OK, I have submitted another request at hoteltravel.com for a different hotel (the O'Tai) on the original planned dates for Easter Island (end of March). hoteltravel.com doesn't seem to do online reservations, at least for any of the Easter Island hotels, instead they get in touch manually, so I won't know if the booking has gone through until tomorrow. I am not overly optimistic they will have a room but WTF, it's worth a try.
(I did a fresh check on expedia.co.uk to see that flights were still available at a reasonable price, rather than trust the saved itinerary, after what happened earlier with the Santiago-Punta Arenas flights. They are. I assume they won't soar madly in the next 24 hours.)
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Showing posts with label plans preparation easter island. Show all posts
Friday, 29 January 2010
A quiet night in
I've decided to be good and have a quiet night in tonight. It seems a bit of a waste, but I guess I can't go out every night and it's the weekend tomorrow night so I will want to be out then.
I don't know why, but it just hit me as I was posting the wafflings from the Sao Paulo Marriott that I was in Sao Paulo yesterday morning. Somehow I find that hard to be believe, it seems much longer ago.
It probably goes without saying that it seems like I've been on the trip for a lot more than the two weeks it has really been.
I keep thinking about just how much this is costing me. I'm sure it'll be OK but a few hundred quid on flights here and a few hotels at the £60/70 level there (as is unavoidable in some places, e.g. Punta Arenas, unless you go really budget and stay in a hostel or something) adds up. Oh well. I read that you're supposed to get more pleasure out of spending money on experiences than things, which I suppose justifies me. And of course the actual expenses of the trip pale into insignificance compared with the lost earnings from not actually working.
Been having a quick fiddle to see if I can find a way to go to Easter Island after all. The problem is that I expedia.co.uk only seems to have one hotel listed there, and although I thought I had a website which listed five or so of the big ones, I can't remember what it was. It might have been agoda.co.uk, but I just tried them and they said (for some dates I was trying) 'we have no hotels available in Easter Island for these dates', whereas I'm sure before I could see all the different hotels listed even if they had no availability.
I don't know why, but it just hit me as I was posting the wafflings from the Sao Paulo Marriott that I was in Sao Paulo yesterday morning. Somehow I find that hard to be believe, it seems much longer ago.
It probably goes without saying that it seems like I've been on the trip for a lot more than the two weeks it has really been.
I keep thinking about just how much this is costing me. I'm sure it'll be OK but a few hundred quid on flights here and a few hotels at the £60/70 level there (as is unavoidable in some places, e.g. Punta Arenas, unless you go really budget and stay in a hostel or something) adds up. Oh well. I read that you're supposed to get more pleasure out of spending money on experiences than things, which I suppose justifies me. And of course the actual expenses of the trip pale into insignificance compared with the lost earnings from not actually working.
Been having a quick fiddle to see if I can find a way to go to Easter Island after all. The problem is that I expedia.co.uk only seems to have one hotel listed there, and although I thought I had a website which listed five or so of the big ones, I can't remember what it was. It might have been agoda.co.uk, but I just tried them and they said (for some dates I was trying) 'we have no hotels available in Easter Island for these dates', whereas I'm sure before I could see all the different hotels listed even if they had no availability.
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