The New Travel Lodge

The Grand Ballroom is on the right hand side.

Today we've been to the Lodge for a swim!  There were birthday celebrations at school today - 103 year anniversary but they all happened this morning and then the teachers got a bonus (unannounced) afternoon off.  We went with two lovely friends of ours Wicus and Juls.

The Lodge is near to Tesco (it's marked on the map as number 1 under accommodation) and is only about 5 minutes from our house.  It costs 100 baht (GBP£2 / AUD$3.50) which gives you a towel, a locker if you need one and free Wi-Fi.  When you get to the entrance, you can ride down towards the back of the hotel and the pool is on your right,  There's an office marked up as "Pool Services" and you can pay there.  There were only 6 sun loungers, though there were more tables and chairs.  A little disappointing was that there was only one sun umbrella - with just us there this wasn't a problem, but I wouldn't like to bake in the Thai sun without one.

Taken from the back of the hotel.

The outside of the hotel looked a little shabby (Mr John commented he wouldn't have liked to have seen the "old" Travel Lodge) but Reception looks good and the pool was really clean and so deep - not even Mr John could touch the bottom.  This is unusual for us as all the hotels we've stayed in so far have pools that are around 1.4 metres deep.  The staff were setting up for a function in the Grand Ballroom and we saw some interesting floral displays being taken inside.


Mr John has booked Monday off as a holiday as there are more birthday celebrations so no-one has to cover his classes.  We've decided today to spend it in Koh Change so keep an eye out for next weeks post. Happy weekend everyone!

And "carn the Tiges" (my Aussie Rules football team - Richmond - has made it to the last 8 for the first time in I can't remember how long) so I'll be watching the match via internet on Sunday.