I misplaced my passport, missed my flight residence, and spent six hours at Bangkok's airport — right here's how I killed time

I journey to Bangkok every year and have all the time had clean journeys. However on my most up-to-date go to, I misplaced my passport and missed my flight again residence.

In April, I used to be scheduled to fly to Singapore from Bangkok on Scoot, a low-cost airline, at 3:40 p.m. Being conversant in Bangkok’s most important airport, Suvarnabhumi, I arrived round two hours earlier than my flight— which is according to the recommendation supplied by many airways.

As I lined as much as verify in, I spotted that my passport was lacking. After looking all of my baggage and pockets, my thoughts started to hurry by means of the entire locations I had visited earlier than hopping in a automotive to the airport — my resort in Wattana, a Filipino restaurant on Sukhumvit Highway, and, lastly, a cash changer in Pathum Wan.

That is after I realized that the employees on the cash changer did not return my passport, which had been collected for safety causes. I shortly known as up the cash changer — fortunately I had held on to the receipt, the place the quantity was clearly famous.  I felt embarrassed and annoyed to have forgotten my passport.

The employees acknowledged that they certainly had my passport, and advised me they might journey from Pathum Wan to the airport at hand it again to me. The 24-mile journey, with Bangkok visitors, takes round an hour. I used to be nonetheless hopeful that I might get on the flight, however probabilities had been slim as Scoot closed the check-in counter an hour earlier than the departure time.