travel insurance, Francesca. And then we went to the floating
markets where we bought a beer from a long boat
and I've taken them on a tiktook Micheline Food Michelin

(03:35):
street food tour through Chinatown on tiktooks and that was
fun speeding through the city. Later at night around the Palace,
the Golden Palace, which the streets were quite empty at
the end, so that's been another great highlight. Last night
we had the most amazing cocktail. Was that what you
were just about going to say?

Speaker 2 (03:53):
I was because it wouldn't be a travel segment with
Hugh Megan if you hadn't told us about you know
what You've eaten and.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Drunk On the top of the Labua Tower, the sixty
fourth floor is the skybar. It featured in hang Over.
I think it was Hangover with Bradley Cooper and the
cocktails are about seventy five New Zealand dollars each, so
I had to take the girls up there for at
least one and that was all we could have fallen off.
We scuttled back down again, but it was outstanding, the

(04:21):
best views across the city. It's literally a walking distance
from where we are staying here at the Chagri La.
A lot of people have had clothes made, We've had
massages every day cheap ones. It's been amazing, and then
this morning we're off to Posa Momi.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Fantastic. We should look forward to catching up with you
next week. Travel safe, Meghan.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
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