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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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I am also using my miles this xmas..
I was kind of forced into it, if I didnt use my thai miles I would have lost 10,000 miles due to expiration.. now a trip to thailand costs 50.000 miles
I have 45.000 miles.. so they have asked me to pay an extra 150.00usd to buy the extra 5000 miles and with the exchange rate these days its close to
200.000 won..
then they want me to pay fuel taxes, as of the last time she called me the taxes were 280.000 won so this free ticket is costing me
480.000 won for xmas time...
now I could say screw it, Im going to buy a normal ticket for 600.000 won
and upgrade to business class with miles.. I dont know..
probably just save the 120.000won.. but I heard in the paper that the prices of fuel surcharges are coming down in november by 30% so I am holding off on buying my ticket until they have released the new prices..
from 286.000 won hopefully to 186.000 so then my free ticket will cost me
around 300.000 won, now thats a deal!
now I just need the won to come on strong against the baht.. because
1000 won to 24 baht is not funny! |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| michaelmichael wrote: |
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| michaelmichael wrote: |
| Just bought a ticket a few days ago for 428K rt to manila. Not too bad. |
Does that include taxes and fuel charges? |
Yeah, 428K total. Cebu Pac. |
I'm calling Bullsh!t on this.
I just checked online at a couple of places and Taxes and Surcharges ALONE are running 225,000 - 250,000 won. |
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michaelmichael
Joined: 08 Jul 2007
Location: Seoul, Korea / Philippines
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| Posted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I scheduled it with a travel agent, maybe you should call one. Bought the ticket on 10/13, departs 11/3. |
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lowpo
Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| I just booked a RT to HCMC for early January and the cheapest I could get which didn't include a very f-d up flight schedule was around 1.1M KW (inc. all taxes etc.). There were cheaper flights but spending a day in Beijing with a W150,000 visa for Americans, no thank you. Or, leaving HCMC at 1AM on my final "day" didn't work for me either. |
You can stay overnight in Beijing without a visa. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Really? I'm not a 100% sure. My travel agent said that if you want to leave the airport, I'd have to get a visa. Anyway, Hong Kong requires no visa and it saved me a bundle. |
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joeyjoejoe
Joined: 24 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| lowpo wrote: |
| cangel wrote: |
| I just booked a RT to HCMC for early January and the cheapest I could get which didn't include a very f-d up flight schedule was around 1.1M KW (inc. all taxes etc.). There were cheaper flights but spending a day in Beijing with a W150,000 visa for Americans, no thank you. Or, leaving HCMC at 1AM on my final "day" didn't work for me either. |
You can stay overnight in Beijing without a visa. |
from here
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84242.htm
chinese embassy website in USA
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★Visa-free transit
1. Visas are not required of aliens who hold air tickets to the final destination and have booked seats on international airliners flying directly through China, and will stay in a transit city for less than 24 hours without leaving the airport.
2. Visas are not required of passport holders of the following countries, who transit through Pudong Airport or Hongqiao Airport of Shanghai, provided they hold valid passports, visas for the onward countries, final destination tickets and have booked seats, and stay in Shanghai for less than 48 hours : Republic of Korea, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Austria, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland. |
you cannot stay in beijing without a visa, only in shanghai. in beijing you have to stay inside the airport. |
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