Travel around Asia - the cheap way!

Advantages: Cheap, lots of Asian destinations
Disadvantages: Limited schedules for some flights, no frills (but who cares at these prices?!)

...As a regular visitor to the Far East, I have to admit that I got very excited when I found out about Air Asia. Those of you who have travelled with Ryanair, BMI Baby, etc, will be familiar with the budget -airline procedure - buy a cheap flight using the company website, check-in at the airport and board the plane as you would a bus, ie, sit where you can find a seat. Air Asia follows this formula as Asia's first low fare airline. **About the company** Air Asia is based in Malaysia and started operating in January 2002. Originally flying to domestic destinations, it quickly expanded to cover other countries in Asia, including Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. All the destinations (there are too many to list) can be found on the website but main tourist routes include: Kuala Lumpur to Penang, Bangkok, Langkawi, Bali, Jakarta...

pinseyt 11.07.2004 · Read review
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Beer, spliffs & out of date Valium in SE Asia

Advantages: Might teach you a bit of Australian lingo
Disadvantages: Will teach you just how objectionable some travellers can be

...with hardly any foreigners she should try South East Asia. And Tamara, being as shallow as she is, needs no better advice than that of a drunk in a bar. And so the girls are off to give S.E. Asia their best shot. Tamara admits she thought the Khmer Rouge was a cosmetic and Laos was something you got in your hair at school but you might suppose she?d have read a guidebook or two before setting off. Even a teensy bit of homework would have been a good idea. You could call them ?innocents abroad? but I think I?d substitute ?ignorants? for innocents. The title refers to them as ?reckless? travellers but the actual travels are a mix of stupid (going to places with nothing to see) and predictable (going to places every other backpacker already visited). Tamara meets up with El at Bangkok airport and straight away they head off to find a cheap dive...

koshkha 02.05.2007 · Read review
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A Taste Of Asia

Advantages: Great food, great staff and service, very clean, sticky rice to die for
Disadvantages: no kids menu a little priceier than your average curry house

...I've never tried writing and review on a restaurant before but Asia Lounge is one of my favourite places to eat so I thought I'd give it a go and hope I do it some justice. What Is the Asia Lounge Asia Lounge is the newest restaurant in Bury, Manchester. It only opened at the back end of last year. The restaurant serves up authentic Thai and Indian dishes. The chefs themselves are from Thailand and Pakistan. The restaurant has two floors and can seat 200 guests. As well as taking bookings it is also available to hire for functions. Although the Asia Lounge isn't a take away it will do so by special request. Location Asia Lounge is located on Rochdale Road, Bury just on the corner of Heywood Street. The Restaurant The restaurant itself has a red theme going on, plain walls with pieces of ethnic art on the walls, wooden floors...

hollywoodmum 22.06.2009 · Read review
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Travelling compactly

Advantages: Folds up compactly, bright colours, use as a cot or play pen
Disadvantages: Thin mattress base

...~*~*~INTRODUCTION~*~*~ My mother in law wanted to buy a travel cot when my son was born as she will be looking after him when I go back to work. We looked around on the internet and when she saw the Graco compact she decided that was the one, she loved that it was nice and bright and thought my son would enjoy playing in there as well as sleeping. We ordered it from Kiddicare but unfortunately they have stopped selling it. I have since seen it on Amazon, Halfords and Ebay though for roughly the same prices. ~*~*~FEATURES~*~*~ -Suitable from birth to around 3 years. -It comes in a handy carry case, making it easy for travel. -The travel cot unfolds easily and I actually put it up in a couple of minutes on my first attempt. -The sides are mesh which is nice and soft for wriggly babies banging their heads, also...

ashton08 12.09.2008 · Read review
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Air Asia-the original low cost airline

Advantages: Clean, cheap, punctual
Disadvantages: Low cost so no extras

...at the airport (I don't think this is installed on all routes yet though). The long haul flights are relatively new and as I said I haven't travelled on any of them yet but I would certainly be looking into it next time I fly out. One way prices from London can be less than £100 and to Australia from Asia for around £40. They are also a stable company that would seem to stand a much better chance of sustaining no frills long haul flights than the other companies who have gone bankrupt inthe past year or so-in fact a few of the routes have been running successfully for a while already. Just as a small bonus, Air Asia have been voted best low cost airline in the world!...

