Cocktails On The Roof

We get a boat back to the hotel - and there is an annoying Irish turd that just seems to want to tell everyone when their stop is and I try to ignore him as he asks me where I am heading. Someone else made the mistake of saying Oriental and he tells him it’s stop No. 1, and we are at stop No. 6. So that’s another 5 stops… Yes, we get it, now shut up.

Kerrie’s booked us in the State Tower 64th floor for drinks first and then followed by dinner on the 52nd floor of the same tower. All thee plans may have gone to waste, mind, as I don’t have any smart shoes with me, and the concierge have already told me that Converse type shoes would not be acceptable. I ignore this and say that we ought to try anyway, as there’d be nothing to lose.

We get in (I am not surprised) and I am so glad we did. The cocktail bar is on the roof and the very polite sawadee-karping staff led us to a table overlooking the city. They are very careful to point out all the steps in the very dark bar, to a table overlooking the city, and I do wonder why they don’t either just turn up the bar lights to you can see the steps, or do away the steps altogether – they do seem rather pointless.

The view is breathtaking and we have cocktails as the sun sets over Bangkok. Marvellous!

Dinner’s not for another 30 minutes after we finish those cocktails, so we head to another bar, also on the same floor, but on the other side and get a great view of fireworks that are going off about the city. Amazing. As is dinner – the restaurant is an a few floors down and you have to walk across this suspended glass walkway to get to it – all lit up blues and purples as you walk across! We go for the tasting menu and have a great variety of Thai cuisine – spring roll, shark fin soup, filet steak and foie gras and a passion fruit desert that were all completely delicious. And so they should be for the price...

I didn’t care about the money actually, it was great spending the evening in a fancy restaurant with Kerrie – we’d had such a lovely day and this was a brilliant end to a great day. Well, almost – we have a final cocktail on the 64th floor before heading back to the Mandarin where Kerrie’s sister’s driver is picking her up.