Blowing Money on a Movie

I’d heard from Jeff that the Discovery Center had a great movie theatre called the Gold Class Movie theater where you sat in huge wide chairs and are treated like a VIP. They have a special VIP window for booking your tickets, and at 1000 baht ($25) considered extremely expensive.

We ate at the Zen Japanese sushi restaurant beforehand, costing us yet another arm and a leg at close to $50. This was one huge expensive evening we were treating ourselves to.

The Gold Class Movie Theatre entrance is a roped walkway. The rope is all red and the posts are gold. At the door was an old fashioned formally dressed doorman, not the usual casual ticket taker. He graciously took our tickets and lead us into the foyer. Here we had complimentary sodas or water. We ordered beer and a glass of wine which we would have delivered to our seats in the theatre when we were ready to go in.

Entering the theatre I couldn’t believe it. The entire place is red. The walls are hung with red curtains. The screen curtains were red velvet. But best of all the seats were huge red leather lazy boys, with automatic controls to raise and lower the foot rest and back of the chair. Sitting on these enormous red leather seats was a pillow and blanket and a set of socks just in case your feet got cold. As we settled in, wrapping the blankets around us and easing back into the chairs, the waiter appeared with our drinks which he set on a little drinks table sitting at the end of the chairs’ arm between us. Oh boy what utter luxury. We stood for the National Anthem before the movie started.

Not only did we relish the theater and our seats but the movie was pretty good too.

Back at the Ranch of our Wild Orchid Inn hotel we lingered over a couple of glasses of Sangsom and soda. A perfect closing to the evening.