For those who are not aware, we've planned and booked the ticket for Phuket between 26 to 29 August 2010. Yes, that makes it 4 days 3 night, not to mention the only flight on 29 August (Phuket to Jakarta) is early in the morning, which makes our trip 3 days and 3 night!!!!! There were several places that we have to sacrifice due to the short period of visit and now they (AirAsia) has rescheduled us and made it 2 days 2 nights??? I don't think so. When published on blackberry group, almost all of us disappointed and at rage to AirAsia. I try to think clearly, this case was not my first case when flying with AirAsia. This has happened when I visited Bali, they rescheduled my flight to the flight after my scheduled flight, but, when I called, they allow me to flied on the earlier scheduled.
Once I got back home, I called the call center. They put me on hold for one and half hour!!!!! I gone mad. I have to leave home since Alvin and Shienny has picked me to go. With an uncomfortable mood, I called them via mobile phone. What a miracle!!! They directly picked my call without first let me hear the annoying AirAsia waiting music. I confirmed the change in schedule with the officer and request an earlier flight. AirAsia didn't put us in more trouble. In fact, they were friendly and helpful. They put us to the flight on 25 August 2008. Our trip will become 4 days and 4 nights instead of shorter 3 days 3 nights.
For a short period of time, this good change of flight schedule (at least for me) didn't make everybody happy. Some of us were not happy with the change, they prefer the original schedule. Why is that so? Simply because the strict leave policy in their office. It would be troublesome for them to extend their leave. The rest of us are able to suppress the disappointment by encouraging them to propose the leave (even with lies :*satanic laugh*:)
As mentioned in the post earlier, by having longer visit time, we have to book another night at that hotel. Luckily the room is available, however, the price has went up. Since the price was still reasonable, we decided not to choose another hotel. We purchase the extra night for Rp241000 per person (Rp482000 per room).
Having extra time in Phuket, we are not prepared for any schedule, therefor, we decided to rearrange our itinerary:
go to Patong, Simon Cabaret were cancelled because it cost quite much (800 Baht for 2 hours ladyboy show, I don't think so)
Phi Phi + Khai Tour (we decided to move this tour from 27 August because we know that this trip will be an energy consuming trip. By having this on our second day, we can have a rather loose schedule on the third day)
We decided to just let this day open. Another tour will cost us more money. We have planned a cost estimation and we don't want to move away from the estimated cost. Besides, as mentioned, 2 days of tour in a row will make us extra exhausted.
We will have Phuket sightseeing tour ended at Phuket weekend night market.
The cost estimation was 7000 Baht per person (include meals and transport, minus pocket money :D). I asked them to prepare 10000 Baht, 7000 Baht to cover the tour, meals and transports, 3000 Baht for their pocket money. For 'emergency' money, I recommend (its not compulsory) to bring 200 USD since USD is more common.
A week before the D-Day, we gather to have a final briefing. We reminded each other about the schedule, what to bring and several tiny matters. Since we will go island hopping, we try to find a waterproof backpack. The prices of those backpack are SOOOOO expensive T.T. One thing come to my mind. Why don't we just bring a "Lock and Lock" for our wallet and handphones :D Brilliant idea, ain't it? For the extra clothes we simply put it inside a plastic bag :D After a not-so-long discussion (2 hours?) about the number of clothes to bring, should we buy the sunblock here (we decided not to buy it in Jakarta) and a discussion about what to do in our FREE DAY, we went home and just wait for the D-Day
Note: Thx to tyo for the picture editing ^^
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