AGD From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 204 posts, RR: 3 Posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 8987 times:
Hello!
Last summer, in June and July, a good friend and I went to Hong Kong and Thailand for vacations. That meant a few flights to get over there, and to travel around inside Thailand (10 flights in total). That also meant that a trip report would have to be written. It got delayed as I was too lazy to edit and resize my pictures, and to write the whole thing.
You can click the following link to read the report:
YUL2010 From Canada, joined Jun 2003, 320 posts, RR: 22 Reply 1, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 8923 times:
Tres beau voyage Alex!! You brought back memories of my trip to South East Asia 2 years ago! Although I didn't go to Koh Samui and Krabi... It's in the plans!
767747 From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 1750 posts, RR: 26 Reply 2, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 8916 times:
Amazing report and pictures! I've heard some good things about JAL; they sound like a really good airline.
Semsem From Israel, joined Jul 2005, 1779 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 8892 times:
When I flew on JAL in 1978 the meals in Y were bigger and we had a choice of Japanese or Western. My Japanese friends all travel with ANA which they say is better than JAL.
Fabulous report. Love the layout and pictures. Thank you.
SR 103 From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1702 posts, RR: 42 Reply 7, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 8451 times:
Great report with some excellent photos. I concure with your Emirates verdict, good food with some lackluster service.
Ryanair!!! From Singapore, joined Mar 2002, 4653 posts, RR: 27 Reply 8, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 8405 times:
It was my first time on an Asian carrier and I could already see a huge gap between service qualities on JAL versus service qualities on some North American or European carriers.
How true. Even on the intra-Asia segments on these US carriers that are staffed by the Asian crew, service is miles ahead when compared to the trans-Pacific sectors. However, the same cannot be said for Chinese (excluding Taiwanese carriers CAL and EVA) carriers though. They still lag far behind in terms of inflight service.
It was served with marinated seafood with sweet sour bean vermicelli...
Woah... what the hell is that?
We deplaned by bus, got our bags, and had a cab ride to Novotel Phuket.
That is a truly wonderful hotel. It is the one that is perched on top of the hill at the northern end of Patong right? I stayed there some trips back and I had a great time. Awesome views. In fact, some of the video footage of the tsunami destruction was filmed from the balcony at the edge of the hotel's pool area... Come to think of it, I was in Phuket a few weeks after you left.
I think only military were allowed to play there…can anyone confirm?
Indeed it is... The opposite end (eastern side) of Don Muang is 100% military.
Welcome to my starry one world alliance, a team in the sky!
Triple7man From Thailand, joined May 2005, 681 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 8349 times:
Very good pics of the airplanes and of Thailand and Hong Kong. Hong Kong is one of my favorite cities and your report makes me want to go back there.
How long was the ORD-NRT flight?
AGD From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 204 posts, RR: 3 Reply 10, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 15 hours ago) and read 8317 times:
Hey, thanks for the comments so far!
Quoting Ryanair!!! (Reply 8): It was served with marinated seafood with sweet sour bean vermicelli...
Woah... what the hell is that?
To be honest...I don't remember hehe. That's what my flight notes said.
Quoting Ryanair!!! (Reply 8): We deplaned by bus, got our bags, and had a cab ride to Novotel Phuket.
That is a truly wonderful hotel. It is the one that is perched on top of the hill at the northern end of Patong right? I
Indeed it is. A very nice hotel, in fact I didn't know the Novotel brand could be such a good product. The highlights of it were probably the room itself and the breakfast, in which I could get whatever I wanted. Plus the staff was very pleasant.
But to me, the hotel was the only good point of Phuket. Patong beach is such a big tourists trap.
I think the outbound flight to Tokyo is about 13 hours long. We did fly quite a different route on the inbound flight to O'hare, and cut the flight time to 10 hours and 40 minutes.
Triple7man From Thailand, joined May 2005, 681 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (6 years 4 months 2 weeks 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 8104 times:
Quoting AGD (Thread starter): I think the outbound flight to Tokyo is about 13 hours long. We did fly quite a different route on the inbound flight to O'hare, and cut the flight time to 10 hours and 40 minutes.
