Our Big Christmas Trip to Come

We finally decided on where we are going for our Christmas break and have started planning for it. Drum roll please ////////// We are going to Thailand!!!! We wanted to go there but didn't want to deal with all the touristy atmosphere in Phuket so we found out about an island called Koh Chang where we will spend most of our time.
We will fly out of Hong Kong on December 13 on Royal Jordanian Airlines to Bangkok. After several weeks of searching we found a really cheap fare on Royal Jordanian. Round trip for all six of us came to about $1,300. That is pretty dang good. I never would have thought of flying on this airlines but the middle east airlines had the cheapest flights. We checked into it and it looks like a nice airlines. We'll see.

We will stay in Bangkok the first night and then a van will pick us up at our hotel and drive us to Koh Chang. It is about a 5 hour drive to the island. We will have to take a ferry across but the van service will take us the whole way. The cost is pretty cheap, only $120 one way for all of us. Koh Chang is located in the Gulf of Thailand close to Cambodia. Koh Chang means elephant island so we will be riding elephants there. They have a elephant reserve that you can go on treks through the jungle. They have all the beach activities (except surfing). We got three huts for our family on the beach. They don't have many accommodations for large families so we had to get three two bed huts. We will stay there for 6 days. The following website has more information on Koh Chang and the activities that we will be doing there. http://www.koh-chang.com/activities.html. Also here is the website for our resort that we will be at http://www.kbresort.com/

After spending almost a week in Koh Chang we will head back to Bangkok to spend a few days there. Gavin has been there before but over 20 years ago. There is plenty to see and do while we are there. One thing he wants to do is swim with sharks at the aquarium. Some teachers told him about that so now he wants to do it. I'll just watch or go shopping. There is great shopping in Bangkok. We haven't quite got that far in our planning yet.

Hopefully we will see this in Bangkok.

This is one of the beaches on Koh Chang.

We are so excited. This is all we are getting for Christmas this year and I'm not complaining.