Change of Plan

Shekhawat announces fresh plans for Bangkok-Pattaya

Ladies ponder over Shekhawat's announcement

After a brief lull, the Bangkok-Pattaya programme was revived this morning. Shekhawat informed that someone from Eezeego Travels (not Jayanto Majhi) had called him yesterday, offering a tour package well within our budget of Rs25,000 per head. It was however, subject to one condition: the trip will have to be undertaken this December.
Originally our plans were to set out in mid-November, i.e. soon after Diwali, which would give everyone time to get their travel documents together while also being able to avail of off-season discounts on flight booking and hotel reservations. Somehow, this did not work out (see last post of September 24) and the programme had to be pushed to January 2014 for things to fall within the specified budget.
Significantly, the December idea has met with all-round approval as many Muslim ladies, who could otherwise not go because of Muharram (November 3 to December 3, 2013) agreed to enlist themselves for the tour. Besides them, Shekhawat already has a committed group of 17, comprising mostly couples and families. There were also some who had backed out earlier because of prior engagements. Now that they will be free to join, Shekhawat believes he should be able to rustle up a group of 30 or so.
Arun Patil was also told to expedite making the financial estimates on the tour programme for Matheran, scheduled on November 9 and 10. Shekhawat is in a hurry to finalise this because from October 13 (next week-end) he would be away to his home town in Rajasthan for about a fortnight. He said by then Srichand Arora should be back from Singapore to take things forward.
Srichand Arora (from Singapore):
As you all know, in December my children from Singapore are on vacation to India. It will not be possible for me to join. So I shall be thankful if plans are made for January. Moreover I am ready for the trip to Matheran in November.
Jagmohan Papneja:
Bangkok-Pattaya, the main entry point for South Asia and most notorious destination continues to be a budget traveler's dream with plenty of cheap hotels and street food that costs almost nothing. It is only the high price of alcohol that pushes Pattaya down the cheap list a bit. So the teetotalers are even better off than the rest.