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Thursday 2 July 2015

Jun 2015 - Perancangan Percutian Keluarga ke Eropah Timur (Vacation Planning to East Europe)

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Sepertimana perancangan percutian keluarga sebelumnya, perkara pertama perancangan untuk dijawab ialah "Bila?". Ini adalah senang kerana "bila" tu selalunya pada musim cuti sekolah yang panjang.

Keduanya, "Kemana?" - Ideanya akan datang apabila kami memilih tempat-tempat yang belum pernah kami lawati dan juga membuat sedikit research dengan men"google" laman-laman sesawang seperti ini...:-

20 awe-inspiring places


Tahun ini selepas ke Jepun pada bulan April (hanya berdua kerana bukan cuti sekolah yang panjang), kami memilih Eropah Timur sebagai destinasi percutian keluarga.

Menggunakan google map sebagai "asas" perancangan kami... (nota : Yang dirancangkan adalah Dubrovnik, tetapi dialihkan kepada Mostar sewaktu percutian)


Perkara yang pertama sekali kami muktamadkan adalah penempahan tiket penerbangan. Ini akan memuktamadkan tempoh percutian kami, tarikh bila mula percutian dan tarikh bila percutian berakhir.


Selepas itu, kami akan mula menempah tempat-tempat penginapan. Setelah semua penginapan ditempah, maka lengkaplah "perancangan asas" percutian kami. Barulah kami mula "memperhalusi" tempat-tempat spesifik untuk dilawati dan lain-lain perkara seperti transport, kereta sewa, insuran perjalanan dan sebagainya.

"Kertas" perancangan percutian yang 95% muktamad akan kelihatan seperti ini yang melibatkan 4 buah negara Eropah Timur (Hungary, Austria, Croatia dan Bosnia Hezegovina dengan melintasi Slovenia)


"95% muktamad" kerana selalunya akan ada perubahan "last minute" ke tempat-tempat spesifik yang ingin dilawati dan juga perubahan yang dilakukan sewaktu bercuti (seperti dari Dubrovnik ke Mostar)

Seperti biasa, kami akan menggunakan kemudahan-kemudahan yang disediakan oleh kelab percutian kami, WorldVentures, yang mana tiket penerbangan yang kami perolehi, iaitu Emirates, adalah yang paling kompetitif (murah). 


Bagaimana kami tahu yang ianya yang paling kompetitif?

Kami selalunya akan menyahut cabaran "jaminan price pledge" kelab percutian kami dengan membandingkan harga-harga yang ditawarkan oleh "search engine" yang lain yang ada di internet, harga tawaran di event seperti Matta Fair dan seumpamanya, dan juga harga tawaran syarikat Emirates itu sendiri. Kami "kalah" dalam trip ini kerana tidak terjumpa harga tiket penerbangan yang lebih murah. 

Selain dari mendapat harga-harga yang sangat kompetitif dari booking website kelab kami, sebahagian dari kos penginapan kami adalah "PERCUMA" kerana dibiayai oleh mata ganjaran yang dikenali sebagai "Rovia Bucks" yang dikumpulkan dari percutian-percutian sebelumnya apabila membuat tempahan melalui kelab kami. (Lebihkurang macam mendapat isian minyak kereta secara percuma apabila menjadi ahli petron dan mengisi minyak di stesen petron)

Hubungi kami sekiranya anda perlu bantuan/tips untuk merancang percutian anda!



ENGLISH VERSION

Like our previous vacation plannings, the first thing we asked ourselves was "When?". This is easy for us because we normally choose the timing during school breaks.

Secondly, "Where?" - The idea came with those places we have not visited and also by "googling" websites such as this one:-

20 awe-inspiring places


This year, after Japan's trip in April, we chose East Europe as our family vacation destination.

Google map sets the "blue-print" for our planning... (note : Dubrovnik, the original plan was diverted to Mostar during the vacation)


This first thing we finalised was the flight tickets which will set our vacation "start" and "end" dates.


And then, we will start purchasing our accommodations through out the trip. Our "base" vacation plan is set when all the required accommodations has been fixed/purchased. We will then start "fine tuning" the specific places that we wish to visit and start looking at other things such as transport, car rental, travel insurance etc.

Our almost finalised "Vacation plan" sheet will look something like this. This time it involved 4 countries in the Eastern Europe (Hungary, Austria, Croatia dan Bosnia Hezegovina, crossing Slovenia).


There could be last minutes changes, especially the specific places we want to visit and also changes during the vacation itself (like the diversion of Dubrovnik to Mostar)

As usual, we will take advantage of our WorldVentures club membership which privileges gave us, Emirates, the most competitive air-tickets we could find for this vacation.

How do we know it is the most competitive?

We always try to challenge the guarantee given by our club, "price pledge" by comparing the price offer with those provided by other booking websites available online, offers during travel fairs like the Matta Fair and also price offer by the airlines company itself. We were "unsuccessful" in our bid this time because we could not find anywhere else more competitive than the one we had got from our club.

On top of getting the most competitive price offers, some of our the accommodations we had booked from our booking website were "FREE" as they were paid for by "Rovia Bucks", the dollars we earned from our previous vacations. Roughly, it works something like fuel card membership where you earn free fuel by becoming a member and patronising the fuel station whenever you fill up fuel for your car.

Contact us if you wish to have some tips when planning your own vacations!!


3 comments:

  1. How much total expenses per person for this trip?

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  2. In RM, the return flight for 4 pax is about 10K and about 3K accommodations (consisting 5 fully equipped apartments, 1 homestay and 2 family room hotels) for the whole duration (16 nights).

    Per person is about 6.2K, but this include everything (flights, accommodations, trains tickets, transport passes, car rental, entrance passes, groceries etc including gift shopping as well).

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  3. Perkongsian yang sangat bermanfaat sebagai panduan mereka yang bercadang ke sana...

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