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Availability isn't great - can only see until first week of May.
Usual ME risk.

Thanks!

And TUN-JED-BKK rt for €920 is also still there (See)

Hi dear team.
Cairo to Bangkok is cheaper and has a shorter layover. If you book with SV it is 895€. But have a connection in the middle of the night from and to Paris...
Tunis to Bangkok is 200€ more and with a long layover, but it has a lot of connections to and from Paris...
But those are solid BC discounts (< 40€/ hour of J flight) and SV is a part of ST, easy for XP runs....
See you J travellers

CAI-JED is Medium so only 15 XP per direction while TUN (and formerly CMN when the cheap fares were offered from there) is Long 1 for 24.

Congrats on making your first post and almost taking 5 years to make it. Hope you can contribute more frequently.

Booked it !
A quick first-time trip to Thailand, departing from TUN on April 30th (SV366 + SV844), and returning on May 9th (SV847 + SV365).

I'll be positioning from Paris with Transvia (TO8336 on the April 30th) and returning on May 11th with TO8859.

I'm looking for advice on where to go in Thailand that has beautiful beaches and very few French people aha.

Considering I have a 11h30 overnight layover on the return, do you think it would be worthwhile to apply for a transit visa and explore Jeddah?

Jeddah's heating up. While you can still find delightfully temperate evenings, generally it's already uncomfortable at night. Probably not a good opportunity to explore, especially with jetlag and carry on bags to deal with.

In any case your body will probably thank you for finding a hotel room. The in-terminal Aerotel (myaerotel.com) is super-convenient, and if you book six hours it's going to be around EUR100. Close to the airport, the Clarion is probably cheaper: it comes recommended by friends because of a free shuttle service to/from the airport: maybe they were lucky, I'd certainly budget for having to take an Uber in at least one direction.

You could always tough it out in the lounge. If you get there in time you can join the anti-socials and spread yourself out across seats/sofas and try for some shut-eye

I'll bite!
Don't know about the French but many Swedes and Finns, amazing beaches and day trips, super mellow vibe: Koh Lanta island

Or take domestic flight to Krabi and stay at Railay beach for quiet nights stay

Decided to go to Ko Tao, not the most secret one but I managed to find a remote villa that should bring me that 'slow life' that I'm craving for !
I will document the journey of course !

Saudia is now restricting lounge access. Apparently its a new policy. Absolutely Bullcaca. can only enter for 3 hours, 4 hours before flight. You will have to find a spot in the gen pop to wait out your time or use the paid lounge if they finished renovations.... just found that out in February... Had to have a long Karen moment to convince the lounge manager to let me in. I REITERATED THAT THIS IS THE ITINERARY THEY SELL.... THERE IS NO SHORTER CONNECTION AVAILABLE... SO THAT'S ON THEM TO OFFER MORE CONNECTIONS, OR ALLOW ACCESS. But good luck.. I have a career in argumentation... and it was a close to fisty cuffs, before I finally convinced staff to let me and all others on the same itinerary in. Yes I fight for all, not just myself.. it might have helped my argument that I had a crowd behind me (literally and figuratively) to represent and add more weightto my cause...

This sounds like Saudia is wrongly interpreting the lounge access rule SkyTeam in the last year implemented from what I am reading/understading.
Yes, it is restricted to 3 hours before your flight at the departure airport, but there should be no restrictions at the transit/connecting airport. Maybe someone should bring/prepare this ruling from SkyTeam when travelling on such long layover situations.

Cheers!

This is exactly what I did when I faced the same situation last November in Riyadh on my way to Bangkok.The first agent I talked to was not willing to argue and I did not have the Skyteam policy at hand, so I went away and came back a bit later after having found the new Skyteam lounge access rules. There was a new agent, and he let us in after I showed him the Skyteam rules, without having to argue too much.
Same long layover on the way back, I was prepared to show the Skyteam rules but we were let in without any question.

I thought that this was a one time issue due to some agents not being properly trained with the new rules, but this is concerning if it still happens a few months later, especially as I'm going to have another long layover in Jeddah in a few days

Thanks for this - picked up TUN-JED-DPS for €772 o/w in J; 60 XP. Bookable on short notice - I booked 8 days out.

A great way to get to Australia btw, especially in the current climate. Reposition EU to TUN for about €200 in Y then pick up a Jetstar from DPS for about A$200, with a night or two in Bali thrown in