After our Hatyai trip, we  jalan-jalan at Bukit Bintang area. We went to a mamak to have our breakfast because Marry said she wanted to eat nasi lemak. We were so tired of walking and we ended up eating nasi Briyani. Lol. Then we had our lunch at Tous Les Jous Bakery. It was opened many years ago and finally we got the chance to dine here. *weareworkingadultsnownice* It was located in front of Fahrenheit88 shopping mall. 

Nice ambience.

Mouthwatering food.

1)Peach Danish - RM4.06                              2) unknown but it's very delicious. 

3) Honey Flower Cheesebun - RM6.13          4) Orange Mojito - RM11.23

Rating

Food                :✮✮✮✮

Price                :✮✮

Atmosphere     :✮✮✮

Will meet with these girls soon! Waiting for our convocation meetup. And I miss K13. ;(

We searched Hostel.com and we found out that there were only three hostels available in Hatyai. I had mentioned in my previous post that this was a random trip. We planned it just a few weeks before the Raya holiday. We went there during peak season and the cheapest hostel named Hatyai Backpackers Hostel was fulled. The hotels  there were very expensive. So we only left with two choices which were  Hat Yai Youth Hostel and The Hive Hostel. At first I wanted to book The Hive Hostel because the atmosphere looked like the one that I had stayed at Taiwan. The hostel looked clean and comfortable. However, my friend said that it was expensive. So we chose Hat Yat Youth Hostel.

1. Hatyai Backpackers Hostel------RM28.16 per night but fully booked.

2.The Hive Hostel -------------------Rm39.42 per night.*pay few more bucks only to get better rooms*

3. Hat Yai Youth Hostel ------------ Rm32.66 per night. *since my friend was on tight budget*

p.s Sometimes we ought to choose wisely. Some hostels are really cheap but the beds are fulled with bed bugs. So it's not worth to stay there. Luckily this hostel was in good condition when we stayed there! 

We paid 553baht per person for our two nights' accomodation.

Deposit RM11.70 per person.

Price

1.Private rooms

Basic Double Bed Private

-sleeps 2 

-shared bathroom

Basic 4 Bed Family Room                          (We chose this room because there're four of us.)

-sleeps 4 

-shared bathroom

*2 bunks beds, 1 air-con, 1 fan, and room with window   

2.Dorm Beds

-Basic 4 Bed Female Room

-Basic 6 Bed Mixed Room

-Standard 6 Bed Mixed Room

Facilities

Free                  ◘Linen Included  ◘Free City Maps  ◘Free WiFi  ◘Free Internet Access

General            ◘ Security Lockers  ◘Breakfast Not Included  ◘Air Conditioning  ◘Adaptors

                         ◘Book Exchange   ◘Hot Showers   ◘Hot Tub  ◘Cable TV ◘ Parking ◘ Ceiling                                    Fan ◘ Washing Machine

Services            ◘Airport Transfers  ◘Bicycle Hire  ◘Towels for hire  ◘Tours/Travel Desk 

                         ◘Currency Exchange

Food & drink     ◘Cafe    ◘Tea & Coffee Making Facilities

Things to note

1)Cash payment only upon arrival.
2)Visitors/friends are not allowed.
3)3 days advance notice for free cancellation.
4)Check in 2 pm and Check out 12 pm. 

5)The door is closed at 21:00

My Review

My friends and I had a pleasant stay at this hostel. The location is very near to Lee Garden Plaza. Besides that, Ed is a very helpful and thoughtful staff. Thanks for the hair dryer :D. We booked a one day tour from the hostel too and it was nice! This hostel is very quiet so you can rest well. Toilet is clean. The room is comfortable. A small yet cosy hostel. The common area is quite small and it lacked some atmosphere. We didn't get to meet many backpackers here. Overall this hostel is worth to stay! Based on our conversation with Ed, we just knew that he had cycled from Kuching to Sabah. Then he dived at Semporna. Amazing right! This was one of the reasons that I wanted to stay at hostel.I always got the opportunities to listen to backpackers' stories. We asked him because we saw a Sabah flag displayed on the hostel's wall. At first we thought that the flag was a gift from his guest. Then, he told us about his cycling adventure.

Yeah. Ladies. Haha. It took us almost one hour to get prepared. Even though we kept on yelling we were hungry, we still applied our makeups slowly. Lol. Girls being girls. Then we planned to go to the Central Festival.

We loved the interior design of the hostel. On the right was the book exchange area. 

