Suggestions for the Cheapest Way To Hong Kong???

[Robert K]

cheapest way is to swim back.

 

[NoName]

I can't believe that people are actually trying to help the extremely rude OP! Posters like this should be ignored IMHO.

Do you also find people who don't bother to read posts properly extremely rude? I do. Extremely frustrating as well.


I asked for "suggestions" about what might be the cheapest "airline or website" to look at. I didn't ask anyone to give me an exact routing and price, just a suggestion of where to look. All the extra information requested was not required to offer a simple suggestion. Saying "east coast is not specific enough" is just inflammatory. All that WAS required was "try airline x or y" or "look on website x or y".


To the several people who have provided suggestions to me it is much appreciated! Thanks for all your help!

 

[eastwest101]

... Saying "east coast is not specific enough" is just inflammatory. All that WAS required was "try airline x or y" or "look on website x or y".

First of all thanks for clarifying that you were looking for suggestions about where to look and for thanking the people whom did post suggestions. But I don't know if there is anything inflamatory about asking for a originating airport or two. You cannot possibly argue that if you lived in Cairns for instance that it is equivalent to living in Hobart or Melbourne and vice versa. Try pricing a flight from various places along the east coast to others and I think you will find that they can vary in price, and none are free, and all have connection and transfer conseqences for onwards flights to Hong Kong.

Given that you implied that cost was a consideration if you had just said that you can depart from any east coast airport as you had the freedom of choice or free flight tickets or something else then at least the people trying to assist you could feel comfortable making recommendations from particular airports. Its entirely possible that there may be members on here whom are 'guru's' at getting cheap flights from say BNE or CNS and there may be others whom are much more MEL focussed for instance. At first glance it would sort of defeat the point of getting the very best deal on flights to MEL to HKG and then paying for potentially expensive domestic airfares from your point of origin to MEL, especially considering we are talking about December here which can have very large variations on domestic and international arifares.

Maybe you would have got a better response if you had asked a question along the lines of "Is there a flight search engine that can search for cheap flights to HKG from anywhere on the east coast of australia? Or are they all relying on knowing what your originating airport is?"

 

[Fantic125]

Try any of the Asia-based carrier sites with flights that depart from the east coast of Australia.

That should narrow it down for you.

 

[drewbles]

Do you also find people who don't bother to read posts properly extremely rude? I do. Extremely frustrating as well.


I asked for "suggestions" about what might be the cheapest "airline or website" to look at. I didn't ask anyone to give me an exact routing and price, just a suggestion of where to look. All the extra information requested was not required to offer a simple suggestion. Saying "east coast is not specific enough" is just inflammatory. All that WAS required was "try airline x or y" or "look on website x or y".


To the several people who have provided suggestions to me it is much appreciated! Thanks for all your help!

Have you possibly thought about paying a few dollars and having people assist you?

Flight Search Assistance

This is exactly what this part of the forum is for.

The more information you provide, the better people will be able to assist you. Saying 'East coast' does not help, as you would obviously have to factor positioning flights in. Then, you could start encountering luggage allowance issues and bumping up the cost if flying JQ or TT with baggage add-ons to position.

"east coast" is not specific enough for people to provide you the *best* low cost option.

 

[VirginiaF]

Also consider China Southern (CZ) into Guangzhou (CAN), then the cross-border train into HKG.
(note will mean a Chinese visa/APEC card as I don't believe you can use the 72hr transit exemption unless plane-plane)

IIRC - 72 hour transit visa only applies to Beijing and Shanghai.

 

[VirginiaF]

Via Guangzhou by Southern China is probably the cheapest (about ($1K-ish on Best Flights) but then you need to add on to get to HKG), or if you really want to try something different, Scoot to SIN and then something like AirAsia to HKG. QF have a Global Sale on at the moment - no too bad - but suitability will depend on your travel dates.

 

[moa999]

IIRC - 72 hour transit visa only applies to Beijing and Shanghai.

IIRC extended to Guangzhou as of June 2013.
Visa Exemption between China and Foreign Countries, Free Access
no doubt some lobbying by China Southern to enable stopovers on the Canton Route given their substantial advertising in Australia.

 

[straitman]

Any suggestions for the cheapest flights to Hong Kong in December? What route? Airline? Website to book from? Etc?

