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Travelling home to Canada before the baby arrives takes Lloyd and Mandy from Bangkok to Whistler via San Francisco, making this a memorable family travel vlog with a big life milestone at the center. Along the way, they share the Coral First Class Lounge at Bangkok Airport and then head to Whistler Blackcomb for the Peak 2 Peak gondola and mountain views.
The journey blends international travel, airport lounge access, and a scenic Canada adventure, giving a clear look at long-haul flying, layovers, and destination sightseeing. It’s a relaxed travel diary for viewers who enjoy family vlogs, pregnancy travel, Whistler BC, and real-world trip planning with a personal story behind it.
Created for fans of travel vlogs, Canada travel, Bangkok to Whistler journeys, airport lounge tours, and scenic mountain experiences. If you enjoy virtual travel, Whistler Blackcomb content, Peak 2 Peak gondola rides, and lifestyle travel storytelling, this is a great watch for background viewing and travel inspiration.
The journey blends international travel, airport lounge access, and a scenic Canada adventure, giving a clear look at long-haul flying, layovers, and destination sightseeing. It’s a relaxed travel diary for viewers who enjoy family vlogs, pregnancy travel, Whistler BC, and real-world trip planning with a personal story behind it.
Created for fans of travel vlogs, Canada travel, Bangkok to Whistler journeys, airport lounge tours, and scenic mountain experiences. If you enjoy virtual travel, Whistler Blackcomb content, Peak 2 Peak gondola rides, and lifestyle travel storytelling, this is a great watch for background viewing and travel inspiration.
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00:00Get a coffee. Yeah, man.
00:02Oh, yeah.
00:03Hey, welcome to the Super.
00:20We haven't color corrected this at all.
00:22This is the actual color of that lake.
00:24It's absolutely insane.
00:26It is so blue.
00:27We're just going to walk across.
00:30Look at this bridge up there on top of those peaks.
00:34It's like over 2,200 meters high.
01:04All right, we're headed home, kind of.
01:08We're heading back to Canada for about two or three weeks.
01:13Actually, it's probably three weeks.
01:14Just to go and visit some family.
01:17We're going to go see our nephew and my sister and brother and Mandy's family.
01:26Before Mandy gets too pregnant and can't travel anymore.
01:30And, you know, we've spent the last couple of years on our own and recently decided we want to try
01:38and prioritize catching up with family more.
01:40So, I think once or twice a year.
01:43Definitely.
01:45We're trying to do twice a year now.
01:46But, before we fly off, we actually booked the first class lounge here at Bangkok Airport.
01:54The Coral Lounge.
01:55So, we're going to give that a bit of a look around.
01:58This is the first time we've ever been into a lounge.
02:01We don't do lounges.
02:03We usually do everything on the super cheap.
02:05But, we wanted to try and make it comfortable and enjoyable for Mandy as possible.
02:10So, we're going to try and check it out.
02:12Just trying to figure out where this bloody lounge is.
02:16I think we're in the right spot.
02:18Yeah.
02:19How are you feeling, honey?
02:21I'm okay.
02:21I'm a bit sleepy.
02:22I could go with a massage for sure.
02:24And, I'm hungry already.
02:26I'm hungry.
02:27Yeah.
02:27So, the lounge includes unlimited drinks, which we probably won't use, but also unlimited food.
02:34And, you can get a neck and shoulder massage while you're waiting for your flight.
02:41Okay, I think we found it.
02:43We got the Coral Lounge.
02:44They were doing a sale.
02:46It was like 50% off for the first class lounge.
02:49So, I figured we might as well take advantage.
03:00Look at this.
03:02A bit of a weird vibe when we walked in, to be honest.
03:05There's like a, I think two monks in here.
03:10And, they all looked a bit panicked that we were here as well.
03:14And, like we showed them our ticket and that we paid and everything.
03:17And, they like sat us in the corner next to the window.
03:21So, and then asked where the bathroom was.
03:23And, they said we couldn't use the bathroom.
03:25And, I was like, what?
03:26This is a first class lounge and you can't use the bathroom?
03:29There's supposed to be showers and everything as well.
03:34Strange.
03:35Strange.
03:36Strange.
03:36So, Mandy went up and kind of complained a little bit.
03:40And, they put us in this nice little area.
03:43And, one of the ladies said we can use the bathroom.
