After landing in Narita, we took a shuttle bus to our hotel. It’s called Hotel Mystay Narita. It reminded me from something out of a movie. It was a new hotel but seems like the building had been around for years. The room was very cramped but it had all the amenities you’d expect to find in an American Hotel. Except for the bidet of course. I gave it a shot, right up Main Street. Less startling, and more pleasant than you might expect. Granted, it didn’t do the job of toilet paper, plus I’m not sure how people dry themselves after such an event, wipe again? Anyways, then we headed down to the lobby to take a look at our restaurant options. Vegetarian options are extremely limited, and Aditya doesn’t eat fish like I do, so he certainly had a hard time finding something to eat. I made proper use of the buffet, he had spaghetti. We returned to the room to change for the jacuzzi. I strapped into my red bikini and wore the pajama set in the room as my cover all. Apparently people with tattoos aren’t allowed to use the pool or jacuzzi, so, like the rule follower I am I went right in anyways. There were some Japanese people in the jacuzzi, they didn’t seem to mind. They asked me where I was from and I said “America, California,” they nodded in approval. The pool room was entirely indoors and slightly underground. There was always some strange elevator music playing throughout the hotel, we joked that we were in the Japanese version of The Shining. But all in all, it was a nice experience. I like Japanese people, they were very accommodating and polite. No tip needed either, good thing too because it’s certainly not cheap here. 100Yen is about $1.07. And everything is costing some 10,000 plus for basic things.
I couldn’t sleep very well, time change aside, the bed was very firm and so were the pillows. We woke up at 4am and watched some TV, of course I found FOX where they were playing American TV shows. But I changed it for a Japanese TV show about some old fashioned Japanese community where they all wore kimonos and had their hair done in a funny way. I couldn’t understand a single thing that was going on but I enjoyed it anyways. The shuttle left at every half hour or so back to the airport, we got on the 6am one, hoping to go chill in the lounge while we waited for our flight to leave. Turns out the whole airport and security doesn’t open until 7:30am. So we waited, then flawlessly slipped through priority security check, I’m getting good at traveling already! After much debate with the ladies at check-in desk for the Sakura Japanese Airline Business class lounge, they figured out that our ticket DID allow us access. Aditya was getting frustrated with their lack of compensation on the matter, but I stayed calm and nice, and we did get in. The buffet was really nice, I ate a lot of weird stuff that I really wasn’t sure what it was. Two glasses of Champagne and one espresso later, we made our way to gate 74. Again we were seated business, not quite the fully reclinable seat we had on the previous flight, but still pretty good. I stopped drinking as I was feeling a bit sick. Had a few green teas and nibbled at the special vegetarian meals they served. I was pretty full from the buffet, and the food was was better anyways. After we landed in Hong Kong, we almost immediately got on our next flight to Bangkok. Blowing through cultures like glasses of Brut.
Golden Nepal 