Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turkey. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Another flight price error booked & honored, Toronto-Paris round-trip for $300 CAD/person

Friday Sep 18
AirCanada.com had a price error of missing the carrier surcharge (about $450/ticket) to their Europe destinations

It started about 1 pm, ended around 2 pm (lasted only 1 hour and so), but I managed to book YYZ-CDG round-trip, $1000 CAD for 4 of us, for March 2016 (it'll be 6-11C in Paris, oh well)
By the time I try to book for May 2016 ($50 extra per person), AC already fixed the error, but they came out same day on Twitter to say they'll honor the tickets

I can't believe it still happens, but this is price error #4 for us in the last 2 years already!!!
I don't need to plan any trips ahead now (besides the annual summer back to Taiwan), I'll just let price errors dictate where we will go in future. I need more vacation days!!

None of these destinations below were on my soon-to-visit lists, but I am glad to have visited Italy (loved it), Seoul (so-so), Turkey (so-so), Dubai, and finally, Paris!!!

2014

  • Wideroe - NYC-Milan Italy $300/person
  • Delta - YYZ-ICN $500/person, booked for 2015 April
  • Aeroplan stopover error - YYZ-IST in Business for 50K miles/person instead of 105K, for 2015 May
  • Etihad JFK-AUH $200/person, booked for 2015 Nov


2015

  • Air Canada - YYZ-CDG $300/person, booked for 2016


Saturday, July 04, 2015

TRIP - 土耳其之旅 Turkey (Istanbul, Antalya, Pamukkale) 2015.05

We visited Turkey only because of Aeroplan price error on Halloween 2014 (For business class on Turkish airlines, we paid 50K miles per person instead of 105K for N.A. to Europe 2)

TK: YYZ-YUL-IST, IST-ORD-YYZ

May 15-25, 2015

We visited

  • ISTANBUL
    • TOPKAPI PALACE
    • BLUE MOSQUE (SULTANAHMET MOSQUE)
    • HAGIA SOPHIA
    • Taksim
    • Kadikoy (Istanbul Asia)
    • Bosphorus Cruise 12TL
    • Egypt/Spice Bazzar
    • People everywhere, especially near Eminonu/docks
  • ANTALYA
    • Old town (Kaleici) is very relaxing, unique, and we loved it
    • The harbour is very beautiful from atop
    • Boat tour - so so, nothing too exciting. 
  • PAMUKKALE
    • Super super hot
    • See & walk the white cotton castle (Pamukkale), too bad there aren't too many water pools
    • Very touristy but people are nice in general


感想
  • 土耳其人非常熱情 尤其