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Saturday, September 4, 2010

Why pay 94 when I can have better at 6

Today I went for my irregular Saturday BIAL trip. Initially I thought of giving up the idea and doing something else like running but then I thought cycling will be less painful :P.

So I started at 8:10 am empty stomach but soon realized that I am gasping for air as my wind-pipe is all frozen and I need to have something hot. I stopped en-route and had tea in a roadside tea-stall and resumed my ride. This time I was using sports-tracker app on my Nokia S60 cell to measure my efficiency. I took 1 hr to reach my destination. After reaching there I decided to execute my plan of having capachino and to my surprise I paid 94 bucks which led me thinking. Half way to drinking my coffee I realized that too much of it is only going to dehydrate me and hence left the rest and asked for "normal-water" to CCD guy. He said "We serve only bottled water" which again left me cursing them in mind. I went to adjacent shop Just-Booster and asked for water. Very reluctantly I got a small cup of water which I thanked him and drank it earnestly. I started my ride back home but within meters I felt that I need more water and inquired the parking-lot guy about normal drinking water. You may find me miser by not shelling out money for a bottled water but I don't want to encourage myself with that as I feel normal water is good enough.

He asked me to go to the canteen and gave me directions. Initially I thought he is sending me back to CCD but as the target came closer, I had a eureka moment. I saw one clean and hygienic restaurant of shanti-sagar type. I was too happy to see something like this in an International Airport but was quizzed with why is this place in a secluded location and reasoned that the government doesn't want the international travelers to know about how less-costly are basic food here in India. Anyways, forget all these rant of mine. I had my water and also garma-garam Idli. It was amazingly good. I then started off back to home ride and with all pride I have to say that I took 15 minutes lesser than what I took earlier. Coming back home I had hot water bath and had payasam and some sleep :).





For few, who are eager to know where the place is, it is just behind the "Pay & Use Toilet" at BIAL. Dont worry, it may sound dirty but take my word, it is very clean and Hygenic. Ask for Parking-Cafe at BIAL to some ground staff and you should get it easily. As said, why pay 94 when I can have better at 6 :)

Happy Reading.
-Amit

11 comments:

molarbear's posts said...

Fantastic find! Do you mind if I give a link to this post on my blog at Citizen Matters? -Deepa Mohan.

Amit Choudhary said...

Thank You and Sure why not. :)

manish said...

Thanks for the update mate..

manish said...

Thanks for the update mate..

Sashi said...

Thanks for the info!

I often hated paying double the money for water/food at airport/malls, this one should really help

Arun said...

Many thanks. I hate having to pay up a bomb for the one and only reason that they give you no options.

Amit Choudhary said...

Thank You Manish, Sashi and Arun. For me too it was a great relief. :)

Ch4 said...

Good Job Amit! Frugality isn't a sin & but a desired virtue!

Amit Choudhary said...

Thank You Marsh.

Prasad said...

Thanks for the lovely piece of information.

Unknown said...

We are 52 passengers,we will take breakfast on 23 feb morning and shall revert, regards amiA