5 hours journey from Prague to Vienna downtown.....I had a terrible sleep on the bus overnight
the driver and the gebohchi ticketing officer was keep talking and talking was so disturbing and annoying!!!!!
i immediately jump off the bus when it stoped.....huh...* take a deep breath
Time: 5am
ok.....now we have to take the metro to the central station, and then interchange bus 80A to Tandelmarktgasse 5A (the bus stop where we'll walk from here to our rented apartment)
It was very cold in the morning...when we reach the central station, we cant stand to wait for the bus at the outdoor bus stop...so we waited in the main hall....ooh aiya..becoz of that we missed the 1st 80A....oki la we wait outside la..to avoid the same "missed" again...
After 15minutes exposed to the cold air..finally we are on the bus 80A.
Tandelmarktgasse 5A....Tandelmartkgasse 5A....Tandelmartkgasse 5A....
We keep looking for the bus stop of Tandelmartkgasse 5A....but there's none of it....and now the bus already drove 1 big round and we were back to the central station....err...what to do now??
Me and hubby decided to stay on the bus...and wait for the second round "city tour". 5 minutes stop at the central station, ok..."city tour" start again....
Now the bus is going to the other end of the city and its wasn't the same "city tour" route as earlier....
Tandelmarktgasse 5A....Tandelmartkgasse 5A....Tandelmartkgasse 5A....
Till the last stop still we din see the bus stop Tandelmarktgasse 5A.....alamak...we start to worry did we do the wrong research earlier??
The bus driver also curious to this 2 little chinese stranger....city tour for 2 rounds still stay on the bus. Then he came to us...
We showed him the map and bus stop name ....(instead of telling him...to avoid mis-pronunciation that will possibly make a big jokes - Tandelmarktgasse 他的妈急屎......keke)
in the most simple english he replied to us: "stay here"
2nd time we were back to the central station, 3rd city tour starts again 5 minutes later.....
Till the last stop, finally the driver direct us ..we have to go from here.....its Tandelmarktgasse. Not Tandelmarktgasse 5A...where is the 5A stop and how far is here from the 5A stop...the bus driver couldn't explain much to us...becoz they dun speak complicated english.....
we are lost in somewhere now...dunno what is our exact location....dunno how to walk from here to our apartment....a lot of dunno in mind ........
hubby start to study on the map to see how we can get to our apartment....struggling for a few minutes we start to walk.
Walk pass houses...quiet lane.....shop lots....and we saw the bus stop Tandelmarktgasse 5A too...(wander why they din drive thru this street...still wandering...) finally yeah...we found our apartment!
Morning has broken....like the first morning
And like the first morning....we had a terrible incident again!
ding dong on the bell
no body is answering
we waited for quite sometimes....there's is nobody in or out
perhaps times is still early....the receptionist is not on duty yet
we walked to the nearby restaurant for breakfast
look at the menu
it was all in German
we had a hard time to understand what's on the menu and what to order
if we simply place order who knows later all is bread and bread and bread
then i'll pengsan looking at the bread!
hubby translating the words using his mobile dictionary
frühstück = breakfast
weichgekochtes Ei = soft boiled egg
semmeln = roll
sesambagel mit räucherlachs = sesame bagel with smoked salmon
finally we placed order with the help of a friendly waiter who could speak general English explained to us the breakfast set
ohh..i like that round round bread so much and also the mango lassi comes with the breakfast set!
*****
we finished our breakfast and hubby went back to the apartment to check if the receptionist is available yet.
Ding dong ding dong still no one is answering, then he went to make a phone calls to the office. They said someone will attend to us soon....
Finally hubby "catch" one lady who is accessing the building...oh she is the cleaner of the apartment. Thank God, finally we got someone to help us on the check-in. But its too early for us to check-in cause the apartment is still occupied. There is no temporary luggage room where we could keep our luggage and come back for it afterwards.
The cleaner lady who were first day to work also get very confused on how to handle us. She suggest us to wait till 12pm for the occupant to check out or come back b4 she leave to collect the room key.
Argh...its is just so trouble some to come back again before 3pm...so we decided to wait till 12pm since now already 10am.
........
12pm - the occupant still did not return the key yet...aaiks...we dun care la..already waisted so much time! the cleaner lead us to our apartment unit with her master key and we left our luggage there and gotta start our sight seeing NOW!!!!!
After a half day trip at the Vienna city, finally we were back to the apartment. and luckily we collected the key smoothly!
studio style apartment with 1 single bed and 1 sofa bed
the small dining and kitchen area
Tips for Travelling:
1. Try to avoid renting an apartment than hotel - hotel allowed to check in at any hour...at least there is a 24hours receptionist attending to you.
2. Renting an apartment is not really cheaper than a hotel - they charged us 10 EURO extras for the 2 hours early check-in!!!! WT*!
3. Avoid renting the apartment unless you plan to cook food by yourself....and our intention earlier when booking this apartment...is to occupy their washing machine...hahaha (to wash some of the cloths and dry it...so that when i returned home...i have less cloths to clean!)
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