Many thanks for all the comments!
Originally Posted by
jpatokal
One question though regarding the above: why did you reject Etihad, Qatar and Emirates, but accept Oman? AFAIK it's the worst of the lot by a fairly wide margin, and since you had a flexible ticket and apparently no prepaid reservations etc in Thailand (?), it would have seemed to me that the easiest course of action would just have been to take the free hotel, spend a day in Bahrain, and fly out the next day.
I didn't write that section particularly well I'm afraid. I suggested Etihad, Qatar and Emirates to the Gulf Air staff but they refused to put us on any of those carriers. Oman Air was the only one they would offer.
The reason I went for Oman before I was overruled was because we did have pre paid reservations in Koh Lanta. In the end we only lost one prepaid night which in the grand scheme of things was hardly worth worrying about.
