It was to be a very early start for me, and I ended up rolling over and deciding I had enough time after waking up the first time.
This proved to be the wrong decision, as I had not taken account of the fact that it was so far across the city.
I tried to hail a grab car, but realised that it wouldn't make it to the travel agent in time, and paid a local motorbike taxi 300,000 baht to take me.
He was unsure of the way, and every time we reached traffic lights he was asking others, and we eventually got to the right location.
It was quite an adventure, being on the bike of the motorbike with 20kg on my back - kudos to the driver for managing!
When I reached the travel agent, it looked like I had in fact missed the bus, and so I was unsure what to do.
I waited at the oad side, and a motorbile pulled up after 20-30 minutes and asked if I was heading to Cambodia, and for my ticket.
He took me a bit further down the road to a minibus, where we were still waiting for another person as well.
We wondered if it was to be the van or if we were going to head to a bus station and get on a full bus, but as we headed towards Chon Buri it became apparent that it was the bus for the duration.
We made it to near the border, where we all had to get out - and I learned that my ticket included free lunch at the restaurant there, so I enjoyed some chicken rice, while the others sorted out their visa - as I had already got my e-visa, I didn't need to do anything, but the tour company was trying to get an extra few dollars from the other guests for processing visa applications.
We got on a different bus to get to the border itself, where we were advised that it was better to take out all our spending money and convert to Riel instead of using dollars from the cash machines.
I must have been overly tired, as I bought in to the spiel about currency conversions elsewhere charging 15%, since the currency place that did my conversion charged 15% and I just accepted it. An expensive lesson to learn!
We made our way through immigration checks, and I bought a sim card at the stall there so that I could keep in touch and track the journey.
This proved to be worth while, as the remaining bus to Siem Reap stopped 5-6km out of the main town, where we were advised that we all had to take the tuktuk that was waiting for us, at a rate of 100,000 baht each.
As a group we refused to pay that, and walked along the road, waving down a passing tuktuk who only charged $1 per person for the same journey!
This tuk tuk also stopped in the wrong place, but using my satnav on the sim we were able to establish which way we had to go, and so made it to the night market/hostel area of town.
I walked the last 1km to my booked hostel, and checked in - glad to have the journey finally be over!