Originally Posted by
jiejie
You, from NY, find Beijing in September unforgiving with heat and humidity? Seriously? Yet you give Thailand a free pass on this? (I do agree that rainy season in Thailand is not that bad.)
Maybe it was because I was wearing suits in PEK? I remember smog and heat and people spitting ... and never being dry.
BTW: There is no Air Asia flight to Tianjin anymore. Air Asia moved its operations to Beijing airport in 2012. There never was a BKK to Tianjin flight, only KUL to TSN which necessitated another BKK-TSN flight to connect, and at bad times. The cost profile of Air Asia flights on this route, for an LCC, are usually not favorable.
You are correct. I absolutely had a senior moment on that one. I remember getting my VISA in BKK, but now do recall that I flew out of KUL.
Thank you for correcting my bad-bad advice. ^
I stand by my previous comments, with only two weeks to spend, the most cost- and time-effective plan is to pick one or the other. Regardless of whether you plan to ever visit Asia again or not. Two weeks in Thailand is enough to weave in a trip over to Cambodia's Angkor complex, particularly if you forego the beach.
Any itinerary that includes REP is a winner! Seriously, I can not overstate how much I recommend Angkor Wat. It was perhaps the most lovely experience from my time in SEA.