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Steve,
Was it a Vietnamese travel agency ? I can send info over for a few Vietnamese travel agencies if needed. They are familar as they do bookings via email/mail for the Vietnamese 'bumbs' that hang out in VN for months at a time. <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ORDSteve: Thanks for all the info. I called Vietnam in San Francisco and they put me in touch with a travel agent here in Los Angeles. They were pretty useless tho, as they couldn't book me the flights to Siem Reap. I have come to the conclusion that it is easier to wait till arrival in SGN to buy the tickets (and cheaper too) but I am travelling with the wife and we have a tight schedule. Hence my trepidation to show up over there empty handed.</font> |
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by StudentExplorer: Finally, just my .02, but I don't think the other poster was attacking you. After all, you were the one to use the "hmmmmm" in your response to my post. [This message has been edited by StudentExplorer (edited 11-06-2003).]</font> i'm sure if one asks nicely to the travel agent they booked the SQ tick with, they will include the Asean Pass - or re-ticket it.. [This message has been edited by ajinlondon (edited 11-10-2003).] |
I have recently been flying VN- I strongly suggest buying your tickets once in Asia. For example, domestic VN flights outside Vietnam are priced at twice the price than if you would just buy the ticket at the airport. VN now has direct service to LAX and SFO so you might try calling their offices, but again smartest is to wait until you are there. The walk-up fare is not necessarily more expensive the way it is here.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Elena: I have recently been flying VN- I strongly suggest buying your tickets once in Asia. For example, domestic VN flights outside Vietnam are priced at twice the price than if you would just buy the ticket at the airport. VN now has direct service to LAX and SFO so you might try calling their offices, but again smartest is to wait until you are there. The walk-up fare is not necessarily more expensive the way it is here. </font> |
Just bumping this thread up since I also called the Vietnam Airlines office in SF the other day. I believe that domestic VN fares are actually (slightly) cheaper if purchased in the USA since they don't charge tax. At least that was what the agent told me, and it appears to be accurate based on some of the other research I have been doing. Also, I believe domestic fares have actually gone down recently, with HAN-SGN pricing out at only ~$100 these days, while regional ASEAN fares haven't.
FWIW, I haven't been able to find any discounted domestic fares on VN, even for roundtrip fares which essentially equal two one-ways. As a a result, the HAN-REP return (at ~$194 each way) that I have been looking at costs only slightly less than a HAN-SGN-REP-HAN fare (~$405). Heck, if that is the case, I essentially get a free stopover in SGN, and get to see how things have changed in the past 10 years. |
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