Some Stats

By popagandhi | Published: 22 March, 2006

Number of Mumbai-based travel agents called: 25

Number of Mumbai-based travel agents that picked up: 2

Amount of time spent on hold on IDD: can’t bear to think about it

Cost of one way ticket BOM-SIN on Jet Airways/Indian Airlines: 10300 rupees

Cost of one way ticket BOM-SIN on Singapore Airlines: 10800 rupees (S$394) Guess which flight I’m hopping on?

Number of vacancies left for _any_ train ride from now through May: worryingly little

Amount of time spent on IRCTC website trying to book my tickets: 6 hours

Number of times spent trying to make one transaction before giving up: 6

Average booking procedure: book… communication error… book… server not responding… book… pay… blank page… login error…

Number of times they charged my card without confirming my ticket: don’t want to think about it

Best suggestion ever for a travel documentary I could host: (according to Kaini, the woman who nursed me back to health the last time we were there) “the diseases, injuries and illnesses you will be recovering from in India”

Number of weeks left to project/paper deadlines: 1

Number of weeks left to final exams: 3

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  • iconoplastic
    Nice, if you need to info(travel stuff) I could help..
  • Ranj
    :) INteresting one this! How about the rail tickets from Kolkata? Lemme know...
  • travelling is such a hassle, but when it's good, it's real good.
  • popagandhi
    last leg of my trip before going back to mumbai (or bangalore) to catch a flight home. by all estimates, that'll be sometime like 8th May or 15th May (not exactly the best time to visit, but my partner insists). or something like it, depending on where we'll be before that. (we're coming from west bengal into the hills then uttar pradesh and rajasthan.. which also all depends then on which trains we manage to get on, which also all depends on.. sigh.)
  • When are you visiting Goa?
  • popagandhi
    glad to be of help to you. email me if you need any more help (i just did some Goa research for myself, see, coz i'm going there too. also have some hotel info if you need) you better book now tho, jetstarasia's cheap promo to india is supposedly ending soon. and the faster you book deccan flights, the cheaper it is. try flying deccan on mondays or tuesdays, usually cheapest flights then.

    one way travel: guess it's an arrangement that works out for some travellers and the budget airlines. instead of paying extra for frills and all that, some travellers have the option of flying out of another city without extra charge or limitations of air ticket dates. this time i'm flying a budget airline into kolkata but coming back from bombay on singapore airlines!

    and even though budget airlines are not much cheaper than full fare airlines on some routes, like SIN-BKK, i always fly with them coz the full fare airlines all need you to return within 14 days, and in that 14 days i'm likely to be somewhere else other than bangkok.

    johnny: heh. thanks for trying anyway.
  • godseNOT
    hi Popagandhi,

    gee, you ought to start a biz advising travel virgins on how to lose their travel cherry. you iz good!!

    very likely in mid april
    with my partner.

    now, we r likely gonna take the jetstarasia and then the air deccan route,
    and its all thanks to your help


    just a query on buget airlines,

    why do they advertise one-way travel, i mean dont people wanna get back home from wherever they were gone to?


    Gandhi would be proud of you
    godseNOT
  • Number of consecutive successful booking to make Popagandhi turn straight: 6

    Look on Popagandhi's face when the fella actually pulls it off: Priceless.


    Un/fortunately, it was not to be. 8D
  • LTH
    thought you might get a kick out of this, if you haven't already seen it. i know i did!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/cortifilippo/tags/miramarhighschool2006ibook/
  • lisaaaaa
    with Z isnt it ? :) love your blog.
  • popagandhi
    almost did.. but found someone else.
  • abc123
    are u going alone to india?
  • popagandhi
    fly jetstar asia to bangalore return then take the train to goa.

    Bangalore to Goa, Tues and Sundays
    Train 7309 YPR VASCO EXP Bangalore (Yesvantpur) 15:15, Goa (Madgaon) 04:53
    or
    Train 7311 MAS VASCO EXP Bangalore 21:30 Goa 11:43 (fridays only)

    Goa to bangalore: Monday and Saturdays
    Train 7310 Goa (Madgaon) 20:50, Bangalore (Yesvantpur) 11:00

    2A = Rs 1131
    3A = Rs 726
    SL = Rs 268

    2A is 2nd tier aircon, 3A is third tier aircon, SL is sleeper class (for more info on train classes "see this":http://www.seat61.com/India.htm)

    Use "this site":http://www.indianrail.gov.in/inet_srcdest_names.html to find out availability and times and fares then "book here":http://www.irctc.co.in/ --
    query for yesvantpur to madgaon

    you can break up your trip by going banglore-hampi then hampi-goa
    or the other way

    alternatively, fly "Air Deccan":http://www.airdeccan.net/ for Bangalore-Goa-Bangalore for less than S$100 one way.

    when're you going to Goa?
  • godseNOT
    specifically i wanna get from sin to goa, by air, cheapest way possible.

    any advise is appreciated

    godseNOT
  • godseNOT
    hi,

    i am a travel virgin, hope you can help me

    I took a look at some of the budget airline sites,

    most of em have one-way promos.
    which seem better than buying return.

    question is, how do u manage, do you book one-way on budget airlines, and upon reaching ur destination, book the flight back to SIN? or do you just take up the return tickets?

    advise appreciated and your site is interesting :)

    godseNOT
  • popagandhi
    Was that Jetstar or Jet Airways?

    Jet is not by any stretch a budget airline... it's an indian airline that's rather expensive. :)
  • Hey, it turns out Jet Airways is really not that bad an airline! I flew them for my first time a couple of months back and must say I enjoyed it. Its a "budget airline", without the budget feel.

    Only caveat in my opinion, was the recommended method of having a life-jacket: use your seat!
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