Sunday, February 12, 2023

Change of Plans

For my next solo trip, I originally planned to go to Seoul for 2 weeks. Then after doing a little bit of research, I realised that I would really prefer to go to Seoul with someone or with a group of friends who are into Kpop/Kdrama or until I have the confident and courage to go to Kpop concert or fan-meet alone.

So I decided to instead do an Osaka/Tokyo trip for 2 weeks. 6 days in Osaka and 8 days in Tokyo. Started on my research, planned my activities and saved all the potential hotels and airbnb apartments for me to consider. And this was back in December when I started on my research for my trip. Then a few days ago, I found out that all 12 hotels and airbnb apartments that I had favourited were all not available on the dates that I want. Pushed back the dates and the earliest available dates are December, and the cost increased was drastic. Obviously, I'm not willing to pay almost $1,000 more for those hotels or apartments in December. While looking through the various options for accommodation, nothing was to my liking and I realised that I was not willing to compromise.
  • 7 years of working for F1 - all my hotel rooms have a bathtub.
  • I went to Paris - my airbnb has a bathtub.
  • I went to London - my airbnb has a bathtub.
  • I went to Ritz-Carlton - my hotel room has a bathtub.
  • I went to Bangkok - my hotel room has a bathtub.
I really need to have a bathtub!

Now, I'm thinking of doing a 15 days' trip to Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City - 5 days in each city. Time to start on my research. A bathtub for each accommodation, that would be ideal.

In Shaa' Allah, everything will be fine.

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