rec.travel.asia

In article <6i3bf314no9l6t9lstr7guj2ugoukd7hj1@ >, Alan S says...
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> 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 =A4180 per day all
> included. And I mean ALL.

Well, 22 days x 180=A4/day =3D 3960=A4
That's quite close to my 4000=A4 guesstimate :-)

> 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.

We used asiarooms last year for a hotel in Dubai. Everything went well=20
and we were even allowed to check in at 8:20am (we landed in Dubai after=20
a sleepless night in the plane at 6:30am).
/travelogues/Dubai/2006/#0812

In the same trip we also tried to make bookings through asiarooms in KL=20
(Hotel Boulevard) and Langkawi but both places were fully booked, and=20
after receiving the notification that the rooms would be unavailable no=20
amount was deducted from our credit card.

By contrast, in 2003 we booked a room through expedia at the Mercure Inn=20
in Luxor (Egypt). When arriving it turned out that the hotel staff knew=20
nothing about our reservation - apparently they had not been notified by=20
expedia.=20
/travelogues/Egypt/2003/ #2212
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Alfred Molon
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