Thailand 2017: Horizon Village and Resort

While in Thailand (except for our night in the village) we stayed at Horizon Village and Resort in Chiang Mai-Doi Saket. Everything was pretty spread out and it had a lot of gardens and a petting zoo and all kinds of things throughout it. They also sent up hot air balloons from the property.

So anyway, we got there from the airport sometime between midnight and 1 AM. All of the team was in a building called Horizon III. Miranda and I were in room 108, which was on the second floor. We could not get our door open and so Caleb tried it, and when he couldn't get it either Josh came up and tried it for us. He managed to get it open and he looked at us and was just like, "I have no idea how that opened..." We decided we'd figure it out in the morning and just went inside. (We later had trouble getting it open from the inside, too, but the next morning we figured out that the door was kind of warped so we found the trick to get it open and didn't have any more trouble.)

The building we all stayed in

The beautiful bridge we got to walk across

The ZOE family had left us each a bag of some snacks in our hotel rooms. That was great except that Horizon had a bit of an ant problem...a bunch of us had ants in our rooms, the tiny little yellow sugar ants. They got to be super annoying throughout our stay and were the worst part of the trip for me (I mean, killing ants on your bed does get a little old after a couple days).

Every morning we ate breakfast at the hotel breakfast buffet, which was so amazing and had a lot of options and yummy food. It was my favorite meal of the day, actually. There I actually ate bacon every morning, discovered passion fruit and how yummy it is (and ate that every day too), and really enjoyed their pancakes and waffles. They also had some kind of potatoes every day, and yes, that included mashed potatoes! Their drinking glasses there were also "shots," unfortunately. But the food more than made up for it.

One of my breakfast plates: pancakes, waffle, bacon, mashed potatoes, passion fruit,
a small cinnamon roll, and a croissant with chocolate inside. Yum!

The one day Miranda and I took a little walk around and visited the petting zoo and took some pictures. There were also lots of snails all over the walkways. It was overall a fairly nice stay....except for those ants.