Date

Event

Feedback       (rating 1-10 (10 best) feedback to be added after the tour)

Sun

Arrival

Rating: 8/8/8/10/7/9/9

Comments: Nice to have a smiling team collect you on arrival.

VIP bus collection good service - good start.

Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10006274

Mon

Day 1

Orientation

And shopping challenge

Rating: 10/8/7/10/8/8/7

Orientation & tour by motor bike/Car taxi, Fast ferry boat & BTS skytrain.
not enough time, PA's make the difference.

http://www.exectoursbkk.thaibis.com/bangkok/bkk-shopping

Dinner Cabbages and Condoms

Rating:  10/8/8/10/10/10/10  Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10006274

Great, excellent, top food, good atmosphere, unusual, blew me away, fantastic, great cause (charity) good setting and food.

http://auswathai.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=127609&p=3&topicID=33800746

Nightlife
soi 11 –

Aus bar

Rating:  5/8/6/10/8/8/6       Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10015870

feedback: a bit tired from day events, Aussie pub is great, no energy to keep going.

http://auswathai.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=127609&p=3&topicID=28422996

Overall

Teambuilding: Collaboration and Communication. Introduce new environment and problem solving

Tue

Day 2

Culture challenge

Ancient City

Rating:  8/9/8/10/8/8/7         Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A00146832

Transfer longer than thought, Interesting, Excellent, independent, do your own thing, (need more time). not told enough before arrival.

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Dinner

Moo gadaa

Thai culture

Rating:  6/9/5/5/5/9/8          Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10011055

fair dinkum Thai culture - it's a basic but so cheap but not for everyone.  

Feedback:  love it - hated it??? – culture shock, mixing it with the people, shock the system, not my cup of tea, out of comfort zone, Fantastic, Fabulous.

Nightlife

Khao San road

Rating: 6/9/8/10/8/7/8         Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10011261

Backpackers haven, outdoor casual lots of stuff and everyone is flowing.

Seen better, great, markets galore, PA was amazing, Vibrant energy, too many tourists, Buzzing. 

http://auswathai.activeboard.com/index.spark?aBID=127609&p=3&topicID=38175950

Overall

Leadership: Tour requires each person to make multiple decision, Dinner is “out of comfort zone”, Nightlife is perception chaos – assess the difference between a knee jerk and a reflex”

Feedback on the Hotel – Royal President – Soi 15

Rating  1 to 10 (10 is best) and comments

·         9          Excellent spacious rooms and big beds. Loved the facilities and used the gym most mornings. Breakfast offered a variety of tasty food to suit everyone. A four star hotel by Western standards (but only half the price).

·         10         no complaints. Wonderful atmosphere and nice big rooms. Breakfast was awesome. Convenient location and the gym was very useful. Also very convenient is the general store right next door.

·         9          Wonderful and clean. Air conditioning and bed were very comfortable and the hotel was in close proximity to shopping, massage and restaurants/night life. Excellent value for money.

·         10         Great value for money and will definitely stay there again. Breakfast offered lovely fresh food. Clean & big rooms. Very happy.

·         9          Good facilities. No negatives. Air conditioning sometimes not cold but it out. Gym was handy.

·         7          Nice and clean. Good breakfast. Only problem was the toilet broke twice, but they fixed it straight away.

·          8         Great breakfast, used the pool, the room got stuffy sometimes. There was a peculiar odour (not overbearing) but this was fixed by getting some Glen 20 from the 7/11 shop. Perhaps bring car air-freshener if they are sensitive..

·          7         had to swap rooms as the first room allowed smoking (smell was overbearing).
Make sure you specify NO SMOKING. Breakfast was excellent. Very clean.

Date

Event

FEEDBACK

Wed

Day 3

Team building

and

Sister Joan Charity

Rating: 6/8/10/10/8/10/9       Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10012550

The Amazing race is "awesome".. To donate to an Aussie effort for charity Bangkok was special - see more  Too much to do, developed into a great day, Great but time was an issue, never done before, good fun, absolutely loved it, absolutely loved it

Forum article: sister Joan Bangkok

Dinner Tawandang Cabaret Brewery

Rating: 8/8/10/10/9/10/10    Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A00187669

Brilliant but so unfair - we only got to see half the cabaret show as we set time for skybar tours. Fantastic not enough time, excellent, what a place – really enjoyed, great night out, excellent, excellent.

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Tour

Roof top bars

Rating: 8/9/10/10/ 9/10/6     Map: http://map.longdo.com/p/A10010785

These places are diamonds - when your that high up - you are "on a high"
Fantastic, gob smacked (1 was enough) outstanding, spectacular, amazing, excellent, spectacular.

http://auswathai.activeboard.com/forum.spark?aBID=127609&p=90&tag=bar-rooftop

Overall

Teambuilding: team synergy skills.  Dinner event is passive chaos, understand cultural difference, tour offers “reward for achievement”.

Thur

Day 4

Team building

Rating: 5/8/5/10/7/8/7

as we did not finish y.days teambuilding event we decided to try again.

Started too late, time constraints, everyone was little tired,  fantastic more time needed, bit over it bad start but loved the challenge, bad instructions from PA team to get us started. hard to resist the option to shop or drop!  links: Photo album: tag word: "day 4"

http://www.austhai.biz/KE/corporate-team-work/corporate-events-files#TOC-Website---Excel

Dinner

Zeist

Rating: 8/9/10/10/10/10/10

Fine Dinning fit for a King - elegance and taste sensations
great food hard to say goodbye,  input from everyone good feeling, beautiful venue good ending, good food friend staff, wonderful loved it, Brilliant, top notch, brilliant and lots of warm fuzzies, some of us hit the nightlife - so many options

Map:  http://map.longdo.com/p/A10009634

Nightlife

Transfer to Airport or nightlife

Overall

• Team synergy: wiliness to change. Group collaboration, open feedback forum for Increased understanding of other peoples perspectives

Fri

Free day

Rating: 10/-/10/10-/-/-

Shopping, a few sights, mbk

Summary

Pilot tour concept: some events were “on the fly”. The tour is “fastrack”; an entrée of Menu Bangkok

The objective: “reward for achievement”  infuse work dynamics of team building, tourism and Hospitality

Feedback from the tour guests:

days started too late, wasted mornings, originality, need more time for the tailor, need to be clear about communication system, not enough time to get ready for dinner, more planning to give time to relax, can not give enough praise to the PA’s, PA’s are the solution they are amazing, lots to do in short time, more planning, people need planning, P.A. helped people get immersed, PA have great attitude, not sure who is the manager. You feel like a local. We gained a new experience, new friendship and a deeper understanding of Thai Culture. The girls are great hosts and made the trip for us.

Feedback by tour host

There is risk and reward associated with new project, we expect obstacles, what we are interested in is “problem solving” and how the team collaborates. We collected feedback about the performance of the tour and the guests.