OMG!! It's really been ages since I last blogged.. Weeks, mths????
Where should I start????
Just came back from Bangkok (Shopping Trip!) a week back. All was fun and enjoyable minus our stolen passports...Here's how it goes... Day 2 (Sunday) - We went back to hotel to put our stuff and had a short rest before heading to Chinatown for dinner.. Somehow, we left our passport in the hotel room without checking. It was about 6plus to 7pm then. By the time we knew about it, we were like already outside, and thought that it would be relatively safe as the room service hrs have already been over..Moreover, we would be back in a few hours' time.... Guess what... When we returned, we couldn't find our passports!! Searched the entire room for more than an hour, but still couldn't find!! Informed both Von and Desmond, all of us went down to complain to the hotel management as it was like 99.99% that passports were stolen by their hotel staff!!! The so-called night duty manager did not even bother to ask us for details or bother to investigate, and deny flatly that their hotel staff have stolen anything and insisted that we must have lost our passports outside while shopping.......Von also tried to offer them with a 1000 baht if passports were recovered. Haha... I tink surely one passport alone is worth tens over thousands. Anyway,we also demanded to see the CCTV and was told to come back at 9am the next day as the office was closed for the day. Ok, fair enough. We went back to the hotel room, trying desperately to search for clues....First, we realised that there is a blindspot which cannot really be captured by the CCTV (as both our hotel rooms are located at the very corners near the stairs). Second, my room was somemore located just next to the cleaners' room, where they keep all the toiletries, blankets, pillows, and probably "loot" from other customers in the hotel (Highly likely that our passports are in there too). Third, when we went back to the room to check for more clues, guess what.... We drew up the curtains, there is this sliding window.. UNLOCKED!!! (though it looks locked). We really get a shock of our lives. Fourth, yes, we are staying on the 2nd Floor...See, now I know why we instantly became easy targets for them..Be it whether it was the hotel staff or whoeva did it, they must have unlock the windows, so that outsiders can convenient come in and out through the windows and probably sneak through the cleaners' back door!! It will be too obvious for them to walk through our main door as it may arouse suspicions. By then we realised that there was nothing much we can do.. We locked the windows again and next morning then proceed to do the necessary...
Went to the counter staff the next morning after breakfast to ask if anyone had returned or what.. Apparently, night shift staff did not even disseminate the info to them, they know nothing! Gosh! Headed to make police report (a receptionist is the one generating the report and collected 100 baht for each report - yes, it costs for making a report), and to Singapore Embassy to do the necessary since Mon is a working day.. If we lost the passport one day later, we definitely gonna missed the flight and have to make another purchase! In between we experienced some hiccups along the way, but it was indeed a pricey lesson earned, and time is wasted!
Warning to All: This "black shop" hotel is PJ Watergate. DO NOT GO THERE, YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE THIS BAD EXPERIENCE. I've been receiving many emails warning people how many tourists have fallen preys to such happenings in hotels.. Cannot imagine myself to be the actual victim/female lead of this drama..
Family, friends, colleagues have been asking me about the incident and guessed I've like repeated for dunno how many times le..
Din capture many photos this time round though.. :(
Ejenna.
My Fat Pocket
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