rec.travel.asia

Alan S wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:58:06 +0200, Alfred Molon
> wrote:
>
>> In article <6i3bf314no9l6t9lstr7guj2ugoukd7hj1@ >, Alan S
>> says...
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Well, 22 days x 180¤/day = 3960¤
>> That's quite close to my 4000¤ 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 and we were even allowed to check in at 8:20am (we landed in
>> Dubai after 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 (Hotel Boulevard) and Langkawi but both places were fully booked,
>> and after receiving the notification that the rooms would be
>> unavailable no amount was deducted from our credit card.
>>
>> By contrast, in 2003 we booked a room through expedia at the Mercure
>> Inn in Luxor (Egypt). When arriving it turned out that the hotel
>> staff knew nothing about our reservation - apparently they had not
>> been notified by expedia.
>> /travelogues/Egypt/2003/ #2212
>
> Thanks; good info. Will check further.
>
> Cheers, Alan, Australia

I booked myself in KL hotel Sol melia ca 60 dollars per night includind
breakafst
a super hotel

Hotel in KL are very cheap