Do you also find people who don't bother to read posts properly extremely rude? I do. Extremely frustrating as well.


I asked for "suggestions" about what might be the cheapest "airline or website" to look at. I didn't ask anyone to give me an exact routing and price, just a suggestion of where to look. All the extra information requested was not required to offer a simple suggestion. Saying "east coast is not specific enough" is just inflammatory. All that WAS required was "try airline x or y" or "look on website x or y".


To the several people who have provided suggestions to me it is much appreciated! Thanks for all your help!

NoName,

The problem here is that people like to help. You did ask for:

What route? Airline? Website to book from? Etc?"

Unless people know the starting point they cannot adequately answer either of the first two questions as not all airlines fly from all ports. As an example I depart from Melbourne normally but have travelled to Adelaide to then fly ADL-SYD-HKG as it was by far the best option. It would not have been a sensible option if I was starting from my house in Cairns.

People only started to see your posts as rude when they tried to help and you threw it back at them. In future people might not be so inclined to respond to you because of this.

Have you possibly thought about paying a few dollars and having people assist you?

Flight Search Assistance

This is exactly what this part of the forum is for.

The more information you provide, the better people will be able to assist you. Saying 'East coast' does not help, as you would obviously have to factor positioning flights in. Then, you could start encountering luggage allowance issues and bumping up the cost if flying JQ or TT with baggage add-ons to position.

"east coast" is not specific enough for people to provide you the *best* low cost option.

As drewbles suggests the Flight Search Assistance option may be better for you in future.

 

[NoName]

Again, the key word is SUGGESTION. That means an answer like "try this" is sufficient and I can take the search from there and I can be the judge of whether any of the suggestions are appropriate from my starting point. I appreciate that people want to help but a detailed analysis of options wasn't what I was asking for. If you or others aren't as inclined to help next time that is your prerogative.

Thank you for the paid search suggestion. I was not aware of its existence. It certainly looks very useful and something worth utilising.

I will not be returning to this thread to discuss this any further. Once again, thanks to those who have offered their SUGGESTIONS on where I might search.

 

[medhead]

Maybe you would have got a better response if you had asked a question along the lines of "Is there a flight search engine that can search for cheap flights to HKG from anywhere on the east coast of australia? Or are they all relying on knowing what your originating airport is?"

We don't even need to know HKG in order to offer suggestions on where to search for cheap flights.

Again, the key word is SUGGESTION. That means an answer like "try this" is sufficient and I can take the search from there and I can be the judge of whether any of the suggestions are appropriate from my starting point. I appreciate that people want to help but a detailed analysis of options wasn't what I was asking for. If you or others aren't as inclined to help next time that is your prerogative.

Thank you for the paid search suggestion. I was not aware of its existence. It certainly looks very useful and something worth utilising.

I will not be returning to this thread to discuss this any further. Once again, thanks to those who have offered their SUGGESTIONS on where I might search.

I don't know what is so hard here. You asked for suggestions of much more than just where to search. You asked for route and airline. Starting point is required to provide a suggestion about route.

Suggestions can be based on the starting point without providing detailed analysis of options. You started the thread, you mentioned the destination, how about showing a bit of grace when people try to help. If you just want a search engine for cheap flights you sure as hell don't need to start a thread.

But here is a suggestion - Always book with Flight Centre, they have a lowest price guarantee.

Anyway, take your bat and ball and off you go.

 

[FrankC]

Maybe try scoot & tiger, besides air asia

 

[niiiiiiiiiik]

Wow. My jaw has dropped. Can't believe the attitude given by noname. Please... Keep your word and don't come back!

Kudos to the people who did try to help him/her!

 

[burmans]

Had to laugh at this thread. Here's someone who offers nothing themselves, wants people to help them but doesn't seem to want to assist them in helping them, ggets upset with the outcome and thinks it's their fault. Stuuning self-obsessive IMO and really not sure why people bothered but does make a fascinating case stufy on how self interested some are (and how some want to help regardless).

 

[will2rob]

I will not be returning to this thread to discuss this any further.

Promise? Somehow, I don't think too many will be that cut up with that statement.

 

[will2rob]

Looks like the OP has form for this:

http://www.australianfrequentflyer....likely-cheapst-airfares-50415.html#post823495