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TAR 19 Locations/Destinations **Spoilers**
Prophet:
They had already made a lot of stops on this journey. WRP rarely plans that many stopovers.
Jogja > Jakarta > Bangkok > Phuket > Koh Samui seems unlikely. BTW where did the Koh Samui spec come from anyway?
theschnauzers:
--- Quote ---Koh Samui spec come from anyway?
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As I understand it, there's a belief that because that was where last season's ES was, that TPTB would be using it again because of the location of the first five or so eliminations. It is also speculation.
I'm not persuaded that Phuket is or isn't a TAR location this time around; we'll have to wait and see what solid information emerges, and when.
mds1978:
--- Quote from: Prophet on June 25, 2011, 02:36:55 PM ---They had already made a lot of stops on this journey. WRP rarely plans that many stopovers.
Jogja > Jakarta > Bangkok > Phuket > Koh Samui seems unlikely.
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Do a flight search yourself and see what you come up with. Nearly every flight out of Jogya is to Jakarta or another city in Indonesia. There's one to Kuala Lumpor, but even that one would still go through Phuket. Any flight from Jakarta will involve stops, and the ones that go through Phuket are hundreds of dollars cheaper than those that go directly from Bangkok to Ko Samui. See my post above for an example.
Chateau d If:
--- Quote from: mds1978 on June 25, 2011, 02:33:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: Chateau d If on June 25, 2011, 02:18:21 PM ---I think Neobie's point is that why would you fly from Bangkok to Phuket and then continue to Koh Samui when you could have just got straight from BKK to Koh Samui?
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For the same reasons I have to fly through Chicago or Denver to get to New York, even though I could go straight from LAX to NYC on a nonstop flight.
-availability
-price
-convenience/departure times
Of course we'd all love to fly nonstop whenever it's an option, but often times we don't for any or all of the above reasons. Production doesn't have an unlimited budget and the nonstop flights from Phuket to Ko Samui are very cheap ($89).
ETA:
Here's an example to illustrate my point. Flight search for a one way ticket from Jakarta to Ko Samui departing later this week:
$664 is cheapest option, and all flights with this price are via Phuket
$995 is the price to fly through Bangkok (!!) and this itinerary would be ~6.5 hours, only around two hours shorter than the cheaper option through Phuket (~8.5 hours)
I think if WRP could save $1000 by having a team and one production person take the first option, it makes perfect sense.
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That's odd ?
I get a routing from Jakarta to BKK to Koh Sumui for $974 that looks like this
Thai Airways – Flight 434 3h 30m
Take-off Fri 12:35p CGK Jakarta, Indonesia
Landing Fri 4:05p BKK Bangkok, Thailand
Coach | Airbus A330-300 (Wide-body Jet) | 3h 30m | 1444 miles
Connection BKK Bangkok, Thailand 4h 55m
Bangkok Airways – Flight 199 1h 00m
Take-off Fri 9:00p BKK Bangkok, Thailand
Landing Fri 10:00p USM Ko Samui, Thailand
Coach | Airbus A319 (Narrow-body Jet) | 1h 00m
And the only routes that do include Phuket also happen to go through KUL and those are coming in at $664. They look like this:
Malaysia Airlines – Flight 710 2h 00m
Take-off Fri 11:10a CGK Jakarta, Indonesia
Landing Fri 2:10p KUL Sepang, Malaysia
Coach | Boeing 737-800 (Narrow-body Jet) | 2h 00m
Connection KUL Sepang, Malaysia
3h 00m
Malaysia Airlines – Flight 790 1h 15m
Take-off Fri 5:10p KUL Sepang, Malaysia
Landing Fri 5:25p HKT Phuket, Thailand
Coach | Boeing 737-400 (Narrow-body Jet) | 1h 15m
Connection HKT Phuket, Thailand
1h 40m
Bangkok Airways – Flight 258 0h 55m
Take-off Fri 7:05p HKT Phuket, Thailand
Landing Fri 8:00p USM Ko Samui, Thailand
Coach | Aerospatiale/Alenia ATR 72 (Turbo-prop Plane) | 0h 55m
But since we know the racers were spotted on a flight from BKK and not from KUL we can conlude that they were not continuing to Koh Sumui.
LoveRocked:
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