Lady behind the counter: Going to Kuala Lumpur? That flight is delayed and will not leave until noon, what is your final destination?
Us: Ho Chi Minh City, eh Saigon.
AirAsia lady: Oh, you will probably not be able to make it there today. We only have one more flight to Saigon today and there are only three seats left. You have three options: You can choose to cancel your flight with us, get your money back and book a new one. You can fly tomorrow instead or we can try and get you seats on the next plane from KL to Saigon.
Not really what you want to hear when you got up in the middle of the night to catch the flight at sixish.
We had already booked and paid for the first two nights in Saigon and didn't feel like rebooking everything again, so we decided to see if they could get us on the next available flight.
So we had to wait for the AirAsia sales rep, which took forever. But when he eventually came, he managed to book us on the evening flight to Saigon and as it was we arrived in Vietnam only four hours later than planned.
Arriving at the hotel, we were told that there had been an overbooking and we would have to spend the first night in another hotel. Luckily, it was not very far away and we were way to tired to mind it not having any windows. The breakfast was great though! A buffet of very tasty Vietnamese specialties and pho made to order.
The room we had booked, at the Cinnamon Hotel, was really much nicer than the one they had put us in the first night, as we discovered the following afternoon and as an apology from the hotel management, we got one free foot massage each.
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| Cinnamon Hotel - our room with balcony and towel turtles... :) |
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| The towels were arranged as animals, a different one everyday. Just one of the really nice features of the hotel! |
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