Flight is delayed :(

We received an SMS this afternoon informing that our flight was re-scheduled to one hour later. That's the smart way to manage delays.
Once we checked in we found out there was an extra one and a half hour delay :( this time it's officially a delay because they started the check in. As long as check in has not started they can reschedule the flight avoiding to have to compensate passengers.
This means we won't arrive in the hotel in Phuket before 3am. It's going to be a long day. Luckily tomorrow we can sleep at the beach.
Still it sucks to be stuck in an empty airport waiting for the last flight.