Javatari world traveller.

Well, I've returned from a trip to Thailand. I have to say that before I went I knew I wasn't much of a traveler and this trip confirmed it. Don't get me wrong, most of the trip was enjoyable, but overall, I don't feel that I greatly benefited from the experience. I think I just got caught up in everyone elses excited talk of their overseas trips and people telling me how great they found it over there.

The biggest problem I think was the travel agent. Long story short, we stayed in Bangkok for a few days and then we planning on going to a resort on a less crowded Island for about a week. We were thinking that Bangkok would not be all that great and the resort part of the holiday would be awesome. As it turned out, almost the opposite was true. We'd told the agent we would be going on a belated honeymoon and that we wanted to stay in nice places. The hotel in Bangkok was 5 star and we had no complaints there. When we arrived at the resort, it was not quite what we'd been expecting. Unknown to us we'd been booked into a small, crappy bungalow, so we had to upgrade ourself to a hotel room, which we'd been led to believe was what we had been booked into in the first place. Even that was a massive downgrade from our previous accommodation. Then there was the rest of the resort itself, totally boring.

To cut this tale even shorter, we left 3 days early as we weren't enjoying the holiday anymore and just wanted to get home. Now we're struggling with the travel agents to get our money refunded from the nights we'd booked but didn't stay at the hotel. Overall I'll be thinking long and hard before going on anymore holidays.