Planning for a Trip To Beijing

April 8, 2010

The Great Wall of China is one of the places(not necessarily Beijing) that is in my wish iists of places to visit.

So when I saw this offering for initial budget trips to mark  the launch of Air Asia’s maiden trip to Tianjin(Beijing), I grabbed on the opportunity to book two tickets for hubby and myself.

Since I will be flying to Tianjing,I will still be riding on one of the worlds fastest bullet train, the Tianjing-Beijing  train which cuts down the travel time from these two cities from the normal 70 minutes to a record 30 minutes.

The two tickets which was flying out from Kuala Lumpur only costs RM760 for two which is about S$330 or (S$165@). How can you get lower than that for a trip to Beijing.Normally tickets to Beijing would costs somewhere between S$500-700.

The only hassle however was that I still have to fly to KL and stay overnight which means that I have to look at the prospect of sleeping again at the cold cement floors of the LCCT(Low Cost Terminal of Air Asia) or staying in Tune hotel for RM158 or getting into the Premier Lounge at RM106 for 5 hours or just sipping several cups of coffee at the LCCT McDonalds store.

At least this time I have 4 options, last year in February while going to Macau we had to sleep at the terminal while waiting for our morning connecting flight.

I really cannot cancel this trip since ,

1) I cant rebook and would totally lose my Beijing trip booking

2) I have already booked two nights at Courtyard Marriot Beijing using our Marriot card

3) I dont think I will be able to plan another trip to China now that we are moving to Toronto by June 7

 

Our budget for airfare and hotel

Airfare- Singapore to KL            S$80.00 (I bought another ticket going to KL)

              KL -Johor                             58.50 (RM136)

     KL-Tianjin to KL                         330.00 (RM 760) 

TOTAL AIRFARES                       S$  468.50  (S234.25 per person)

HOTELS (3 nights)                      Free courtesy of Marriot Vacation Club

allowance for 1 night hotel (KL)         54.00

TOTAL                                             S$     522.50