Villa Lawana - Koh Samui

Frank won a 3D/2N stay at Villa Lawana. I think this is a 5/6 star resort in Koh Samui. Googled and found that the price for one nite stay in the cheapest room with is the Deluxe Balcony is about RM 1,000.00 !!! Can check out their website : http://www.villalawana.com/

It really looks very very nice and inviting. Was thinking whether we should go or not. It is valid until 30 Nov 2008. Oct and Nov would be the wet season over there with rain almost every day. The only airline which flies directly to KS is Berjaya Air and their fare is so costly at RM 941.00 per person. With Berjaya membership, it will cost RM 865.00, not much difference. The other way would be going to Bangkok first and then take another flight to KS, or ferry or train. This would be time consuming and in total it may end up to be the same price.

THEN .... thanks to a colleague of mine who asked me to book firefly, I discovered that firefly will be starting direct flights to KS on 26 October and their fare is much cheaper (about RM 500 - 600 plus) ! But they only fly on mon, wed,fri and sun and the return flight timing is not good. They leave Subang (yes !!! Subang airport ... been ages since I went there to board a plane) at 9.35 and reach KS at 10.35 am (KS time) and then at 10.55 am they will leave KS for Subang. So one can hardly do anything on that day.

And we only have 2 nites stay so we have to book another day at another hotel, of course, we cannot afford a RM 1,000.00 per room per nite hotel !! If we dont have another nite, we dont have enough time to spend in KS. We thought of going on Fri and returning on Mon. So we have half day on Fri and 2 full days for Sat & Sun. Hmmmm ... shall we go ... second honeymoon .... but finance are quite tight at the moment ....