This has been a long delayed post. The trip came about when Air Asia X first launched their KL-Paris service on the 14th February 2011. If I was not mistaken, tickets started selling in October 2010 and we (Justin and Lotus) kinda mulled about going. However, we didn't immediately buy it on the opening day. It was after a few days, over dinner that we agreed to go ahead and purchase the tickets.
We snagged the return tickets for about RM1,200 each inclusive of taxes. Not a bad deal considering it cost me about RM5k return when I last visited using MH. Our travel dates are in early May.
Of course, with such a long wait, we didn't do much early preparation. Only with my sister's advice did we planned and booked our accommodation at a B&B place by November because May will be the start of the peak season.
Lotus bought a guide book but we were too busy before the trip to read much. I only managed to flip thru and marked out the important places we planned to visit.
On that day itself, the flight was full and surprisingly, most of the passengers were Caucasians, and not holiday making Malaysians. Anyway, check-in went without a hitch. The purchased extra luggage load wasn't even necessary.
While the seats feel slightly narrower then normal MH economy flight, but generally they are as comfortable….for a 12 hours flight.
Note: Unfortunately, AirAsia X decided to discontinue their KL-Paris flights from March 2012 onwards due to high fuel cost
Photos courtesy of Justin Lim
We snagged the return tickets for about RM1,200 each inclusive of taxes. Not a bad deal considering it cost me about RM5k return when I last visited using MH. Our travel dates are in early May.
Of course, with such a long wait, we didn't do much early preparation. Only with my sister's advice did we planned and booked our accommodation at a B&B place by November because May will be the start of the peak season.
Lotus bought a guide book but we were too busy before the trip to read much. I only managed to flip thru and marked out the important places we planned to visit.
On that day itself, the flight was full and surprisingly, most of the passengers were Caucasians, and not holiday making Malaysians. Anyway, check-in went without a hitch. The purchased extra luggage load wasn't even necessary.
While the seats feel slightly narrower then normal MH economy flight, but generally they are as comfortable….for a 12 hours flight.
Note: Unfortunately, AirAsia X decided to discontinue their KL-Paris flights from March 2012 onwards due to high fuel cost
Photos courtesy of Justin Lim
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