03:45So, I don't know what happened then.
03:47And, maybe miscommunications as usual.
03:52It's all good.
03:52We made it.
03:53No alcohol.
03:55Okay.
03:56This is strawberry.
03:57This is orange sunshine.
03:59If you would like to try it.
04:00Okay.
04:00This is better.
04:01This is for the kill for the massage.
04:04You can put the kill on your table.
04:06Okay.
04:07When you arrive for your kill, the telepiece will call you.
04:11Okay.
04:11Do you like to use the hand shoulder for massage?
04:14Yes.
04:16Or the foot massage?
04:18I had shoulder.
04:19Yes, and shoulder.
04:21Um, foot for me.
04:22Okay.
04:23Did you understand what the numbers were for?
04:25No.
04:27I thought you would ask.
04:29I'm like, oh, Lloyd's got it.
04:30I did ask.
04:31Did you hear his answer?
04:33Oh, I thought you asked something else.
04:35We don't even have cutler yet.
04:38It feels like they weren't expecting us or something.
04:40Like, we've just showed up unexpectedly at someone's house, kind of feels like.
04:46That drink is delicious though.
04:48What's it?
04:50I don't know.
04:50I think he told me.
04:52What did he say?
04:53This was caramel?
04:54This looks like a...
04:55He said caramel.
04:57Caramel movido.
05:01Looks like an espresso martini.
05:03That's exactly what it is.
05:04Oh, okay.
05:04That's a mess.
05:06And we just need to ask for cutler.
05:09Maybe it's us.
05:10Maybe we're not used to this sort of thing.
05:15No.
05:17I think they put a salad in front of you.
05:21There's supposed to be a fork there first, I think.
05:24And you never got that tea you ordered.
05:26No.
05:28All the waters.
05:31They brought out three drinks.
05:33That we didn't order.
05:34That we didn't order.
05:35I mean, they're free.
05:36They're all really nice.
05:38Nothing fun.
05:49It just keeps coming out now.
05:55There's so much fucking food in there.
05:58And drinks.
06:03They've now added a fourth table to our island.
06:09Let's go home.
06:20Okay.
06:21This is pretty good value for money.
06:22It's like, with the amount of food and alcohol and everything you can get here.
06:26Yeah.
06:28Definitely.
06:29Like, pregnant me is very happy.
06:33I can imagine if we were, like, if I was drinking.
06:38See, I don't even really want to drink.
06:41I hate drinking before flying now because, um.
06:45Yeah, I just feel like you get so dehydrated as it is.
06:48And then halfway through the flight, you start getting a hangover.
06:51So I try to avoid any booze before getting on a flight.
06:54But, I'll drink a couple of sips.
06:58Okay, we're off to a little bit of a rocky start.
07:02I think they just had, like, a couple of special guests here.
07:05And they were a bit flustered when we got in.
07:07And usually, it's, like, people with, um, priority pass that come in.
07:13And we just bought our tickets online yesterday.
07:16Um, but the food is absolutely amazing.
07:20And there's so much food.
07:21They brought out so much food for us.
07:23And just brought out a bunch of different drinks for us to try.
07:27Like, just recommended drinks.
07:28Um, and Mandy has now gone to get a foot massage.
07:33And then I'm gonna go get a neck and shoulder massage.
07:36Which is gonna be perfect before we fly.
07:39Uh, I think I just saw on the board that our flight is delayed.
07:43So hopefully it's not gonna set us back too much.
07:46Because we only have a two hour layover in Ho Chi Minh.
07:49And then we're flying to San Francisco.
07:51So hopefully we make it in time.
08:16Alright, we're on day two.
08:17We made it to San Francisco.
08:19Where we actually had a really stressful long travel day.
08:24Um, so we flew to Ho Chi Minh City.
08:28And something that's never happened before.
08:30There was a woman at the arrival gate with Mandy's name on it.
08:36She, we obviously identified ourselves to her.
08:38And she said, in very broken English.
08:40Cause she was Vietnamese.
08:42Um, you have to check your bags again.
08:45And we're like, what do you mean?
08:46Like we have two hours until our flight leaves.
08:49Like we can't like go and get our bags and check them in again.
08:53Which is what we thought she meant.
08:54She told us to go to the international transfer gate.
08:58And then when we got there, there was a guy in like military uniform.
09:02And he pulled Mandy over and went through all of her, um, carry on bags.
