Today we checked out and moved to the suite home boutique hotel a few streets down due to our current hotel having no rooms.
We decided to walk in the heat with our backpacks. As tempting as the tuktuk drivers offers were, $2-3 just seemed too much. We will never forget our 80p bangkok tuktuk for the day.
We made it to the hotel and checked in. They showed us to our room, 204, on the second floor. It was nice and a lot cleaner than the previous one. Just as we unpacked our air con started pouring water all over the floor. This seems to be a regular occurrence, happening in at least three hotels we’ve stayed at so far. Scott alerted the staff who moved us round to room 202. This room was almost identical so we were happy.
We went a walk to KFC as there was one round the corner. Scott’s been feeling a bit down and not enjoying Cambodia, in particularly here in Phnom Penh. It was really cheap at only £2 a meal. Scott ended up getting another burger as he was still hungry.
We went a walk to the paragon mall across the road. Crossing the road here is impossible! There are no crossings and no one stops. You literally have to just walk into speeding traffic and hope you don’t die.
The mall had an interesting sign on the door showing prohibited items including hand grenades, swords and don’t forget cats. 😂 It wasn’t very impressive but had a supermarket which was just what we needed. We decided to splurge and buy ourselves some shower gel, deodorant, a lufa and listerine. We are crazy shoppers! It sounds sad but we were genuinely excited to get back and shower. We have felt disgusting for so long.
Back at the hotel we had the best shower ever. As I washed I sang about smelling like roses. I brushed my teeth and felt like the lady from the listerine advert when her cheeks explode due to the powerful freshness. My mouth has never been so numb and happy. I then sprayed our Adidas men’s deodorant (it was the cheapest) and felt like a teenage boy, but one that smelled super fresh.
We went to a restaurant called the alley cat cafe. It was down a dark alley and looked quite dingy but was funky inside. I ordered chicken quesadillas, scott got the angry chicken burger with chilli cheese fries and we got nachos to share. The nachos were quite stake and disappointing but I enjoyed my quesadilla and scott burger was lovely! For dessert we shared an ice cream sundae. The bill was $18 (ay karumba!). Just as we were leaving a customer ordered chicken fajitas and they smelled amazing! I wished I’d got them… Haha.
We walked back to the hotel, now on the road as the pavements are ridiculous here. We went to bed but I struggled to fall asleep. It didn’t help that every so often a tapping clicking noise would go down the street. No idea what this was! But finally, I fell asleep..
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