24th April 2013
We depart from the ship at 7.15am to catch a bus to Mandalay Airport. Our flight is scheduled to leave for Yangon at 9.45am, but as we have become used to now, as soon as everyone is there, the plane takes off. So our departure is 20 minutes ahead of schedule.
Once we arrive at Yangon, we have to transfer to the International terminal, which is not a long way, but the place is chaotic. As we were unsure how it would all work, we decided to take up an option that Orient Express offered, which was to handle everything for us including our baggage check in, payment of departure tax (10 USD each), transport to the international Terminal, and escort us through to immigration. This cost us USD 28 each (10 USD of which was departure tax). When we saw what a shambles it was when we arrived at the domestic terminal, we think it was money well spent.
The departure to KL left about 30 mins late, mainly due to congestion at Yangon airport, as departures were lined up several deep waiting for take off. We picked up most of the lost time and arrived in KL only 5 mins late.
My old friend, Andy Yap. was there to pick us up, and also collected Mike 7 Joy once they checked in to the airport hotel, to take us all into KL for dinner. we ended up going straight to dinner at the South Seas restaurant in Subang, enjoyed a very nice meal and then headed off to the Selangor Club for nightcap, to ensure Mike 7 Joy saw a bit of KL before they moved on (Andy insisted). We the finally checked in to our hotel (The Marriot), in town, and Andy kindly dropped Mike & Joy back to their hotel, despite their continued insistence they could get a cab.
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