What a beautiful morning to wake up to! Let`s go for breakfast and then explore the property! So first mistake – sitting outside for breakfast – that sun crept over the building and got incredibly hot very fast! Note to selves – sit inside for the rest of the trip! The breakfast buffet here is unreal – I thought the buffet at the Sheraton Dubai Creek was big – this one is bigger and has tons of different types of food on it! More pictures on that later – I am shy about taking pictures on the first day 🙂 Here are some of what I ate though!
The Marriott property is fairly large and lush which we could see from the HOT patio that we were sitting on. After breakfast we walked around and checked out the big pool, the aquarium, the beach and what we thought lead down to the other pool but as there were stairs, were puzzled how to get there. See pictures below for the beautiful property!
We then went and sat by the pool under the umbrella for shade and did various thinks like nap, nap and more napping! Andrew also enjoyed the pool. I got my feet wet however decided not to swim as the pool was not safe for me to get into due to the large stair to go down. I was happy just hanging out getting my legs to cool down! So far no burns! On the way back from the pool we “researched” how to get laundry done as I had been looking on Google Maps and did not realize that we were farther out of Rayong than expected. Of course the front desk ladies and bellmen were right on it and arranged a ride to a local town about 7km away where the driver would take us, leave us for 2 hours and then the same driver would bring us back! All for the cheap price of $16 Cdn. Not bad. Doing laundry cost us about 5 Cdn so that was a total of $21 Cdn. Andrew figured we saved a BUNCH of money by not having the hotel do it and he did not have to have someone else clean is underwear… must be a man thing!
We then had dinner at the hotel – which due to the time zone change was a light dinner of chicken satays GF of course! The chef is VERY attentive and is wanting to make sure that I have as good a meal as everyone else which is the Thai way of service.
Now, on those night shots from our balcony – what are all those green lights doing on the ocean? Those are squid fishermen! They fish with a green light and a lure and the squid are attracted to the green light so they swim up near the boat and then eat what is on the lure and are caught! The squid we are talking about are large – between 6 inches and a foot! Quite pretty to look at the boats shining all night long!