Normally on the flights to Tokyo the flights take a more northerly route to avoid headwinds. Flying out of Tokyo they fly further south to take advantage of the tailwinds. So usually the flights to Tokyo are about 2 hours longer than the flights out of Tokyo
AJO From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 575 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (6 years 4 months 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 7188 times:
Excellent report! Just one small note: Don Muang airport is not closed after Suvarnabhumi opened, it's actually still being used by some domestic and charter carriers. On international flights though (esp. long-haul), you're unlikely to end up in Don Muang nowadays.
AGD From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 204 posts, RR: 3 Reply 16, posted (6 years 4 months 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 6818 times:
Thank you very much for the comments.
Quoting AJO (Reply 14): Just one small note: Don Muang airport is not closed after Suvarnabhumi opened, it's actually still being used by some domestic and charter carriers.
You are right. I didn't think about that fact while writting the report. Should have thought about it
Quoting BA319-131 (Reply 15): Phuket is just a fantastic place to relax, love it.
Well.. depends of what you're looking for. I personnaly didn't find Phuket to be relaxing at all! I guess it depends where you go on the island, as I've only been to Patong beach..
Now Koh Tao, Railay beach... that's another story! That's relaxing!
BPS3458 From Australia, joined Oct 2006, 522 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (6 years 4 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 6337 times:
Great report. Enjoyed all the details and beautiful pictures. Can't believe you didn't like the Japanese beer on the JL flight. I find Kirin Ichiban, Sapporo and especially Asahi Super Dry to be excellent beers. Were you actually sitting in row 47 ??? on a TG 737 or is it a typo ?
AGD From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 204 posts, RR: 3 Reply 19, posted (6 years 4 months 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 6190 times:
Quoting Ardian (Reply 17): Wow! Amazing tripreport with awesome pictures. I always enjoy the tripreports on contrailsphotography so keep up the good work
Thank you! Possibly more trip reports to come on this website...!
Quoting BPS3458 (Reply 18): Great report. Enjoyed all the details and beautiful pictures. Can't believe you didn't like the Japanese beer on the JL flight. I find Kirin Ichiban, Sapporo and especially Asahi Super Dry to be excellent beers. Were you actually sitting in row 47 ??? on a TG 737 or is it a typo ?
MEL From Canada, joined Oct 1999, 1082 posts, RR: 13 Reply 21, posted (6 years 4 months 3 days 12 hours ago) and read 5864 times:
Looks like the idea is to have First Class start at Row 1, Business Class start at Row 11, and Economy Class start at Row 31, no matter what type of aircraft.
PILOTALLEN From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 656 posts, RR: 4 Reply 22, posted (6 years 4 months 3 days 7 hours ago) and read 5743 times:
thats a great trip report, one of the best i've read....love the pictures of Hong Kong at night....great job!
Christao17 From Thailand, joined Apr 2005, 890 posts, RR: 9 Reply 23, posted (6 years 4 months 2 days 11 hours ago) and read 5614 times:
Very nice report!
Quoting BPS3458 (Reply 20): Thanks for that clarification. Any idea why they start with row 31 in Y ?
Easier equipment substitution. Especially on popular domestic routes (to Phuket, Chiang Mai) there is a wide range of equipment operated. What may be a 737 normally could easily be replaced by a 777 or 747 or Airbus another day. This way at least people should still have seats in the correct cabin.
Of course, if it is an equipment downgrade it doesn't work quite as well.
"What do you mean there's no seat K on this 737!?"
Stylo777 From Turkey, joined Feb 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 12 Reply 24, posted (6 years 4 months 2 days 8 hours ago) and read 5587 times:
You did a great job! Really amazing pictures (especially the ones from Hong Kong). It was a pleasure for me to read your report.
Cheers
Ori
25 Bimmerkid19: Hey look at my Trip report for Korean Air ... Korean Air ORD-ICN-ORD (by Bimmerkid19 Jan 16 2007 in Trip Reports) btw. .my emaill address is super_br
26 Matt27: Awesome report Makes me wanna go back to Asia again.
27 YOWza: Awesome rpoert and great pics. You've inspired me to get off my ass and compile a trip report for my latest trip (YYZ-LHR-DOH-KTM return) - watch this
29 AirAmericaC46: Excellent pics. What is the type and brand of your camera? How did you get the night view of HongKong?------long exposure? or just a quick click by a
30 AGD: Thank you all for the replies. I use a Canon 20D. The night view of Hong Kong was taken from Victoria Peak, one of HKG biggest tourist attraction. It
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