To Bangkok!
No hate or anything, but actually I've never been a huge fan of Thailand. Maybe it's because I've been there when I was a kid. Maybe it's because everyone and their mom has some kind of exotic fascination for the place. Or maybe because I overdosed on Thai food during my U of C days.
However, to travel cheaply through the South East Asian region, it is almost absolutely necessary to stop in Thailand. Here, all roads lead to Bangkok. In the air, on the ground by car, and even by boat. My ultimate destination for now is Cambodia, for which there isn't a direct non-chartered flight. I'm mostly flying Air Asia, and don't freak out when I say no-frills airline, because Air Asia is huge in its own way. In fact, they're doing so well that the Malaysian government gave a subsidy to the official airline, Malaysia Airline, to give up it's unprofitable domestic routes to Air Asia. It is now Asia's leading low cost airline operating over 200 flights a day in 10 countries. And they go to all the places you want to go. For cheap.
How cheap you ask? Check it out yourself. Buying a ticket 2 weeks in advance, you can get a flight from Macau to Bangkok for about $30 US. And unlike Ryan Air (the leading low cost carrier in Europe), Air Asia doesn't fly into remote airports or make you take some $20 bus to that remote airport. You fly out and into major airports, with planes that could have been old American Airlines jets (in fact, I can remember flying worst AA jets). The downside: no assigned seating, no free food or drinks, delays *this I've only heard, my flights were all very punctual* and selective routes. General low cost carrier things, but I have to say that Air Asia is much better than any other low cost carrier I've taken.
Wat Arun, temple of the dawn, in Bangkok on Sept 15
So this is how I ended up in Bangkok. I thought why not? Save some money, check if Bangkok has anything that thrills me, and of course, go for one of those famed Thai massages.
No hate or anything, but actually I've never been a huge fan of Thailand. Maybe it's because I've been there when I was a kid. Maybe it's because everyone and their mom has some kind of exotic fascination for the place. Or maybe because I overdosed on Thai food during my U of C days.
However, to travel cheaply through the South East Asian region, it is almost absolutely necessary to stop in Thailand. Here, all roads lead to Bangkok. In the air, on the ground by car, and even by boat. My ultimate destination for now is Cambodia, for which there isn't a direct non-chartered flight. I'm mostly flying Air Asia, and don't freak out when I say no-frills airline, because Air Asia is huge in its own way. In fact, they're doing so well that the Malaysian government gave a subsidy to the official airline, Malaysia Airline, to give up it's unprofitable domestic routes to Air Asia. It is now Asia's leading low cost airline operating over 200 flights a day in 10 countries. And they go to all the places you want to go. For cheap.
How cheap you ask? Check it out yourself. Buying a ticket 2 weeks in advance, you can get a flight from Macau to Bangkok for about $30 US. And unlike Ryan Air (the leading low cost carrier in Europe), Air Asia doesn't fly into remote airports or make you take some $20 bus to that remote airport. You fly out and into major airports, with planes that could have been old American Airlines jets (in fact, I can remember flying worst AA jets). The downside: no assigned seating, no free food or drinks, delays *this I've only heard, my flights were all very punctual* and selective routes. General low cost carrier things, but I have to say that Air Asia is much better than any other low cost carrier I've taken.
Wat Arun, temple of the dawn, in Bangkok on Sept 15So this is how I ended up in Bangkok. I thought why not? Save some money, check if Bangkok has anything that thrills me, and of course, go for one of those famed Thai massages.
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I love the picture!! Take more!!
Ditto on the photo. Cheap airfare is critical, and considering most of the US flights I've been on recently have been plagued with problems, some of them kin to those you mention here, I don't mind giving up assigned seats and a free bag of pretzels.
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