09:07And then asked for the security pin number for her check luggage.
09:15And showed us a photo of her bag.
09:17And then made us wait around for a while.
09:20And then just told us to leave.
09:21Um, that's never happened before.
09:24I don't know if that was just like a random security check.
09:29Or if they saw something in Mandy's bag.
09:32Anyway, our flight was delayed by like an hour and a half.
09:35Landed in San Fran late last night.
09:38Slept for a few hours.
09:40And now it's like 7.30am and we're flying to Vancouver.
09:44So fair to say we're, um, we're pretty tired.
09:48Especially Mandy.
09:49She's been a trooper though.
09:51Um, it is, yeah.
09:58We were just going to go and find something to eat and then get a coffee.
10:02Yeah man.
10:02Hell yeah.
10:03Hey, welcome to San Francisco.
10:07To be completely honest, all the staff here at the San Francisco airport have been unreal.
10:12The guy who checked us in was so like lively and just awesome.
10:17Um, they bring a lot of energy.
10:19Americans are so fun.
10:21Like they're just like the main character and I love their energy so much.
10:26Anyway, so I don't know what we're going to vlog when we get to Canada.
10:30We'll see.
10:31But, um, we're going to go grab something to eat now and then jump on our flight.
10:35Okay guys.
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14:06Okay, we made it to Canada. We've had a couple weeks off because we were pretty tired from traveling over
14:14here.
14:14But also we just wanted to spend some more present time with family and not have to worry about working
14:19or filming.
14:20I've gotten a little bit sick and more increasingly pregnant.
14:26She's very pregnant.
14:29Yes, it's happened very fast, but that's okay. Today we're heading into Whistler from Pemberton where we've been staying and
14:38doing something that we've wanted to do for a very long time.
14:41So I'm very excited right now and I'm not missing out on this again, no matter how I feel.
14:46So yeah, we're going to go and do what's called the Summer Alpine Experience in Whistler.
14:52So, believe it or not, like Whistler's a 12 month a year mountain.
14:58You can go up there in the winter and in the summer. There's like heaps of mountain biking you can
15:02do, but there's also just sightseeing and there's a peak to peak.
15:05So there's two mountains here in Whistler. There's Whistler and there's Blackcomb.
15:10They're both about 2,000 meters high and you can go to the top of each of them and do
15:15some hiking and stuff.
15:16And then you can get the peak to peak gondola, which is this massive gondola ride that goes from one
15:21mountain to the other.
15:22So we're going to do that today and grab some lunch and just spend the whole afternoon up there sightseeing.
15:28Because as Mandy said, like the last two weeks has just been catching up with family, babysitting.
15:35I've played a little bit of golf with my brother.
15:38We've actually, we're really lucky that we have family that live in this area because there's no way we could
15:44afford a holiday in Whistler.
15:46But it is the most expensive place to travel to, I think in North America.
16:34Alright, I'm in the first gondola.
16:39So it's about 20 minutes to the top of Blackcomb Mountain.
16:45And then we're going to get the peak to peak gondola across to Whistler.
16:50Head up to the top of Whistler.
16:53Come back down, grab a drink or something to eat and then we'll see how we go from there.
16:56But it's about a hundred bucks per person.
17:00And that's for like unlimited use of all the gondolas all day.
17:05The thing is if you're here for more than one day, it's only $150 to get a season pass.
17:09So you can do this as many times as you want.
17:11So if you want to go up more than once, you might as well buy the season pass.
17:15But we just got once.
17:17We just got a day pass because we're only going to come up here one time.
17:46Okay, we're only about like five minutes into this gondola ride and the view is epic.
17:52They said down at the bottom that there's a high chance that we'll see bears on one of the gondolas
17:57today.
17:58Which would be awesome.
18:04Yeah, I think there'd be definitely some black bears around.
18:07If we saw a grizzly, I would be absolutely stoked.
18:11But I think they're pretty rare to see here.
18:14You wouldn't be scared? You used to be so scared of them.
18:17No, if we're on a gondola, I'm not scared.
18:19I don't want to run into one.
18:21Yeah.
18:22Okay.
19:05How good's the weather up here?
19:07Amazing.
19:08Perfect temperature.
19:09Believe it or not, it actually gets really hot in Canada.
19:11It's been about 33, 34 degrees every day.
