Getting to Thailand is not for the faint of heart. From Minnesota, we travelled for s full 24 hours. Yep, you heard me. And that doesn’t include the time difference. Just to add to the adventure, we flew out of the Minneapolis Internatjonal airport, and instead of staying at a hotel the night before, we decided to stay up all night and drive down leaving at around 1 a.m. not going to lie, we kind of regretted that decision, but more on that later.
We booked through Delta, and we were super excited for all of our awesome sky miles!
So here what our flight plan:
*Minneapolis airport to Detroit, Michigan airport (that took approximately 2 hours)
-A two hour lay over in Detroit that was totally needed as we had to get to the other side of the airport.
*Detroit, Michigan to Seoul, South Korea airport (this took approximately 13 hours. Yep, you guessed it, this one killed us.)
Let’s talk about this flight a bit. This was honestly one of the biggest planes I had ever been on. We debated first class or even Delta Comfort, but when we priced it out and it was INSANE. Like double the ticket price per person insane. So we rode in economy. Let me tell you, 13 hours in economy is not fun, but is doable. It was really like flying first class to the Caribbean, but with less leg room. They keep the drinks coming and the food too. It was all decently good food too. Our grand plan was to sleep most of the flight. That totally did not happen. I even took two Tylenol PM, which will usually knock me out pretty well, and I bet I only slept around 4 hours tops the whole flight, and that was usually in 45 to 60 mi Ute increments. I got a ton of movies watched though!!! By the time we landed in Seoul, we were pretty exhausted, but had slept just enough to make us not realize how tired we were.
We had a two and a half hour layover in Seoul, which was awesome! Their airport had so much greenery it was great!
*Once in Seoul we switched from Delta to one of their subsidiaries, Korean Air for our last flight to Bangkok. (This flight took approximately 6 hours.)
Honestly, this was the best plane ride in economy I’ve ever had. Korean Air knows how to do an international flight. There was more leg room than our 13 hour flight, and the food was AMAZING!
All in all when we landed in Bangkok, we had been traveling for 24 full hours from the the time of our first flight to he landing of our last. From our house to our first hotel in Bangkok, we had travelled approximately 32 hours and what Hubby and I both guess was maybe 4-6 hours of sleep.
While this may seem daunting, it was totally worth it. The experiences and sights were completely worth all this craziness!!