Bear, Diah and Pasha

Off to Jakarta

Posted on the April 17th, 2010 under Traveling & Holidays by papabear

Continuing from Happy Birthday Pasha.

We arrived very early at the KLIA. Some shops were still closed and the check in counters would not be opened until 6:00am. We checked ourselves in via the check-in kiosk but for some reasons whatsoever, after spending many minutes trying to figure out how the machine works, it was unable to dispense the boarding pass… So, we still had to go through the manual process at the counter. Later I was told that it could be running out of pass… Oh well…

So, to kill the time, we had a little breakfast (with a big price tag) somewhere near the MAS check in counters so that it would be easier to see when they are open…

Right at 6:00am the check-in counters opened and we got our boarding passes, with the seats that we selected during the self check in at the kiosk. At least this one worked much batter than the one used by AirAsia that could not even read the passport details… One up for MAS.

The flight was on time and we boarded the aircraft via the bridge from the terminal. No more walking to the aeroplane like we used to do when we took AirAsia at the LCCT. Not long after the flight took off, we had our breakfast served. The choice of food on the MAS flight might be limited but the great thing is that the set came with a complete main dish, a drink and a dessert. On top of that, you can order additional drinks for free. Imagine how much it would have cost you if you were having that on an AirAsia flight… Times 3 pax… It just does not make sense…

Pasha woke up very early for the 7:50 flight to Jakarta. Shortly after breakfast, he went back to sleep…

Now a little note about our flight. When we hunted for the tickets to Jakarta, the MAS and AirAsia tickets were about the same price. We decided to go for MAS due to:

1. Depart from KLIA instead of LCCT. KLIA is way much more comfortable compared to LCCT.
2. We did not have to talked to sour faced check in staffs at the AirAsia counters (especially in the morning). The MAS staff who checked us in was very cheerful at 6:00am.
3. We did not have to worry about paying for extra baggage as the allowable weight by MAS is much higher than AirAsia.
4. We did not have to worry about paying extra for food.
5. Kids would always get to board the plane first without having to pay for such privilege.

That should be enough reasons. Do you still want to go on AirAsia? Only if MAS have more flights, AirAsia could be flying only goats and cows… lalalala….

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Kuala Lumpur Jakarta Surabaya

Posted on the November 14th, 2008 under Life by papabear

We believed it!

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We Got Free Seats from AirAsia

Posted on the November 13th, 2008 under Traveling & Holidays by papabear

Yesterday AirAsia launched the Free Seats – No Fuel Surcharge promotion and we decided to grab the offer. We are not really a fan of AirAsia due to some of its ridiculous policies such as, express boarding fee and low baggage weight allowed but when they made such an offer, we would have to grab it since we know that when AirAsia is  on sale, it will be really on sale!

We managed to get free seats for the whole family, including Papa Bear’s mom for round trip travels from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta and from Jakarta to Surabaya. It is a dream come true for Mama Diah who has always wanted to bring her mother in law to her place in Jakarta and her hometown in Surabaya, Indonesia…

So, how much does it cost to get tickets for 4 people for a total of four trips? It is less than RM 800.00! That is approximately IDR 2.4 million or USD 230.00. A really awesome deal even though we have to wait until end of September 2009 for our trip. At least we have already planned for our next year’s annual family vacation.

The last we checked, there are still many seats available to all destinations!

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