19:14But up here, it's like 10 degrees cooler.
19:16So it's like a bit of a good relief because we don't have a pool or air conditioning where we're
19:23staying.
19:23So it's kind of hot.
19:25How's this view?
19:26It's amazing.
19:27With how hot it's been, it's crazy that there's still all this snow on the mountains.
19:32Alright, we're just going to jump on the peak to peak gondola now.
19:36Which is going to take us from Blackcomb Mountain all the way over to Whistler Mountain.
19:40And that's where you get the most epic views pretty much anywhere.
20:24Alright, we're on Whistler.
20:26We're on Whistler Mountain.
20:27And we're just going to walk over to the chairlift that takes you to what's called the top of the
20:32world hike.
20:34But we went through the hike.
20:36We're just going to walk across this bridge up there on top of those peaks.
20:42It's like over 2,200 meters high.
20:46And there's still heaps of snow there which is surprising.
20:50How was it not melted yet?
20:51How's that work?
20:53I mean it feels way too warm for there's still to be snow.
20:56It shows how much there was up here in the winter.
20:58Yeah, I mean they get meters and meters of snow so I guess it just takes so long for it
21:04to melt.
21:08We're hoping we can get up there have a look around and then get back to this bar at the
21:13top of Whistler here.
21:15And have a drink and something to eat before it closes.
21:20We should be alright I think.
21:22Yeah.
21:22We haven't color corrected this at all.
21:24This is the actual color of that lake.
21:26It's absolutely insane.
21:28It was so blue.
21:31I don't think we wore the right footwear for this.
21:34We never do.
21:53It's nice to say it's the first time I've ever walked onto a chairlift.
21:56Yeah.
21:57It's weird.
21:57Way easier.
21:59Except I've got thongs on that I feel like they're going to fall off at any second.
22:09Freaking out I'm going to lose something.
22:10Yeah I know.
22:11I feel.
22:12It feels weird.
22:13Yeah.
22:15Nice having so many items on it.
22:17Yeah.
22:18It's probably still as much snow on the mountain here as there is right now back home in Australia on
22:26our mountains.
22:27Yeah.
22:28Yeah.
22:29And you pay over $200 for a day pass to go to that.
22:33Look at it all.
22:35Alright there's the bridge we're going to walk across.
22:39Looks kind of shaky for me.
22:43You keen?
22:45Yeah.
22:46We're here.
22:46I guess we'll do it.
23:06It's very stable.
23:08Yeah.
23:09It did look shaky from down below.
23:12Oh okay.
23:14It's bouncy.
23:15Now it's shaky.
23:17I don't like it.
23:19It's really hot though.
23:20Yeah.
23:22I'm already not very sturdy at the moment.
23:25Yeah.
23:25It's gorgeous.
23:26Yeah.
23:29Look at that.
23:30Wow.
23:35Worth it for the view.
23:36Wow I really don't like it.
23:39Wow this is so hot.
23:41It's so hot!
23:46It looks so hot.
23:48I love you.
23:49It's about .
23:49It's so hot.
23:50Look at that.
23:51Yeah.
23:51See you then.
23:55Go away from here.
23:57Ah creepy.
23:58Yeah.
23:59See you then.
23:59See you then.
24:01Bye.
24:20don't worry guys man he's not alcoholic
24:26new favorite beer I think so I don't think I'm gonna go back to drinking after this this fulfills
24:33it and there's actually so many really good non-alcoholic craft beers in Canada as well now
24:38it's been so easy yeah this one is the corona sunbrew and it says it has vitamin D added
24:48which sounds kind of crazy for a non-alcoholic beer advertising it almost as a health drink
24:54I like it it's really good if you don't want to drink alcohol but you still want to have something
25:00that tastes like beer and gives you that sort of scratches that each I guess
25:14the most Canadian dish ever so we're just we're just here at the umbrella bar on top of Whistler
25:25Mountain having a beer and enjoying this epic view I think we've got another hour or two
25:30until we have to get the gondola down and I think we'll just chill out here hey yeah too much
25:37hiking
25:37for you we're just gonna eat this poutine the national dish of Canada hey is it good yeah
25:46it's pretty good that was the most epic day this is the best way to finish it hope you guys
26:06enjoyed
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26:11helps us to be able to keep making these videos for you guys and as always we will see you
26:15guys
26:15in the next one bye
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