rec.travel.asia

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:51:51 +0200, Alfred Molon
wrote:

>The 4000 Euro is a guesstimate for the total cost of the trip, including
>everything. Consider the following:
>
>Flight MUC-KUL with Emirates: 770 Euro in October (economy, low season)
>Flights KUL - Manila and Manila - Japan + return flight Japan - KUL:
>just guessing, but could be in the region of 600 Euro
>
>So, the flights will be a bit cheaper than a RTW ticket.
>
>Then add the two weeks Japan Rail pass, accomodation in Japan (will stay
>in cheap places, but still should be at least 50 Euro/day), other
>expenses in Japan, hotels in Malaysia and the Philippines, food,
>transportation etc. It's amazing how easily things sum up these days.

I understand. I thought you were just looking at flight
costs.

The pre-budgets for my trips were surprisingly accurate,
possibly because I enjoyed messing about with Excel in the
pre-planning and squeezing the max enjoyment out of the
minimal dollar. Provided it's a long trip, amortising the
flight costs, it works out at about ¤180 per day all
included. And I mean ALL.

I'm contemplating some bookings in Bangkok, Hong Kong,
India, Jordan and Egypt for this next trip at the moment
using various bookers. Have you used AsiaRooms before? Any
comments on them? Other options I'm looking at include
and various Indian web-sites. I've already
booked Siem Reap direct with a guest house.


Cheers, Alan, Australia
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