The pantry area. We didn't eat the free breakfast during our two days' stay because we woke up quite late. Do you notice the Sabah flag? 

We were talking with Ed. We booked a one day tour at the hostel. The tour was 2000baht per day. Ed told us that the driver would fetch us to any 5 destinations in 8 hours only. So, we discussed the places that we wanted to go.  Initially, we wanted to add Khao Nam Khang tunnels and Ton Nga Chang Waterfall into the list but the driver told us that these two places were far from the city. We needed to add more money for the gas. And Ice Dome..Damn. It was closed many months ago. It was kinda ruin our plan. We just knew that after we reached the destination. It was replaced with some Magic Show. So we changed to Hatyai Municipal Park, Chang Puak Elephant Camp, Reclining Buddha, Samila Beach and Tesco Lotus. Tesco Lotus was the last place that we wanted to go because we didn't have any nice places to go already. 

Here are some advices for you...

It's better to book a tour if you want to visit Songkhla area which the iconic mermaid statue was located. I can't imagine taking a tuk tuk to Samila Beach. It's almost an hour's trip to Samila beach. Taking a tuk tuk would lengthen the duration to reach there. Our cab overtook so many tuk tuk on our way to Samila beach.

If you can't speak or can't even understand simple phrases of Thai language. You should book the tour. You should ask the hostel staff to list down the destinations and talk to the cab driver. We forgot about it and we thought our driver knew some basic English. So we didn't tell Ed to talk to the driver. Too bad...When we boarded the taxi, I told the the driver that we wanted to go to Hatyai Municipal Park. He didn't know what I was talking about. Some tut tuk driver also couldn't read English words. For examples, Prachanam road which was the road to our hostel. Most of them knew Lee Garden only. So every time we'd ask the driver to drop us at Lee Garden Hotel and we walked back to our hostel.

Show the drivers the photo of the places that you want to go. Screenshot the streets in Thai words. It helps!

Learn some basic words before you visit any countries where the local seldom speak English.

Besides that, I realised the importance of having internet connection. We got lost for so many times so I had to subscribed two days' roaming to use google map. 

If your friends keep on saying expensive la whatever la..want to experience the 'local feel'. I mean you can experience tuk tuk ride at Hatyai area la. If they still want to take a tuk tuk to Samila beach. Lol. I'm sorry. I can't help. You know what to do.

Let's go!

Our first night at the hostel. There're like nobody there but us in the hostel. Haha. We were enjoying our pork flavour instant noodles. My friends were very excited because this was their first time tasting pork flavour instant noodles. After we had our supper, we were pretty bored because there were no signs of other backpackers at the common area. Then we went back to our room to sleep.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. :D

On the last day of our trip, we went for a breakfast food hunt. As usual, we google "what to eat at Hatyai" and this shop was listed in the website. Everyone wrote must eat this and eat that. So we gave it a try. We choose to eat Dimsum because we miss Ipoh's dismsum. However, the taste of the dimsum sold at this shop kinda disappoint me. It's overrated by some bloggers. We didn't try the bak kut teh. Maybe that bak kut teh is good? Still..we came back with happy tummy because we ordered a lot of dimsum there.

Seat no 12. This shop was fulled of people! Luckily our waiting time was less than 2 minutes.

After we choose the dimsum that we wanted to eat, we handed all the dimsum to the staff to steam the  dimsum. 

Tada!All these dimsum, three cups of iced tea and a cup coffee only costed us for 392 baht. Cheap!

After we had our breakfast, we went to board a bus to go back to Malaysia. 

 Chok Dee Dim Sum

Good day mate, I'm selling some stuffs online. I'm selling Mistine products. Have you heard about this brand before? 

After I got my first salary, I decided to treat my mum. So I offered her to go for a short vacation to Singapore. She told me that she after she stopped working at Singapore, she missed Singapore a lot.  She always long to go back to her previous workplace where she met my dad. xD Even though my dad is working at Singapore, she never has the opportunity to visit him. It's very costly to go there even though it's just for a day trip. At first I suggested her to stay in a hostel because it's cheaper than hotel. However, my mum didn't want to stay in a hostel because she didn't want to share bathroom with strangers. It was quite a last minute trip actually. I booked the hotel one week before the arrival because I was busy with my job. Hence, the best deal *the cheapest or should I say the affordable* that I could find was from this BOOKING.COM website. This was my first time using this website because normally I prefer to book my accommodation from HOSTELWORLD.