NSun's 2025 Adventures in Asia

[AIRwin]

Then took the train to the lounge which is at the satellite pier.

Luckily the Aerotrain didn't break down!

 

[NSun]

Luckily the Aerotrain didn't break down!

Imagine that - I would've had to settle for the regional lounge at the main pier.

 

[NSun]

The aircraft was 9M-MLV in a retro livery. Wasn't the first time I'd gotten a retro livery on a oneworld carrier, I flew BA's retro A320 in 2022 from London to Dublin but took far longer to fly on Qantas' Retro Roos. Like in Singapore, all security is done at the gate. It was a decent 1 hour flight - I declined a meal but had water. I was greeted as a OWE but put in a row with 2 other people with a spare row on the other side of the aisle - so moved there.





I spent the flight just looking out the window - was only a 70 minute flight.







NokAir - the strangest name for an airline I'd seen so far.



It took an hour to get through passport control as there was quite a queue. Then was an hour drive in a Grab for ~$25 to get to the hotel which was the Bhukitta Boutique Hotel in Old Town coughet. Was about A$80 a night and did the job especially for what I paid, although it was several separate buildings and I was a few flights of stairs upward. This is the entrance and you might see they have both stairs and a very steep ramp at the entrance.







This was my room - quite a big bed. But if you look closely, you'll see it had an even bigger 'mattress holder'.





But didn't have much of a view. Saw a wall right if I looked straight out on my balcony and saw this if I turned right.

 

[NSun]

Next day was a quiet day with a big day booked for the day after. So I went on two walks, the first at dawn and the second in the late afternoon.















The view from the top.

 

[AIRwin]

NokAir - the strangest name for an airline I'd seen so far.

As long as it's not NoCare

 

[moa999]

Or try the new electric train between JB and KL?

Now 4hrs 20min on the Platinum (Express) services - I think four a day from JB Sentral to KL Sentral and vv.

I did the old diesel train over a decade a go and it wasn't a fun journey with barely working AC and squat toilets.

 

[NSun]

Now 4hrs 20min on the Platinum (Express) services - I think four a day from JB Sentral to KL Sentral and vv.

I did the old diesel train over a decade a go and it wasn't a fun journey with barely working AC and squat toilets.

I saw that opened just days after my trip and might give it a try if it was cost effective. Then again, flights from Johor to KL are quite cheap given there's a tonne of competition.

 

[NSun]

I ended up having room service (tomato macaroni) for lunch. Was cheap by the standards of room service generally but not Thailand-cheap (A$10).



Then went out for an afternoon walk around coughet town. This was the view from the hallway of my room.



Sights from the walk.











It's roughly A$1 = THB 22.









For dinner, I settled on butter chicken at a sit down restaurant a block from my hotel.