No more hidden charges!

This is not a spoof entry of someone famous. It is NOT. NOT I say.

The thing I love about living in Thailand, is that what you see, if what you pay and what you get.

Unlike Starbucks back home, go to any coffee shop, say, Doi Tung Coffee (spotted in Hua Hin).


Doi Tung is like Starbucks to the Thais, they serve cheaper and really nice coffee and ice chocolate.


And order a cup of ice chocolate, like I always do in Starbucks Malaysia.




The menu says large cost 65 baht (around RM6.90).

So I would take out 50 baht note, 10 and 5 baht coins and place it on the counter.

When the cashier cash in the payment, it is exactly 65 baht, no extra charges. No tax, no service charge. 65 baht means 65 baht.


No wonder the Thais like to say “Same same”


As a traveler, I hate it when I have to stretch my budget further by accommodating myself to these hidden charges everywhere, it hits you when you least expected. It’s annoying you know.

Hence, the one pet peeve I have when booking a flight is to do research on the cheapest flight to a certain country and have to go through all the hassle of finding out what is the full fare even when it displayed clearly to your face on the main screen that it’s RM0.90 one way flight to Tawau.

I mean, doesn’t that get to you? Almost every month I have to spend hours, sometimes DAYS just to look for the cheapest flight available, on different flights, on different dates, even on different location to land in that country!!




Do you know how much work that can come up to?

With so many different airlines around the world, you are easily looking at 5 to the power of 10 times of clicking!

It doesn’t help that whenever one has to go through 90% of the booking process just to find out what is the EXACT pricing of that flight?!

Baggage fee la, insurance fee la, airport tax la, fuel surcharge la~ bloody hell!! All the hidden charges and before you know it, what was RM1 flight turned out to be a RM126483xxoo worth of flight.

ARGH!!!

Which is why MAS is great! When you try to search for a flight on their booking engine, they don’t show you the flight fee alone, they show you the All-inclusive low fares.

That means that when you search for a flight and confirm, it will automatically show you the final price of the flight inclusive of all taxes.

So convenient ok!!

That’s so easy to compare prices between destinations!! I did all these three searches for the full fare (from KL to Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane) in less than 1 minute!! That includes the time took hesitating between the dates!

1 minute!!! Can you believe it?!

Can you imagine how many flights I can research up to in an HOUR?!

Recently, they are pushing this MAS All-inclusive Low Fares Campaign which means instead of advertising a flight to Langkawi …

"from RM0.99 one way"
*not inclusive of taxes and surcharges.

they will advertise
"from RM63 one way"
*inclusive of taxes and surcharges.


Personally I think this is sending the most honest advertising message to all travelers!

According to their press release, MAS took a step further by slashing their Low Fares by a further 50-73% on domestic and ASEAN destinations. Imagine, from RM63 nett to fly to Penang, land of food food food.




Or even RM734 nett to Melbourne for all the gorgeous wineries and vineyards – those sweet unlimited wine. Mmm…




You don’t have to be afraid of what might be hiding underneath that pretty RM0.99 one way ticket anymore, which would be another RM123 for fuel surcharge, RM35 airport tax, etc. UGHH.

Oh, you know what? Flying to Bangkok is only RM149 nett on my birthday!!!!!!




OMFG!!!! SO CHEAP!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!!! COME CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY WITH ME IN BANGKOK!!

I’M SERIOUS!

DON’T MAKE ME COME BACK AND GET YOU.