Phuket Trip - The Plane Tickets

The initial member of Phuket trip is Me, Fenny, Alvin, Shienny and Ci El. To be very honest, we DIDN'T plan anything until we happened to see AirAsia 2009 0 rupiah promo!!!! Our first and second option were actually Singapore and Bali, however, the 0 rupiah flight to those two destination were fully booked. 2 days after the promo started, Fenny called me at around lunch hour to tell that she have bought a ticket to Phuket. I'm not the only one left without option. Alvin knows that Shienny bought a return tickets to Phuket (CMIIW) 5 months later. We purchased this 4 days and 3 night (from 26 to 29 August 2010) return ticket on Nov 11, 2009

As shown on the picture (click to zoom), we managed to find a very cheap tickets: five of us, Rp 1620000 !!!! or at around 180 USD from Jakarta - Phuket - Jakarta. Believe it or not, its Rp324000 or around 36 USD for 2 hours and 50 minutes flight, per person.


By the time we bought it, we try to persuade other to buy and go together with us to Phuket, however, the next date of purchase is 28 Dec 2009. Me and Fenny (well, actually I did few effort on this) managed to persuade Pdik and Gato to buy another tickets. The ticket price was a little bit below normal price. Juan was the last person who bought the ticket with slightly cheaper price than the second purchase.

Pdik and Gato bought the tickets for Rp 974000 per person or around 110 USD and Juan for Rp 643000 or around  72 USD. However, I discovered that Juan ticket didn't include the pre-purchase luggage on the way to Phuket. Luckily he has one on the way back from Phuket to Jakarta (I have no idea what happened if he don't have it :D - You will know why later on the other post of the blog).

By February 2010, the time when we purchased the hotel vouchers, Gato decided to cancelled the trip due to the excessive workload that unable her to take her leave at that time. What a pity, perhaps we could go somewhere else together next time ^^

After finished with the tickets hassles, since nobody worry about the trip, I started to gather information on Phuket through internet. This is where we decided to create Phuket Group in our BB :). While browsing informations about Phuket, I also never-endingly checking the Phuket hotel and our trip's budget which will be posted on another entry :)