Hi guys. I've had some excellent advise from this forum before so thought I'd come back to ask this. Me and my buddies are looking to do 5 months in South East Asia starting from Hong Kong. We know we want to see the works: Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia (and possibly Malaysia) and the Philippines.
We know we want to fly into HK, however the route or order in which we choose to tackle these countries will affect the flight ticket we choose, so we kind of need to decide before booking next week!
Basically, we can get a return from the UK into HK meaning we'd do a loop around South East Asia, starting at HK and then working anti-clock wise through Vietnam, down to Indonesia then up through the Philippines to get back to HK and fly home. OR we can get an open jaw ticket, into HK and out of Singapore meaning there is no reason to work our way back up and we work from the top to the bottom. This initially sounds the most simple and efficient way but not all the countries we want to see are in descending order. For example, making it to the Philippines means a detour while the circular route does kind of take every country into account while moving in a logical direction.
The difference in flights is pretty negligible with the open jaw being slightly more expensive. We are looking to book in a week so would be amazing to get some advice before then! Hope this all makes sense guys and thanks in advance!
