5 Star Hotel Poolside (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #03

2017-07-23 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 4:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Other · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

On his medical elective in Cambodia, Ali and his friends spend an afternoon working by the pool of the Raffles Hotel Le Royal in Phnom Penh, get its $30 pool fee waived, and recommend its food and Cambodian afternoon tea.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Arriving at the Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh; the pool fee

• ★★ Ali and his friends go to the Raffles Hotel, a fancy hotel in Phnom Penh, to spend a few hours working on their laptops by the pool. — 00:00:00 · Phnom Penh
• ★★ Using the pool at the Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh cost non-guests $30 per person, far more than the $4 per person at another hotel with a nice pool. — 00:00:55
• ★★ After the group, confused by the pool fee, talked to a staff member who checked with the manager, they were allowed to use the Raffles Hotel pool for free. — 00:01:20

00:01:46 — Lunch, the pool and the Cambodian afternoon tea

• ★ Food at the Raffles Hotel poolside cost $10 to $15 a dish. — 00:01:46
• ★★ Ali expected small portions and mediocre food at the Raffles Hotel's prices, but found the food incredible. — 00:01:46
• ★ The Raffles Hotel afternoon tea, in its Cambodian version, has an exotic root platter with sweet potato and taro purses, fried prawns and chicken skewers, steamed layered rice flour, a steamed pumpkin cake and a mango and coconut crepe. — 00:03:06 · Cambodia
• ★★ Ali calls the Raffles Hotel afternoon tea really good and highly recommends it to anyone visiting Cambodia. — 00:03:06 · Cambodia

00:03:36 — Off downtown for cheaper coffee; haggling a fare

In the description and comments

• ★★ Ali Abdaal (channel): The third elective vlog was filmed on a Sony A6000 with the 16-55mm kit lens, with sound on a Tascam DR-05 with a deadcat, and edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017. — video description · Sony A6000, Tascam DR-05, Adobe Premiere Pro · also in: The Temple in the Sky (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #04, Coffee & Sushi (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #05, Sunset over Phnom Penh (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #06, The Bat Caves of Battambang (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #08

Mentioned

Central: Raffles Hotel Le Royal

Also: Cambodia · Phnom Penh

Only in the description or credits: Adobe Premiere Pro · Sony A6000 · Tascam DR-05

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• The Temple in the Sky (Cambodia) - Cambridge Medical Elective #04

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