The trip to Jordan ... Regency Travel only provide the flight and the room, the rest we are on our own.

WHat i did before we went to Jordan ... i did some reserach on the net. I look for a blog user who live in Jordan. I found this lady ... and i introduce myself. I was lucky enough she was so helpful. I corresponding a lot through e-mail with her before we left Doha. Asking places to go here and there and what she recommend.

When we arrived in our hotel ... she and her hubby and her daughter came to see us. She took us to that Car National Museum and one night for Pizza Dinner.

For going to Petra and staying in Movenpick Dead Sea, we hire a car from local car hire next door to our hotel. Then we combine the trip with visiting mount Nebo, Ma'ine Spring and Baptism Site.

This time we plan to do something similar with Turkey. We did not used any tour site in particular. We booked the flight and the hotel separate, and i am going to ask alot of thing to Dweller (another QL member) since he living there.

Regency travel nearly ripped us off ... they asked wether we want to book the transfer to the hotel from Amman airport, which is cost nearly 400 riyal one way. When i asked the Jordanian lady i met throught my blog site ... she told me that i can just book a limousine from the airport that cost 20 JD (about 100 QR). I guess comparing and researching paid off your trip in the end.

We been to Hongkong twice ... both our trips are booked from the net too. The Cathay Pacific agent here can't cope with our request ... at that time we did a big loop to Asia (Hongkong - Bangkok - Malaysia - Singapore and Jakarta). While in Bangkok we want to go to Phuket and Phi Phi Island, and while in Malaysia we want to go to Penang, Cameron Highland and Kuala Lumpur). The trip took 6 weeks ..., check in and check out 14 times in various different hotels. And we did them all through the net. The flight we booked online, and took the booking to Cathay Pacific agent in Doha. The rest hotel, car hire and others we did it online. Hard work and alot of planning ... but it worked out well in the end.

I guess i cant recommend any perticular site ... you just need times to do searching and reading. What we normally do before we start hols, both me and hubby decided how many days and where we want to go. And we start looking for the flight, then hotel. In the mean time ... you need to ask ing around people who lives there or who been there. Nowadays those can be done very easy through google and various internet forum. :D