Should I cancel my booking?


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Hi guys,

I am in a little dilemma and hope you guys can give me some priceless advices/suggestions.

Couple of months ago, I booked a holiday trip to Bangkok leaving on the 18th of December 2008. Due to all the confusion now, I may need to make some changes to my plans.

My airline is pretty flexible so that is not an issue. The problem is with the hotel i booked at Bangkok. I booked the hotel via asiarooms.com. If i were to make the cancellation now, I will get my full refund (SGD$178) but I will have to pay 20USD (About SGD$35) penalty.

If i were to wait longer, I was informed by asiarooms.com that it will depend on the hotel if they will do a full refund back for me. So i hope to get some advices from you guys what I should do now.

Do you think things will probably be better by 18 DEC 2008? Or should i go ahead and make the cancellation now?

Your help is very much appreciated! Thanks!

Don

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Don't count on it, tension are growing and actually airliners sending empty planes to pick up passengers ( they using military airport). The planes that were parked in international airport were allowed to leave empty yesterday. Bangkok said it will take a week after protest to get airport back on track. Cancel it, don't risk it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...E4B00M820081201

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I think you will have to pay the cancellation fee, as the hotel has nothing to do with the airport.

Maybe they will let you re-arrange the hotel dates??

Thats the problem with booking things separately, you don't get much protection if things go wrong.

Theres something i heard, if an Airline cancels flights you can take the booking paperwork to another company ie thompson's and book with them and they'll sue the previous company for the cost, but i might be wrong on details so dont quote me.

Lots of helpful info about flights here.

http://www.ajc.com/travel/content/travel/o...ravel_0511.html

http://www.forbes.com/2008/04/09/travel-ca...0409travel.html

Thanks for everyone's response and suggestions... I think i should just cancel the trip and just pay the 20 USD penalty.

Matteo: Yeah.. its just 20USD. And i am a full time student and not working hence money doesn't come around much.. .heh.. therefore feeling the pinch.

Looks like they left the airport already. What do you guys reckon?

I also heard from my local news that the airport will most likely open again on 13th December. My holiday is on the 18th.

Let it put it this way, if you feel that you will be in danger, don't go, but if you think everything will be all right then go. :)

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