flyingllamas 14.08.2009 · Read review
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Gadget Asia

Advantages: Good prices, good delivery
Disadvantages: No response from their customer services department

...Used Gadget Asia back in January 2008 to purchase a Nintendo DS Lite for one of my daughters. The bundle included 20 games for £145.00. We decided against the fast delivery option as reviews on the web suggested these would arrive with a bill from customs. The unit arrived OK within about 7-10 days and most of the games work fine. Great purchase, good value for money, superb experience. Based on this, we decided to buy another DS Lite bundle from Gadget Asia on 24 August 2008. The bundle this time was a Nintendogs DS Lite with 25 games for £140.99. The unit arrived within the same 7-10 days, but the first problem occurred when we tried to charge up the unit for my daughter's birthday - the charger supplied did not work. Fortunately, we were able to use the charger from the other Nintendo. However, the main problems occurred...

PaulLarner 21.09.2008 · Read review
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Euro Trip

Advantages: Funny Teenagers in Europe
Disadvantages: Crude, rude humour

...Euro Trip is one of those teenage movies that actually can?t help but make you laugh. It?s of a similar humour to American Pie, rude, crude and a little wrong but actually a very well made movie and in my opinion very funny. Euro Trip was released in 2004 . It stars your usual bunch of teenage actors that have swamped Hollywood in recent years. Some have gone on to make more of their careers, some haven?t done very much at all. The girl in this movie who goes to Europe is Michelle Trachtenberg and she has been in Buffy and gone on to do quite well. The basic plot of this movie tells the story of Scott Thomas and his three friend?s travels across Europe in search of his pen pal Mieke. He discovers he has feelings for her after he is unceremoniesly dumped by his college girlfriend. In quite funny scenes from the beginning...

Spottydog11 13.11.2009 · Read review
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The Time Traveller's Wife

Advantages: beautiful story, moving
Disadvantages: none

...My husband bought himself Audrey Niffenegger?s The Time Traveller?s Wife as he is a sci-fi fan. He read the book and put it on the bookshelf. After a few weeks I read a few reviews on it and discovered that we have this book so I started reading it. It was a very engaging reading I could hardly put the book down. When we heard that there will be a film based on this exciting and brilliant novel we decided to go together to the cinema to watch it. Well, I had to wait a lot until I could really watch it but it was worth waiting for it. The Time Traveller?s Wife was planned for a fall 2008 release but it was delayed until August 2009. The reason of the delay was that they had to do a reshoot and they had to wait for the meadow to look the same again and funny but for Eric Bana?s hair to grow out again. He had a role in Star Trek where he...

D_i_a_n_e 26.11.2009 · Read review
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Terrible issues with Gadget Asia.

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: hassle, goods that don't work, postage costs, stress, no escalation procedure for complaints

...Gadget Asia sent me two Nintendo DS's for my children. they have both had to be repaired twice. They look reconditioned rather than new to me. They are refusing to send back one console until I send the other one in (which has failed again). I don't trust them anymore and want them to send back the first console so I can check it is really working before I send back the other one. I've had to send back consoles 4 times now and it costs me £10 each time. I've been without one console for 3 months now. Please don't buy from them. you'll just get hassle and shoddy goods. There's also no way to contact them except via e-mail, no complaints process and I can't get to anyone higher than the people that answer the e-mails....

rlwoking 16.03.2009 · Read review
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Excellent travel system

Advantages: Folding down, multifunctional
Disadvantages: Slightly heavy

...Being a first time Mum, I searched around all the high street shops for a functional and attractive travel system. Out of all the prams this one had the easiest folding down system, even tho it was slightly on the heavy side I could fold it down with 1 hand! The carry cot was great for the first 4 months fitting in to the pram snuggly as the seat folded flat (which I found alot of other prams didn't do) The car seat had a base that made it so easy to take the baby in and out of the car (no messing around with seat belts every time!) It is also very well padded, however it didnt come with cushioned protectors on the straps. When we were taking baby home for the first time, the midwife told us it needed them which were only £5 extra to buy. She's in the buggy part now which has three postions and harnesses which is great. Overall fab...

amylc 28.02.2008 · Read review
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