Emirates, Hell on Sky

Hi,

  Here’s my horrible travel experience with Emirates and I am definitely not travelling in Emirates again FOR SURE,

12^th Oct 2018 (EK 148)

• I had my flight booked for India via Dubai at 15:20 
• I reached airport 3 hours earlier to find out that it has been delayed and new scheduled time is 18:30 (Delay of more than 3 hours)
• I was given 15 euros for food and that’s it.
• Due to this delay I was definite to miss my connecting flight and I was told that I will only find out about my connecting flight once I reach Dubai.
• I went shopping at duty free and bought 2 Ltr of Liquor.
• Around 18:00 Emirates started issuing the boarding passes to the adjusted next flights, mine was at 13:45 on 13^th Oct 2018, 12 hours later then my originally scheduled connection.
• Flight took off only at 19:00 from Schiphol

13^th Oct 2018 (EK 566 @ 13:45, Original EK 564 @ 03:20)

• ·       Flight landed at 03:00
• ·       We were all given hotels and we were given transportation to hotel, all good so far
• ·       Morning I got ready to go to the airport
• ·       Reached Airport at around 12:00
• ·       I was stopped at security for carrying 2 ltr liquor, not because of the country but permissible limit is 100 ml
• ·       I told I am transit passenger but I was shooed away from security.
• ·       I went to Emirates counter and I was told following,
•    Why did you go out ?
•    You are not allowed to carry more than 100 ml in plane
•    We can’t do anything in this
•    You should have known

I should have known. How? Do you think I go-in-delayed-flight-while-being-in-transit-and-shop-for-alcohol-on-previous-airport so much that I should have known about this??? Couldn’t your staff had checked at least once before getting us out of the airport about this? The amount of insensitivity I felt, it broke me inside to hate Emirates so much that I can’t even begin to explain.

And lastly, I received my bag completely broken and absolutely unusable. Thanks for scarring my memories for a very long time.

On top of that, I have raised 3 complaints on Emirates website and there’s just no response !!

How to Explore Singapore in Cheap – The full proof Planning and Analysis

Hi Folks,

  I thought of adding another post to my Singapore series blogs where I would like to share the planning sheet that helped me plan the entire trip and the analysis on the expenses incurred in Singapore,

This is a series of blogs where I am trying to let people know about some tips and tricks to visit Singapore that are not available on internet,

Prior to this one,

1. Flight Booking

2. Before Travel

3. Day 1

4. Attraction Cheat Codes

I would like to share the a google sheet that I created that helped me throughout the trip and if you are a planning freak like me then you would really appreciate this.

Here is the link to the sheet, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rJ2YZJhNQvPB6AONj5cbroBjNocBlyhlu0pWf0btHkE/edit?usp=sharing

Create a copy of it and save it in your own google drive, modify it and use it as per your own suitability.

This sheet has following features,

1. It has list of all the possible things you need to do (Expense wise), right from Visa photo till return taxi to home.

2. I have divided the sheet into 3 sections, Before Travel, in Singapore, Extras and Optional (In my case it’s now couldn’t do it).

3. I have left most of the activities as it is with the cost, this can work for you as a checklist in terms of travel and attraction planning.

4. This is a smart sheet and gives you automated updated results based on your expense inputs.

5. You can enter expenses in Indian rupees and Singapore dollar. The sheet automatically color codes the expense separately.

6. The sheet has a section where Singapore Dollar FX rate is updated automatically in realtime, this is fed into all the SGD expenses. This gives you the total trip cost in INR in realtime with current FX rates.

7. The sheet also has a section where you can mark an activity done, that will make the activity paint color black with white font, this really helps in seeing what else is pending.

Please use it and modify it use it even if you are travelling different country with different set of currency, that would require some change but if you know little bit of excel then you can figure that out pretty easily.

Now let me show you some Analysis on expenses occurred with me in Singapore,

Travel – 35% of my total expense on travel, of course the flight ticket was the major contributor to that,

Food – Food was just 10% of the total trip expenditure and it was interesting to see that we spent almost equal amount of money on meals and juices and drinks !!

Overall – Overall I feel it was a good trip with balanced funds spent on each activity. As I said earlier, I could have saved little bit on Hotel but I didn’t want to compromise because we had a small kid with us.

Write to me at ankkkit@hotmail.com if you need some more info that you would like to know.