Diving in Thailand pt.2

Ah, so the bookings are complete! My counterpart, Keith, and I have our flights booked. (Not a fun or cheap process btw)

Our hotel and dive shop have also been booked. We will be staying at the Baan Suay hotel at Karon beach in Phuket. Looks like a nice enough place. It was recommended by a dive master that lives in Thailand; the same dive master that did the Thailand bookings for us.

The dive shop we will be at is called Dive Asia. I am pretty excited about this place, as it comes highly recommended by a few people and on a bunch of diving forums I read.

We will be leaving here May 23rd and will be getting back June 2nd (and have to work that day). Be prepared for a flood of pictures next month.

-Aaron Jones-

Image courtesy of Whale-Shark.org

Diving in Thailand pt.1

After much research on flight plans, I finally figured out the flight plan to get to Thailand and back. This would have been much easier if we didn't make like, five stops. Trying to coordinate the takeoff/landing times from one stop to another, without having to sit in the airport for ten hours was a quite the challenge.

The flights go something like this:

To Thailand
Fri RDU@6:40am -> LAX@10:53am
Fri LAX@3:15pm -> BKK@1:05am (+2 days)
Sun BKK@7:30am -> HKT@8:50am

To USA
Sun HKT@7:25am -> BKK@8:50am
Sun BKK@1:30pm -> LAX@8:05pm
Sun LAX@10:00pm -> RDU@9:05am (+1 day)

Our flight comes back Monday morning and we have to work that day. That should be fun. I think I save the most money this way. I also asked a couple travel agencies to price flights for us. Hopefully they come up with something cheaper.

-Aaron Jones-