Hey all!
Just thought I'd say hello. We're meant to be flying home from thailand on Friday.....only it doesn't look like it will be happening right now. My brother is valiantly sending us embassy contacts but to be honest we're not flustered. We have insurance, cash and credit cards and are on an island in the andaman sea. There are worse places to be stuck!
And even better news is that my boss has contacted me and I have a contract for 2009 so the job search doesn't need to be as frenetic.
Hope everyone else is good.
Alison
UPDATE
Well...here we are in Ao Nang and should have been flying home right now. We have to fly Krabi - Bangkok and Bangkok - London.
Our insurance doesn't cover civil unrest so we have to pay for extra hotels ourselves.
It's an absolute mess. We were told last night we had flights booked for 30th Nov. Thai airways then called back and said the 30th was fully booked and we had flights for 1st Dec. We complained at that and so we were told we were confirmed for the 1st but to call back at 10am today and we might be able to get on the 30th.
We've just done that and have now been told no reservations have been changed as they still don't know what's happening with flights and we have to call back later. So we have no idea when we are coming home. My H is ready to kill someone as the people on the end of the phone are next to useless.
We've managed to book the hotel for an extra couple of nights until Sunday, at a cost of 88 quid, which isn't bad considering it's high season. We got a bit of a discount thru pity!
We just want to get home now. Our optimism the other day was mis-placed - the airlines are utterly disorganised. We thought they may fly us from Krabi to somewhere like Kualur Lumpur (spelling), which is a regular flight, and the London from there. But no....they're waiting to see what happens with the airport.
Argh!
