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Cheaper flight or shorter journey?

  • 02-09-2012 11:54am
    #1
    ozzy jr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭


    Would you do a longer flight home to save a few quid?

    My options are,

    Bangkok - Dubai leave at 1.35am for a 6 hour 5 minute flight

    or

    Bangkok - Hong Kong - Dubai. I'd be leaving Bangkok 12 hours earlier, have a 3 hour flight to Hong Kong, a four hour wait, then a 10 hour flight to Dubai.

    Both routes have me connecting with that same flight home to Dublin.

    The saving is €147 which would get me a week's hotel in Thailand.

    Do you think the journey is worth the saving?

    Would you do the longer and cheaper journey? 2 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    100% 2 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    id pick the 6 hour option in this case. depends on your own circumstances though. truth be told id prob try change my plan so that i got a night in hk or something!


  • #3
    Dj Stiggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    I'd take the longer flight because I don't mind travelling and if you're in no rush, why not take the longer flight?

    But as the poster above said, it could be worth seeing if you can spend the night in HK.


  • #4
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭Stinicker


    I flew that exact same route (Bangkok - Dublin) this year with Emirates and I found it tough. My schedule was like this

    Monday awake at 11am, do touristy stuff all day, eat & have dinner in the evening, party lateish, back to Hotel by 2am, pack all belongings, checkin for flight online.

    Tuesday awake at 7am, slept 3.5 - 4hrs, check out of hotel, leave bags at reception. Off on a tour for the day, back to hotel late afternoon, final shopping, change in hotel toilets, (had shower in Hotel pool) taxi to Bangkok airport

    Wed: Fly out at 3am to Dubai, arrive in Dubai at like 6am (6hrs 30+ flight) Flight to Dublin afterwards. Arrive in Dublin at 12noonish, take train to Kerry and arrive home in a semi-comotose zombie like state after nearly 48 hrs of sleep deprivation. Sleep for around 15hrs.

    I've been to Australia, Singapore and the US before but this years experience was the worst jet lag and tiredness I'd ever been, having a crying baby next to me on the Dublin flight home was like a jackhammer on my head. My mistake was being too cheap to book another day in the Hotel and I should have just slept my last day in Bangkok or else taken a morning flight like I did in 2011 on my first trip to Thailand.

    Still for a saving of €147 I'd do it, mainly to get to see Hong Kong Airport and because it would be the sort of thing I'd do anyway, irregardless of the flight cost. The most sensible thing is to fly direct to Heathrow and avoid the Middle East hubs anyway, but this works out alot more expensive usually.


  • #5
    ozzy jr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭ozzy jr


    Random wrote: »
    id pick the 6 hour option in this case. depends on your own circumstances though. truth be told id prob try change my plan so that i got a night in hk or something!

    I'm looking at the overnight in Hong Kong. It's doable at the same price for the flights, but it'll mean 8 hours in Dubai airport on the way back (23.00 - 7.00).

    I'd arrive in Hong Kong at 17.45 and leave at 19.45 the next day. Plenty of time to have a quick look around. I'm sure the €147 saving will go out the window but at least I'd be seeing another city.

    Maybe I should change the poll to, would you go to Hong Kong for 24 hours if it meant staying in Dubai airport for 8!

    Decisions, decisions......


  • #6
    grimm2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭grimm2005


    It really depends on what €147 is worth to you. I would usually go for the cheaper option if the direct flight was over €70 more expensive then the stop over option but when its that much of a difference time wise, I'd probably shell out for the direct purely because the idea of a 3 hour flight followed shortly by a 10 hour flight sounds pretty horrible to me. That said, I'm pretty tall and I can never sleep on planes so maybe for someone who has comfortable leg room and can easily sleep on a plane it would be a different story!

    As for changing your plan to include a night in Hong Kong, while I'd usually be the first person to jump at the chance to visit another new city, I just don't think it would be worth such a short stay as you wouldn't really get to see much if any of the city properly. By the time you found your bearings you'd already be hopping on the next flight! (having said that i've never been to hong kong so couldn't really give an opinion if its worth such a short stay)


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